Re: [Audyssey] first person adventure games.

2015-05-03 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Ari and all, Myst, (spelled M y s t) is the first in a series of first person adventure games which were incredibly popular in the nineties and early two thousands. While the games have terrific audio environments they are not as such, accessible to blind / VI players without sighted

Re: [Audyssey] first person adventure games.

2015-05-03 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Dark, Yes, you're right that they are not accessible unfortunately. However, a dear friend and I spent two weeks in Winter doing a massive Myst marathon and solved the first game. :) To say we were enthralled with the world and its surreal strangeness would be an understatement. The

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's Monopoly Game

2015-05-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, While in Monopoly press f12 and it will ask you if you want to use the current voice. Answer no and it will ask you about another voice. It will prompt you until there are no other voices available to choose from. Do be aware that this feature sometimes crashes on 64-bit systems though. Not

Re: [Audyssey] mist games (was first person adventure games)

2015-05-03 Thread Cara Quinn
Jeremy, You're absolutely right! It was pretty difficult to get in just the right position at times, not only to see what you needed to see but as you say, to pick up / interact with certain things in the game. It was actually because of this very reason that my friend and I missed a whole

[Audyssey] Myst -and- Re: first person adventure games.

2015-05-03 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Tomas, Interesting point, but the Myst games definitely do at least have the point of view of a traveler on foot so in that sense they are first person. I would say that the 360 degree movement paradigm for first person games is just natural technological evolution except that Myst has now

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's Monopoly Game

2015-05-03 Thread King Meade
Thomas and others, Thank you for taking the time to help me out! Have a great evening. I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.--Lena Haloway Blind Treasures sa...@blindtreasures.com PH: 804-726-8900 Web:

Re: [Audyssey] physical cd's and PayPal accounts

2015-05-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Desiree , Unfortunately, what you say is true. No matter what protections are put in place, no matter how many hoops a person has to jump through, there is absolutely no way to insure someone who is under age etc can't get the content. There is just no way to do that without some extremely

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's Monopoly Game

2015-05-03 Thread King Meade
Hi Thomas Thank you for your answer. Can you tell me how to go about changing the Sapi voice? I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.--Lena Haloway Blind Treasures sa...@blindtreasures.com PH: 804-726-8900 Web:

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's Monopoly Game

2015-05-03 Thread dark
Hi. You can change the voice in monopoly with f12 and change the rate with the hash key (I don't know why Jim kitchin used that key in monopoly but that is what it is). Also, note that when you begin the monopoly game you should be asked if you want to read the game instructions, and then

[Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games adjust rate of speech

2015-05-03 Thread Phil Vlasak
Here are the generic keys in Jim Kitchen's games: Special key instructions. Escape Key. exit game. F1. repeat current prompt. F2. repeat special key instructions. F12. change voice. control key. adjust rate of speech. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the