We do not support abandonware.

With that said....I'm assuming your using some sort of text to speech or brail or something? Couldn't OCR be used to translate the image into something you could read?

The whole point of those images is to make it impossible for automated programs or hardware to read the text, in order to prevent people from leeching or hammering the download servers.

I'm not visually impaired, but it has occured to me on many occasions that using those image verification systems is rather insensitive.

whocrazy, you might want to try starting a discussion on Home of the Underdogs' forum (if it's working - it seems to go down a lot)

I have a feeling you might need to look at a picture in order to register for the forums as well, but I'll give it a try. at least there maybe somebody there that may understand.

I'm in. thank the gods they didn't have a word verification system on the forums. I'll let ya know what happens

Also, the verification string seems to stay the same for a while, so you might at least be able to get someone else to tell you what it is (on a forum or in an email) and use it to download a few files before it changes. It's a crappy workaround but might work as a last resort.

Erm, just out of curiosity: how is a blind person going to use any of the games that are to be found on HotU? Except for text adventures, don't all games rely so much on graphics as to be unusable to the visually impaired?

heh. I recently read in EGM about a blind guy who play's console games, he listens to the sounds and bases his actions on that, pretty amazing.

Hmmm... I did play a game of Worms across the phone once (voice connection, not modem). My friend described to me what was on screen and I told him what to do. He won, by a very narrow margin.

Somehow, though, I doubt that this is a very common practice. So, whocrazy, care to explain?

isn't whocrazy the one with the text to speech synthesizer ?

Qbix: so could you explain how this text to speech synthesizer helps him playing http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/fire-and-fo … voy/screenshots ? 😉