@25, I’ll definitely check out the discord server, and thanks for the link. As for what I’m using, in all honesty I’m just using Orca. For some strange reason TDSR was acting up when I tried using it, like, it kept repeating the same few lines of text over and over without shutting up, and it had a strange obsession with repeating the letter Q every so often. For example, if I’m using Orca and I want to load up an existing save, I press enter, Orca announces the name of my world, which for reference is horse head, I press enter again, it gives me the names of my characters, one more enter later and I’m good to go. However, with TDSR on the other hand the following happens. I press enter and TDSR announces, “qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq horse head”, another enter and it says the name of my characters, one more enter and it says, “qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq”, and then reads the game information on a loop, without stopping. I’ve got no clue just how I managed in messing up TDSR so much, but truly I’m not finding that many problems when playing with Orca, its slow at times, but I find it a lot more usable than TDSR for some strange reason.
@26, thanks for the tips. As for me packaging up my VM and posting it, that sounds like a pretty solid idea, I’ll look into doing that over the week if it could help other people access the game easier, and make it just a bit friendlier to get going with the thing. Though one thing which I will say right off the bat, I have not gotten the sounds to work just yet, so I’ll probably want to solve that before I think of perhaps posting it.

HI guys. @ zkline, for some reason it seams like when ever I try to create a blank txt file called .bash_profile, the VM automatically deletes it or something, at least, when I tried creating it, I couldn’t find it anywhere on the virtual Machine. Naming the file just bash_profile without the period at the start seems to work just fine, at least it doesn’t vanish into nothingness, yet as soon as I add the full stop, the file disappears out of the directory I put it in. Could there be a reason why this is happening?

Hi folks, so I wanted to drop by and ask if the tile version of Cataclysm is playable, or if we can only use the pure text variant? I’m asking cause, as I understand it, sound packs only work for the graphical version.

@TheSecretLurker, thanks for the reply. Shame about the tile version being inaccessible, the sound pack looked cool, and I could imagine it being a pretty handy way for us to gain some otherwise rather obscure info, like if a zombie is trying to break through a door, if a creature stepped on a landmine, general combat info etc.
To answer your question As to what screen reader I’m using, I’m currently rolling with the standard Orca screen-reader. I’m finding it quite usable with the game, though there are points were it runs into some problems, most notably when going through the mini map. Don’t get me wrong, when I navigate over individual tiles of the map, it announces what they are, though in most cases it reads some random characters before the name of the location, for example, “***ffffffff//fffffff***h@t@g**vgg***road”. As far as I can guess, those random characters are due to Orca trying to read the map graphics, like the Fs which denote patches of forests. Just as a matter of interest, are you guys aware of any way I could disable the map graphics, or is it a situation were I have to just put up with it?
Finally, out of curiosity, would anybody be interested in me writing an installation and getting started guide for cataclysm? I was mulling over the idea for a few days, and just wanted to see if anybody would be interested in me making one, before I sit down and dedicate time to writing it up.

I really wish I had a way to play games like this, but I only gots windows, maybe I could use a vm, but I'd half to have someone walk me through it

Hey, Samuel, the thing is, when creating a new character you need to have a world generated, basically, during the world generation phase you can pick which mods you want to enable, if you don't enable them, they'll still be in mods folder but will not show up in your newly generated world basically, feel free to ask anything else if you have more questions about Cataclysm, I'm eager to help with whatever questions you may have :smile:

It's a strange issue, technically, some mods are considered to be obsolete, that is, there are "obsolete": true lines in modinfo.json of some mods which doesn't make them appear during the world generation due to mods actually being obsoleted or their content being mainlined into the game basically, but it should actually display 75% of the mods in cdda/data/mods and not 25%, hmm