I'd forgotten those space invader things I adored and a hand held game I
played in 1983 called Mickey and Donald. love that thing I couldn't see it
mind you, but played it.
Lisa Hayes
www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes
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Well, I thought glulks waz too much of a different format anyway for any
frotz interpreter to handle. I do remember once reading an artical saying
that it's the versions of the inform language itself which get updated not
the zcode format, so there's litle need to worry about an updated
Hi.
If you go to http://if.illuminion.de/infocom.html you can find a lot of the
old infocom games which you can then just download.
To play them without compatibility problems you can just open the zcode
inform files themselves in a frotz interpreter.
hth.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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you can actually find it as an html document in the bgt help folder.
i must admit I tend to keep it open that way, sinse it's easier to read code
examples.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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If i remember rightly, there is a zcode copy of dungeon, kicking around
on the if archive, but you might as well just play the original zorc games.
Btw, what are these agt games you mention and whats' cosmoserve?
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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From: shaun everiss
Hmmm Sean, who are these the people who update audiogames.net?
I'd love to meet them ;D.
Actually, there are quite a few things which need adding not to mention some
updates to do as well.
Beware the Grue!
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From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz
hey i did like you had said. but i am not getting anywhere with the
game. do you know how i can speak to jason about this entombed
problem. i have already e-mail him three times in the past day. or do
you know what i can do about this problem? i really want to play the
game but because i
Hmmm, michael, jasons' address is working, however he is a very busy fellow
and he gets lots of mail.
If creating a new password didn't help, He's unfortunately the only person
who can fix it because he's in charge of account administration, so really
all you can do is engage patience mode.
The first games I ever played (with sighted assistance) were on the
playstation, which I in fact still have. I used to spend hours doing it.
then, in 2004 I got my first computer, and the first pc games I played were
on the old klango platform, which had links to non polish websites. I didn't
Hm. Probably you'll have to wait for a response. Or when it asks you for
your email address, just enter the email address.
Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation
tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do
you need to ask
It comes with a documentation.
Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation
tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do
you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well,
this is the right place for you then!
Do you guys play troll?
Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation
tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do
you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well,
this is the right place for you then! If you
Hi Shaun,
Have you tried a dos emulator like Dosbox, and if so what was the
result? I mean the Windows command prompt is suppose to be backwards
compatible, to a point, with older Dos applications, but the 16 byt
apps do seam to have problems. There suppose to be work arounds
though.
HTH
On
Hi Lisa,
H...I'd have to think about that a while. A lot would depend on if
I could get an idea of how the interpreter works and have a good idea
of what variables, structs,exist in the original agt interpreter so I
can read and save the agt files. The rest of it such as creating a
window with
Hi,
I believe Philip said not long ago if you wanted an html or text
version of the manual you could take the Windows help file that comes
with BGT and extract it with Winrar or Winzip to get at the actual
files inside. Then, convert them to any format that suits you. I
haven't tried this myself,
well if someone still has a keynote and wants to make it go die I'd like it
since i have a deadnote right now.
Either that or if someone can contact me off list with instructions on trying
to change the old keynote gold sa battery I may bother.
the only real reason I want a dos system now is to
well I wish there was agt for windows.
agility tries to be agt for windows.
however it would be good if it converted all text of all games including
computer prompts, etc.
there is no market for it which is a pitty.
agility is old the last release copywrite was 2001 but there is source there
and
Thomas I'll send you an agt game if it helps you any.
Lisa Hayes
www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any
Hi Shaun,
I don't know if you have anything like it in New Zeland but here in
the U.S. there is a place called Batteries Plus. What they basically
do is take devices and replace the rechargible batteries in them for
you. I once took a Braille N' Speak into them and they swapped out the
original
well git is a good editer and plays most things well.
At 06:18 p.m. 6/04/2010, you wrote:
Well, I thought glulks waz too much of a different format anyway for any frotz
interpreter to handle. I do remember once reading an artical saying that it's
the versions of the inform language itself which
hmmm agt is adventure gaming toolkit.
in cosmoserve you are a programmer trying to make your living and you are also
a plumber.
Anyway you need to get this program to a client by 8 in the morning the next
day.
Firstly though you need to find your password.
On finding said thing you log on only
well not sure who all of them are.
I know you are one I don't know about the rest.
richard of soundsupport is one and the others I think are part of the agrip
progect at lest a couple are.
hmph.
At 06:59 p.m. 6/04/2010, you wrote:
Hmmm Sean, who are these the people who update
hmmm
there are several reasons I have not bothered.
one being I don't have a working synth that works.
2. I have no external drive at least one that will run 720kb disks.
3. I don't have a working external synth and or serial ports.
I know hal can handle command mode in windows some but I
true.
however I don't have space to have that synth on my desk at all nore a old
style physicle system to run it on and since mastertouch and keysoft only run
right on 386 systems its unlikely I could even run it all anyway.
I'm not mangling my main box if I have to fiddle with dosbox to much.
Actually sean, i was being a trifle sarcastic.
In terms of who people are, the web msters of the site are Richard vantol
and sander huberts who work for the game accessibility special interest
group in Holland, while the admins of both the site and forum are myself and
Cx2, another chap from
Hi
if you want to use keynote again, I got a 15 minute demo that runs in a
windows98 virtual machine. so far my efforts to convince humanware to:
1. allow us to use the old keynote demo from 1995 or so, as a full version,
have failed.
2. create a synth voice for ESpeak that sounds like keynote
Hi Josh,
Actually, we were talking about the hardware version, the SA, but it
is interesting you are still working with the Keynote Multimedia
software. I have a licensed version around here somewhere, but haven't
used it for a good 10 years or so since it isn't really supported on
newer Windows
Hello everyone,
isn't this key note gold thing off topic for the list? I'm not the
moderator, but this topic should be related to how we got in to audio games.
I think the keynote gold topic is off topic for the list Thomas and Raul,
correct me if i'm wrong.
Do you love audio games? Would you
Hi Muhammed,
You are write. The Keynote topic is a bit off topic in this case.
The part about using Keynote SA for dos games was on topic, but the
rest of it is getting off topic. Let's close that part of the
discussion down.
Thanks.
On 4/6/10, Muhammed Deniz muhamme...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all,
take it up on my audio games for the blind group. I don't mind as its easter
holidays.
Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation
tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do
you need to ask questions about buying a game
Hi
lets bring the keynote thing back on topic by relating it to games and I will
bring it back on topic, by saying this.
Ultimately I want to use keynote gold multimedia in a win98 virtual machine so
I can use it with the asap screen reader in dos mode to play older unsupported
dos games.
well i doubt you can.
I tried a few years ago to get keysoft 2 for my old laptop.
and its not like they can for whatever reason there are no coppies in stock.
At 12:49 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote:
Hi
if you want to use keynote again, I got a 15 minute demo that runs in a
windows98 virtual machine.
well they switched focus from standard pcs to their note taker range.
all their pc software stopped.
I think they did it to replace the standard windows shell.
I suppose they think that now this is not necessary anymore.
At 01:09 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote:
Hi Josh,
Actually, we were talking about
Well it probably won't happen.
they use the same stuff for their braille note range now so I doubt they would
give it away.
though I wouldn't mind it for this box.
sure it was robotic but speech actually sounded quite good.
At 04:30 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote:
Hi
lets bring the keynote thing back
Agt is freeware (not under the gpl)
and it's source is in pascal (not c)
the latest version is 1.7, and was released in 1994.
If someone has a copy of delphi (unfortunately I do not)
they could easily compile agt for windows.
I've tried compiling it for windows
using fpc, but even in tp7
Hi.
It'd be great if these games could be playable to those of us who weren't
around playing text games at that period, but I do wonder if, like
Zcode and eamon, there are people who've managed windows fixes anyway.
Has anyone tried asking on the rec.artsint fiction group or similar If
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Hi Travis,
Thanks for the info. If it were me doing the project I would convert
AGT from Pascal to C++, and release it under some GPL type license so
it would remain open source and could be maintained by the open source
community. However, i don't know that AGT stuff is really that much in
Hi,
I like many started playing video games in the late seventies and early
eighties on an Atari 2600. I also had a Texas Instruments 99 4A and an Atari
800 XL home computer which I started programming video games on in Basic. Then
in 1990 I got my first talking computer. It was a NEC 286
Hi Thomas,
Raceway with real race car physics sounds great! I do not possess math and
math physics knowledge of anywhere near that level. As a matter of fact, I
just make up math for all of my games. No fancy formulas, just addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division and my
are,
and whether you're up on a platform or down on the ground.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
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Hi,
It wasn't that bad--in fact it was one of the best I'd heard when I got my
first BrailleNote--but since they've incorporated eloquence I've stuck to
using it over Keynote Gold.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Hi Dark,
What do you mean about a fix for zcode? For quite awhile now there has
been a version of inform for windows that can develop both zcode and glulks
games.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of
Oops, sorry about posting about the keynote gold thing, I missed the
offtopic message.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Muhammed Deniz
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:55 AM
To: Gamers Discussion
Hi,
Anoter way, of course, is to split the audio file--an idea I've been kicking
around myself.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:39 AM
To: Gamers
Hi Dark,
Lol, I'd love to meet all of thse people as well. Apparently Shaun knows
about people hacking into you and CX2's account to write descriptions for
games...Hmmm.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Hi Dark,
Dungeon is worth taking a look at, there are some differences that make it
something to look at. For example, the endgame is slightly different in
terms of how it works. Also there's some different locations, and you don't
have a silver skull nor a scepter as a treasure. I wouldn't say
Hi Dark,
Thanks for that! I've gotten 13 or so from Shaun like spell breaker, zork,
enchanter, starcross, infidel, and others, but I'm still missing others like
the lurking horror and seastawker.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org
Oh I'll agree about infocom zork and the rest of that series are good,
moonmist and wishbringer and they're fun.
Lisa Hayes
www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes
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To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org
Sent:
Hi Shaun,
If you didn't care for Zork, I don't see how you played dungone (that's more
tna a cemi zork remake).
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Behalf Of shaun everiss
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:23 PM
There is actually a version of agt.
It can be located at:
ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/interactive-fiction/programming/agt/wagt15.zip
So, folks can try that one, and see if it works.
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Can I use win frotz to play these games? Do I need a different interpreter?
If so what one?
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Behalf Of Hayden Presley
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:16 PM
To: 'Gamers Discussion list'
Subject: Re:
Hey all,
For some odd reason, I'm fascinated with AI even though I'm not a
programmer. my question is basically, how on earth could artificial
intelligence outsmart so many people? I think I have an idea of how it might
work for things like adventure game and driving games for instance, but
Hi Jim.
Wow! interesting to think that when I'm playing your golf game I'm playing
something that started 20 years ago, ;D.
Out of idle curiosity, which of your games were written originally for dos
and then converted? and are there stil any dos games you haven't released
windows versions
Hi Haiden.
I didn't actually say a fix for Zcode, I said a way of fixing these agt
games so that they may be played in windows the way the zcode interpreters
have for inform.
Beware the Grue!
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To: 'Gamers
Yes you certainly can use winfrotz, have fun, those games are classics.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz
A lot of the Ai in beat em ups works in much the same way as a chess game,
ie, a set of objectives and expected reactions to certain situations.
So, you if you throw a punch, the computer has a set of routines which
predict the most likely courses of action to follow, eg, whether
you'll
Hi Dark,
Ah, go t you. I thought you meant that you could only use inform under DOS.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:40 PM
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Hi Jim,
Very interesting story. The first game I ever wrote was a Blackjack
game in C for my Linux system I was using for my college programming
courses since it came with the free gcc compiler and it was more
accessible than using the Windows Visual C++ compiler.
Like your early games I couldn't
wow definitely educational! AI holding your moves in memory to predict you?
wow dude, totally evil! that could explain why sometimes the same move
didn't work twice on AI opponents. I actually never considered the bit about
AI determining specific distances for certain moves. that would
Thanks a load Travis, by god people here know it all don't they. grin.
Lisa Hayes
www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes
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From: Travis Siegel tsie...@lothlorien.nfbcal.org
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 5:16 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] windows
agility is for windows and its in c.
however since you are writing the agt for windows build can you make it so that
it will work with any agt addition and version of any game otherwise you will
have to compile each runtime for each game.
At 03:36 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote:
Agt is freeware (not
cool.
At 07:16 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote:
There is actually a version of agt.
It can be located at:
ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/interactive-fiction/programming/agt/wagt15.zip
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well agt is an old language now most people use tads adrift and inform.
and hugo now.
At 12:13 p.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote:
Hi Travis,
Thanks for the info. If it were me doing the project I would convert
AGT from Pascal to C++, and release it under some GPL type license so
it would remain open
like Tom, the very first games I played were mainstream video games. in
fact I only found out about audio games a few years ago. unlike tom though,
I've always been blind. It never stopped me from gaming though. I still have
my super nintendo with lots of old games like super mario all
oh man the braille N speaks! everyone had them back then. such cool little
devices. and you guys remember the games people created with them?
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To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Hi all.
well wagt is useless.
most games did not run, the program tried its best but said that it found an
general protection error and died.
correction all I tried did not run.
cosmoserve tried to run but at first wrunb.exe could not be found and so I made
a copy of wrun and named it wrunb
.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
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Hi Yohandy,
Well, AI really is a specialized field of computer programming, and is
rather complex to break down to a newby level. However, I think I can
give you the jist of how it works without getting too technical.
First off there is what we call boolean logic. Generally, computers
operate on
Hi Yohandy,
Oh, yes. As I said earlier it is all based on probabilities. If you
are at a certain angle and distance there are only so many moves you
might be able to do and it picks the most likely attack from the list
of moves.
Plus as Dark was saying the really Pro game developers have created
please if someone could find out some info for me that would be great.
when i log in to entombed to upgrade the game to the full version it
gave me an error report. it would not let my friend activate his copy
of the game. he just pay for it. is there something wrong with the
entombed
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