[Blindtlk] /Monopoly

[Mark Tardif]

Ello, Sherri.  So this obviously can be done, HHas you have done it.  This 
makes me wonder even more if I have a bum computer.  I also, agree, Jim is 
helpful, but he also was unfamiliar with Windows 7.  I did successfully 
install a file which he said you needed, and it allowed me to get into the 
game of life, but that's it.  Otherwise, Winpoly is somewhere on my program 
files, and there are several different ones, (Winpoly 6, Winpoly 5, etc) but 
when I try to access them, and I try to extract or unzip files, I get weird 
messages like can't produce output file" whatever that means, and I am 
blocked.  This concerns me too, because I just submitted my application for 
BARD, and I understand we have to extract files for specific books in order 
to download them.  If I can't do that, I'll really throw this computer at 
the idiot salesman at Wal-mart who sold me this thing.  But thank you, 
Sherri, and please get back to me when you find out something.



Mark Tardif
Nuclear arms will not hold you.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Sherry Gomes
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:45 AM
To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] /Monopoly

mark,

I have Jim Kitchen's games, in particular his monopoly, and I have it 
installed on windows 7-64bit. I play it, maybe not often these days, but 
from time to time with no trouble. I even created my own Harry Potter themed 
monopoly board for it. Did you download and install his base games structure 
files first? Otherwise, Jim is really helpful. If I remember right, the 
problem in the beginning was something about making sure the game files go 
in the right place. I'll have to look around in my files and see.



-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
Behalf Of Mark Tardif
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 7:39 PM
To: NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List; Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: [Blindtlk] /Monopoly

Hello, friends,

I�m going to �lower the boom�, so to speak.  Any of you familiar with Jim 
Kitchen and his text to speech games?  Those of you on these lists who have 
heard me whining about Windows 7 and how limited I think it is and are sick 
and tired of it, please feel free to tweet me out if there is a tweet 
filter.  Jim Kitchen has wonderful free games, including my all-time 
favorite, monopoly.  Yes, I am probably addicted.  Anyway, I have been 
trying and trying to download it properly and I have become convinced that 
it is not workable with Windows 7.  Of course it is possible that my 
settings are off, which would be nothing new with this machine, I suppose 
that�s what you get when you purchase a computer at Wal-Mart.  When I try to 
unzip files, I get weird messages such as �can�t create an output file and 
it doesn�t work.  I challenge anyone to tell me that this is workable. 
Don�t mind my tone, I�m just frustrated that the idiots at Microsoft 
inadvertently limited us this way.  So, do you have any ideas, and if not, 
does anyone know of a talking speech-friendly monopoly game?  Also, does 
anyone know how to get autocomplete on Windows live mail.  Thank you, before 
my JAWS runs out.
Mark Tardif
Nuclear arms will not hold you.
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