Hi Angela,
There's no need to take them so harshly. Thomas just gave us a fare, kind
warning in my opinion
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Just before I close this topic, the teachers even ask me. Its a normal
thing.
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holidays but that's only in easter
Hello,
If you mean about entombed, there's this nice guy called LA MORT. You can
sell bazaar items and advertize on his group.
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Its good that one of (I say one of) the greatest authors of all time is
making an appearance
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Behalf Of Hayden Presley
Sent: 18 July 2010 05:17
To: 'Gamers Discussion list'
Subject: Re: [Audyssey]
In the discussion of windows versions, I wouldn't mind the M E sound
scheme... used that thing for years and want to go old school with running
any games. Email me off list and I'll talk then.
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I believe its just called egg hunt
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Behalf Of eleni christodoulou
Sent: 19 June 2010 18:05
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Subject: [Audyssey] Previous vertion of super egg hunt
Hello. I'm looking for
Well I can't get railracer at all the full version isn't there anymore!
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Behalf Of shaun everiss
Sent: 20 June 2010 07:29
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Registration methods
Hi.
looks like spoonbil has released another little game.
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ok
this is the link to the latest version I have
however my database is rather out of date.
no idea why the link for 1.5 is not working though.
At 08:34 p.m. 18/07/2010, you wrote:
Well I can't get railracer at all the full version isn't there anymore!
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Could I have sapi Daniel?
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Behalf Of dark
Sent: 20 June 2010 15:30
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] SAPI and VB Script
I must confess, while I have had the odd issue with sapi,
You're friends with Lin?
I knew her briefly I think it was last year but she and I haven't spoken in
a long while, and I wish to get back in contact with her too dark. Just
please resend her details to me and I'll go about it. Thanks
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You didn't send the link did you...
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Behalf Of shaun everiss
Sent: 18 July 2010 09:40
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Registration methods
ok
this is the link to the latest
I wanted a similar effect to be present in my game when it comes out (I'm
just doing the story, no development is happening yet), but I thought of
using sound libraries for it... but can'd find any static sounds...
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aah no I didn't its for 1.4
its old.
At 08:56 p.m. 18/07/2010, you wrote:
You didn't send the link did you...
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Sent: 18 July 2010 09:40
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Subject:
Hi all,
Let's talk about the problem of creativity in gaming as I have big problems
with it. I want your opinions on how the game ideas come to you.
Recently we saw some ideas like Thomas's revenge and similar, where we
talked about how the game could look like. Then, a while ago, Fill
Maybe he forgot.
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I know its voice machine you use and I still even after all your help, get
it to work. And not direct x er or whatever you called it...
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Behalf Of Philip Bennefall
Sent: 21 June 2010 15:07
To:
I know. You just gotta learn what you're doing
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Lori Duncan
Sent: 21 June 2010 15:31
To: Philip Bennefall; Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 full audio demo
Lol I think
I won't be but I'll be getting it.
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Behalf Of Yohandy
Sent: 21 June 2010 16:59
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] Rock Band 3 will teach gamers how to play real
instruments.
Hi Milos,
When ever I get an idea for a game or if I want to change something in a
game I write it down in a notes file so that I don't forget it.
When I am developing a game like the Harry Potter world Sarah game, I take
notes while reading the books of creatures and items I would like to
I have a site that I've always wanted to host and I need somewhere to put
it, can you help?
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of David Mehler
Sent: 16 July 2010 00:58
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Open
He didn't learn it in the last book. He learnt it in the 6th. Could you
remember when Hagrid's house was on fire? It was then.
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Since I play i'll have a lot of fun.
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Behalf Of Orin
Sent: 21 June 2010 19:56
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Rock Band 3 will teach gamers how to play real
instruments.
Most
i think the one you refer to is called hatric (found on audiogames.net)
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Behalf Of Christopher Bartlett
Sent: 21 June 2010 23:00
To: 'Gamers Discussion list'
Subject: [Audyssey] Soccer/football
H, sinse when is wanting readable messages acquainted with
natziism? I'm a trifle confused.
As tom said, this is simply a requirement that messages are readable, rather
than that people write pure Oxford English.
I'm afraid your reaction seems waay too overblown to me compared
Which old text adventures?
At least on windows xp, I've found games that were originally created for
dos such as Eamon delux, fallthru and drone actually play quite well under
the console mode with hal.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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From: Josh Kennedy
Hi Josh,
Cool! I'm glad that you finally got my games running. Thanks for letting us
know and for informing us as to how you did it.
BFN
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Hi Thomas,
Yes, Internet short hand has been around for awhile, but I believe that cell
phone texting has added a whole new level to text short hand and it has bled
over to Email.
BTW ATT Crystal pronounces allot of the Internet short hand acronyms such as LOL BTW
IMHO etc. That is one
Hi Milos,
You know most of the games that Phil suggests are just very funny spoof game
titles and ideas. Not really meant to be made into a real game.
Personally I am not a good creative writer. If I were I might use a text game
tool kit rather than write my games in a programming language.
Hi Thomas,
Thank you very much for letting me know that many of the sapi5 voices do work
with my games in Windows 7 and that it only seems to be a problem with the
ScanSoft voices and that might even just be on your computer. It is good to
hear that the sapi5 voices do still work ok.
BTW A
Hi Folks,
A person named Anna B. ordered the Sarah game on May 21, 2010 without
including a computer code.
I tried to email her several times, and the messages bounced.
I am not including her full name but if anyone knows of a blind woman from
Pennsylvania with the last initial B, please try
Hi Muhammed,
Yes you are correct, in the Half blood prince, he also used the spell to try
to give water to the headmaster.
Phil
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From: Muhammed Deniz muhamme...@googlemail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:31 AM
I finally was able to fix my frame work problem.
I ended up rolling the clock back. I ended up rolling it back to July the
13th.
Then I did the windows up date.
Just to let everyone now know. As of roughly the last week of June there is
no a version 4 out now.
It looks like everything is now
Hi Philip,
Sounds great. The more I hear about BGT the better it sounds.
Smile.
On 7/17/10, Philip Bennefall phi...@u7142039.fsdata.se wrote:
Hi Tom,
Well, I have an optimized AStar implementation with some extra features not
found in the original spec lying around, and I am also
Hi Ron,
Ah, glad to hear it. Sorry, I couldn’t be more help before.
Cheers!
On 7/18/10, The Kolesar Brothers kolesar16...@roadrunner.com wrote:
I finally was able to fix my frame work problem.
I ended up rolling the clock back. I ended up rolling it back to July the
13th.
Then I did the
Hi Milos,
I think what you are encountering is a case of writers block. You have
a great idea, but after you begin writing you aren’t sure how to write
it or create the kind of game you imagine. You unconsciously forget
where you were going with it as you are so mentally focused on the
programming
hi all:
if you please, I need games for my nokia device, am using talks not window eyes.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers:
Ramy Moustafa
If music be the food of love, play on...
Tel: 0020102221750
Personal email, msn and yahoo messengers:
flutelo...@link.net
skype:
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facebook:
Hello Ben,
Scansoft Daniel is a commercial product. It is not free. Therefore we
can not legally give it to you. Please, stop asking people to pirate
software on list.
HTH
On 7/18/10, Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk wrote:
Could I have sapi Daniel?
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If
Its in the second CD in the jaws packige.
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Hi
first off I do not know how to reply to individual threads because I'm in
digest mode. second I want to or would rather play the old games in real DOS
with a real DOS screen reader like asap. Asap is the only screen reader for DOS
that supports directly the keynote gold multimedia speech.
Ah okay.
I'm afrad I'm a litle too young to remember that, sinse I didn't start using
a computer until about 1994, with windows 3.1 and a copy of Hal version 3.
I in fact have never used a screen reader with dos at all.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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From: Josh Kennedy
Hi Josh,
If you are on digest mode all you have to do to reply to an individual
message or thread is by sending a new e-mail with the same subject
line. For example, if there is a message with the subject “Playing Old
Text Games” and you want to reply to it just type the subject “Playing
Old Text
Hi Josh,
Can’t really help you there. I actually had a copy of Keynote Gold
Multimedia laying around here for a long time, but I think I
eventually pitched the floppy disk as I could no longer use it on
newer Windows releases. It was copy protected with the everlock key
system that Jaws use to
Hi,
Keep in mind the Real Speak Solo voices only come with Jaws 8 and Jaws
9. Jaws 10 and up come with the Real Speak Direct voices which are not
Sapi 5 compatible.
HTH
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Its in the second CD in the jaws packige.
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To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Discussing game ideas
Hi Milos,
I think
Yeah, but they still work. My teacher gave me a disk, but it worked on jaws
9 and 11.
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Hi Thomas.
I know when I learned Braille as a child in England we never used capitals.
That is something I have had to get used too. I agree that its tricky
listening to a post with a few errors in it. I have probably made my fair
share of spelling errors lol.
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You've almost got it right. A line goes from north to south, another from
west to east, and the third goes from up to down, like climbing a wall.
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No, I don't think so.
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Same and its stupid that you can't play bohemian on rb2!
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Yohandy
Sent: 23 June 2010 01:21
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Rock Band 3 will teach gamers how to play
Thanks for the tip about the new release, much appreciated.
Best,
Joe Monks
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From: shaun
I was under the impression that, as I heard from many of my friends, that it
was free
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: 18 July 2010 15:32
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] SAPI and VB
Hi Thomas,
This sounds pretty interesting. At RS Games, we are in the process of
beta testing a client that will allow users to play Monopoly (as well
as Uno, and several other games) through a protocol we created,
written in Python, using wxPython, PyGame, and Pyttsx (which
automatically detects
Hi Ryan,
Yeah, That’s pretty much why I was thinking of using C# .Net with the
Mono Framework rather than port the C++ version of the engine to Mac
OS, Linux, etc. Mono seems to be fairly stable, and I’ve used it
myself a number of times for cross-platform projects between windows
and Linux. It is
Hi Ben,
No, sorry it is not. If they purchased an upgrade to Jaws 9 or
Openbook 8 or something like that they probably got it as a part of
their upgrade from Freedom Scientific. They may have thought it was
free, but those voices are commercial voices and I’m not even sure the
SAPI 5 versions are
Hello everyone.
I have seen alot of discussion on this list about the best language to program
a game for the blind in.
Some say C++ and others say Visual Basic 6 or VB.Net.
I am taking a different path.
this weekend while yard saling with a friend I ran across a table of software
somone was
Hello Nicol,
Um…think about that question a moment. There is no such thing as a
keyboard with six arrow keys. So no you don’t need a special keyboard
to play my 3d games.
In answer to your question to climb up or down you would use a
keyboard combo like control-up arrow or control-down arrow to
Hi there,
Well, I am excited on that project as well. I will be buying myself a mac,
probably next year. I would love to play, and program games on there, and make
them publicly available. So, I am really looking forward to it.
Kevin
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From: Thomas Ward
Hi Charles,
Yes, outlining is a big help when game programming. In fact, is a good
idea when doing any kind of programming. However, it is extremely
helpful in this case as there is a lot more than just the code to
think about. You have a complete story, game characters, weapons,
special items,
Hi.
I've seen dark basic used to create graphical games, but i'M NOT SURE if it
has the sound handling abilities necessary for an audio game, it might,
but certainly nothing I've seen done with it thus far indicates as much.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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From:
Hi Kevin,
Yeah, I’ve been seriously looking at buying a Mac myself. That’s where
a good game engine would come in handy for quickly creating games for
the platform via mono and the C# .Net language. My only question would
be how speech friendly the Monodevelop IDE would be on Mac. I know it
works
I don't even think there are keyboards with six arrows, so if you did need
one you'd pretty much be out of luck.
We are the Knights who say...Ni!
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To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010
Hi,,
Well, we always could create one of those, but that would first cost a loat,
and second way to much efford put into a game if you have modifiers and can use
them.
I like the way that modifier up arrow moves up,, and a modifier and down moves
down. I myself have no problems with that.
I have loaded in a simple shooter game in Dark Basic and am looking at the
code.
The audio commands seem quite easy and they support panning...
and volume control...also support playing a sound file once or multiple
times.
also seems to be a command for playing midi files.
The program is
Okay, as I said, I've never seen audio games with it so am uncertain as to
it's capability.
Good luck with working things out though.
Btw. O#, mpt certain on how related this is to audio games, but there is a
dark basic game programmers site, including news letters forums and
competition at
You should take a look at BGT. If you want to go the making a game root, it
really would be the easiest thign to use, and there's a ton of like-minded
individuals using it, so there's deffinetly a large user base.
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Hi,
One advantage of getting emails in regular mode, as I see it, is that if you
don't want to read a particular email, you can delete it once you see the
subject line isn't to your taste.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org
Believe it or not, someone did program a blind friendly game using dark basic
pro.
It's mentioned in one of their newsletters, (don't remember which one)
but if you go to their site, and search around in their forums, you'll probably
find it.
Darkbasic has been out for years, and is a pretty
Hi,
I just have one thing to say for anyone who shares Angela's viewpoint.
There's a book called Night, and it's written by Ellie Wiesel. Read it, then
define Nazism to me.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Hi Phil,
Actually, I don't even think he used that particular spell in the last book.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Phil Vlasak
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:12 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Hi Ben,
I'm not sure what Voice Machine is, but I'd be willing to bet it has nothing
to do with DirectX. DirectX is microsoft's API for handling sounds and
graphics in games.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org]
Hi Milos,
Correction...there was one idea for Thomas's Revenge, and I was hardly
serious.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Milos Przic
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:22 AM
To: Gamers Discussion
Hi,
If you still have your email you got from Che when you registered the game,
the link it gives may work. I say may because Che recently moved the entire
blind adrenaline site to a new server, and most of the railRacer
functionality, E.G. money and track records, as well as the user tracks
page,
Hi Ben,
No. A little explaining should be in order... The first game in the egghunt
series, so to speak, was indeed Egghunt. However, as a follow up came Super
Egghunt. Last year in June Liam upgraded Super Egghunt and the Great Toy
Robbery. He replaced Neospeak Paul with his own voice, and
Hi Ben,
Lol. I must say his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series was a laugh if
you're into that sort of thing. If not it would make absolutely no sense to
you. None whatsoever.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org
Hi,
This note is primarily for Phil, but good read for all.
My son, 9 years old and can see, loves to play q9. Hasn't even completed the
jungle world yet, but give him time. he especially loves the parts when Q9
dies, and the clip that plays after that. Especially the one where Q9 has
died
There are a few free dos screen readers.
Asap had a demo mode though I don't remember it's limitations.
There was jaws for dos (which someone already mentioned)
and there was one called provox which I have now taken over development for,
and it can be found at:
Actually, the upgrade fee from leopard to snowleopard was 29 bucks.
And, it still is.
:)
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