[games_access] Holy Grail of Accessible Controllers

[Javier Mairena]

See "try it!" section on: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
And for more info: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD

There are a lot of things that you can't do from a live CD booting, but in
the link that you have sent they say that you can use an Ubuntu live CD.

On 13 January 2011 20:15, Barrie Ellis <oneswitch at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Ah, very interesting, Javier. Do you have any links and advice for
> running "Live CD". I'm not aware of it at all.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Barrie
>
>
>  *From:* Javier Mairena <javier.mairena at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:58 AM
> *To:* Barrie Ellis <oneswitch at gmail.com> ; IGDA Games Accessibility SIG
> Mailing List <games_access at igda.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [games_access] Holy Grail of Accessible Controllers
>
> Great!!
>
> it only runs on Linux but you can use a Live CD !!  so isnt a big problem!
> <http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download>Although is really boring to
> configure it each OS restart.
>
> On 12 January 2011 21:21, Barrie Ellis <oneswitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Just a little more info on that holy-grail of accessible controllers...
>>
>>  This is a good step towards what I'd love to see:
>>
>> http://diy-machine.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-english-tutorial.html
>>
>> A PC (unfortunately has to run Linux) - with keyboard or mouse compatible
>> controller - that connects to a PS3. From this players can use a wide range
>> of peripherals (head-tracker, track-ball, glide-pad, eye-tracker via the
>> mouse compatibility - and likely joystick use via the keyboard
>> compatibility). They can reconfigure the controls on games that didn't have
>> the foresight to offer that option - and play.
>>
>> Next step would be wonderful if it could run on a Windows/Mac/iOS
>> operating system - and offer player assist modes (latching modes / auto-fire
>> modes / pre-set move routines) - and then be used on an Xbox 360, Wii,
>> iPad and future machines.
>>
>> One day...
>>
>> Barrie
>>
>>
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