zkline
when i try launching the forge executable, it sais unable to find java s e envirennnement or something like that

I think I figured out how to activate abilities. Now I managed to build my own deck with the Editor, but it doesn't appear in the preconstructed deck lists. Any idea how do I play with my own built decks?

vcaparica,

THere's a separate place for user-constructed decks. If you go to the combo box which says "pre-constructed," you can choose "User-generated," or something like that, and it should be there.

Hey there.
I have a little problem concerning nvda's object navigation. When ever i try to move the mouse to a certain Card or whatever, it just sit's there dooing nothing at all. Has anyone of you guys experienced the same issue and if so, have you been able to fix it?
Thanks in advance, Marcel.

@zkline
It doesn't realy matter which review mode i'm using. However, for some reason, every other application works just fine. If that changes annything, i'm running bootcamp on an 13 inch MacBook Pro. Not shure if the cause of the issue is found there.

bitti,

Okay, that shouldn't matter. I ran Forge on a Bootcamped Macbook Air for a long while and it was fine. Actually you might want to try running it on the actual Mac OS< in some ways that's a little easier.

For the time being, could you tell me exactly what you're doing and what you mean when you say nothing happens? Give me step-by-step keystrokes, please. It would make trying to debug this issue a lot easier.

Subdragon, I'd be happy to help. Please tell me the exact text of the error you are getting. I can't help if I don't know exactly what the computer is saying to you. The text in your previous post doesn't sound familiar to me at all.

You can just grab the regular snapshot from the Forge site, and run the .Jar file. THere's a script  in there to make it easier.

The one gotcha is that the menubar at the top of the window is weird with Mac Java's implementation, but otherwise it behaves reasonably well. Windows is probably easier in some ways but I've played games with both systems.

Subdragon,

Okay, that's weird.

Do you have a version of Java actually installed?

If so, I would remove it via (Add/Remove Programs) and try to get another one just to start from scratch.

If you don't have one installed, then you need to go to java.com and download one.

it worked, but how to navigate this thing's ui, and what on earth is this select an avatar, coloured decks and green decks and whatever

zkline,
I believe I finally grabbed it. I've learned how to build decks, played a couple dozen matches. The only thing I couldn't do yet is to choose between cards to pick or shuffle back (such as in the Opt spell). Some other questions I would like to ask:

Is this snapshot still the latest?

When eventually the master dev branch at git.cardforge.org releases an update, say with the new Zendikar Rising set, will it be available at the snapshot link you provided at post #1? Will it keep the great accessibility improvements you made?

Also, have you or anybody here successfully played an online game? I am trying very hard on this to play with sighted people in my houses WAN, but to no success. I forwarded port 36743 in my wifi modem, then I open Forge, launch the server and send the address it gives me. We tried with both the online and the internal addresses, but the client says it's connected, yet the server doesn't say anything. Any clues on that?

Again, thanks a lot for the work you've done, I'm having a lot of fun.

You said that releases have been taking a lot of time, but the current card database covers cards up to Core Set 2021, which was released in late June 2020, not so long ago. Is there a way to update card database without new releases?

The only card that gave me this problem of choosing, up to now, is "Opt", a blue spell that lets you draw two cards, then send one to your hand and the other to your library. The interface tell me to drag cards up and down to choose, but this is a little complicated to do, I've been running on luck when I need to pick.

I've been thinking about all the fun this application has been giving me. I am not a Java programmer, but I know a bunch of them. If I eventually manage to gather some of them to help pushing forward the accessibility work you've already done, would you be willing to give them initial instructions as to how to keep improving the application's access? I know this means some work for you, and I totally understand if you're stuck with other stuff right now, but this application have given me hours of fun that I didn't get in the last 10 years, I am really interested in making this a thing to as many other blind people as I can.