User's Manual

BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide
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4. Although the supplied games suit both a speech and braille environment, you need to realize
that they were primarily designed to run on a screen. This means that you may encounter a
situation that is confusing because the author has included graphics or a timer. The games
supplied with your BrailleNote BT should not encounter such situations. However, if you try out
games that have not been supplied with your BrailleNote BT, you should be aware that this may
occasionally happen.
5. Press SPACE with H to learn about the KeySoft commands to use for loading, saving and
reviewing the game output.
Note: This is not the help for the specific game you are playing. Each game includes its own
detailed help. To access this help, type "help" and press ENTER.
6. During the process of playing a game, you will type in commands and press ENTER before
receiving feedback from the game. There is an exception that applies to the one key mode that is
discussed in 19.7 Single Key Mode. If you are playing a game with the text to speech on, then
the response will be spoken to you from beginning to end.
If you are using Braille only, then you read the first part of the response from the game on your
braille display. To continue reading, press the ADVANCE key to read to the end of the game
response.
You can also read by using the standard reading keys for reading the previous, current, and next
sentence. Specifically, SPACE with dot 1, SPACE with dots 1-4, and SPACE with dot 4. Words
and characters can also be read in the same way as they are in the Word Processor and Book
Reader, using SPACE with dot 2, SPACE with dots 2-5, and SPACE with dot 5 for words and
the commands SPACE with dots 3-6 and SPACE with 6 for characters. You can also read from
the cursor position to the end of the current game response, by pressing SPACE with G. To hear
the entire text again, press SPACE with R to repeat it.
Note. The standard reading keys of SPACE with dots 2-3, SPACE with dots 2-3-5-6, and
SPACE with dots 5-6 do not behave in the same manner as they do for reading in the Word
Processor and Book Reader. These commands should not be used until you have read 19.5
Reading Previous Moves.