I know tom and I suspect that although we are caipible a lot of us
me included have been playing simple stuff for ages to adjust is a
bit of a curve, I know it actually frightens me that I can't handle
everything at once.
At 08:16 PM 3/25/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Ah, I don't know of a single person running Dos on a 286 these days
blind or sighted. That's a bit far fetched don't you think?
However, I do take the point that the blind is generally behind the
mainstream technologically, and there are good reasons for that. Most
of the blind computer users I know and know of are running some flavor
of XP primarily because they know it well, it is fully screen reader
accessible, and if they were to upgrade to Windows 8 they would pretty
much have to learn everything from scratch because the changes in user
interface are that drastic. I can use Windows 8, I can live with it,
but not everyone can so they choose to stay behind technically.
All the same old tech or not that has no bearing on killing the replay
value of games. A good game is a good game regardless of what OS it is
written for and what programming language it is written in. Even if
someone started out with text based games like Infocom and worked
their way up to something like Swamp they should be able to learn the
new games, be able to adapt to more complicated styles of games, etc.
I don't hold with the we are blind so we need it simple stupid theory.
We are, most of us, just as capable as a sighted person at playing
complex games except we don't have functioning eyeballs so need audio
queues instead of graphics.
Cheers!
On 3/25/13, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> hmmm charles thats interesting.
>
> There are 2 answers, a long slightly technical one and a shorter user
> type of answer.
> 1. we are blind everything needs to be easy because we are blind and
> that is the way it is.
> 2. Lame answer ha?
> THe truth is that blind games when they started were never that
> complex, I mean interactive fiction and some simple menu games where
> it was quite easy to play were my first lot I ever played running on dos.
> chances are thats where a lot of the beginners started.
> To start off with for the first 5-10 years we didn't have the tech
> and other junk the sighted do now.
> Its true we don't have everything but we use the same directx
> everyone uses just no graphics, we use joysticks, mice and even some
> form of big multiplayer the sighted use not many games have the
> capability but a lot do.
> We started with simple arcaders and board games as well as keyboard
> controled ones.
> So will we eventually be able to play the harder games, probably the
> mainstream stuff is superior to our own but not by much now.
> we are almost up to them and thats the truth.
> Ok, unfortunately the user base has not caught up to that or even the idea.
> A lot of the games we have in circulation right now are simple and
> use old tech though a lot are slowly being ported which will take time.
> So eventually I have total confordence that we will be able to solve
> everything without asking for it.
> Right now the tech is upgraded but we are not, the users or at least
> some of us are still running dos 3 on a 286 cpu with about 2kb ram
> and not the latest things.
> and this change may take ages to happen its slowly going on but
> who knows when it will fully change and there will always be newcomers.
> I do aggree people do ask as soon as they get stuck and I do try to
> nut out things if I can.
>
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