Hello List Serve-- This is off topic in regards to JFW, but I feel it is **extremely** important for the blind community. A man by the name of W. Scott Dillman has updated the most current version of the WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter which was created to allow people, like us, to play text adventure games such as Zork I, II, III etc like what we played when we had PC's running under the MS DOS environment. The version of the WinFrotzTTS2002, Scott picked-up and began to update, was, in it's beginnings suppose to work for the blind gamer, hence the TTS (Text To Speech) in it's name. Unfortunately, however, it was not to be. We do, however, have a man now who decided to pick-up where the previous programmer left off, and believe it or not, he, W. Scott Dillman, got it to work! Here are the links, plural, below to download the most current and updated WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter with a second link that has over 300 public domain text adventures, coded to work specifically with this most recent WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter! Let me continue after the links below... The Interpreter: http://www.binaryrevelations.com/talkback/WinFrotzTTS2002_setup.exe Public domain games: http://www.binaryrevelations.com/talkback/ifarchive_setup.exe Now, in all sincerity, the blind gamer does not need JAWS to play this most update version of the WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter. The reason being is that Scott, included in the code, Microsoft's Speech Engine which is a SAPI 4,5 application. What does this mean? Well, lets say we all go see our parents over the Thanksgiving Holiday. We do not need to take a copy of our JAWS to install in mom's PC so we can amuse ourselves after dinner, but we can get someone to download this Interpreter, and it speaks on it's own! We will not need JAWS to play. I will let you know however, as I made mention already, that MS Speech Engine is a SAPI 4,5 Speech Engine, we can purchase the AT&T's Natural Voices to use with this game. The aT&T's Natural Voices is a SAPI 4,5 speech engine as well. I purchased it just for this program, and everytime I click on the WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter icon, the female U.K. voice comes on. "Yes", Eloquence or DECTalk Express, or whatever speech engine you have running for JAWS will be on, but it will not interfere with the game. I know, because I was one of the beta tester since the beginning. The JAWS speech engine will speak during the game selection, along with the at&T's Natural Voices, but once the game starts, it's just you and MS speech Engine or the AT&T's Natural Voices! Let's move on, and let me explain a little more about other things in this wonderful interpreter for the blind community... Another thing that Scott did was code the WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter so that when you play a game, and save a position, the saved game file resides in a specific folder specific to that game only. "Yes", I am not joking! For Example, in my beta release, I had seven saved game files for one game, five for another, and three for another, and none of the saved game files for any of these games were mixed together. That is correct, all three games were saved in their specific folder! Yeah! Louder YEAH!! Look, there are many more updates,but you will see for yourself when you start playing. The only thing I ask is that you just drop an E-mail to Scott and thank him, for all he has done for the blind community! His E-mail address is sdillman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Let him know of ideas you may have to further improve what he has already done. I believe, for example, he is working on a utility with will allow the PC user to import other games into the WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter. If you have suggestions like this, send him an E-mail and let him know.... The only thing I ask of everyone is to inform everyone else who is visually impaired to go to Scott's website, and download these two files. Have fun everybody! Your friend from the JFW List Serve, Beto Escobar III, LMSW betoescobar3@xxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx