The Story of Rogue

Re:The Story of Rogue by amaurose on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:56AM (#42326926)

I still fondly remember how inclusive the minimalism of games like NetHack actually were. NetHack was the first game I played after moving to Linux, roughly 1995. I say inclusive, because I played it with a Braille display. Many aspects of the simplicity of the 90s led to unintentional accessibility. I also used to read guitar tabs in plain ASCII when they were still exchanged on NNTP groups. These days, every guitar tab site I find is "polished" and therefore no longer accessible.

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Re:The Story of Rogue by snackbroken on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:45AM (#42328675)

This[1] bookmarklet strips everything that isn't preformatted plain text from a page. It seems to work on both gametabs[2] and ultimate-guitar[3] and probably others that don't try to get fancy with their typography. Hopefully it is of some use.

[1](javascript:(function(){const tabs = document.querySelectorAll('pre'); document.head.remove(); document.body.remove(); document.body = document.createElement('body'); for(const tab of tabs){ document.body.appendChild(tab);};})();)

[2](https://www.gametabs.net/)

[3](https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/explore?type[]=Tabs)

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Re:The Story of Rogue by sourcepluck on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:19PM (#42343924)

That's so terrible to hear! Is there no nice tool out there that converts guitar tabs from ultimate guitar or whatever to ASCII? Maybe scraping there big clunky websites is hard... Hmm.

A Braille display - it converts any ASCII characters to Braille, but struggles with non-ASCII stuff, is that it?

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