Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter

To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter Hi Dark, Me too. Some of the games like Trek 2000, Lonewolf, Packman Talks, and of course Jim Kitchen's games were converted to Windows via Visual Basic 6

Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS

was Triple J Shooter Hi Phil, Yep, I remember all of my screaming as I went kicking and screaming from dos to windows. Still don't think that a graphical user interface sounds right for a blind person to be using. grin And other than a few games, I do not believe that we use the mouse

Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter

the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter Which game did he try to make playable on a Windows system

Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter

Hi Dark, Me too. Some of the games like Trek 2000, Lonewolf, Packman Talks, and of course Jim Kitchen's games were converted to Windows via Visual Basic 6. However, there are still several titles such as PCS Games early titles that don't have a Windows remake such as Panzor's in North Africa,

[Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter

Hi Jim, Yeah, Shades of doom was also the doom of the DOS game. Me and Carl were happy creating DOS games for the blind just like you were, then Shades of Doom came along and all we heard from customers was do your games work with Windows! Come to think of it Windows 95 was the doom of games

Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter

...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:23 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter Hi Jim, Yeah, Shades of doom was also the doom of the DOS game. Me and Carl were happy creating DOS games for the blind just like you were

Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter

would have been a long and tedious task. Phil - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS, was Triple J Shooter Which game did he try to make

Re: [Audyssey] Doom of DOS

Hi Phil, Not only that but keep in mind that Dos and the early Windows releases were 16 byt operating systems. When 95 came out Microsoft moved to a completely 32 byt operating system forcing developers not only to upgrade, but to convert their programs to 32 byt as well. They completely