[access-uk] Re: Accessable games.
- From: "andrew shipp" <andrew-shipp4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:56:13 -0000
Hi Christine I shall write to you off list regarding this.
Regards
Andy Shipp & Trafford my new best friend.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Christine Weetman
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:23 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessable games.
Hi, I'd like to have a go at an easy computer game suitable for a totally
blind person, an easy one for a first try, any ideas? I'd like to eventually
play solitaire. Christine.
----- Original Message -----
From: andrew shipp
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:30 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessable games.
Hi Christine, So what games do you want from accessible games?
Regards
Andy Shipp & Trafford my new best friend.
Located Northampton Northamptonshire UK.
HamRadio Callsign M0CEG
Echolink 220334
Contact Details
Mobile 07983 598287
Home Tel...+44,0,1604 517007
----- Original Message -----
From: Christine Weetman
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:47 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessable games.
No Ray, "The usual UK price hike" is VAT and Customs so isn't their
fault, its ours! Christine.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray's Home
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:14 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessable games.
Still Steve, its a shame the Americans are keeping the Icon to
themselves in such an apparently insular way, but that's so often the way with
them! progressive tech in one country! (Oh, was forgetting the USB 1.1
sockets! Not quite so progressive!
What appeals to me about the Icon range is that they're based on Linux
I believe and so should be more stable and very likely much more secure. I
think it would be such a nice machine to base an international note taker and
audio player on and avoiding all the nasties we're so accustomed to with MS
Windows.
The price looks quite reasonable too, no doubt in part due to not
paying licence fees to Microsoft.Still, come the day - if it ever should arrive
- that the Americans decide we can have the Icon family here, what's the
betting that there'll be the usual Uk price hike!
From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
Steve Nutt
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessable games.
Hi Christine,
Bear in mind that no attempt at internationalisation has been done to
the Icon, so you have to enter dates in American format. Also, the address
book does not accept UK post codes, only Zip codes, which are in a different
format. I wouldn't go there.
All the best
Steve
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Christine Weetman
Sent: 06 January 2008 15:48
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessable games.
Hi thanks for this, I need a new note taker Desperately, (second hand
would be best but I can't find one so searching for the cheapest) I have a BN
classic so I want similar so I'm really interested in this icon, do you have a
website on hand by any chance? I never know my luck, I've got a friend coming
over from the states in the summer so maybe able to get her to fatch it over
for me. Fingers crossed. Many thanks again for the help, Christine.
----- Original Message -----
From: ari
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 2:57 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessable games.
Hi Christine,
This Icon thing is a notetaker, made by a company in America, but
for some reason last time I saw they didn't want to send it to anywhere outside
the US. It has speech and I think a braille keyboard, but not a display, and I
have no idea if it has a Word Processor or how good it is for people who love
grade 2 braille, I've seen a manual, but the whole thing seems unclear, but I
didn't read the manual properly either.
Ari
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