Dear Frank,

Although your friend probably is interested in tangible chess games, perhaps he or she may also be interested in electronic chess.  Following my signature is a listing of accessible games, including a number of accessible chess games.  I am replying to the list as well, just in case others are interested in the list.

For the tangible versions, try Maxi-Aids (800) 522-6294 and Independent Living Aids (800) 537-2118.

- Judi Piscitello, TVI, COMS
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Assistant, Training of Special Educators
NYS Resource Center for Visually Impaired
2A Richmond Avenue
Batavia, NY 14020
(585) 343-8100 ext. 427
FAX (585) 343-3711
http://www.vesid.nysed.gov/lsn/visual.htm 

Sources of Accessible Games - January 2003

Accessible game sites and more.

A list of over twenty game company links,

Jeff Gibbons's Bavisoft.
http://www.bavisoft.com/ 

home of Grizzley Gulch Western Extravaganza, the first Windows audio
game.

Justin Daubenmire's Blind Software Company.
http://www.blindsoftware.com/ Home of the Fifteen numbers puzzle game,
Word Blast, and Word Jitter games.

Daniel Zingaro and BSC Games.
http://www.bscgames.com/ 
home of Troopanum, Pipe, Word Blast, and Word Jitter,
and has two free games, Deekout and Finger Panic.

Munawar Bijani's BPC Programs, inc..
http://www.anycities.com/mun0009/programs/ Home of Tournament, Big Trek,
Trivia and the Unending Adventure game, that play in DOS and on Blazie
Notetakers.

Eduard, Sonia, Susana, and Javier's Code Factory.
http://www.codfact.com/english/highlights.html 
Home of KM 2000 driving simulator and several educational games.

James North's ESP Softworks.
http://www.espsoftworks.com/ 
Home of Change Reaction, Alien Outback, Monkey Business and ESP Pinball.
And the free game Shell Shock.

Ken Downey's Dream Tech Interactive, which is not available at this
time. Home of World of Darkness, an interactive novel that creates a
virtual reality audio experience. Ask me and I'll send you the demo

David Greenwood's GMA Games.
http://www.gmagames.com/ 
home of Shades of Doom, Lone Wolf Submarine simulation, Star Trek 2000
and also Pacman Talks.

Robert Betz's Initram Technologies Inc. http://www.gamesfortheblind.com/ 
Home of several Windows games that use an included Eloquence
synthesizer, like, BlackJack, Battleship, Free Cell, Memory, Simon, Word
Play, Word Scramble and Yahtzee. And has StarFight, the world's first
accessible Internet game.

Robison Bryan's Inspired code.
http://www.inspiredcode.net/ 
Home of Metris, a Musical Tetris game.


Robison Bryan's Audio Adventure Engine Project.
http://www.inspiredcode.net/Adventure.htm 
home of a Windows game creating engine, now under construction.

Jim Kitchen's free Windows and DOS Games. http://www.kitchensinc.net/ 
home of Mach 1 Car racing, Win Pong, Win Golf, Win Casino, Win snakes
and ladders, Win Trucker, Win baseball batting practice and Win Bopit.

Liam Erven's L Works.
http://www.l-works.net/ 
Home of Super Shot, L Works Words and Guess The Number.

Craig Faris's Marvel Soft Enterprises.
http://www.braillebookstore.com/marvelsoft.htm 
Home of Talking Typing Teacher, Talking Toolbox, and Marvel Math.

Roger Myers's Minds Eye Two, which is not available at this time. Early
Learning Playground and Windows Games for the Blind. Home of Froggy Hop,
Crossword Fun, Magic Match, Flies By Night and Anagram Mania.

Phil Vlasak's PCS Games
http://www.pcsgames.net/ 
home of the Windows game Pacman Talks and twenty nine DOS games.

Graham Pearce's Game Page.
http://www.anycities.com/graham43/ 
Home of Super Simon and a huge collection of DOS basic games. Phia
Damsma and John Norgaard's Sonokids.
http://www.sonokids.com/wwwsonokids/english/games.html 
Home of Memory and Banjobuster, Flash Internet games for children.

Sander Huiberts, Richard van Tol, and Hugo Verweij's Sound Support.
http://www.soundsupport.net/ Home of Drive, a Windows racing game, and
the Shock wave Internet game, Curb, in which a hedge-hog crosses a road.

Dan Zingaro's Freeware. http://www.anycities.com/user/danfreeware/ 
Home of Winfight, Drone, a DOS text adventure, and his Blazie Notetaker
Games Package.

Paul Silva's Z form.
http://www.zform.com/ 
Home of Online Poker, where the blind and sighted can chat and play
together.

Other places with one accessible game.

Ark Angles' Kchess,
http://www.arkangles.com/kchess/ 
a speech-friendly computer chess game.

Crista Earl's CrissCross Technologies. http://www.crisscrosstech.com/ 
home of CCT Solitaire, a Windows card game.


United States Braille Chess Association.
http://www.crisscrosstech.com/usbca/ 

Tim Mann's Winboard.
ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/winboard/WinBoard2.exe 
a speech-friendly computer chess game adapted to work with JAWS for
Windows.

Other places for free games, and information about accessible games. the
IF Archive. http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive.html 
a site of text-based adventure games.

The Best of Interactive Fiction.
http://www.igs.net/~tril/if/best/index.html 

official home of Audyssey Magazine http://www.audysseymagazine.org/ 
Magazine that covers Games Accessible to the Blind, those who want to
receive issues of Audyssey as they are published should send a blank
E-mail to [log in to unmask] 

The Blind Gamers list is another E-Mail list serve which discusses games
accessible to the blind between the publication of issues of Audyssey.
To subscribe to this discussion list, send a blank message to
[log in to unmask] 

Accessible Games.com
http://www.accessiblegames.com/ 
Web page currently under construction but come back soon!
This page will showcase, and spotlight new game releases.
To subscribe to their discussion list, send a blank message to
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Sound Computing.
http://www.sound-computing.com/ 
an audio computer magazine

E-ACCESS BULLETIN.
http://www.e-accessibility.com/ 
E-access Bulletin Issues about games:
ISSUE 4, MAY 2000 ACCESSIBLE GAMING.
ISSUE 8, AUGUST 2000 ACCESSIBLE Educational games.
Issue 24, December 2001 Accessible gaming: Games without frontiers. To
subscribe to E-access Bulletin, please email [log in to unmask]">m
with the words 'subscribe eab' in the subject header.

for Kelly Sapergia's PCS Games musical theme.
http://www.pcsgames.net/theme.htm 


Updated 1/21/03


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