<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">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. <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 28, 2024, at 2:44 PM, Steve Jacobson via NFBCS <nfbcs@nfbnet.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Doug,<br><br>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.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Steve Jacobson<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Doug Lee via NFBCS<br>Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 5:59 AM<br>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br>Cc: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org><br>Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Blast from the past<br><br>Charles Black wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">In order to join this celebration of being "well experienced", I<br>remember the Apple IIe and using the Echo 2. It was amazing for me to<br>create D&D adventure games, text based. I also developed financial<br>programs to achieve daily tasks . Now, back to 2024..<br></blockquote><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Leaving Brian's message below because I referenced it.<br><br>On 2/26/24, Brian Buhrow via NFBCS <nfbcs@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"> hello. Doug mentioned Flipper in his historical journey. I, too<br>started with Apple II and Street Electronics Texttalker. I still have<br>the original Apple II reference manual in braille, which came complete<br>with tactile diagrams of memory maps and the complete 6502 assembly<br>instruction set, listed by pneumonic. I read the thing from cover to<br>cover. (many covers for those who remember multi-volume braille<br>books.)<br><br> However, it was Flipper that inspired me to write this message. Of<br>all the DOS based screen readers I used over the years, Flipper was<br>the easiest to use, ran the fastest, and provided the most information<br>in the most efficient fashion! How good was it, you might ask?<br>For me, it was so good, that I used it well into the 2000's, retiring<br>it finally in 2007.<br>Well, partially. I now use Mike Gorse's Yasr as my daily screen reader.<br>Howevr, to make it<br>more compatible with my muscle memory, I rewrote all of the keymaps to<br>match the old Flipper commands, as well as rewriting some of the<br>punctuation nomenclature to match what Flipper used to say. So, for<br>some of us, Flipper is still alive and well!<br><br>-thanks<br>-Brian<br></blockquote><br>--<br>Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org/<br>"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry." {African}<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NFBCS mailing list<br>NFBCS@nfbnet.org<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org<br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/steve.jacobson%40outlook.com<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NFBCS mailing list<br>NFBCS@nfbnet.org<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org<br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/buddy%40brannan.name<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>