[NFBCS] Blast from the past

[Doug Lee]

Charles Black wrote:
> In order to join this celebration of being "well experienced", I
> remember the Apple IIe and using the Echo 2. It was amazing for me to
> create D&D adventure games, text based. I also developed financial
> programs to achieve daily tasks  . Now, back to 2024..

To me, this was more historical preservation, and discovery for some including me - I never knew anyone else
who used Flipper until Brian wrote on this thread. It was interesting to me to discover that it may have
been more popular than I thought at the time.

If you want to say, did you publish any of your games? Text games are still alive and well in some
communities, and I even spotted a college-age guy launching an Apple emulator a couple months or so ago that, I
verified myself, ran TexTalker. I used it to show some younger folk what things were like back then, though the
emulator seemed to struggle with my CapLock key and would not recognize lower-case commands. Like this
thread, I suspect it was an amusement for many of us and an education for several.

Leaving Brian's message below because I referenced it.

On 2/26/24, Brian Buhrow via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 	hello.  Doug mentioned Flipper in his historical journey.  I, too started
> with Apple II
> and Street Electronics Texttalker.  I still have the original Apple II
> reference manual in
> braille, which came complete with tactile diagrams of memory maps and the
> complete 6502
> assembly instruction set, listed by pneumonic.  I read the thing from cover
> to cover. (many
> covers for those who remember multi-volume braille books.)
>
> 	However, it was Flipper that inspired me to write this message.  Of all the
> DOS based
> screen readers I used over the years, Flipper was the easiest to use, ran
> the fastest, and
> provided the most information in the most efficient fashion!  How good was
> it, you might ask?
> For me, it was so good, that I used it well into the 2000's, retiring it
> finally in 2007.
> Well, partially.  I now use Mike Gorse's Yasr as my daily screen reader.
> Howevr, to make it
> more compatible with my muscle memory, I rewrote all of the keymaps to match
> the old Flipper
> commands, as well as rewriting some of the punctuation nomenclature to match
> what Flipper used
> to say.  So, for some of us, Flipper is still alive and well!
>
> -thanks
> -Brian

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