[Audyssey] Screen reader

[Azabat (Steve Crawford)]

Hi Sky,

I can't remember off hand where the review was. I listened to a demo of it
on VIP Conduit a few weeks back and it was well received. I know it has its
critics because it obviously hasn't got the power of commercial screen
readers. I looked at writing a screen reader a few months ago and made a
start on it but then I found Thunder and figured that my version was
unlikely to be any better and there was no way I could compete with their
price, so there was little point continuing.

Thunder may not be very powerful but my hunch is that people who may once
have bought Guide, which is an all-in-one package (word-processor and email)
for computer beginners, would be better off using Thunder and Wordpad and
Outlook Express.

The other thing about Thunder is that it was written in Visual Basic and I
think I read somewhere they were looking to work with developers to improve
the product.

Anyway, I really just mentioned Thunder because it's already out there and
free and clearly Tom has his hands full with Monty and Raceway.

Cheers,
Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: gamers-bounces at audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-bounces at audyssey.org]On
Behalf Of Sky Taylor Mundell
Sent: 18 February 2007 17:23
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Screen reader


Hey Steve, where is the review of Thunder located on?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Azabat (Steve Crawford)" <steve at azabat.co.uk>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers at audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Screen reader


> Yeah, and what about the tutorial you promised on writing an Asteroids
> game?
>
> Sky, there are some free screenreaders out there already. One that got a
> pretty good review recently was Thunder, which you can download at
> http://www.screenreader.net/index.php?section=Thunder. It's not just for
> XP
> and works for Win2K as well.
>
> Steve
>