Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread shaun everiss
actually if you can get the drive working you probably can use something like get data back. if you must then freeze the drive overnight, and try to pull as much off it as you can. just don't turn it off. At 06:32 p.m. 8/01/2010, you wrote: Hi, Add to that that the average price of data

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread william lomas
get a mac they just work On 8 Jan 2010, at 08:02, shaun everiss wrote: actually if you can get the drive working you probably can use something like get data back. if you must then freeze the drive overnight, and try to pull as much off it as you can. just don't turn it off. At 06:32 p.m.

Re: [Audyssey] yet Another VB6 Question

2010-01-08 Thread Damien Sadler
Hi Hayden, If you email me off list I will be happy to run through any VB issues with you. I don't use it myself any more, preferring to at least attempt to learn C, but I haven't forgotten everything. Regards, Damien. - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Damien Sadler
Hi Munawar, Well, in this case I was quite lucky, though I must admit once converted to dollars you're probably talking about the same amount. I found a freelance guy who is charging me £365. Regards, Damien. - Original Message - From: Munawar Bijani munaw...@gmail.com To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Damien Sadler
Hi Shaun, Running Get Data Back did nothing for me except make the drive worse, since it was a mechanical fault rather than a software or file system issue. It got to a point where it started grinding very loudly and finally stopped spinning altogether. Regards, Damien. - Original

Re: [Audyssey] webbased games/new muds by iron realms entertainment

2010-01-08 Thread anouk
Hello, i think you just need to connect to midkemiaonline.com and then port 23. Greetings, Anouk, On Jan 6, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Mark wrote: How does one create a character on this game? I tried twice and found that there was some type of problem with the server. God bless, Mark -

Re: [Audyssey] webbased games/new muds by iron realms entertainment

2010-01-08 Thread anouk
Hello, yes i know midkemia online is a mud. Greetings, Anouk, On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:05 PM, James Howard wrote: actually that is a mud, not a web based game. On 1/6/10, anouk radix_an...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello again, As mentioned before I am really excited about the new browser based game,

Re: [Audyssey] webbased games/new muds by iron realms entertainment

2010-01-08 Thread anouk
Hello, No i dont but you might check their forums. Greetings, Anouk, On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:47 PM, William L. Houts wrote: By the way, does anyone know when Tears of Polaris, the Iron Realms sciencefiction game, will be ready for open beta? --Bill - Original Message -

Re: [Audyssey] yet Another VB6 Question

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayden, HmmmI'm not sure what access issues you are having, but I generally found the VB 6 toolbox fairly accessible with Jaws. To access a toolbox item make sure you are focused on the form in design view and do an alt +v x to bring up the toolbox. After that you should get a list box of

[Audyssey] text adventure games

2010-01-08 Thread Shirley Starblanket
Hey gamers. Can someone tell me where I can find text adventure games that I can save onto my memory stick? All the other types of games areen't working. Thanks. Have fun! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] Question on Monopoly.

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Mark, Cool, I'm happy to hear that you already have some of my games. And glad to hear that they help with some stress relief during your college studies. Thanks for saying so. BFN Jim If it weren't for STRESS I'd have no energy at all. j...@kitchensinc.net

Re: [Audyssey] webbased games/new muds by iron realms entertainment

2010-01-08 Thread Marsha
Hi Could someone please tell me what a mud is? Thank you for your help. Marsha --- 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 subscription via the web, at

[Audyssey] TechnoShock

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin Weispfennig
Hi, After playing Technoshock again, And remembering that I said that I didn't like it much, Well, here is one thing I noticed, Or well, I actually really enjoy that game at this exact moment, and the audio work is well done, allthough the sounds could be better. But other than that, a

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Yohandy
I really hate the get a mac comments. seriously growing sick of them. not everyone want a mac. deal with it people. if we wanted one we would get one. doubt I'm the only one who feels this way. - Original Message - From: william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Darren Harris
More to the point what does it have to do with a mechanical fault with an external or internal hard drive? Because the below comment suggests that macs will never go wrong. Which is of course untrue everything goes wrong. The mac os may be more stable but a physical thing no matter who makes it is

Re: [Audyssey] text adventure games

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shirley, A really good resource for free interactive fiction text adventures is http://www.ifarchive.org but you will need to download some additional software to run them such as wintads, the Adrift Runner, Winfrotz, etc. Which interpretor you need depends on the game you download. Another

Re: [Audyssey] question on operating systems

2010-01-08 Thread Harmony Neil
Well to be honest, a game shouldn't work differently on a different OS, that's assuming you've got the correct graphics and sound cards installed. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: 08 January 2010

Re: [Audyssey] TechnoShock

2010-01-08 Thread William L. Houts
What platform is it on? And how accessible is it? --Bill - Original Message - From: Kevin Weispfennig kevin.weispfen...@gmx.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 7:56 AM Subject: [Audyssey] TechnoShock Hi, After playing Technoshock

Re: [Audyssey] text adventure games

2010-01-08 Thread Harmony Neil
I now code factory used to do one called time adventures, but I don't know where to get it from now. I haven't played it for nearly 9 months. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Yohandy, Smile I think we all try to promote the software we like best. Unfortunately, this is not the proper forum in which to do it. In any case buying a Mac has no bearing on the fact Damien's problem is a hardware failure, and not a software issue. Mac computers have hardware failures too.

Re: [Audyssey] question on operating systems

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Harmony, Assuming the game is designed to be cross-platform it shouldn't work any different on a different operating system. However, there is a lot more involved in a cross-platform game than making sure you have the supported hardware. Each operating system uses different development

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Damien Sadler
Hi Yohandy, Yeah, I am too, though I get it with Linux more than Mac. I have tried both systems and my computer skills are brought right back to beginner on them. I prefer Windows, that's what I am brought up withsince Windows 95. Regards, Damien. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Yohandy
Thomas, I have no problem with people promoting their favorite OS, software etc. it's just the way in which it was promoted I didn't agree with. people tend to assume that just because they have a mac they're invulnerable to hardware issues, viruses, and pretty much every computer problem that

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Orin
I agree here. Use what works for you. On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Yohandy wrote: I really hate the get a mac comments. seriously growing sick of them. not everyone want a mac. deal with it people. if we wanted one we would get one. doubt I'm the only one who feels this way.

Re: [Audyssey] text adventure games

2010-01-08 Thread shaun everiss
www.ifarchive.org for tads, and in fact most games you will need installed an interpreter. www.lacunastory.com has a game on there and a good interpriter. I would recomend glulx and hugo as quite accessible but there are others. some things may be portable to but I don't know don't really play

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Orin
It has nothing to do with a backup of a Hard Drive. I guess what he's saying is get a Mac for Time Machine. While that's good backup built into the Mac, windows has alternatives for backing up, and the average price for a Mac I wouldn't pay just to get good backup software like Superduper or

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread shaun everiss
I'd like a mac. ok they cost more than windows systems. anyway everything is windows these days though I know I could emulate. Don't think I'd justify the extra use of the mac I barely use a quarter of the pc resource as is. At 05:22 a.m. 9/01/2010, you wrote: I really hate the get a mac

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread shaun everiss
well to tell you the truth my system or systems are dos and windows. I have some basic certification on linux so I can get arround the os. mac? its close to windows so I think I could master it. pity symbian was not for pcs that has to be one of the easiest systems to navigate and stable. At

[Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. I think the audyssey magazine takes to long to publish. its not regular enough. I therefore think that instead of one editor doing this thing every 3 times a year or whenever he can that several should do it. actually I could put it all together or whatever and others could write articles,

Re: [Audyssey] webbased games/new muds by iron realms entertainment

2010-01-08 Thread James Howard
it stands for multi user dundgen, but its basically a real time text based game where your interacting with other players at the time time and other environments. instad of a broswer type game where its just point and click, and pretty much static, a mud is dinamic, different things can cause

Re: [Audyssey] Sudoku for newbies, possibly dummies

2010-01-08 Thread Jason Allen
Hi Scott, I programmed the game initially for Android. It was a pretty cool Sudoku, but the culture on Android just isn't what it is on the iPhone. I have an Android phone and it is ridiculously less slick than my wife's iPhone. Had I used an iPhone first, I would have likely abandoned the idea.

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread peter Mahach
also he's a windows programmer. a mac wouldn't do much. o god how do I compile this thing! yada yada this can go on for ages. - Original Message - From: Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 5:22 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Tristan B
Funny one. -- Tristan B TrekGames.net Administrator and Maintainer Contact information: Skype: Tristanbussiere MSN: tris...@acegamesonline.net follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/blindtrek/ E-mail: theblinddj...@gmail.com or email TrekGames.net support trekga...@gmail.com AOL Instant

Re: [Audyssey] Mac Comment: Re: X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Smith
Hi, The reason Mac's have less malware is because it doesn't have a large percentage of users (compared to how many Windows has). If someone really wanted too, I'm sure they could make a virus for a Mac. -Ryan On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Munawar Bijani munaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Agreed.

Re: [Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread dark
Well, I agree that more regular magazine releases if at all possible would be a good thing, - provided Ron (as current editer), would be happy with a collective effort. However, going from there to maybe the magazine is no longer needed seems rather unreasonable. Firstly, there are

Re: [Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread shaun everiss
hmmmI aggree about the second point. and the first, I wouldn't want the mag to go away. AN audio podcast mag? hmmm that would be good. Yeah there would have to be the regular mag to, the text version would still have to be there, but it would be nice for those that wanted to do strictly audio as

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News

2010-01-08 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Damion, Something I thought of just now-did the hard disk in the drive malfunction? If not, you might-I say might because I have no clue how to do it myself if it could be done-might be able to load the data off of the discs themselves. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Best Regards, Hayden

Re: [Audyssey] TechnoShock

2010-01-08 Thread Hayden Presley
It's on windows, I believe. It's accessible, but seriously annoying to get past even the prison gard robots, much less a grenader. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of William L. Houts Sent: Friday,

Re: [Audyssey] yet Another VB6 Question

2010-01-08 Thread Hayden Presley
Which versoion of JAWS is this your talking about? I'm running 11; that might nor work for me. Thanks, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 4:48 AM To: Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread Brandon Misch
what would be interesting is if someone could do an audio version of not just this past magazine but the whole archive including the earlier issues and in a daisy format for those of us that can use daisy. On Jan 8, 2010, at 3:26 PM, shaun everiss wrote: Hi. I think the audyssey magazine

Re: [Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread Charles Rivard
I'm satisfied with the number of issues per year, and we have to consider how difficult it is to have enough material to publish. One idea about having audio game reviews, walk throughs, and the like that comes to my mind is this: A magazine subscriber who has the software and know-how could

Re: [Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread Allison Mervis
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Re: [Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread Lisa Hayes
and I like the idea of having a recorded magazine Allison that's one offer of yours to do it. If it could be done. Many thanks for one grateful game. lisa Hayes - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm there would be a small issue with this. Firstly some of those sites are invalid now, some of the info is way out of date. When I proposed the magazine format change I didn't even think about the archive of back issues. Since no one actually did audio for these they would have to be read

Re: [Audyssey] audyssey game magazine proposal

2010-01-08 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm you are right about the material part there isn't enough to justify the full mag, but reviews, yeah one per issue? well all game reviews if there was a recording avalible well. ofcause not all would record or be able to record. At 10:06 p.m. 9/01/2010, you wrote: I'm satisfied with the