[access-uk] Re: PC and Online games for the VI?
- From: "Hussein Patwa" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:19:21 -0000
Hey Jill,
Talking of the old games makes me want to look for an emulator, load it up
in a virtual machine and have a stab at it.
The old music was simple yes, but it was catch and it wasn't all high flying
and wacky like some of it is now. And yes, the audio clues actually worked
for that purpose so you could use it as a guide.
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Hussein.
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
JILLIAN GRANT
Sent: 24 March 2010 17:12
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: PC and Online games for the VI?
I was the same with super mario land and ml2 on the gameboy...All right, I
still am. I love hearing those tunes and listening to others playing the
games. I even used to dream about them, and dream that I was Mario going
into those coin rooms etc. I've been desperately trying to find mp3 files
of the actual gameboy music, as tinny as it is. I always wished I could
play those games. I could do the first level of SM because it didn't have
moving platforms, and so I used to count how many times to press the forward
button before pressing jump and work out roughly how many steps it would be
before a hole etc. those were the days!!!
Jill.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:51 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: PC and Online games for the VI?
> Hi Hussein
>
> When my son was really into the Sim games as a youngster, I used to love
> listening to the different pieces of music which kind of identified to me
> what he was doing. There was a bit of music that told me he was buying
> something, another when he was creating another part of the home ... And
> so it went, loved it. I wish we had an equivalent that could work with
> speech.
>
>
> Jackie Cairns
> Braille Specialist
> Email: jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sight and Sound Technology Ltd
> Welton House North Wing
> Summerhouse Road
> Moulton Park
> Northampton
> NN3 6WD
> Tel: 01604 798024
> Mob: 07887 883815
> www.sightandsound.co.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Hussein Patwa
> Sent: 24 March 2010 16:27
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: PC and Online games for the VI?
>
> Hi Jackie,
>
> My first ever Sim was Simcity Classic which came on the Win95 my dad
> bought me as my first computer in 1997. I loved that game, and got it to
> work on Vista but haven't tried with Win 7. It was simple, yet it could
> keep one addicted for hours. I particularly loved the SimCopter, oh and
> the random disasters!
>
> I never tried anything after Simcity 3000 as that's when they brought out
> the add-on pakcs, and the graphics were too much for the screen magnifier
> I was using at the time. All you got was screen corruption and that was
> that.
>
> _______________________________________
> Have a pleasant day,
>
> Kind Regards and Best Wishes,
>
> Hussein.
>
> Hussein Patwa
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jackie Cairns
> Sent: 24 March 2010 16:13
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: PC and Online games for the VI?
>
> Hi Steve
>
> You touched on games like the Sims. Now this is the sort of game I would
> love to play, where you can create your own house, town, people,
> environment ... I love the music in the Sims games too.
>
>
> Jackie Cairns
> Braille Specialist
> Email: jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sight and Sound Technology Ltd
> Welton House North Wing Summerhouse Road Moulton Park Northampton
> NN3 6WD
> Tel: 01604 798024
> Mob: 07887 883815
> www.sightandsound.co.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Steve Nutt
> Sent: 24 March 2010 14:43
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: PC and Online games for the VI?
>
> Hi Ibrahim,
>
>
>
> I entirely agree with what you say, except for your very last statement.
> There is something to suit everyone. Not quite.
>
>
>
> Blind gamers don't get into programming games like Sims, Virtual Pets,
> etc.
> The nearest I have seen is Jim Kitchen's game of Life. But there is still
> more scop for interesting games that blind people could write that they
> haven't even touched.
>
>
>
> All the best
>
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ibrahim Gucukoglu
> Sent: Tuesday 23 March 2010 17:27
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: PC and Online games for the VI?
>
>
>
> Hi Ari.
>
>
>
> I'll counter your statement with another. Big companies producing big
> budget games which you say are more interesting have thousands of
> employees including software programmers, map creators, researchers and
> the like as well as budgets to match. They can produce or have comitioned
> sound tracks which would rival those produced by the big film studios and
> they have access to the best in class sounds and animation effects.
> Smaller companies and mostly individuals producing these accessible games
> work with very limited facilities, often operate with practically non
> existent budgets yet still manage to produce playable games. Please
> before making such sweeping statements justify them with some hard
> evidence. Have you played Entombed?
> any of the GMA Games? those from Draconis? There's plenty of choice and
> something to suit everyone.
>
>
>
> All the best, Ibrahim.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: ari <mailto:aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:45 PM
>
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: PC and Online games for the VI?
>
>
>
> I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only one who thinks that compared to
> normal games blind games are of a much lower standard or at least really
> more boring. Like for example, with sports or other blind games, even the
> audio on sighted games is better. But what are quite good games if you
> like puzzles and things is a company called azabat. Quite pricy for me,
> maybe that is just the exchange rate from pounds to rand, but I enjoy the
> games, they're puzzles and stuff
>
> www.azabat.co.uk
>
> Also for a large resource about what is available is
>
> www.audiogames.net
>
> Ari
>
>
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