[Electronics-talk] Video Games

[Linda Bloodsaw]

Do you have an iPad? I play games on my iPad.



On Apr 21, 2012, at 3:59 PM, "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi. Is this a video game though? does it use graphics and sounds? Or is it like a text adventure.
> thanks
> bb
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
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>> 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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