Monopoly Version 8 Now Available

I have just recieved an e-mail on a gaming mailing list from Jim Kitchen. The e-mail is below:

Hi,

I have put Monopoly version 8 up on my web site.

In version 8 I fixed the alt tab problem and you can now have custom tokens, currency, houses and hotels. You can also edit the MonopolyCustom.txt file
to change Go, Jail, Free Parking, Income Tax, Luxury Tax, Railroad, Utility, Bank, Community Chest and Chance. I have also added the features to roll
the dice to see who goes first and for a person to resign from the game.

The file winpoly8.exe can be found on my free windows sapi5 text to speech games page.

You can go to his website
http://www.kitchensinc.net
to grab this free game.

Testing Firefox Beta with NVDA Preview Version

I'm currently testing Firefox Beta 3.5 nightly build with NVDA 0.6 P and it's working pretty well except for a few bugs. One of the bugs that I found with NVDA is that it sometimes puts several links on one line so you will have to navigate to the line where the link is on and use your arrow keys to put your cursor on the link you want and hit enter. Also, it has problems activating a link if there is punctuation in front of it.

Even though NVDA doesn't work very well with Internet Explorer, it's still functional. I decided to compare the speed of how fast a document loads with IE with Firefox and the result is that Firefox loads documents much faster. It only takes about a second with Firefox and 5 to 6 seconds to load one in IE.

If you would like to try NVDA you can go to
nvda-project.org.
To get a Beta version of Firefox,
click here.

Dan Z Games Coming To a Close

Today, I have just heard from the people at
audiogames.net
that Dan Z is closing his game company so as a result, he has made all his comercial games on his site free until June 2008. The games that are free now are
Search Party,
Super Deekout
and
Chain Link

Note on the page you will find the demos of the software. To make it a full you version you will need to download and extract a file which you paste in to the game's directory. Those files are found on the main page.
You can go to his website by going to
danzgames.com

NVDA 0.6 P Released

NVDA 0.6 Preview has just been released by the NVDA team. Since it is just a preview version, there are still many major bugs that still needs to be fixed. One notable thing in the version is the newly written virtual buffer code for firefox. If you use Firefox, the web pages will load quicker than before. Currently, the code for Internet Explorer is broken so you may not have much success using it.
You can
click here
to get the installer.
You can also go to the official NVDA web site by going to
http://nvda-project.org