Re: [blind-gamers] Wireless headphones that produce good directional sound clues in games
I have a pair of senheiser hd410s units, there is a bluetooth version the bt310s. I think thats the one. Its like a stereo in your head and I like them. On 20/12/2020 10:50 am, Yusuf Osman wrote: Hi all, my trusty Plantronics Backbeat Pro headphones are flaking all over so I need to replace them. They are very good for games as I am able to hear things approaching from the left, right and behind. I believe this is what is called having a good or wide sound stage. I recently purchased a pair of *CORSAIR VIRTUOSO WIRELESS RGB SE headphones which are aimed at the gaming market, but when I’ve tried them with games (or rather one game Swamp) there’s no distinction between where sounds are coming from. The software that is meant to allow the user to configure the headphones is completely inaccessible, at least it is with Jaws2020.* ** *What wireless headphones would people recommend that are good for providing directional information? I don’t want to get Plantronics again as this is the second pair where the materials have started to flake. This one has been flaking for around a year now, and that was 3 years after I bought it. Given the cost I really think they should last longer than this. But if there’s nothing else I’ll have to go for Plantronics again.* Thanks Yusuf -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#123124): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/123124 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79092449/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Wireless headphones that produce good directional sound clues in games
Thanks I'm using a Windows10 PC and think the settings will probably be in the software for the Corsair headphones. I'll have to wait for sighted assistance to try and examine that though. Yusuf -Original Message- From: blind-gamers@groups.io On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell Sent: 19 December 2020 22:28 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Wireless headphones that produce good directional sound clues in games That's called surround sound. If your phone has dolby support on it you want to enable that for your headphones as well as any smart sound configuration item and see if that makes a positive difference. If that's already been done I have no more ideas. On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Yusuf Osman wrote: > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:50:59 > From: Yusuf Osman > Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io > To: "blind-gamers@groups.io" > Subject: [blind-gamers] Wireless headphones that produce good directional > sound clues in games > > Hi all, my trusty Plantronics Backbeat Pro headphones are flaking all over so > I need to replace them. They are very good for games as I am able to hear > things approaching from the left, right and behind. I believe this is what is > called having a good or wide sound stage. I recently purchased a pair of > CORSAIR VIRTUOSO WIRELESS RGB SE headphones which are aimed at the gaming > market, but when I've tried them with games (or rather one game Swamp) > there's no distinction between where sounds are coming from. The software > that is meant to allow the user to configure the headphones is completely > inaccessible, at least it is with Jaws2020. > > What wireless headphones would people recommend that are good for providing > directional information? I don't want to get Plantronics again as this is the > second pair where the materials have started to flake. This one has been > flaking for around a year now, and that was 3 years after I bought it. Given > the cost I really think they should last longer than this. But if there's > nothing else I'll have to go for Plantronics again. > Thanks > Yusuf > > > > > > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#123123): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/123123 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79092449/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Wireless headphones that produce good directional sound clues in games
That's called surround sound. If your phone has dolby support on it you want to enable that for your headphones as well as any smart sound configuration item and see if that makes a positive difference. If that's already been done I have no more ideas. On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Yusuf Osman wrote: > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:50:59 > From: Yusuf Osman > Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io > To: "blind-gamers@groups.io" > Subject: [blind-gamers] Wireless headphones that produce good directional > sound clues in games > > Hi all, my trusty Plantronics Backbeat Pro headphones are flaking all over so > I need to replace them. They are very good for games as I am able to hear > things approaching from the left, right and behind. I believe this is what is > called having a good or wide sound stage. I recently purchased a pair of > CORSAIR VIRTUOSO WIRELESS RGB SE headphones which are aimed at the gaming > market, but when I've tried them with games (or rather one game Swamp) > there's no distinction between where sounds are coming from. The software > that is meant to allow the user to configure the headphones is completely > inaccessible, at least it is with Jaws2020. > > What wireless headphones would people recommend that are good for providing > directional information? I don't want to get Plantronics again as this is the > second pair where the materials have started to flake. This one has been > flaking for around a year now, and that was 3 years after I bought it. Given > the cost I really think they should last longer than this. But if there's > nothing else I'll have to go for Plantronics again. > Thanks > Yusuf > > > > > > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#123122): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/123122 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79092449/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
[blind-gamers] Wireless headphones that produce good directional sound clues in games
Hi all, my trusty Plantronics Backbeat Pro headphones are flaking all over so I need to replace them. They are very good for games as I am able to hear things approaching from the left, right and behind. I believe this is what is called having a good or wide sound stage. I recently purchased a pair of CORSAIR VIRTUOSO WIRELESS RGB SE headphones which are aimed at the gaming market, but when I've tried them with games (or rather one game Swamp) there's no distinction between where sounds are coming from. The software that is meant to allow the user to configure the headphones is completely inaccessible, at least it is with Jaws2020. What wireless headphones would people recommend that are good for providing directional information? I don't want to get Plantronics again as this is the second pair where the materials have started to flake. This one has been flaking for around a year now, and that was 3 years after I bought it. Given the cost I really think they should last longer than this. But if there's nothing else I'll have to go for Plantronics again. Thanks Yusuf -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#123121): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/123121 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79092449/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
[blind-gamers] the drone game
Windowbridge source code is still sitting on my HD, and I can't do a thing with it, because when I received my copy of the source code, it was missing some rather important pieces, so the program was uncompilable. I didn't bother to try converting it to work without those pieces, because it would require just about an entire rewrite to accomplish that. It'd almost be easier to write a screen reader from scratch than to try to use the source I received, which is a real shame, because that was one really nice screen reader. On 12/18/2020 8:20 PM, Shaun Everiss wrote: True, however I am unsure how updated freedos is. At any rate, unless you have a serial synth, or a computer supporting it, and you will need both, freedos, drdos, prehistoric dos 6.22, or dos7.1 will not be available to you. Neither will vms of dos. Dosbox is free or use linux is probably most updated right now though talking dosbox has not had updates in ages. Over that, if you have a 32 bit windows addition you can get that. Price wize, I wouldn't spend the cash on 32 bit win10 since you can only get this with the 32-64 retail flash stick which costs 300nz or there abouts. You could buy a key I guess, and use a 32 bit iso on it if you want. The good news is that a lot of people at least locally here in new zealand on sites like trademe are porning off their legal windows 7 and 8 disks for next to nothing so you can upgrade them to win10. If you can get an xp disk that could help to. Failing all that, you could get a win98 or lower distribution and any key would do then. However, no nvda below win2k I don't think. Xp is the oldest you can go so 7 is probably the best if thats what you want. Also the win98 and lower dos terminals really were not the best as they put out a lot more info than one would like. I guess if you never needed sound you could run jaws for dos or flipper inside the emulator, but the best screen access you will get on dosbox is asap and you will need com0com for that. To be honest, what we really need in the emulators now is a full coppy of windoweyes for the win 3.1 os so that I can run silent steel without windoweyes going into demo mode. On that note, what the heck happened to windowbridge. That was almost like the older readers, it was free but for what it was I would have gladly spent cash on it. On 19/12/2020, Travis Siegel wrote: There's also the opensource dos project called freedos, and you can find it at: https://www.freedos.org/ I also believe that paragon still sells their PTS DOS system. I bought my copy years ago, so I don't know if it's still up for sale on their site, but is still listed in my downloads when I go to my purchases. You can find them at: http://www.paragon-software.com I don't see the PTS DOS listed anywhere on their site, but as I said, It's still in my purchased software, and I can (and have) download copies of it, including source code, so perhaps if you send them an email and ask about it, they will be willing to sell you a copy. PTS DOS2K is a (as the name says) 2K compatible version of dos, that comes with source code, and is supposed to be 100 percent MSDOS compatible. I did find 1 edge case where it did not work with a dos program that used extended memory as system memory, but that's not a surprise, since it didn't work with opendos either. Everything else I used it for over the years has worked just fine. (just for reference, opendos is the DRDOS version that was released as opensource when the company was named caldera, which was identical to their caldera dos product. I have that too, though I've not been able to find it as opensource anymore, I do have the originals, so no issues there. :) Come to think of it, since it was released as opensource, I should be able to upload those disks for download by others. Not the PTS DOS though, that isn't opensource, but it is cool to have source code to dos though. On 12/18/2020 5:48 PM, Shaun Everiss wrote: Its dos, and a 16 bit program. go to cutt.us/blindvms and look up my podcast on dosbox I may even have one on configurations. You will need a copy of com0com , and allow the com ports through its a bit complex than that and I can' tell you exactly how I got it because by default its something like cnca0 or cncb2 or something like that. The com ports that you select are those available in the system. After you do that then in theory you can do that. If you don't want to bother with dosbox, get a system you don't care for and do a reformat and install windows any version 32 bit. However, it must only have up to 4gb ram because you will not be able to use more than that. If you don't want to do that, you can do a vm and have a 32 bit os like windows xp or something for gaming if you want. If you are adventurous, you can run linux with dosbox via ssh or old dosemu which hasn't been updated in ages. dosbox is at http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox. Finally, if you have the means, you can get
