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Quake For the Blind

Posted by timothy on from the really-fast-braille dept.

Kirby-meister writes: "An interesting article on The Boston Globe talks of a company, ZForm, which has modified Quake for the visually-impaired. The article also goes into an interesting discussion on how visual our world is becoming, possibly leaving the visually-disabled behind the technological advances."

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  1. screen shot by kirn_malinus · · Score: 5, Funny

    what, no screen shots?

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  2. Whats next? by wompser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whats next, MP3's for the deaf?

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    1. Re:Whats next? by Cinnibar+CP · · Score: 2, Funny

      Joking aside, it is possible for the deaf to listen to music. For example, Edison used to bite into the phonograph to hear it, since he was mostly deaf in the later years.

      Gives all new meaning to the phrase, "This song bites". Guess he just had odd music tastes.

    2. Re:Whats next? by nizo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually they have been able to emulate listening to country music fairly well for the hearing and humor impaired. You take the subjects tongue, stretch it across a dusty two-by-four, and nail it down with 6 nails. While the subject attempts to pull their tongue off of the two-by-four, sandblast the rest of their body, and then cover them in salt. Sadly the FDA has not approved this procedure (yet).

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    3. Re:Whats next? by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 3, Funny

      the only deaf compliant mp3 out so far is John Cage's 4'33"

  3. A good thing for office worker... by WetCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    having Excel (or StarCalc) on your screen and only headfones on you you can Quake without distracting your boss! :)

  4. At work, too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So does this mean that I could be sitting at my desk with {insert religiously-favored-editor-of-choice here} and an audio player onscreen, apparently looking at a couple hundred lines of code and listening to music, but actually playing Quake?

    Now that's a product with potential!

    (Posting AC because, well, I'm at work)

  5. Re:What I am hoping for.... by stevenbee · · Score: 3, Funny
    Listen, I'm such a spazz that I bound the command for 'railgun" to CTRL+ALT+DELETE!

    And then bitched about the instability of the game on irc.

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  6. Sounds like fun (no pun intended?) by teamhasnoi · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wouldn't mind having a go at this version of Quake. It would be good practice for when I go blind from masturbating constantly.

  7. Sound Cards by thelinuxking · · Score: 2, Funny

    My computer is great! It can run the game at 300 SPS. You know, Sounds Per Second.

  8. If this comes to pass i see... by Manitcor · · Score: 2, Funny

    a cheat for Quake taht will let you hear through walls and move without making a sound.

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  9. It's just like normal quake... by dustman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quake for the blind is almost just like normal quake: The only difference is there are two new buttons, labelled "Marco" and "Polo", but I can't figure out what they're for.

  10. The final humiliation by BinBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Getting my ass kicked by a 12-year-old is bad enough. Now the blind are going to beat me?

    How to search for and download files while you sleep.

  11. Sweet - what's the server IP address? by ryanvm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh man, I gotta find me one of these servers. No more getting spanked by 11 year-olds in CounterStrike. This is my kind of competition.