Hi Lori,
A Grue is a monster that was originally created for the Infocom games
like Zork if I remember correctly.If you don't play interactive
fiction or text adventures that may be why you are unfamiliar with
that particular monster.
Cheers!
On 11/7/13, loriduncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com
And all this time, I thought the Grue was Dark? (ornery grin) I have
played the infocom games a little, but didn't remember that creature.
Somewhere around here, I have the original CD that I bought from GMA Games
that included one of, if not the first, versions of SOD and LW, as well as a
Hi Charles,
Nope. Dark is not a Grue, but sometimes I wonder about him. He must
have one for a pet. :D
As for encountering Grues in the original Zork games you only
encountered one when you entered a dark room or area without a light.
If you were the type of adventurer that carried a light with
hi Cara,
Many thanks for the below message.
I did try this but it didn't say selected so did it again and no luck maybe i
turned it off with the second attempt.
Will try again and many thanks for all your help.
Regards
Christopher Huby
tel no: 07562729946
Email 1:
Hi Tom.
Well I don't have a grue for a pet, at least not one I'd admit to, you need
a license you know.
I do however have a Reever! currently sitting on my feet. which, if you seen
the series Firefly you know are scary space zombies! or indeed in the maze
runner books they're evil glowing
Hi Dark,
That's funny. You are right it is cool having a dog with such a well
known science fiction name.
Cheers!
On 11/8/13, dark d...@xgam.org wrote:
Hi Tom.
Well I don't have a grue for a pet, at least not one I'd admit to, you need
a license you know.
I do however have a Reever!
As someone also suggested, I've tried waiting until each level loads before
turning off VO, and amazingly, this does seem to help the situation
significantly.
I still see the issue from time to time but not nearly to the degree I was.
thanks,
Cara :)
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thanks for that.
all the rest of your casts are on my hard drive.
Its pouring buckets today and your stuff will definately rock.
I got blindside a bit ago as a trade for somethiing, however have
never managed to get over the hall with the sleeping zombies in it.
I like other peoples takes on
I was on the pg13 site and there are only a few of them and papa2
doesn't even work and I had to get it from sendspace, my impression
was that all casts would go up there but yeah I do want to listen to
the rest of the stuff.
The quality is really good and its addicting.
I like the comments
Hi darrin.
Your podcast really kick but.
Often I play games to win but you just play games to win but to also
loose whatever.
I like how you do it all.
The casts also mentioned a stream.
Do you have a net radio station, where do you go to do it, how do I
get notified for streams and when do
Dark sadly I know a lot of sighted games that still run from the cd
or need the cd for varification when run so I think while a lot don't
that this seems to be an industry practice rather than a minority one.
I don't care for this either.
it puts extra ware on the drive and disks, and for a lot
Hi Charles,
Smile. I just couldn't resist mentioning it seeing that it was ironic
you were busting Shaun's chops for not reading his messages and turned
out you obviously hadn't done that yourself.
Cheers!
On 11/7/13, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote:
Yep, I missed that one, as we all
Hi. I don't have a internet radio station but I do have a team talk server
and all are welcome. Find it at nighthawk-service.net ports 10334.
If you do join the server I might not be there so the best way to let me
know you are there to chat is to follow me on twitter @blinddrummer and
message
Hi Shaun,
Well, these days most newer games come on DVD not CD, and the really
high-end games for Play Station III etc come on blue ray discs. There
are many good reasons why companies do this. Besides being able to use
it as a type of copy protection, forcing people to physically own the
media,
Hi Dark,
Yeah, I agree with you. I don't have a problem with Azabat producing
card, puzzle, and board games. As I recall they were one of the first
to come out with an accessible Drafts game. What always got on my wick
is the way they implemented their games by running them directly from
the CD.
Hi Charles,
I know, but I can see their rationality to a point. The fact of the
matter is most people world wide who are blind and low vision are over
the age of 50. So that much make sense. However, as Dark has stated
many times the majority of their funds are gotten through wills and
charitable
well lorry what about the dimentions game on Iphone.
I have always wandered how you could walk round in 2 worlds at once lol.
At 04:49 AM 11/8/2013, you wrote:
Lol, I'll get some funny looks if I'm ever out
in the street playing it, people will think me
mad shouting into my phone. I wonder
Hi, guys again. I realize that my qyestion is not associated with games,
but really need your assistance. Would like to know the adreses of a
mailing list or a discussion list on blind people talking about android
devices, such as smart phones and tablets and their accessibility.
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Well dark have you ever played the old pork series on agt that was a
parody of zork.
I never completed pork2, but in pork1, the grue was friendly.
It replaced batteries if you ran out of light.
At 05:08 AM 11/8/2013, you wrote:
Hi lori.
Grues were creatures in the original Zork interactive
Hi,
You can join the Eyes Free Mailing List on Google Groups if you want
to talk about Android phones, tablets, and other google devices
running Android. Go to
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/eyes-free
to join the Eyes Free List.
P.S.
In the future please ask a moderator for permission
Hi Shaun,
Lol! I Forgot about the old Pork game. That game was funny. I love
parities like that. I didn't play the second one, but I did play the
first one way back when.
Cheers!
On 11/8/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote:
Well dark have you ever played the old pork series on agt
Hi Tom.
Well the Vb issue is a separate one, but to just concentrate on design for
the second, I agree taht there is a place for games like Azabat, and
certainly they have produced some unique games, however what irritates me
about their company isn't just the running from the cd it's the
Lol sean no, I've not heard of pork at all, it sounds amusing indeed!
I think the best grue parody I saw in an if game was the game augmented
forth. If you wandered around in the dark (which you had to actually do a
little at the start of the game), you were told It's pitch dark, but don't
Hi Tom.
Your very right about games, however bare in mind what takes up a huge
amount of space is graphics! especially the hyper complex, performance heavy
3D nonsense that most games have nowadays, just look at the relative size of
audio and visual files.
Of course, we've not had a
Hi all. I can't seem to get silent steel to install under windows 7. Has
anyone managed to get this to work? I really miss playing!
Darren Duff.
amateur radio station KK4AHX.
Follow me on twitter @blinddrummer.
friend me on face book http://www.facebook.com/blinddrummer.
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What is silent steel?
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Subject: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.
From: Darren Duff duff...@gmail.com
Date: 08/11/2013 4:41 pm
Hi all. I can't seem to get silent steel to install under windows 7. Has
anyone managed to get this to work? I really miss playing!
Read about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Steel
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lindsay_cow...@btinternet.com
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 11:44 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel
I took it as an ironic light hearted jab, with no offense meant or taken.
Notta problem.
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
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Sent: Friday,
You should make a podcast for it, Dark. That'd be neat! Besides, you
need to make more podcasts anyways. 'Cause I likes them! Heh.
Seriously though, they are awesome! And you make me laugh, which is
always of the good.
On 11/7/13, dark d...@xgam.org wrote:
Hi Lindsay.
You can find the game at
Fun times! I'm guessing you'd rely on an OCR addon for your screen
reader to read the choices?
Scott
On 11/8/13, Darren Duff duff...@gmail.com wrote:
Read about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Steel
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Seconded
On 11/8/13, Allison P apocalypseof...@gmail.com wrote:
You should make a podcast for it, Dark. That'd be neat! Besides, you
need to make more podcasts anyways. 'Cause I likes them! Heh.
Seriously though, they are awesome! And you make me laugh, which is
always of the good.
On
Hi Lindsay,
Silent Steel is an old submarine game written for Windows 95.
Interesting enough it was one of the few mainstream games that is
fullyaccessible to the blind either through accident or design.
Cheers!
On 11/8/13, lindsay_cow...@btinternet.com lindsay_cow...@btinternet.com wrote:
Hi,
how is this game accessible? I read on wikipedia that you have to make
choices to progress the story. Are these choices spoken or anything?
Thanks for answering and best regards
Sarah
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Hi Darren,
Sadly, I have had no luck getting Silent Steel to run under Windows 7
myself. I don't know precisely what the problem is, but I have not had
any luck with it yet either.
Cheers!
On 11/8/13, Darren Duff duff...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all. I can't seem to get silent steel to install
Hi.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I'll see. It's a little more difficult
now due to where my speakers are and need to rearrange my desk but I'm glad
people enjoyed what I did so far.
All the best,
Dark.
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Hi Dark,
I do take your point, and for the most part agree with it. That is
very bad, and a very sad state of affairs when organizations like the
RNIB treat something like Azabat as the best solution in terms of
games when Jim Kitchen's or Spoonbill's games are cheaper and much
better examples of
Either your screen reader can read the dialogs with the choices or the
capton will read them if you have the game set up right.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Haake
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 2:01 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Hi Dark,
Yes, exactly. It is the high definition cut scenes, 3d graphics, etc
that accounts for 90% of the size of modern games. The sounds and
music is certainly a factor, but not as much as the graphics.
To give you an example I was looking at Star Wars Battle Front, that
is a game from a few
Well if you haven't gotten it to work then it probably won't! lol!
-Original Message-
From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 1:52 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.
Hi
Hi Sarah,
The game is completely self-voicing. The captain of the submarine
speaks the choices aloud as well as gives mission briefings, speaks
the game's story aloud, and so on. Take my word for it the game is
100% accessible.
Cheers!
On 11/8/13, Sarah Haake ti...@gmx.net wrote:
Hi,
how is
Is it anything like Lone Wolf? Just curious.
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: lindsay_cow...@btinternet.com; Gamers Discussion list
gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013
Tom: I noticed that you said, in another post, that it was?? a game. Is it
no longer available? Thanks.
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Hi Darren,
I haven't confirmed this, but I think Silent Steel was a 16-bit
application. If so that would be the reason why it wouldn't work on my
Windows 7 laptop. I have a 64-bit version of Windows, and that is not
16-bit backwards compatible.
Cheers!
On 11/8/13, Darren Duff duff...@gmail.com
Hi Charles,
No. Totally different from Lone Wolf.
For one thing Silent Steel is set in the modern day, I'd say around
the early 1980's, and it is a story where a U.S. Submarine is out on a
training mission when they encounter some Soviet ships and submarines.
As the story unfolds what starts out
Hi Charles,
Definitely not. Silent Steel was released in the mid 1990's for
Windows 95. The game is almost 20 years old, and I doubt any stores
would be selling the game now being that old. If you want it I figure
you will have to get it used from Ebay or some game reseller. The only
reason I
Nuts! It sounds like it would be a really fun game!
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- Original Message -
From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 1:30 PM
Subject: Re:
Hi,
I can confirm that silent steel does in fact work on 32 bit xp and I'd
presume 32 bit 7 but I don't have it to test.
Dave
On 11/8/13, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote:
Nuts! It sounds like it would be a really fun game!
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Well, not sure about that, all I know is I can't seem to escape this house
at all. I get so far then I think I run into walls, and don't know which
way to turn to get out. The killer always finds me. :( Dark, please may
Iborrow your grue, or failing that your retriever dog?
-Original
Hmm, I may just have to try this game, hopefully it's free.
sent from the braille plus
loriduncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com wrote:
Well, not sure about that, all I know is I can't seem to escape this house
at all. I get so far then I think I run into walls, and don't know which
way to turn to
Hello everyone,
I've been comparing an Apple iPhone with a Samsung Galaxy, and so far
I think in many ways I personally prefer the Galaxy S4 over the Apple
iPhone 5. It has a bigger touch screen, I liked the way the icons were
arranged, the user interface was nicer in some ways, and I felt
In my opinion, there are more blind friendly apps for the iDevices than for
Androids. At least, this is what a whole slew of people have been saying.
I started with an iPhone, and won't switch for this reason. I think that
you get what you pay for, and if you can afford the iDevice, get it.
It is free!!! :)
-Original Message-
From: Devin Prater
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 8:23 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Escape the house
Hmm, I may just have to try this game, hopefully it's free.
sent from the braille plus
loriduncan
there is also txtfl football game.
sent from my windows 7 laptop
On 11/8/2013 3:33 PM, Charles Rivard wrote:
In my opinion, there are more blind friendly apps for the iDevices
than for Androids. At least, this is what a whole slew of people have
been saying. I started with an iPhone, and
Hi Charles,
Yes, I have heard that too, but my personal experience with testing
the Android devices hands on is that accessibility is very good now.
There is very little that I could not do on the Android phone that I
could do on an iPhone. Keep in mind here that accessibility on Android
is
Hi Charles,
It was good for the time, but to be honest I think in many ways Lone
Wolf is slightly better.
As I recall Silent Steel was turn based where Lone Wolf is obviously real time.
Cheers!
On 11/8/13, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote:
Nuts! It sounds like it would be a really fun
Hi,
thanks for the info how the game works.
Thomas, it was not that I didn't believe you, I just was curious how the
game worked since I never heard of it.
Best regards
Sarah
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hmmm never thought of dark having a grue.
But if you do look at the audiogames news section he does mention he
has slaves, elf slaves, and cyber security guards and a few other
monsters in his dongeon.
So a grue for a fella such as that probably is no brainer.
Instead of a dog he has a grue.
ok, I won't be breaking into your house then, I don't want to end up lunch.
At 11:56 PM 11/8/2013, you wrote:
Hi Tom.
Well I don't have a grue for a pet, at least not one I'd admit to,
you need a license you know.
I do however have a Reever! currently sitting on my feet. which, if
you seen
cool thanks.
At 02:25 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Hi. I don't have a internet radio station but I do have a team talk server
and all are welcome. Find it at nighthawk-service.net ports 10334.
If you do join the server I might not be there so the best way to let me
know you are there to chat is
Yeah as games get bigger and bigger I can see the reason.
I have several games given to me which are 1 or 2 gb in size loaded
on my drive.
And I have the old silent steel which I loaded on drive and made the
cfg file run it all from the drive which is 2gb.
So having 20 gb of installed game on
well its why I still use my xp laptop for gaming.
Most of the old vb6 games do not work right on 7.
The newer ones do thank goodness.
At 02:49 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Hi Dark,
Yeah, I agree with you. I don't have a problem with Azabat producing
card, puzzle, and board games. As I recall they
Yes, you are right. The way I see it, the more accessible all phones get,
the better.
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Friday, November
Hi Charles,
That's for sure. Smartphone access has improved all across the board,
and now days it is likely a blind customer can walk into any store and
purchase an accessible smartphone from just about any manufacturer.
Apple's iOS is accessible, most Android phones running Google Android
4.0 or
Hi Sarah,
No problem. Glad I could help. I'm actually a bit surprised so many
people hadn't heard of the game, but then again it was around before
the Audyssey Magazine and Audyssey List got started so I suspect very
few blind gamers heard of it when it was new, and are just now hearing
about it
well I did not know that but I have not touched that game in some
years though I still have it.
At 04:50 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Lol sean no, I've not heard of pork at all, it sounds amusing indeed!
I think the best grue parody I saw in an if game was the game
augmented forth. If you
what is the error.
if its about the drivers, don't worry thats not important.
from each disk you need to copy to your isteel folder, all idx data.
all avi or mpg video.
all wav data
all wav idx data.
all id files.
the setup is needed to make the game.cfg.
you in addition
need the composer.lg file
its an old submareen game written on windows 3.11, based round I
think the cold war.
From what I read the sub is nuclear and it was set in the 1960s,
however, not much more.
You basically have to sink 2 subs, capture and deal with a traterous
officer and a few things.
The plot is not much, and
well it needs a sertain codec tom.
vfw something or rather.
I have the klite mega codec pack which is supposed to have it but the
cd for silent steel has that old codec so maybe if you installed it
that would make it work.
Hmm just tried it on 7 32 bit and it does work.
go to
no charles.
Compaired to lonwolf its quite basic.
A video file and an audio file.
each disk has these pluss a data file with its id and number.
Each bit or audio or video has an index and then its matching the
dots to the indexes.
At 08:16 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Is it anything like Lone
well the videos are cinimatics.
the voice for all options will work if you push up down and enter.
At 08:00 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Hi,
how is this game accessible? I read on wikipedia that you have to
make choices to progress the story. Are these choices spoken or anything?
Thanks for
Well with things as they are people are pointing at the lg nexus phones.
At 09:23 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Hello everyone,
I've been comparing an Apple iPhone with a Samsung Galaxy, and so far
I think in many ways I personally prefer the Galaxy S4 over the Apple
iPhone 5. It has a bigger touch
thats what my other conflict is.
the droids sertainly are cheaper but you get less than the iphone.
At 09:33 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
In my opinion, there are more blind friendly apps for the iDevices
than for Androids. At least, this is what a whole slew of people
have been saying. I started
well its ok, you take part in deciding the way the moovie will go and
what indexes of video will play in to responce to indexes of audio.
At 09:01 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Nuts! It sounds like it would be a really fun game!
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well that may be why it works on my 32 bit os then.
it was win 3.1 so is 16 bit.
To be honest if lonewolf got some mods for it, a couple missions
could be made for the game quite easily.
At 08:18 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Hi Darren,
I haven't confirmed this, but I think Silent Steel was a
Hi tom.
This issue has come up recently on the audiogames forum, so I'll pass on the
info I know.
Stem stumper, several games from vipgameszone, all the choiceof games and a
game called droid flip are the ones I know though there may be more.
However, Ios still has the lion's share of
Yeah maybe it doesn't run on 64 bit systoms.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 3:06 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.
Hi,
I can confirm that
IT is.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Devin Prater
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 3:24 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Escape the house
Hmm, I may just have to try this game, hopefully it's free.
sent from the
Ah so there truly is no hope without an xp vm then. Ah well I will keep
the game files and maybe one day play them again.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 2:16 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Those are not fully accessible. Unless things have changed, LG phones speak
through the first few layers of their menus, then quit speaking.
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From: shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com
To: Gamers
well,someone who has a perspective on both platform, as I have an
Iphone 5, and a nexus7 tablet, I can definitely say, I have no issues
with the android side of things, the accessibility has improved to
where it has alost comes to completely match Voice over on the Iphone,
and I too would love to
Tom,
I'm going to touch on just one facet of your post, but I think it's a pretty
major one.
Quote:
to be honest I think what has happened here is that Apple got to the
accessibility first. All the blind users ran out, purchased Apple
iPhones, and now any time someone goes looking for a
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