Hi Tom.
Well obviously for me there is no nostalgia value, sinse any dos games I've
played like fallthru have been on windows anyway, and to me it doesn't make
a massive amount of difference in a basic turn based game such as an if
style title. True, speaking turns automatically is perhaps two key presses
quicker than reading the screen, but I'm so used to doing that anyway that
this difference is negligeable.
Though perhaps that is another point, sinse maybe for people who are less
familiar with that process or don't have access to a quick and easy
virtual curser to read the screen there is a difference, ---- indeed I
rather remember you making a similar point when we were discussing playing
text adventure games with virtual cursers on the audiogames.net forum with
respect to nvda, sinse apparently it's virtual curser isn't as user friendly
as that supernova or window eyes has.
Then of course, there is the fact that if you ever wanted a real time
element in a game, instant output with sapi or whatever other systems have
would be much more convenient, just as it is in Jim's baseball.
The menue point is sort of a general one I think, sinse to me a stratogy
game like origan trail where you have to buy and sell resources would be
much quicker if I could arrow through the resources and their respective
prices then choose the one that is best, rather than being asked "do you
want to buy 10 units of rifles at 5 dollars each, hit y/n" or having to hit
a specific key for a specific item as was the case in dos games.
then again, I have no objection to the text system either, indeed that's
what I use in eamon deluxe (though in eamon deluxe it has been streamlined
slightly more).
So, while I'm marginally more in favour of some sort of auto output with
sapi or whatever, depending upon the game it might not be crucial, however,
it does occur to me that if you have something which will be helpfull in
some games but not others, it might be a good idea to code it in anyway, so
that when you do! create a game that requires it, it is there, plus it does
give people the choice.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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