Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread Keith
You can dowload the 3 stand alone demos at: http://www.eamonag.org/pages/eamondx.htm HTH Keith - Original Message - From: Mark Peveto mpev...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question regarding

Re: [Audyssey] N A Soft is proud to release our First title, Dotris, in support of the Clear Vision Library

2012-10-14 Thread Nick Adamson
Hi. I can't see any mention of this display in the documentation but I'll find out for sure. Thanks Nick On 14 Oct 2012, at 05:25, Roger devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com wrote: Well if it worked with the APH refreshabraille I would gladly give it a try. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Audyssey] Question About Playing Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread Darren Harris
i get this every so often, i think it's some weird bug. it makes the noise like you're clicking it but nothing actually happens does it? Sent from my iPad On 13 Oct 2012, at 21:46, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi Ryan. I've never had any problems at all ending turns in combat, so I wonder if

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread Darren Harris
totally agree with you tom and i think niels really does deserve recognition for this. what he's done here is fantastic certainly in s5 s4 and s3. he's also responded to requests from us (a minority audience) to put in the effort and make the game work for us. that to me says a great deal. if

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread Ben
The trouble is, its not that I don't want to, its simp0ly that nvda is a pain and isn't letting me play the demo... lol -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Darren Harris Sent: 14 October 2012 07:53 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Kitchen's Baseball game doesn't find a voice

2012-10-14 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Gerardo, In my baseball game it would be the file baseball.cfg. Actually most of my games it is the .cfg file. My football game is the only game that I can think of that it is .dat. However you need to be sure that your computer's default sapi5 voice works and not just for Jaws or

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread dark
because it's a fantastically good game and there ar occasions when putting in some extra effort is worth it. Bewware the grue! Dark. --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] Question About Playing Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Hi ryan. The skills are a tree so you have to get earlier ones before later ones. Unfortunately, what skills are earlier and what later isn't yet determinable though I've had a word with niels about this, sinse if things like boarding and fleet control which are pretty essential for etting a

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Unfortunately, that is a problem with nvda, however I don't think it will be perminant. Back when s4 was released nvda didn't even have a virtual curser so it was utterly unplayable. I know the nvda virtual curser needs some tweaking but I expect that will come in the future. Beware the

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Hi tom. Perhaps some words of explanation on that might be helpful? I've been asked this on the audiogames.net forum as well in the news topic about s5, and of course can't answer, having no experience of nvda and only limited of jaws (and that was an earlier version). It would be good if

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread Sharon
Hi, How do you become a tester? I go to this site to download the games and it says you have to be a tester to access this. Thanks, Sharon -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Keith Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 1:15 AM To: Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread Sharon
Hi, forget my last message I was looking at downloading the deluxe and not the stand alone. Sharon -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Keith Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 1:15 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Hi sharren. Just to clarrify, the full eamon deluxe is a collection of adventures from the old eamon system on the apple Ii computer released mostly in the 1980's and 90's, plus some modern adventures written for eamon deluxe. The advantage of course in the full eamon deluxe which you

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread Keith
I believe there is an email address on the site that you can request to become a beta tester. - Original Message - From: Sharon smac...@embarqmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread Keith
Hey Dark, I became a beta tester a few days ago, and went through the first 7 adventures pretty quickly. But when I try to start the next group of adventures, (#2 on the adventure grouping selection), it tells me that the eamon deluxe will blah blah blah. With the beta testing version, are

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Hi Kieth. the classic adventures are organized into packs. some are complete, some partially complete, and some not (there are over 270 eamon adventures after all). Thus far the eamon deluxe beta contains: volume 1, the beginners adventures (the ones you played obviously intended for

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread dan cook
i've actually looked up the commands for the review cursor with NVDA as i won't get jaws 13 until my university equipment comes in a few weeks, but whenever i try and start up the demmo, all i can read is smugglers 5 and that's it i've tried moving the mouse pointer to different parts of the words

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread Keith
Thanks dark. If possible, could I email you off list and ask a question about the rumfold adventure, or whatever it's called, (the one that invoves the town of Dodge)? Thanks Keith - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Well kieth. Sinse there is! a stand alone version of runcible cargo, ask it on list if you like, indeed even for the adventures that only exist in the beta I don't think discussing them on list is a problem sinse frank has a pretty open beta policy and will very likely send anyone who wants a

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread dan cook
well, i checked again and i've gotten it to work now finally! its a bit cluttered at times but doable. i've wanted to play these games for ages so i'm really looking forward to getting into this. a couple of questions though, when clicking the blind compatibility mode, i'm guessing i click yes

Re: [Audyssey] Question About Playing Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread dan cook
hi. so i chose my profession and such, but i'm having a sort of major problem here i can read the turorial fine, but not eh options on the screen. i've tried minimizing the tutorial too, but no luck so far. any ideas? On 10/14/12, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi ryan. The skills are a tree so

Re: [Audyssey] Question About Playing Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Hi dan. did you go into settings and activate the compatibility mode? click on it, and then hit yes to do this. If that isn't active the game screen won't have a lot of text on it, sinse all of the things like checking your status, the ship's sensor screen, even traveling are graphics.

[Audyssey] All fine was Kitchen's Baseball game doesn't find a voice

2012-10-14 Thread Gerardo Corripio
All is fine: I deleted Program Files Kitchensinc and everything back to normal. Thanks for all the tips! El 14/10/2012 04:19 a.m., Jim Kitchen escribió: Hi Gerardo, In my baseball game it would be the file baseball.cfg. Actually most of my games it is the .cfg file. My football game is

Re: [Audyssey] require accessable chess game

2012-10-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Austin, May I suggest BG Chess Challenge by Spoonbill Software. You can download a copy from my website http://www.usagamesinteractive.com and it is on the free games page. Cheers! On 10/14/12, austin pinto austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com wrote: hi all i like playing chess and want to sharpen

[Audyssey] Trading in Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread Kelly Sapergia
Hi, I'm trying to remember how you buy things while trading in Smugglers 5. I know you go to the Trade screen, then select the item you want to buy/sell, but when I click on, for example, Buy All, I can't tell if I got the item I clicked on. For instance, I'm on a mission where I have to

Re: [Audyssey] Trading in Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Kelly, As far as I'm concerned, you're doing exactly the right thing. You should hear a little bleep of acknowledgment every time you click on those hotspots. Check your used and available cargo space, which is listed near the bottom if I recall. Do you have enough credits? Yours, Zack. On

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Hi tom. would you mind please reposting that in the audiogames.net news topic about smugglers 5 sinse several people have mentioned nvda there as well. As regards review cursers, well supernova's has always been great and in the smugglers games it works especially well sinse the

Re: [Audyssey] Trading in Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread dark
In addition to what zack said, I'd also recommend closing the trade window so that you can get a full look at the travel screen with all the listed prices for the different planets, because the trade window is bang in the middle of the screen andI've often find it obscures some planets and

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games - contains spoiler

2012-10-14 Thread Mark Peveto
Hello there, How do I find these games? -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:51 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games - contains spoiler Hi kieth, Remove x from y is how to get stuff from containers, eg, remove

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread Mark Peveto
Ooooh thank ya! I'm gonna do some gaming! -Original Message- From: Keith Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 1:15 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games You can dowload the 3 stand alone demos at: http://www.eamonag.org/pages/eamondx.htm HTH

Re: [Audyssey] An introduction from a new member and a question abouttext adventures

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Hi Ibrihim and welcome. Firstly, I'm glad you find the audiogames.net db usefull, it is always good to here people have been reading and using the entries to games. As regards interactive fiction and winfrotz, well I believe there are some jaws scripts but I'll leave that to people

Re: [Audyssey] N A Soft is proud to release our First title, Dotris, in support of the Clear Vision Library

2012-10-14 Thread Nick Adamson
Hi Roger. I've just done some more reading online and its been a little inconclusive but the indications look like the refreshabraille is supported. I did a search for refreshabraille with dolphin screen readers and there were some results which indicated it would work. As Dotris uses the same

Re: [Audyssey] several messages

2012-10-14 Thread Tobias Vinteus
I have had success with the Filfre interpreter, available from the interactive fiction archive, although the sounds in Lurking Horror and Sherlock doesn't seem to work with Filfre. I've also been able to run the latest version of Frotz for Dos in the command prompt under Windows XP. Maybe it

[Audyssey] SoundRTS

2012-10-14 Thread lindsay_cowell
Hi, Does anyone have tips and spoilers for starting out with sound rts. Plus which maps to use? Lindsay Cowell --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread Sharon
Hi Dark, Thanks for that. I can't play the stand alones for they aren't compatible with windows 7 64 bit. At least the via and the other exe won't launch properly. Will the deluxe work on win 64 bit? Sharon -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Audyssey] several messages

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Good to know filfre works with some infocom titles, I just remember hereing it wouldn't do arthur and other games in the old zip format (not to be confused with compression). Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Tobias Vinteus tob...@algonet.se To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread dark
The short answer is no. the eamon games were originally written in apple basic and frank has constructed eamon deluxe to use straight out basic which is a 16 bit application, and thanks to lovely microsoft those no longer work on 64 bit machines. this is fine for sighted people sinse

[Audyssey] Wanted to say thanks to the group

2012-10-14 Thread Keith
Hi everyone. I just wanted to say thank you for being supportive and informative, and patient with my ignorance regarding computer gaming. Not all groups are as helpful as this one, and I just wanted to say thanks Sincerely, Keith ks.steinbac...@gmail.com --- Gamers mailing

Re: [Audyssey] several messages

2012-10-14 Thread Ibrahim Gucukoglu
Hi Dark. Thank you very much for your assistance, I had considered using the old console mode version of Frotz which was specifically built for Windows 95 console mode, however it is as old as the hills and doesn't support things like timed input, music etc. etc. I'm looking for a fully

Re: [Audyssey] Wanted to say thanks to the group

2012-10-14 Thread dark
most welcome you are, mean nothing it does not. if wanted to answer game questions did I not, no answeer answer would I give, and yes, talk like yoda I do! Beware the power of the grue side! Dark. - Original Message - From: Keith ks.steinbac...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] several messages

2012-10-14 Thread dark
Hi ibrahim. I wouldn't recommend using dos frotz myself, because running it will be a pain for most people and even if not, there are more conventional and full featured windows interpreters as you said yourself. I know some people prefer dos frotz which is fine, but it wouldn't

Re: [Audyssey] several messages

2012-10-14 Thread Ibrahim Gucukoglu
Hi Dark. OK, well thank you very much for your assistance, to be honest I'm reluctant to go down the DOS route for a number of reasons, ease of use being one of them especially for new users. I'm going to try and locate some JFW scripts, I'm using Winfrotz 1.61 at the moment which I obtained

Re: [Audyssey] N A Soft is proud to release our First title, Dotris, in support of the Clear Vision Library

2012-10-14 Thread Reinhard Stebner
I have been playing this game (as a beta tester) and I have had a lot of fun playing it. Even though I am not all that good at the game (my own issues and not the game itself) I have truly enjoyed playing the game. This reminds me of a very old braille speak game that did something very similar

[Audyssey] Some More Questions About Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread Kelly Sapergia
Hi, I've been playing Smugglers 5 for a couple days now, and so far am enjoying the game. I'm considering purchasing the full version, but have some more questions: 1. Is there a way you can travel to other locations if they currently don't appear on the screen? At the moment, I'm in the

Re: [Audyssey] Some More Questions About Smugglers 5

2012-10-14 Thread dark
1: the news gives news about what is happening in other solar systems not planets in your current system. to get to other systems you need to use wormholes. To use a wormhole, you just click it like traveling to any other location, then when you get there either double click again or use

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Smugglers 5 Update (V. 1.0.1)!

2012-10-14 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm I have never used nvda review mode I have hal for that, but I've really not used programs that needed this as such since everything I use has a web component its never been a problem. At 07:43 a.m. 14/10/2012 -0400, you wrote: Hi Dark, Well, actually Smugglers 5 is playable using NVDA.

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm well email frank eamondel...@gmail.com and ask. I am not sure if he still adds people or not, release is quite close for the next full test build or is it final? ask and see if he will add you. He probably will he ahasn't really said to me he has enough or what. At 06:58 a.m. 14/10/2012

Re: [Audyssey] question regarding emon games

2012-10-14 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm I can foreward this thread at frank and see. However the current eamon will stay as qbasic. you should probably email him on this but I can send this anyway if you wishl. At 10:45 p.m. 14/10/2012 -0400, you wrote: HiDark, I've had some thoughts about that. I'm not sure what Frank's

Re: [Audyssey] Wanted to say thanks to the group

2012-10-14 Thread Ron Kolesar
Hi Keith, from Ron and Leader Dog Boz. I need to write a quick letter to you then try to get some sleep since it's after eleven here on the east coast. GRIn. My recommendations for games are as folllows: 1. check out the games from bond software. The three games are hunter, troppanum which is