Hi! Not so much about getting one to run as about remembering which one it was. Maybe someone can help my memory? It was a DOS text adventure, home-brew parser. You awaken in the night and there's a hooded figure saying something about "hast not thou always dreamt of adventure? Come! Come!" or …

Sounds promising! Guess I'll look at the patched source and apply some modifications. I don't require Color in the console window so I guess no hairy voodoo on my part is involved. Thanks for the very quick assessment of the Situation! Kind regards, Felix

Hi! Sorry for reviving this old thing. I know it's been a year or so, but that's about the time my main loop takes. ;) I finally had a look at the patch, and yes, that kind of window is indeed accessible. Two problems remain: 1. The window doesn't take input. 2. Some games switch away from …

Hi! Thanks for the link to Windows Frotz TTS. I think the Infocom side of things is conclusively dealt with. While it was Infocom games that initially inspired me to think about such a method, there are a lot of 16 bit DOS text games which blind people will eventually lose access to in a >=64 bit …

Hi! If I get things right, when a DOS program runs in text mode then a representation of the screen text will be present somewhere in emulated memory, and always at the same place because this is how video cards worked back then. Would it be possible to have a copy of that memory displayed in some …