Re: [Audyssey] star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Rob, Quote considering how many people likes star wars, and considering that no games are available which can be played by a blind gamer, i must say for a free accessible star wars game, it worth the risk. End quote I am in agreement with you that putting out a freeby like this is probably

Re: [Audyssey] visual basic express

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Yes, it will. I use VB and C# 2005 without any scripts or sets. Although, I did make Window Eyes sets to improve things and to save my favroite settings. Josh wrote: Hi, Before downloading visual basic express 2005 I read my jaws7 help file. It said that jaws level of support

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warriors

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, Honestly unless Justin confirms that he taught Ivan VB I wouldn't take much stock in it being true. I have had frequent talks with Justin over the past year over on agdev and I know Justin has been putting in long hours at his day time job. He has little time to devote to BSC Games,

Re: [Audyssey] visual basic express

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, No. Scrap VB 6. VB Express is able to compile fully working programs in to exe files. Rob's info is out of date and is no longer true. Believe me when I say I use Visual C++, C#, and VB Express 2005 for all my work and hobby programs. So they are quite able to do what you want. Josh

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Che, Liam, and all, What we are discussing here has some deep ethical concerns I don't think we can solve. On One hand you have the die-hard SW fans on here that would do anything for an accessible SW game. On the other hand you have the major companies with the licenses saying no way buddy

Re: [Audyssey] star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi David, The sad thing here is that both Paramount and Lucasfilm have extremely inflated concepts of what there sounds, stories, etc should cost. In my inquest with Lucasfilm for SW Jedi Strike the price quoted was so horrably out ragious I could have baught a new house and a car for what it

Re: [Audyssey] visual basic express

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Rob, I really do disagree with that. There are many reasons I can look to, but VB 6 Pro is not a great choice. XP and Vista are moving to a net-centric platform, and VB 6 is being dropped and unsupported by Microsoft. Another reason is modern programming design is all oop-centric moddled

Re: [Audyssey] visual basic express

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Kelly and Josh, The reason you are having problems is you aren't aware of how to do things the accessible way by using hot keys. VB Express and C# Express have several hot keys wich will allow you to do the same action rather than dragging and dropping things. If you are reading the generic

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Che, Quote I respect the work and artistry that folks like Thomas have put into games like the Star Trek stuff, but I just don't see the need for it, as for one thing, this type of game has been done with Star Trek sounds, and why risk getting your development company in trouble with copyright

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warriors

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
well its semi true. grin I am still trying to get a job, and except for my walks, my swims and my gym my life shell we say has not much substance and I am mostly bored out of my tree. I'm no longer doing any eray since yahoo has told me I have unsubbed from their lists. I'm going to let the war

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
I have a few low quality sfx. As well in my collection thanks to a friend on here, I have a load of sound ideas stuff. Myself I havedesaster sfx and something called imporio sound off. Actually I don't have all these sfx loaded on my external hdd so I really should install these. At 04:29 p.m.

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
true. I also want to be in the development of games but can't be bothered with the programming aspect as yet. This is the reason I keep applying to beta test teams and trying to help where ever possible. At 03:38 p.m. 15/01/2007, you wrote: Hi, Personally, I think the latter is closest to the

[Audyssey] programming classes

2007-01-14 Thread Rachel D Keyte
hey if Justin is taking on students, I'll be up for that! Lol nah but seriously, good point you raise there Thomas. I'd love to be taught a programming language, especially to be able to develop a game. Anyone want to take me on as a guineapig student? :) Again, I'm serious. course we'd need

Re: [Audyssey] visual basic express

2007-01-14 Thread rob
It seems i had a misunderstanding here. I talked about vb6Pro and vb6 express edition, while i didn't realize that the express edition (in subject) is vb 2005's. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Date: Sun, 14 Jan

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Che
I hear ya man. I wish you all the luck in the world with the Star Wars stuff, and I'll be one of the many Star Wars fans downloading it for sure. Later, Che - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday,

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Yeah, it started off I got the run around trying to find the right department head to talk to. I emailed several with no responce, and when I did finally get any responce I was quoted what seamed like acanned message about Lucas Arts holding all legal rights to Star Wars games, and

Re: [Audyssey] visual basic express

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
thats good. Peopole were scaring me at the moment. I downloaded 5gb of stuff including sdks. At 05:07 p.m. 15/01/2007, you wrote: Hi Josh, No. Scrap VB 6. VB Express is able to compile fully working programs in to exe files. Rob's info is out of date and is no longer true. Believe me when I say

Re: [Audyssey] star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread rob
Hi Thom, 3d, 3d environment means 3d audio in this case. The movement won't be full 3d, since you won't be able to look up or down as you mentioned. Jumping will also work. Sorry if i was not clear enough. Rob - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] vstudio express

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun and all, The Information is false. Completely false. I have VB Express 2005 and it certainly does compile full applications, dll files, and exe files. shaun everiss wrote: Hi all. Is this confirmed, that vb express 2005 will not compile an exe file? If so, I'm getting rid of vb

Re: [Audyssey] visual basic express

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Rob, It looks that way. Well, I guess we got it cleared up. I just hope people don't go nuking there VB Express 2005 installs based on the misinformation. Smile. rob wrote: It seems i had a misunderstanding here. I talked about vb6Pro and vb6 express edition, while i didn't realize that

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Johnny, Well, it is possible a community as small as ours has simply gone unnoticed by companies like Paramount, or they don't think we are worth there time. Either way David Greenwood has never indicated having any problems with Trek 2000 and I have never heard any complaints about STFC.

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior

2007-01-14 Thread Brandon Cole
And to add to that, Tom, I was a large part of the first atempt at this Dragon Warrior thing. If you remember, I was one of the first to receive his fake gameplay recording. I also got a supposed game executable, which turned out to be a bunch of AutoIt code probably copied and pasted directly

[Audyssey] Technoshock: New concepts, new innovations in the audiogames market, possibly better than SOD

2007-01-14 Thread Karl
Hi all, I am now on level 5 of Technoshock. I have noticed several concepts which haven't been used before in any audiogame. Please note that these next lines may contain minor spoilers. 1. on higher levels, there are what amount to cliffs, which you can not jump across, but must find an

[Audyssey] Sound design was Illegal activity

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, shaun everiss wrote: this brings up an interesting thing. Is there a book or something maybe a tutorial about designing your own sfx. No, but I have found sights in the past that discuss how to create sound effects. Allot of times it is simple creativity and a good sound editor

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, I to am a classic arcade nut. I was a very happy child blasting away in asteroids, centipede, packman, Pitfall, Montezuma's Revenge, etc however I had enough sight to get in to some of the later PC games as well. Back in 1982 or so one of my favorite arcade games was Star Wars Empire

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior

2007-01-14 Thread Munawar Bijani
Hello, Liam, I did find the invalid syntax message at the beginning of the game odd as well. If it was indeed a real error, he would have had to type something to fix it, and chances are one runs a program and makes sure it works well before reviewing it; usually programs are not run for review if

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warriors

2007-01-14 Thread Dennis
I agree with you Cara that if he stole the idea it's wrong and Liam you need to keep up your hard work I give credit to anyone who develops games honestly and doesn't steal ideas! All of you Go! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cara

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warriors

2007-01-14 Thread x-sight interactive
no, sky, un! subscribe! regards, damien - Original Message - From: Sky Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warriors Daneon, the only way to get on the list is to have Iven

Re: [Audyssey] Technoshock: New concepts, new innovations in the audiogames market, possibly better than SOD

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
I think the gam is real hard. karl when you finnish it, or if anyone that finnishes it could they maybe do a recording or something. At 06:50 p.m. 15/01/2007, you wrote: Hi all, I am now on level 5 of Technoshock. I have noticed several concepts which haven't been used before in any audiogame.

Re: [Audyssey] wii

2007-01-14 Thread Dennis
Where do you get wii sports? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Mealin Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:49 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] wii Hi; What game are you talking about? I have found that WII sports is

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread michael feir
As Dave Greenwood has continuously maintained, he never intended his game to be a precise copy of Doom. It was merely like Doom hence the name Shades of Doom. If it were illegal to make games even remotely similar to each other, there would be very few games out there. Michael Feir Creator and

[Audyssey] Moderator rejected posts.

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, Before anyone begins bombing the list moderators addresses with questions I'll let you all know why your posts were rejected all at once. Tonight when I logged in to the admin account about 15 of the posts in there were over the message size cap, and were not trimmed properly. I believe

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread Charles Rivard
For those who have never played a certain game or type of game, you are breaking new ground. Think of it this way: If you have lived in a city, let's say San Francisco, for 40 years or so, and what is available to site seers is nothing to you anymore, and a friend who has never been to San

Re: [Audyssey] M.U.L.E.

2007-01-14 Thread michael feir
That game is nothing like what Che is talking about. Jim's use of mule refers to somebody who sells and transports drugs. The game M.U.L.E. is about colonising a planet and is far more complex. I used to know what M.U.L.E. acronim stood for but can't remember now. Michael Feir Creator and

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warriors

2007-01-14 Thread david
you can also notice how he shot some of those robots 4 or 5 times. those would be the robot dogs. Stupid kid. - Original Message - From: Nolan Darilek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Dragon

Re: [Audyssey] audio quake navigating

2007-01-14 Thread Ken the Crazy
Actually, I think it should be cites! Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Coming soon, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. - Original Message - From: Cara Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread michael feir
Kind of makes me think of that sword of Damoclese. He was the king of his land but had a sword hung above his head on a thin thread. Due to the accessability moral argument and the low likelyhood of people smelling a fortune to be made from going after game developers, I think our thread might

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread johnny tai
I am not quite sure how easy that would avoid a company's troop of lawyers if they really want to take you down. I've seen similar situations with comic book companies, for example, the long-debated court case with the creation of Captain Marvel. Here we have a unique character created by a small

Re: [Audyssey] Ivan's bologna

2007-01-14 Thread x-sight interactive
what about your being a moderator for him then? regards, damien - Original Message - From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:05 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Ivan's bologna yeah he is bad news. So yeah I'm

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warriors

2007-01-14 Thread Ken the Crazy
I subscribed to the list before I knew he was pulling any of this garbage--I just trash the messages now... Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Coming soon, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. - Original Message - From: x-sight

Re: [Audyssey] Ivan the kid

2007-01-14 Thread x-sight interactive
please can someone give me this guy's email address so i can send him the email sent out yesterday? i'd like to confirm to him that under no circumstances and on no grounds will i allow him to be a beta tester for a program that will also contain sound files for him to mess with. regards, damien

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-14 Thread Ken the Crazy
They would be good even if they weren't free. Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Coming soon, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. - Original Message - From: x-sight interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread x-sight interactive
if the sounds were originally free for download then usually they have no copyright. at least i think that's the case. regards damien - Original Message - From: johnny tai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 3:29 AM Subject:

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior

2007-01-14 Thread x-sight interactive
i won't be making a superliam mod if liam doesn't want me to. that's the long and short of it. regards, damien - Original Message - From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:54 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-14 Thread Ken the Crazy
Hey Jim, Where did you get those cartoon sounds! Love em, and I've been looking for some of those for a long time. Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Coming soon, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. - Original Message - From: Jim

Re: [Audyssey] Ivan the kid

2007-01-14 Thread Nicol Oosthuizen
NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf I already sent that mail to him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of x-sight

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread x-sight interactive
what i'm currently doing is making an accessible version of millionaire, but me and steve both had a discussion offlist and we both decided that it might be better to do one just for our own personal use, as celadore or eidos aren't going to allow such measures as the format is so big nowadays.

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
neither it was just a thought. At 08:19 p.m. 15/01/2007, you wrote: i won't be making a superliam mod if liam doesn't want me to. that's the long and short of it. regards, damien - Original Message - From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] Ivan's bologna

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
since I have unsubscribed now and told him not to contact me, deleted all his contact and other related material and blocked him from skype it hardly matters. Clearly I am not now. Also i never had to use my powers so it wasn't anything to smile about. I am no longer a part of eray in any shape

Re: [Audyssey] Sound design was Illegal activity

2007-01-14 Thread x-sight interactive
i just mainly record things. i have many recordings i have done of cd players, cd-rom drives, dvd players, printers, phones, doors, and some sounds you don't wanna know! lol anyway lol go out in the rain and record it? that would just ruin all your equipment ... regards, damien -

Re: [Audyssey] Sound design was Illegal activity

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
I have heaps of libs with sfx. When will you put your stuff on your sounds page I'm always interested in getting more and more sfx. At 08:46 p.m. 15/01/2007, you wrote: i just mainly record things. i have many recordings i have done of cd players, cd-rom drives, dvd players, printers, phones,

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
well if I do program the game if there is copywrited stuff in it I'm going to refference the origional makers/sites I pulled them off. That way at least there is credit in the docs or whatever else needs it. talking about licencing things, does anyone know where fresh coppies of the gnu

Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior

2007-01-14 Thread x-sight interactive
not strictly true. i've had my great grandmother die recently, which is why my site went down for a while, and will be down once a year on the day of her death, and i was very depressed at that time, and even though i constantly wondered why i was still here, another part of me said, along with my

Re: [Audyssey] Illegal activity was: star wars sounds

2007-01-14 Thread shaun everiss
well there is freedom millionaire guys. At 08:37 p.m. 15/01/2007, you wrote: what i'm currently doing is making an accessible version of millionaire, but me and steve both had a discussion offlist and we both decided that it might be better to do one just for our own personal use, as celadore or

[Audyssey] Topic closed was Dragon Warriors

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, I know some of you are catching up on email, but the Dragon Warriors thread is now officially closed by the moderators. Thanks. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit

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