Re: [Audyssey] Cross platform gaming.

2012-04-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Cara, Yes, but that wasn't what Michael was talking about. He was talking about an accessible emulator like Wine, Dosbox, etc. I was merely pointing out the problems with software emulators from an access standpoint, and as you pointed out the only way to get Dos or Windows games to work

Re: [Audyssey] Cross platform gaming.

2012-04-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, I think you totally misunderstood what it is I'm creating. I'm writing a game development toolkit, a game engine, written in Python 2.7 that will allow developers to write games for Windows, Linux, or Mac using cross-platform APIs like Pygame.It is not a game emulator which is what

Re: [Audyssey] Cross platform gaming.

2012-04-29 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Thomas. What about runing De Steno Games on the Mac? If I was to get a emulator to run his games, will I be able to use voice over? Or will it use Windows screen readers? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] Cross platform gaming.

2012-04-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, No. That's the principle problem with emulators like Dosbox or Wine. There is no way to use a screen reader like VoiceOver, Jaws, Window-Eyes, Orca, whatever to read the text on the screen, and because there are a number of special dependencies required to run a Windows screen

Re: [Audyssey] Cross platform gaming.

2012-04-29 Thread Cara Quinn
Thomas, you can install Windows using BootCamp which would give you dos support. -Unless I'm misunderstanding you, this would allow someone to play those older games on the Mac, yes?… Smiles, Cara :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on

[Audyssey] Cross platform gaming.

2012-04-28 Thread michael barnes
Hey, sometime last month Thomas had mention that he is working on a program that will allow people to play games on other platforms. So with that being said I was wondering two thing about that program. First thing can a person take a game that they have on their machine and put it through the