[Blindapple] Accessible games disks

Tony Baechler tony at baechler.net
Thu Nov 7 04:43:42 EST 2013


No, you can contact me if you want me to upload them to you.  I already
asked for an account below.

On 11/7/2013 12:53 AM, Byron Stephens wrote:
> I do have an ftp server, just contact me off-list to set up an account.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 12:41 AM
> Subject: [Blindapple] Accessible games disks
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As you probably know if you've looked at Asimov and Jayson's emulator disk
>> library, there are tons of disk images out there to sort through.  I've
>> begun going through some and have found a few games that talk, but aren't as
>> such on talking disks.  In other words, they work fine with Textalker but
>> aren't specifically made for the blind.  I remember some of them from a long
>> time ago while others are new to me.  Some require Integer and others don't.
>> I was thinking that it wouldn't be hard to copy them to my own set of
>> talking game disks as I find them.  There are literally thousands of disk
>> images with public domain and free games on them, so it would be next to
>> impossible for one person to find only those games that talk without
>> spending many hours.  Believe it or not, I find it fun to sort through them.
>> Even though Jayson doesn't give me credit, I was the one who sorted through
>> most of the disks in the emulator section of his site.  As I find games
>> which talk, I can copy them to my own games disks and share them so people
>> don't have to go through the same sets of disk images multiple times.  If
>> people are interested, I can either post them here as I finish them or I can
>> upload them somewhere.  I thought about setting up my own disk library for
>> the purpose, but if someone else already has something set up, no point in
>> reinventing the wheel.  Contact me if you want me to upload my talking games
>> disks somewhere or let me know if I should just post them here.  In other
>> words, I'm interested in an ftp account if there is a working disk library
>> server, but I can just as easily post disks here as I finish them.  They
>> would probably be in the form tbgam001.dsk and the games would be copied in
>> the order I find them.
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Tony Baechler
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