page last updated: December 31 2009.
A list of links to all enjoy! hold your horses now ...
Ok, shall we get straight onto the links?
Personal websites
- Michael Curran, here is a useful website with recordings and programming related stuff. check it out.
- Joseli Walter, otherwise known as The Zoo Lady!
- Kevin Reeves, this guy is a good musician. Check out the site.
- Quinten Pendle and his business, Another good musician, and has a business going in different fields.
- Emanuel Borsboom, writes some cool software, including a Midi Scripter and a few other interesting things.
- John Clower, is cool!
- Chris Skarstad, otherwise known as Toonhead, gives us information and his ACB Radio reviews.
- tom lorimer, whitestick.co.uk, has some cool sites and downloads to check out.
- Arthur Pirika, otherwise known as Arfy, another good musician.
- Louis Briant, AKA BrailleSoft, another friend of mine, has some cool software for windows, dos, linux and pocket pc.
- Chris Nestrud, This is where you will find jaws scripts for skype and other useful tools.
- brandon cole, the guy who originally got my website started!
- Andre Louis, music guy and DJ over at TBRN
- Patrick Perdue, music and audio productionist at P&D Audio Productions
- Stephen Clower, musician and programmer of Steve's Clock
- James Bowden, a very close friend of mine. A former student at Worcester's blind college, the place I went to, this guy has grown up to be in the development team of Dolphin Computer Access, and make some nice little utilities himself, such as QWS MIDI Sequencer, a small scheduler utility called At, a Simon game, and a nice keyboard utility called Keyhook.
- Liam Erven, a website which has somehow grown smaller in content, but it is still funny.
- Matthew Horspool
- Sean Randall, the blog of another friend of mine.
- Flint Million, Games, songs written using speech synthesis, and freedom chat/tirc.
- Raul Gallegos, another good friend of mine. A games fanatic like me, this is another friend who shares tips, tricks, walkthroughs, reviews and talks to us as he plays his favourite games. Also broadcasts on a radio show.
- Kelly Sapergia , Topspeed, radio, a few of his works, and hopefully more to come from yet another friend ...
- Niko C, another friend of mine, gives us some programs.
Games and Fun
- AllInPlay, games including Poker, Blackjack, Crazy Eights, Tag, and more.
- InspiredCode, contains the musical game metris, as well as Clocktower, a clock program playing church music to us.
- BPC Programs, run by Munawar Bijani, brings us Treasure Hunt, Tournament and Fartman.
- Blind Adrenalin Simulations, home of RailRacer, run by Che Martin.
- AudioGames, your full archive listing! Contains a whole archive of games, as well as modifications, reviews, articles, magazines, forums, cheats, tips, tricks, tutorials, walkthroughs and more.
- AudioGameMaker, the audiogames.net devs accessible contribution to the growing list of game making software.
- DanZGames, run by Daniel Zingaro, brings us the challenges of a lifetime with Super Deekout, Chain Link, Search Party, and a few maze and memory games.
- GMA Games, run by David Greenwood, provide games such as GMA Tank Commander, Shades of Doom, Packman Talks, Dice, Solitaire, Mine Buster, and the all-famous GMA Game Engine.
- PCS Games, run by Phil Vlasak, makes his contributions known with Super Dog's Bone Hunt and Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- Draconis Entertainment, with Standard and Christmas Whoop Ass, Monkey Business, Change Reaction, Pinball Classic and Extreme, as well as a Pinball Extreme Party Pack, Ten Pin Alley, Dynaman ...
- BSCGames, managed by one fantastic Justin Daubenmire, blows our speakers up with powerful audiogames. Justin Daubenmire, Daniel Zingaro, Tom and Mary Beth Randall of BSC Games and the Blind Software team present Pipe Classic and Blast Chamber, Troopanum 1 and 2, Hunter, Deekout, Finger Panic, Crazy Darts, Sonic Match, Bobby's Revenge ...
- L-Works, games site of Liam Erven, who presents Superliam, Super Egg Hunt, Egg Hunt, Lockpick, Pigeon Panic, Judgment Day, Supershot, L-Words, L-Works Arcade ...
- LightTech Interactive, presenting Light Locator, Light Cars, Blankblock, the Horse Racing game, Num Crunch, BopIt Ultimate, Treasure Mania ...
- Playing in the Dark, the makers of Topspeed 1 and 2, vehicles, tracks, language packs and utilities, as well as host to X-Sight's TopSpeed2 Utility Pack.
- KitchensInc, site of Jim Kitchen and the favourite for free windows and dos games, literally, all of them free! Monopoly, Concentration, Casino, Bop it, Spanker, Scunk, Simon, Battleships, Golf, Mach1, Pong, Life, Mastermind, Snakes and Ladders and more classic games.
- the Last Crusade project, made by Patrick, Dan and some other university students.
- Sounds Like Fun, Descent Into Madness and Sonic Zoom are made by the same students.
- Bavisoft, run by Jeff Gibbons, present Grizzly Gulch and Chillingham.
- Spoonbill Software - blind gamers series, run by Ian Humphreys. Boggle, Hearts, 15 Puzzle, Sudoku, Uno, Chess Challenge...
- PuzzleMonster, Lots of fun puzzles, some of them accessible.
- Create your own crazy whacky funny story
- Live journal text randomiser
Other general download sites
- Accessible Programs, Jaws scripts and other download sites and resources.
- WinMorse, nice free utility converting text to audio by way of morse code.
- BlindSoftware - BSC, main software site, also managed by Justin. Blind Software, home of Day by Day Professional, BSC Talking Clock, Funk in the Trunk, Pulse mp3, Sweet Midi and more.
- JFWLite, has some cool programs. Owned and maintained by Debbie Scales, who unfortunately passed away, is not being updated any more, but thanks to Tom, her husband, is still up for convenience.
- AnalogX, Cool music and software are given to you free of charge! Contains software such as a vocoder, scratch pad, say it, directx plugins, and free music.
- Blind Geek Zone, run by Rick Harman, is another nice site to download from
- Free Download Manager, the website of a nice little program
- Blind Computing happens to have some cool software on there.
Software Development Pages
- Blind Programming, resources for blind programmers, including Articles, tutorials and samples for nearly all programming languages, C/C++, VB6 and .net, Pascal, Jaws for Windows, VB Script, Java and Java Script ...
- Autoit3, a free and open-source scripting language, Jonathan Bennett did a good job on this one, although there are some disadvantages ...
- AutoIt3 public beta archive. At the time of writing, this is 3.3.1.1.
- autohotkey, taken from Autoit and modified by Chris Mallett, This has more of a C syntax to it.
- Planet Source code, a huge library of source codes for download in all languages.
- Inthane Elf's development resource centre, provides some very useful external links to development resources.
- Rapid Euphoria, another open source language which uses a c/c++ compiler installed on your computer to convert euphoria source code to c/c++.
- Inno Setup, a free and open-source installation system written by Jordan Russell. Inno Setup is a nice installer scripting language for Windows, using .iss files (scripts) to compress and compile the files into a recognisable setup.exe program.
- free nsis (nullsoft scriptable install system), a nice open-source, small, free, flexible install system from Source Forge, made by nullsoft.
- ResHacker. If you have SciTe for Autoit, you may want to visit this page to get the resource-hacking software to manage and perform version changes. This can also be very handy for taking out strings that related to Autoit.
- XStandard, providing you lots of activex/com object dll's for use in your programs, including XZip, XMD5, XHTML Parser, XBase64, xImage ...
- Active Lock - early version, the free open source software licensing system - an activex control. This is the earlier version, 1.0 to 1.8.4, an activex .ocx control file, etc.
- ActiveLock - later versions, From Activelock 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, an ActiveX DLL file.
- atma-software, contains 1crypt, 1way, 1time and an app packager program.
- Un4seen developments, home of the bass audio library, giving access to 3d environments.
- ExeShield Licencing System, another licencing/registration system.
- Strongbit, home of ExeCrypter.
- VB Helper
- Windows Dev Centre
- Code Guru
- VB Accelerator
Demonstration and Podcast sites
- BlindCoolTech, A brilliant blind-related podcast for you to listen to.
Chat
Audio related
- the home of Winamp!
- Chipamp, plugin for winamp that plays music files ripped from game consoles. Play files from Nintendo 64, Amiga, Nintendo Gameboy, Megadrive, Playstation, Playstation2 and more.
- Supernintendo music archive, download for absolutely free!
- SNESMusic Archive Directory, the directory to the snes music archive so you don't have to browse alphabetically, or if you want to download them all at once.
- Gameboy Music, download an archive full of free Nintendo Game Boy music.
- Nintendo 64 archive, again, free downloads
- Galbadia Hotel, a site hosting ps/ps2/pc game music and other media
- VoxMachina, a cool online speech synthesis tool.
- DVD Audio Extractor, by CAStudios, cheap, reliable and accessible.
- kjs productions, run by kelly sapergia.
- TelevisionTunes, TV theme tunes website
- TVThemeTunes, another TV theme tunes site
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire Theme music, hosted on Bryan Turner's funstuff section.
Radio stations
Screenreader Projects
Research and Information
Ancestry & Genealogy
- Ancestry.co.uk, the world's largest resources. Includes family trees, Free BMD index, all the Censuses, home of the Family Tree Maker software, and much more!
- FamilySearch, contains the 1881 British and Canadian censuses, the 1880 US census, Pedigree Resource File, Ancestral File, Personal Ancestral File and International Genealogical Indexes.
- Family Tree Legends, another piece of genealogy software
- FreeReg
- Free BMD, Births, Marriages and Deaths.
- FreeCen, Free census information.
- Genes Reunited
- RootsWeb
- Find my Past
- Treeroots - still under construction, X-Sight's work on ancestry.
- GenForum
- Genealogy
- Find a Grave
- Family in History
- Tribal Pages
- Cyndi's List
Miscellaneous
- Blastbay Studios, Software, games, development resources, run by Philip Bennefall, a good friend of mine.
- the Bradshaws, a fantastic and very funny radio drama/comedy show. This show is hilarious! It is a fictional series based on a family, consisting of Alf, Audrey and Billy.
- BlueHost, an affordable and reliable hosting solution.
- Blind Corners, contains some blind-related info on using the computer
- MusicBoxWorld
- Music Box Attic
- Church Audio, sells microphones and preamps
- Play, a CD store
- CD Wow, another CD store
- W.H.Smith's
- Zavvi, another CD store
- GoffyMedia, website of Paul Gough, a favourite radio DJ of mine.
- HMV, another CD store
- Tesco, a grocery and household store for UK customers
- CDBaby, a CD store and distribution site
- Ike Turner's website
more links, please.
The list is big, but not that big. Consider the number of sites out there. If you can think of any more cool links to do with blind-related stuff, software, games, audio, programming, midi, please email me.
Also, please remember that we also have the mailing lists, so if all else fails, you'll always find one of us on there.
Also, if you find that one of these sites either doesn't work or is not accessible, please let me know so that I can remove the link.
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