Hi Jim, Very interesting story. The first game I ever wrote was a Blackjack game in C for my Linux system I was using for my college programming courses since it came with the free gcc compiler and it was more accessible than using the Windows Visual C++ compiler. Like your early games I couldn't really find a good sound library to play sounds, SDL wasn't out yet, so I ended up writing a handy little wrapper around sox, a Linux commandline wav file player, and used that to play sounds like shuffling the deck and dealing cards. It was a very cool little program. I also wrote a few other card and board games which would really need to be upgraded to be ported to Windows. A project someday I'd like to do.
On 4/6/10, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I like many started playing video games in the late seventies and early > eighties on an Atari 2600. I also had a Texas Instruments 99 4A and an > Atari 800 XL home computer which I started programming video games on in > Basic. Then in 1990 I got my first talking computer. It was a NEC 286 > running Jaws for dos version 1.0 with an Accent SA hardware synthesizer. So > I was now writing blind accessible text games. In 1990 or 1991 Phil Vlasak > found the source code for a golf game and found a sound file player like > Plany and SBPlay and added sounds to the golf game. You know before that we > only used the little PC speaker for sounds. But now we could add wav files > to our games. So I also found a different golf game and added sounds to it. > So in the nineties I programmed games in dos Quick Basic (PDS7) with text > and sound files played via the external sound file player. In 2000 David > Greenwood helped me to get started switching from dos Quick Basic to Visual > Basic for windows. So now in windows we could play the sounds right in the > code of our games and make the games totally sound based. So that is what I > have been doing for the last ten years. Allot of the time was spent > converting and improving my dos games to windows versions, but I have also > written several totally new windows only games. > > Just for the heck of it, again here is a list of my games for windows. > > Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, Craps, Draw Poker, > Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, Life, Mach 1, Mach 1 tts, Master > Mind, Monopoly, Pong, Puppy1, Roulette, Simon, Skunk, Slot Machine, Snakes > and Ladders, Spanker, Star Mule, Triple J Shooter, Trivia game engine, > Trucker, Yahtzee > > Braille reference guide, Brain, Reader, Waver, Batting practice, Golf course > maker > > BFN > > Jim > > The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. > > j...@kitchensinc.net > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
