[Audyssey] Audyssey thread report for January 2009

2009-02-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
There were 260 thread titles. Here are the top 50. Cross Platform Speech Support 71. video game memories 39. Eternal Darkness was wii, xbox 360... 36. MOTA 33. beta of mysteries of the ancients 29. question about video game developers 29. Entombed 28. Jim Kitchens Games under Vista 24.

[Audyssey] Audyssey babble report for January 2009

2009-02-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
116 people posted 1276 messages. 163 From, Thomas Ward. 95 From, dark. 93 From, shaun everiss. 63 From, Bryan Peterson. 41 From, Shadow Dragon. 38 From, william lomas. 37 From, Ron Schamerhorn. 31 From, Phil Vlasak. 27 From, Clement Chou. 27 From, Jim Kitchen. 26 From, Charles Rivard.

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA

2009-02-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, You know in the IDE of the VB6 part of Visual Studio besides the auto complete there is also that it will instantly inform you of many little programming errors. You know like a missing parentheses etc. And then there is the integrated help system. You know, just press the f1

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Wouldyoupay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Wil, I'm sorry, but I will not be joining you right away for Rail Racer racing. Right now Email and Mach 1 tts is taking up all of my computer time. BFN Jim My steering wheel is a Logitech MOMO Racing. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would you pay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Thank you for sharing with me what works for you on your computers. You know I have been running one computer or another since 1980. I have never had a virus, never had a hard drive crash, never had to redo a hard drive, I almost never have to reboot either of the computers that

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would you pay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Jason Allen
Hi Jim, In all fairness, hard drive crashes are hardware errors. The fact that you haven't had one is probably just statistical luck. Out of the box XP (or any Windows in recent memory) is far worse stability wise than a fully updated one. That said, I completely agree with if it isn't broke,

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would you pay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Trouble
took all the upgrades, even upped my hardware devices. because the more stable the box can be the better it runs. had a few viruses and dealt with them no biggy. however, to do this stuff you have to be on the web for more then just email. Would like to see if someone can get your games running

[Audyssey] speed in alien outback

2009-02-01 Thread Hayri Tulumcu
how you get the arrow keys in alien outback to be faster and the tempo is set to insein when they are aliens land? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your

[Audyssey] Saber dueling?

2009-02-01 Thread Milos Przic
Hello, Where can i find this game? Thank you in advance, Milos Przic msn: milos.pr...@gmail.com skipe: milosh-hs --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your

Re: [Audyssey] Sarah game key

2009-02-01 Thread Charles Rivard
Aha! I was right! (grin) --- If guns cause crime, pencils cause misspelled words. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Lindsay Cowell lind...@lindsaycowell.freeserve.co.uk; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:52 PM

Re: [Audyssey] Game key storage

2009-02-01 Thread Charles Rivard
I braille them on thermoform paper. It's that plastic paper that does! not! rub! out!, so be sure and not make a mistake when brailling. I keep them in a drawer of a filing cabinet. I also have the Emails that contained the keys. HTH --- If guns cause crime, pencils cause misspelled

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA

2009-02-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, This is one of those cases of personal preference. That constant debugging of my code drives me absolutely up the wall. Especially, when I start typing some code and Window Eyes decides to start announcing every status message that comes up in the error child window. That distracts

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would you pay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread shaun everiss
I have done all the vista upgrades within reason. I have futureproofed 2 computers, one is a hybrid that can run either vista or xp if chosen to. Another desktop is updated with the hardware at least. the main system is broken but I will be gutting it, reformatting it and upgrading the hardware

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would you pay$50for a k...

2009-02-01 Thread jicjaws12
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Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would youpay$50for a k...

2009-02-01 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi I'd really like to know what you are trying rather poorly to say here. Not trying to be flameable but it makes no sense at all. TIA Ron Audyssey Editor - Original Message - From: jicjaw...@aol.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:46 PM Subject: Re:

[Audyssey] If it ain't broke, make it better, was Rail Racing for speed junkies

2009-02-01 Thread Che
Yah, I agree with Thomas here. .net framework 1.1 and 2.0 have been around the block several times and I wouldn't regard it the latest and greatest of anything, but rather a proven and totally stable piece of architecture that allows you to do more with your computer than you can without it.

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Wouldyoupay$50for a k...

2009-02-01 Thread Wil James
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Re: [Audyssey] Game key storage

2009-02-01 Thread Wil James
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Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re:Wouldyoupay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Wil James
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Re: [Audyssey] modern mud

2009-02-01 Thread johnny tai
pk is mostly restricted to remort level players, if you don't want to pk, just don't go into the pk arena. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org]on Behalf Of Karl Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:57 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject:

Re: [Audyssey] modern mud

2009-02-01 Thread johnny tai
While it is true that cyberassault is a pure fighting mud, to say that it's all leveling, exp, and more leveling would be wrong. The mud is getting like 3 new autoquest daily, and the goal is actually mroe on questing than powerleveling. There are also areas now that play more heavily on puzzles

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would you pay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, I'm not sure of the exact version of Windows XP you have, but this is what I have personally noticed. If you take Windows XP, with SP2 already installed, and don't put a lot of other third-party applications on it it will run great for a long time. The second you begin adding all kinds

[Audyssey] Windows 7 gaming was Rail Racing for speed junkies.

2009-02-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Trouble, In many cases that is true. I know when I upgraded one of my Vista computers to Windows 7 public beta 1 it ran a heck of a lot smoother and more stable than Windows Vista. Plus they finally fixed there driver database issues in Windows 7 which is a relief. As far as getting Jim

Re: [Audyssey] modern mud

2009-02-01 Thread Orin
If you want a modern mud without roleplay, try Hel Moo. It's about as ... dark Modern as you gonna get. On Feb 1, 2009, at 5:30 PM, michael maslo wrote: I like the mud but it gets boring. There are a few modern muds such as the-night.com and saphora or something like that. -Original

[Audyssey] speed in alien outback

2009-02-01 Thread Hayri Tulumcu
how you get the arrow keys in alien outback to be faster and the tempo is set to insein when they are aliens land? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your

Re: [Audyssey] modern mud

2009-02-01 Thread Shadow Dragon
The night. If it didn't have a retarded combat system it might be worth looking into. But the whole dice roll and then emote thing. Nah. Never heard of the other game. Cyber Assault I might be able to get into, but it seems to have the newbie syndrom most muds have, once you get past newbie

Re: [Audyssey] speed in alien outback

2009-02-01 Thread Charles Rivard
Without punctuation, I find your question to be hard to understand. If the question is how to get the arrow keys to respond faster on the insane level, you can't. The arrow keys do not respond faster or slower depending on the level of difficulty. --- If guns cause crime, pencils cause

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would you pay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. the games will run on windows 7 I'm farely sure. All you have to do is install a game that installs the vb6 runtime with it, such as GMA Tank Commander, and boom windows 7 supports it like vista does. I do know windows 7 runs GMA Tank Commander, as I have it installed and play with it.

Re: [Audyssey] Game key storage

2009-02-01 Thread Valiant8086
Heh, or go really crazy and take the side off and tape them to the bottom of the tower. heh it's fascinating how often people actually do that for instruction manuals for the computer itself. - Original Message - From: Clement Chou To: Lindsay Cowell ; Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] modern mud

2009-02-01 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. the night.com. I don't know the hoast and port and stuff. You'll probable be able to find it easily enough. There doesn't seem to be much you can do on there yet though. - Original Message - From: Karl To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:18 PM

Re: [Audyssey] Creating a Mud was Question for Thomas Ward

2009-02-01 Thread Trenton Matthews
Adding to Tom's talk here, you can also try Vinux (formally Vibuntu http://vinux.org.uk as its an even more! accesible version of the ubuntu platform. Current version is v1.2, however it uses ubuntu v8.10 as the operating system. Trenton, the T Man! On 1/31/2009 10:17 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] Windows 7 gaming was Rail Racing for speed junkies.

2009-02-01 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. GMA tank commander appears to have done the work by itself. I couldn't run a vb6 program, monkey Term, so I installed GTC, and boom, gtc worked, as did monkey term. So I'm pretty sure at least that particular audio game will take care of that for you. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Audyssey] Windows 7 gaming was Rail Racing for speed junkies.

2009-02-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, That is pretty much what I figured. When I ran the Windos 7 upgrade on my Vista laptop, which of course had already had games on it, I discovered everything still worked. I figured it was simply a matter of installing one of the GMA Games or Jim Kitchen's winkit setup to set Windows 7

Re: [Audyssey] Windows 7 gaming was Rail Racing for speed junkies.

2009-02-01 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. Nod, my installation, just so we're sure we're on the same page, does happen to be a fresh installation. I have it dual booting with windows xp on a netbook. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 7:46 PM Subject:

Re: [Audyssey] Windows 7 gaming was Rail Racing for speed junkies.

2009-02-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Smile. We are on the same page. Between the both of us we have pretty much ruled out any major problems in the future for accessible gaming. My big fear was when Microsoft announced dropping Visual Basic support in Windows 7 it was going to be a pain to get games working. As it turns out

Re: [Audyssey] modern mud

2009-02-01 Thread Orin
It's been like that for years. That game will never change. On Feb 1, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Valiant8086 wrote: Hi. the night.com. I don't know the hoast and port and stuff. You'll probable be able to find it easily enough. There doesn't seem to be much you can do on there yet though. -

[Audyssey] Entombed Error Message...

2009-02-01 Thread Dakotah Rickard
Greets, all. Recently installed the latest Entombed Alpha. I received the following error message: Microsoft.Xna.Framework Error loading Content\title. This file was compiled using the wrong version of the XNA Framework. Microsoft.Xna.Framework System.IO.Stream PrepareStream(System.IO.Stream,

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Error Message...

2009-02-01 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, Did you first uninstall the XNA Framework beta version? Best, Zack. - Original Message - From: Dakotah Rickard dakotah.rick...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:09 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Entombed Error Message...

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re:Wouldyoupay$50for a k...

2009-02-01 Thread Cory
to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3816 (20090201) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Error Message...

2009-02-01 Thread Jason Allen
Uninstall the old XNA 3.0 beta (from add remove programs). Then run the setup again. It should update your XNA and run the game properly. Jason On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Zachary Kline kli...@onid.orst.edu wrote: Hi, Did you first uninstall the XNA Framework beta version? Best, Zack.

Re: [Audyssey] message to impatient gamers - Re: Super Egg hunt 1.2

2009-02-01 Thread Cory
I like that message too. It's perfict contact info: Msn: ckad...@gmail.com skype: corykad111 aim: corykadlik111 emails: ckadl...@verizon.net, ckad...@gmail.com Have an awesome day, Cory - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Charles Rivard

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would youpay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Cory
think I had the worst of those problems, but we were determined and gotter fixed! Lol contact info: Msn: ckad...@gmail.com skype: corykad111 aim: corykadlik111 emails: ckadl...@verizon.net, ckad...@gmail.com Have an awesome day, Cory - Original Message - From: Che

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Error Message...

2009-02-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I am not currently an Entombed player, but I recognize that error from my own ventures into XNA land. It is do to the fact you are running an older release of the XNA Framework. Try updating to the latest XNA 3 release and see if that solves your issue. Cheers. Dakotah Rickard wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Error Message...

2009-02-01 Thread Dakotah Rickard
Thanks all. Problem solved. Yay you all! This is entirely off-topic, but it's late. If anyone ever wants to make a game in which a person will have to wield many, many different weapons either against another or against computers, I would absolutely love to help. I have a wide experience with

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would you pay$50for a killer controller?

2009-02-01 Thread Constantine
I've got reasonably well up to date. Got a duel core athlon here with a 500 gb hard drive and 4 gb of ram, should be able to kill anything I throw at it. Its running xp because I hate anything later than that. Other than that, have a netbook here with an atom processor and 1 gb of ram, etc. I

Re: [Audyssey] Rail Racing for speed junkies. was:Re: Would youpay$50for a k...

2009-02-01 Thread Constantine
Hi there I really don't mean to be rude. But you are making no sense at all. contact details: email: tcwoo...@shaw.ca and others msn: the_conman...@hotmail.com skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb