[NFBCS] Blast from the past

[Buddy Brannan]

I also used, and really liked, Flipper, from version 2.74 to 4.somehing. And like a lot of folks, I started with an Apple IIe and Braille Edit and BEX. 


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> On Feb 28, 2024, at 2:44 PM, Steve Jacobson via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
> I also used Flipper, and while it may have been before Brian's time, we had the Creator of FLIPPER on our NFBCS annual meeting agenda, but I don't remember which year.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve Jacobson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Doug Lee via NFBCS
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 5:59 AM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Doug Lee <dgl at dlee.org>
> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Blast from the past
> 
> 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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