[Audyssey] Crossword Puzzles?

2013-06-10 Thread Chris H
Are there accessible crossword puzles? I don't mind freeware or shareware. Thanks! -- Chris --- 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] Vip Games Zone

2013-06-10 Thread Chris H
i tried most or all of teir games and they're just not for me for a few reasons. 1. They all use synthetic speech, Microsoft Text to Speech, the ones with Mike, Mary and Sam. Other companies choose to use either better synthetic speech or pre-recorded human speech. 2. I don't like their

Re: [Audyssey] Vip Games Zone

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Chris, I for one agree with you. I've never been afan of their games either. I tried them when they came out, and found them lacking. I just could not get into them either. On 6/10/13, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote: i tried most or all of teir games and they're just not for me for a

Re: [Audyssey] Crossword Puzzles?

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Chris, As a matter of fact there is. Spoonbill Software has an accessible crossword puzzle game, BG Crossword, which is fully accessible. On 6/10/13, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Are there accessible crossword puzles? I don't mind freeware or shareware. Thanks! -- Chris ---

Re: [Audyssey] Vip Games Zone

2013-06-10 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi, I found another big problem with these games. You can use your registration keys on another computer, but you have to unregister the games on the old computer first. The problem with that is, that when for example you old computer simply dies and you can no longer access it, you have to

Re: [Audyssey] Help with TTS for Windows.

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Do you Mean Microsoft Anna?? If so when was the last time you remember it working? The reason I ask is if you can remember the last time it was working you may be able to fix the problem by running a Restore Point and roll back to an earlier restore point which may or may not fix

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
The only time I draw the line with non installers is for drivers because if and when hardware doesn't work as it should you need to use windows crappy hardware management control panels to find your driver. your installer will install the drivers, all of them and when you plug in the hardware

[Audyssey] life

2013-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. jim just updated life. I have both win xp and 7 on 2 systems. I am getting an error 5 after the first round of gameplay, am not sure why. never happened before I upgraded. the menu program is good. its runtime error 5 by the way. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to

Re: [Audyssey] Vip Games Zone

2013-06-10 Thread Chris H
Oh yes there's that I have a problem with as well. Chris On 10/06/2013 10:09, Sarah Haake wrote: Hi, I found another big problem with these games. You can use your registration keys on another computer, but you have to unregister the games on the old computer first. The problem with that is,

Re: [Audyssey] Crossword Puzzles?

2013-06-10 Thread Chris H
Oh yes, must check out their games at some point. Cheers for the reminder! Chris On 10/06/2013 09:27, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Chris, As a matter of fact there is. Spoonbill Software has an accessible crossword puzzle game, BG Crossword, which is fully accessible. On 6/10/13, Chris H

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Trouble
Other places that deal with this have different downloads on there site like download for windows here, linix here and other here. They do that so each offering can address the differences that go with that op. And the question is not to us really but to you as in how much time you want to

[Audyssey] Walkthroughs

2013-06-10 Thread dbzfan
Is there a directory of the first seventeen mission walkthroughs? If so, can someone post the link? Thanks, Leo --- 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] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread john
Hi Thomas, In my opinion there are pros and cons to each. If you decide to go with the installer, you can have it automatically set up program icons, desktop shortcuts, dependencies, etc. On the other hand, you'd need to build an installer for each os. If you decide that zip is the way to

Re: [Audyssey] life

2013-06-10 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaun, Bummer! I have played many games of life on both of my computers with no errors at all. But you are the second person to report that error. Thank you for letting me know that the game menu program works. That tells me that it is probably not the writing to the

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Charles Rivard
Speaking of a readme file, why are they always included in the installation package rather than separately? To me, the instructions on how to install something should be able to be read before, rather than after, installation has been completed. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs

Re: [Audyssey] Crossword Puzzles?

2013-06-10 Thread Charles Rivard
Spoonbill Software has an accessible crossword puzzle game. Note puzzle, not puzle. (grin) --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Chris H christopher...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Charles Rivard
Separate downloads for each platform is a good idea. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Trouble troub...@columbus.rr.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

[Audyssey] jim's games work!

2013-06-10 Thread Josh Kennedy
hi jim's games finally work! and I think I know why. it is because I installed swamp and ran the 64bit .bat file that registered some files needed for playing ganes. hey jim I think you should download and install swamp on your system, and then go into the swamp folder look at that .bat file

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Trouble
Good question and I have ben asking that sense dos days. At 09:44 AM 6/10/2013, you wrote: Speaking of a readme file, why are they always included in the installation package rather than separately? To me, the instructions on how to install something should be able to be read before, rather

Re: [Audyssey] Light games

2013-06-10 Thread lenron brown
where can i find these On 6/9/13, Desiree Oudinot turtlepowe...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed, Lite Cars is my favorite as well. I actually like the classic mode better than the arcade mode, for some odd reason. I think it's probably because it has more of a retro feel. Plus, it's easier to get to

[Audyssey] swamp rifle scopes

2013-06-10 Thread Johnny Tai
Is it just me or are the scopes no longer able to see/hear flies? --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Trouble, That's not really the issue here. Of course each platform will have its own download links etc on the web site. However, I wanted to simplify the install process for myself as creating separate installers for every platform is a somewhat time consuming prospect. For instance, take

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, I wasn't planning on doing anything else. Of course, I will be offering separate downloads for each platform. What, you guys thought I'd bundle it all in one zip file? Cheers! On 6/10/13, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote: Separate downloads for each platform is a good idea.

Re: [Audyssey] The game of Life

2013-06-10 Thread Josh Kennedy
hi jim. I installed the new game of life without installing the winkit first. it did not want to by default put its files in documents but I made it do so with the browse button. the games work fine now. somehow I think installing swamp and running the .bat file made your games work now also.

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, That's a good question. The only answer I can give is it has to do with the way the distribution of the software has changed. In the 90's you would buy your software on a floppy or CD, and of course the readme file was right there in the root directory of your floppy or CD. Now days

Re: [Audyssey] Light games

2013-06-10 Thread Chris H
www.lighttechinteractive.com Chris On 10/06/2013 15:23, lenron brown wrote: where can i find these On 6/9/13, Desiree Oudinot turtlepowe...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed, Lite Cars is my favorite as well. I actually like the classic mode better than the arcade mode, for some odd reason. I think

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Trouble, That's precisely my concern. Newbies are, well, newbies and they are bound to make newbie mistakes that may cause problems running my games. I could easily see someone writing me saying they got such and such an error running my games, I ask them if they installed SDL, and they say no

Re: [Audyssey] Light games

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lenron, Go to http://www.lighttechinteractive.com for the Lighttech games. On 6/10/13, lenron brown lenro...@gmail.com wrote: where can i find these --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Charles Rivard
For some reason, your reply made me crack up. I knew better. (grin) --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 9:40 AM

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, OK, looks like I fell for it as I thought you were serious. :D Cheers! On 6/10/13, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote: For some reason, your reply made me crack up. I knew better. (grin) --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. --- Gamers mailing

[Audyssey] jim's games and espeak

2013-06-10 Thread Josh Kennedy
hi I am also happy to say that after installing swamp and running the .bat file that coppies and registers some .dll files jim kitchen's games well jim your games work great! oh and guess what if I use espeak to play the games they are fast and responsive, and reminds me of playing old dos

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Charles Rivard
Gotcha. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Paul Lemm
Hi Thomas, I don't know if it's quite the same, but when the most recent version of entombed was released there was an issue with the installer where by it downloaded the SQL, but then the user needed to go in and manually install the file. There were from memory absolutely loads of people

Re: [Audyssey] Vip Games Zone

2013-06-10 Thread Desiree Oudinot
For the most part, I agree with you guys. Crazy Tennis was a fun little time-waster, though. I thought that beach volleyball would have been a cool concept, but I thought it was overpriced, so I never purchased it. And, given the fact I didn't really care for their other games, I didn't want to

[Audyssey] R: Vip Games Zone

2013-06-10 Thread Angela Delicata
Crazy tennis is nice! I quite like it. Angela from Italy -Messaggio originale- Da: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] Per conto di Desiree Oudinot Inviato: lunedì 10 giugno 2013 20:29 A: Gamers Discussion list Oggetto: Re: [Audyssey] Vip Games Zone For the most part, I agree

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Ian Reed
Hi Tom, You should also consider the likelihood of newbiews on a per OS basis. From your comments it sounds more difficult to try to handle an installer for the different linux distributions. But linux users are also more likely to be power users who have no problem unzipping files. So perhaps

Re: [Audyssey] The game of Life

2013-06-10 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Josh, Cool, thanks for letting me know that my game of Life runs for you. But I have not tried to change where the games get installed, only where they write their files. If you check you should now see in your documents\kitchensinc folder files such as life.cfg, lifelog.txt,

Re: [Audyssey] jim's games work!

2013-06-10 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Josh, Cool! I'm glad to hear that you got my games working. But you know that installing my winkit.zip setup.exe has gotten my games working for others running Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 as it installs the VB6 run time libraries and other files. BFN - Original Message - hi jim's

Re: [Audyssey] life

2013-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
Interesting you should mention that jim. both of my boxes 7 and xp are x86 boxes no idea about x64 boxes but yeah both have the error. the first round runs ok but after that well. on a side note I deleted all of the life files including the brf records file and reinstalled the game and it

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
tom why not have a componant checker and installer, that would have websetups for all dotnets directx runtimes, etc in it and other dll files whatever needed for your games and check for these. if the versions are not current or older than the programs then run them. if newer or the same don't.

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
yeah entombed inosetup scripts detected sql was loaded but not its service pack number. you had to uninstall sql first then load in the installer with new sql from entombed setup which would then detect you didn't have sql. The setup should have detected updated or uninstalled then reinstalled

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
true but you could just do what jeremy did and put all you need in a batch file which the user runs in admin mode. At 06:48 AM 6/11/2013, you wrote: Hi Tom, You should also consider the likelihood of newbiews on a per OS basis. From your comments it sounds more difficult to try to handle an

Re: [Audyssey] jim's games work!

2013-06-10 Thread Josh Kennedy
yep, but for some reason the winkit.zip file never got your games working on my system. the only thing that makes them work is getting swamp and running the .bat file. then they work. On 6/10/2013 6:41 PM, Jim Kitchen wrote: Hi Josh, Cool! I'm glad to hear that you got my games working. But

Re: [Audyssey] The game of Life

2013-06-10 Thread Josh Kennedy
well anyway you might want to change everything. my system is a well strange setup with windows7 in ootcamp on a macbook pro. all your games everything is in the my documents folder and they work. On 6/10/2013 6:41 PM, Jim Kitchen wrote: Hi Josh, Cool, thanks for letting me know that my game

Re: [Audyssey] life

2013-06-10 Thread austin pinto
from whare can i get the update? ill test it on windows8 On 6/11/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting you should mention that jim. both of my boxes 7 and xp are x86 boxes no idea about x64 boxes but yeah both have the error. the first round runs ok but after that well.

[Audyssey] LIfe not working here.

2013-06-10 Thread Lisa Hayes
HI Jim, im also having issues with life i spun and hit the spacebar, but got thrown back to the desktop. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make

Re: [Audyssey] LIfe not working here.

2013-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
well don't use the computer at all as a player thats where the bug seems to be. Luckily I still have the old winlife3 file so I can always downgrade. At 02:08 PM 6/11/2013, you wrote: HI Jim, im also having issues with life i spun and hit the spacebar, but got thrown back to the desktop. Lisa

[Audyssey] lone wolf: ships that fire torpedos?

2013-06-10 Thread enes
hi, I'm doing a mission where I have the torpedo jammer can someone tell me which ships fire torpedos so I don't waist to many torpedos on them? the ones I know so far aircraft carriers and subs --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] lone wolf: ships that fire torpedos?

2013-06-10 Thread Charles Rivard
Replay value. Play the mission and find out the difficulties. (ornery grin) --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: enes enes.sari...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 9:44 PM

Re: [Audyssey] LIfe not working here.

2013-06-10 Thread Lisa Hayes
Ill have to go search for my copy of the previous file. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LIfe not

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Which is exactly something I've been thinking of doing. A batch file in Windows would do it. Same goes for a shell script in Linux. That's as simple and cross-platform compatible as you can get. On 6/10/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: true but you could just do what

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, To begin with you are totally over thinking the dependencies for my games. The new Evolution engine does not require a lot of Windows components like DirectX, .NET, etc. All of the components it uses are open source third-party libs such as SDL 1.2.15, SDL Mixer 1.2.8, and SDL Net

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ian, It is and it isn't difficult to create an installer for Linux users. For the most part most distributions, name brand distributions, either use rpm or dpkg so if I create a package for each that should in theory cover most Linux users. If I use dpkg, for example, the package should work

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Paul, Well, thats kind of comparing apples and oranges here. Entombed requires a lot of .NET dependencies like the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft XNA, Microsoft SQL, etc which if the installer doesn't handle them correctly can be a mess to track down. My games and my new engine only uses

Re: [Audyssey] swamp rifle scopes

2013-06-10 Thread simon dowling
hi johnny no they dont anymore, they dont even scope out the crates now either which is a shame. On 10/06/2013, Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca wrote: Is it just me or are the scopes no longer able to see/hear flies? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list,