Hey, I'm James. I've been an audiogamer for a while now. My first was PCS' shooting range, mobius and foxhounds back in 1997. Grizzly Gulch came 3 years later, and only in 03 did I discover companies like ESP and Lworks. I've been hooked ever since.
My favorite game is technoshock, followed by SOD. Sidescrollers are fun, and the original alchemy monty showed a lot of promise. Tom's version sounds fun too. Instead of waiting for a time when this might apply, I thought I'd throw this at the end of my message, as I just discovered this and wouldn't want to forget it. If anyone attempts to play games under linux (soundrts is the only linux-native game I've tried), be sure to disable or uninstall PulseAudio if you have it. SDL and other sound mixing apps use ALSA, and there is a noticable amount of lag when using pulse with these apps (SoundRTS played a sound from 1-3 seconds after a keypress on my 1.6 ghz netbook). Speaking of linux gaming, wine is definitely not out of the question - I've managed to run superdeekout, some lworks free games (betas of super egg hunt and toy robbery) almost entirely successfully after registering dlls (lworks games drop out some sounds like chicken clucking or flapping or your footsteps but they're still playable). I have had more trouble before wine 1.0 was released late last summer, but now more programs run than ever (unfortunately technoshock plays intro and menu sound, but keyboard input doesn't work at all *WHYYYYY?*). I've shifted completely away from windows (haven't used it since the beginning of the year), and darwine on the mac works a little less well than it's linux equivalent. Despite that, Super Deekout runs perfectly on both. James --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
