[Blindapple] introduction

[Tony Baechler]

Hi.  At last, someone who might have information on something I had been 
wondering.  I'm addressing the comments about the different versions of 
Textalker.  I can comment a little on 1.3 since I have that disk image, but 
information on other versions would be appreciated.  On the 1.3 disk, you 
have three different versions.  One is simply TEXTALKER.  One is 
TEXTALKER.RAM.  One is TEXTALKER.BLIND.  I assume that textalker.ram is the 
RAM card version.  I am not sure about the other two, but I know one of 
them doesn't have a review mode.  I used a version once which made the Echo 
shound very strange.  It gave it a lower pitch than usual.  It had no 
review mode so I don't know what version it was.

I also know that the 3.1 versions were from APH.  I found and confirmed a 
3.1.3 or possibly 3.1.4 for DOS.  I know there was such a ProDOS version as 
at least 3.1.3 because I used to have it and it credited Rob Meredith as 
author.  I don't know about copyright info and I don't know if there was a 
DOS 3.3 version.  Does anyone know about the 2.x or 3.0 series?  Does 
anyone have a Textalker older than 1.3?

I would be happy to host any Apple II disk images.  My understanding is 
that Jayson is already doing this, but I have enough server space to host 
them if necessary.  I think someone should buy blindapple.org if it still 
exists since it might disappear one of these days.  I would be willing to 
purchase it and move things over to my server or point it to Jayson's.  It 
might show up better in search engines and let people know that there are 
still a few of us out there.

I actually had very little software for the blind.  I had the talking disk, 
Talking Riddles and a few other things, but compared to most of you, very 
little.  I eventually got ProWords, but none of the other Microtalk 
software.  Unfortunately we weren't in a position to be able to afford much 
software.  I have the Eamon adventures of course, but those were adapted 
for speech, not written specifically for the blind.  I never had Bex or 
some other things mentioned on this list before.