Hi, one more thing to add is that the Inform (infocom) style games are
not the only ones out there now-a-days. There are also tads and adrift
games. These require their own interpreters, but are just as accessible.
In most cases when playing, it might be best to use your Jaws cursor, or
mouse pointer or virtual cursor, what ever the screen reader calls it,
to review the screen and you can get the output there. Not automatic,
but still makes things usable.
I hope this helps.
PS, I read in another post that you like lusty games. You might want to
try the adrift games I wrote called Riding Home and Last Week. You can
find them in the below links. Note that these are an adult oriented-games.
http://asmodean.net/games/aif/RidingHome-1.0.zip
http://asmodean.net/games/aif/LastWeek-1.2.zip
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On 10/14/2012 6:58 PM, Ibrahim Gucukoglu wrote:
Hi Dark.
Thank you very much for your assistance, I had considered using the old
console mode version of Frotz which was specifically built for Windows
95 console mode, however it is as old as the hills and doesn't support
things like timed input, music etc. etc. I'm looking for a fully
featured interpreter as I'm not only planning to play these games myself
but also introduce these Infocom games to friends who until now have
never heard of them. I have to consider ease of setting up and use, if
people have to keep coming back to me then either they or I will lose
interest. When we talk about the latest DOS frotz interpreter, do we
mean the DJGPP version?
All the best, Ibrahim.
-----Original Message----- From: dark
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 10:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] several messages
Good to know filfre works with some infocom titles, I just remember
hereing it wouldn't do arthur and other games in the old zip format (not
to be confused with compression).
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias Vinteus" <tob...@algonet.se>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] several messages
I have had success with the Filfre interpreter, available from the
interactive fiction archive, although the sounds in Lurking Horror and
Sherlock doesn't seem to work with Filfre. I've also been able to run
the latest version of Frotz for Dos in the command prompt under
Windows XP. Maybe it work sunder Windows 7 too.
I know there are Windows versions of Nfrotz and Fizmo, compiled under
the Cygwin framework. Those can be a little tricky to set up though,
at least if you don't have som e Linux/Unix experience.
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, Ibrahim Gucukoglu wrote:
Hi Everyone.
First of all, a big hello! to you all. My name is Ibrahim and I live
in the UK in a town called Peterborough. I am totally blind and an
avid gamer. I particularly enjoy action/adventure games on both my
PC and IPhone but am eager to try all sorts of new games as I am very
open minded. I am here both to make new friends and help others, so
I will be contributing as much as time and opportunity allows.
Right, on to my question then. I used to play Interactive Fiction
AKA text adventures years ago and want to do so once more. I’m
particularly desirous to play the classic Infocom titles and so am
try to find an accessible way to do this. I have tried Winfrotz as
referenced by the audio games.net website archive, however it doesn’t
appear to work well with JAWS 13, for though I’m able to read the
status line, JAWS wont read the textual description of the location
and objects etc..
Please could anyone tell me how i can resolve this, either by using a
different interpreter or via another method?
All the best, Ibrahim.
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, dark wrote:
Hi Ibrihim and welcome.
Firstly, I'm glad you find the audiogames.net db usefull, it is
always good to here people have been reading and using the entries
to games.
As regards interactive fiction and winfrotz, well I believe there
are some jaws scripts but I'll leave that to people who actually
use jaws.
in winfrotz, you can also enable sapi support to ahve incoming text
read automatically by your sapi voice, go to options, and to the
speech page then check the box. the sapi support is still a little
clunky as there is no speech interupt or ability to reread what was
printed to the screen, though I have talked to the developer of
winfrotz and winglulx and he's stated he'll look at adding this in
the future.
I do find myself however that the sapi support, occasionally aided
by supernova's virtual curser works fine, indeed back when I started
playing interactive fiction with winfrotz I just! used the virtual
curser.
I have also heard that the filfre interpreter is particularly good
with jaws, once again, check the filfre page in th db for details.
As to the infocom games, you can find them all at
http://if.illuminion.de/index.html I have heard filfre has had
trouble opening some of the older infocom format games in zip or dat
format, so you might also want to considder that when thinking about
interpreters.
hth.
All the best,
Dark.
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