[Electronics-talk] Video Games

[Brett Boyer]

Hi. Is this a video game though? does it use graphics and sounds? Or is it 
like a text adventure.
thanks
bb
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From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Video Games


> nethack was the original top down view video game and can be played on
> text-based systems with the text interface like Linux and dos at least a
> 386 computer for dos and is a free download from nethack.org.  Use the
> enter link when you get there if you decide to download that one.  There
> are people that spend their entire lives and never win nethack.  Its
> support list is rec.games.roguelike.nethack on usenet.  If you play with
> accessibility defaults it uses ascii for screen display and that makes
> it possible.  A mac in terminal mode can do this too.  The game maps are
> randomized so never the same between games.  If you use the (?)
> character inside the game you get to all of the game's help.  Use of (/)
> will allow you to move the cursor to a character and when you hit enter
> have the character under the cursor described.  Best I ever did was
> experience level 12 out of 30 and I usually get killed off on experience
> level 7 these days.  Cursor movement is done with arrow keys or letters
> on keyboard  hjkl left down up right and variants.
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Jolynn Page wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>   I am looking for any video games that may be played by a blind
>> person even if not made for blind people just something that wouldn't
>> be too difficult for a blind person to play.  My son has been asking
>> me to play games with him and I have been doing some research online
>> and there are articles about blind people playing different games but
>> I haven't had any luck finding out what those are.  If you have any
>> ideas of any video games and what system they are for I would really
>> appreciate it.  Thanks so much for any help you can give me
>> Linnie
>>
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