[Blindapple] aTalkLibraryGames

[Joe Quinn]

Jayson, just so I can keep my disks up-to-date, would you mind putting that folder somewhere in the talking Apple library dropbox that some of us are invited to? Unless they're already there, I mean, it just makes sense. :-)

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> On Aug 5, 2017, at 5:03 PM, Byron Stephens <bstephens122874 at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> When it says games eleven is hard to survive it's true. I can't get past the troll.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Weiss
> To: Blind Apple Discussions
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2017 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] aTalkLibraryGames
> 
> Your right!
> I don’t know what happened to games4, but it doesn’t work for me either.
> I’ll see if I can do it again in a couple of days.
> Jeff
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> From: Jayson Smith
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2017 3:15 PM
> To: Blind Apple Discussions
> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] aTalkLibraryGames
>  
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for these, there's lots of stuff I didn't have. I have no idea why, but at least in my copy of the zip, games4.dsk is completely corrupted. It's a 143360-byte file, just like a disk image should be, but every byte is an ASCII 255, which means there's nothing meaningful there.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Jayson
> 
>> On 8/5/2017 3:24 PM, Jeff Weiss wrote:
>> Attached is a zip file of all of the 13 games disks in the aTalk Library which is called
>> aTalkLibraryGames.zip
>> These are all dos 3.3 disks with speech.
>> Here is my suggestion about how to launch these disks—of course you could launch these disks many other ways, but I find this to be convenient:
>> First, in your 
>> c:\messapple-win folder, create a folder called
>> aTalkLibrary
>> and place the 13 games disks in this folder.  There will be many more disks coming in the future.
>> Here are the listings for two batch files to place in the main 
>> C:\messapple-win folder.
>> First is aTl.bat
>> 
>> @echo off
>> mess apple2ee -flop1 aTalkLibrary\%1.dsk
>> 
>> This would allow  the launching of one disk such as games1 by typing:
>> aTl games1
>> 
>> If you wanted two disks to be launched from the same folder, the first in drive 1 and the second in drive 2, you could use  the batch file called
>> aTl2.bat
>> @echo off
>> mess apple2ee -flop1 aTalkLibrary\%1.dsk -flop2 aTalkLibrary\%2.dsk
>> This could be used to launch two disks from the aTalkLibrary folder.
>> If you wanted to launch the Games1 disk and the Games2 disk, you could type:
>> aTl2 Games1 Games2
>> 
>> I hope you enjoy these disks.
>> Jeff Weiss
>> 
>> 
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