Hi Louis, Wow, so you're actually trying to port every audiogame over? Maybe we could both work on Bomb Blaster at the same time then. Regards, Damien
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Games for your mobile device are finally here > Hi. I actually ported Chopper Challenge to VB.net with no problems, of > course you have to do something like this from scratch, and it is > available > for the PPC and a beta is available for the Windows Mobile Smartphone. I > was > trying to contact Bavisoft to find out how to do at least Grizly Gulch > without facing legal issues but they won't respond so whatever. . I have > also done Showdown, which PB Games wrote in Javascript I believe, and I am > currently getting started on Puppy1. It's not a matter of being future > proof, it's a matter of what you are willing to do to make sure non-future > proofing something doesn't happen. HTH. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "shaun everiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 3:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Games for your mobile device are finally here > > >> yeah I know. >> but it is my opinion that blind gaming in general for the present time >> will probably lag behind due to its nature. >> Its not likely that we can use the latest and greatest, the cash envolved >> for starters. >> Ok, Ok. >> I realise that the express languages are free and the sdks are also free >> so there should be no excuse but xna is not really that accessible, etc. >> More over games by bavisoft, gma, and jim kitchen will not work because >> these at least to my knowledge use vb6 code. >> Also is chopper challenge and a couple others. >> In other words a load of old stuff is not futureproofed. >> not sure about bavisoft using vb6 but. >> I think you can always install the files etc but still you are right. >> And for those of us that still use vb6 and dx8 we must understand our >> days >> are numbered. >> To those that are moving to c++ good on us all and the multiplatform >> approach you have discussed earlier has meret. >> also does the java language. >> At 01:13 a.m. 1/08/2008, you wrote: >>>Hi, >>>I don't think so. DirectPlay is a very very old technology. I don't know >>>how many folks on this list keep up to date with what is going on in the >>>Windows technology world, but DirectPlay was officially dropped by >>>Microsoft in November 2007. That was almost a year ago when DirectPlay >>>was officially removed as a core Windows technology. We as developers >>>need to begin thinking about something else if we want to be ready for >>>Windows 7 support. >>>We as blind gamers need to recognise the fact a lot of the technologies >>>we are using for games such as Visual Basic 6 and DirectPlay are only >>>going to be supported up to Windows Vista. Windows 7 on will not have >>>any support for these technologies. It might be possible to force an >>>installation of VB 6 libraries, DirectPlay, etc but it is going to get >>>harder and harder to support as time goes by. >>> >>> >>>Tuukka Ojala wrote: >>>> Yeah, I would also go with DirectPlay. 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