Hello Thomas, Thanks very much. That was the friendliest update from anyone that I have ever red. Good luck and I am happily awaiting further announcements. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:26 PM Subject: audyssey: USA Games Update.
> > USA Games > > Update > > 3/8/2006 > > > Hello fellow gamers, > We have some very good news. As of today March 8, 2006 we have finally > come in to possession of the Alchemy game source code and account > records. This means probably tomorrow we can begin work on Raceway, > Montezuma's Revenge, and start to get the account records in to our own > order system which wasn't ready for this level of use quite yet. > Although, we now have the source in hand it will take some time to get > up-to-speed with the way Montezuma's Revenge and raceway were written. > For starts Monty is written in Visual Basic 6 which is a language I > once used quite allot, but haven't used in about 3 years. A time when I > began using C# and Visual Basic .NET instead. So obviously it may take > some getting use to using the older VB language again, and DirectX 8 > instead of 9. That doesn't include just reading all the notes, figure > out how to use the engine tools, etc... In other words learn how he > wrote the game, and go from there. > As for Raceway it appears to be between two different writes. Some of > the game is in Visual Basic 6, but James let me know he was converting > it all over to VB .NET so he could take advantage of DirectX 9 and > better joystick and game controller support with force feedback. It will > take some time to complete the work James started with the convert let > alone debug, and make a demo of it. > We do have all of Alchemy's and ESP's sales records for Raceway and > Montezuma's Revenge, but we are having some problems on our end. Tonight > when attempting to install Office 2000 I found out that the disk either > has a finger print is scratched. In either case I am not able to get MS > Access 2000 on my main computer, and until I figure out how to handle > this I can't do much with the records Although, James did supply us with > text copies as well, but will be much harder to sort for someones info. > Finally, we would like to let everyone know that STFC 1.0 public beta > has been packaged, and uploaded to the web server. The only thing that > needs to be done is finish updating the USA Games site, and get a > downloads page up for it. We hope to have that up by the end of the > week, but I am not saying for sure it will be there. Just that I hope to. > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > __________ NOD32 1.1435 (20060308) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
