Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread john
You don't have to be a developer to contribute files - you just have to be willing to spend some time, potentially help out with a bit of research, and send in whatever installers you've got that we don't. Even if you don't have any installers, another person whose willing to help out would be

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread john
If you can contact me off-list, I'll send along some info on our current status, including where you can get an up-to-date list of the archive contents and recent changes, as well as what currently needs updated info. Note: the above also goes for any list member whose interested in lending a

Re: [Audyssey] All of Jim's games in 1 neat installer.

2015-08-12 Thread Paul Lemm
Thanks for the link -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Darren Duff Sent: 12 August 2015 20:44 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] All of Jim's games in 1 neat installer. Hi guys. Here's a link to the web page where you can

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread Paul Lemm
Hi, Yep, more than happy to help in any way I can, as like I said think it would be a great resource. I don't have many games to contribute , but will look through my 2 PC's and see what I've got and happily send it over. But anything else you want help with such as research or tracking down

Re: [Audyssey] support status of some games

2015-08-12 Thread john
Awesome, thanks for the updates. I'll note that blastbay, Draconis and Final Conflict are supported for the archive. -- From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 17:45 To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org

[Audyssey] support status of some games

2015-08-12 Thread john
Does anybody know if the following games are being supported anymore (supported means I can contact the developer about the game and get a likely and at least somewhat helpful response): *blastbay titles *old bpc titles (treasure hunt 3, tournament) *Older draconis titles (alien outback,

Re: [Audyssey] Quick question regarding KitchenSinc games on Windows10.

2015-08-12 Thread Thomas Ward
… Hi Gary, The error message you are getting has nothing to do with Windows 10. You most likely are getting that error because the games can't find the main menu program that comes with Winkit. Cheers! On 8/12/15, Gary Price(Gmail) gazwpr...@gmail.com wrote: Evening everyone! I'm now on

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi John, That's a good idea, and I agree. The key generator is out there on the web if someone Googles for it. That said, there is no need to put yourself at risk by offering it yourself. Cheers! On 8/12/15, john jpcarnemo...@gmail.com wrote: I figure its probably a good idea to say this flat

[Audyssey] Quick question regarding KitchenSinc games on Windows10.

2015-08-12 Thread Gary Price(Gmail)
Evening everyone! I'm now on Windows10. I love it! Upgraded from 8.1 Just a quick question regarding Jim Kitchen's games. I can get them to run fine, but when I exit them I'm getting a strange error message. Error 53: File not found. OK button. Please if anyone else is on Windows10 and can

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread john
I figure its probably a good idea to say this flat out: I've no intent of offering the bsc code generator via the games archive, or any other keygens with an uncertain legal background. I'm absolutely certain that anybody who felt like dedicating half an hour of their time could find a copy of

Re: [Audyssey] support status of some games

2015-08-12 Thread Philip Bennefall
Hi John, For my part, I'm around in the sense that I read the list from time to time but I am not actively developing games. I will certainly do the occasional sideline project, but that's about it given my current workload. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall On 8/12/2015 10:57 PM, john wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread Paul Lemm
Hi John, Unfortuently i'm not a developer so wouldn't be able to help build the archive , but think its an amazing idea and would really benefit the community Paul -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of john Sent: 10 August 2015 21:59 To:

Re: [Audyssey] All of Jim's games in 1 neat installer.

2015-08-12 Thread Darren Duff
You got it! Darren Duff. amateur radio station KK4AHX. Follow me on twitter @darren_duff friend me on face book http://www.facebook.com/DarrenLDuff. primary E-mail duff...@gmail.com Mobile E-mail mobiledu...@gmail.com skype duffman31279 On 8/12/2015 6:22 PM, Paul Lemm wrote: Thanks for the

Re: [Audyssey] support status of some games

2015-08-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello John, Yes, I am actively supporting Final Conflict. There is even a new version in development although like all the USA Games titles development has been slowed due to events going on in my personal life. I'll also add I am pretty sure Draconis Entertainment is still supporting their

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Damien, I see where you are going with this, but unfortunately the terms of the license agreement really prohibits free redistribution of the key generator for the BSC titles. While I'd like to agree with you on a personal level as a gamer, but as a list administrator I can't legally allow

Re: [Audyssey] All of Jim's games in 1 neat installer.

2015-08-12 Thread Darren Duff
Glad to help. Darren Duff. amateur radio station KK4AHX. Follow me on twitter @darren_duff friend me on face book http://www.facebook.com/DarrenLDuff. primary E-mail duff...@gmail.com Mobile E-mail mobiledu...@gmail.com skype duffman31279 On 8/12/2015 3:49 PM, john wrote: Thanks for this.

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: Jim Kitchens games

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
hmmm probably it would be good to get the complete installer to modernise the windows games especially since they will be static from now on. we don't need the xp speech api files or the fix sapi file, they could actually mangle things if anyone tried to load those now. On 11/08/2015 10:11

Re: [Audyssey] anyone plays either text adventure, or online text games?

2015-08-12 Thread Joshua Tubbs
How complex is Draiker actually? I signed up, started the tutorial, and it just seems like your average player versus player game. Features says it has a storyline, but I do not know where that is. On a side note, you can find most new games and possibly also better walkthroughs for old games

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: MediaReq How Jim Kitchen died

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
yeah I agree stomach ulsas suck major On 11/08/2015 8:20 a.m., Shane Davidson wrote: This just rolled across my desk. Shane Forwarded Message Subject: MediaReq How Jim Kitchen died Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:19:27 -0400 From: bushido988 via Groups.io

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: Jim Kitchens games

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
well thats good to know. its good we have mirrors of this stuff but we may not need the dropbox archives of them It would be good if some innosetup installer would install and register the vb6 latest service pack libraries, and then install the games or just install the libs and we can run the

Re: [Audyssey] rail racer

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
well rr 1 has a mangled reg system so it may not run. it also runs an extremely old version of dotnet and so it again may not run. Railracer v2 is supposed to be out but not many seem to like it or at least the reviews I got from it were not good. On 11/08/2015 3:21 p.m., john wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen passes away:

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
which is why I extracted them but I actually never learned how to do inosetup fully. it would be good if all games, and libraries would be loaded into a single installer. On 11/08/2015 11:01 a.m., Charles Rivard wrote: The reason that a newer installer is wanted is that the old files do not

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 Has a New Home

2015-08-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, You are comparing apples to oranges here. The Vocalizer Add-on and Leasey are completely two different types of programs, are supported differently by NVDA, thus is a poor comparison. Let me explain. With Leasey it is written to be a screen reader add-on. It directly interfaces with the

Re: [Audyssey] support status of some games

2015-08-12 Thread john
I wasn't thinking anything nearly that complex - more along the lines of somebody dedicating some time to keeping an up to date list of games themselves and handing them out on request. -- From: Brandon Keith Biggs brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com

Re: [Audyssey] jim's nfl football - Josh K

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
hmmm thats still a lot to read. If you have a solid state drive and 8gb ram maybe but if you had a dulecore or even slower unit I could see you having issues loading it. On 11/08/2015 8:21 a.m., Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Shaun, I suspect the statement the e-mail was 400 MB of text was

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
well I have legal access to the generator justin d sort of abandoned the community anyway and while I won't send his generator round much as I would like to I really have no issue if someone requests a key to give it. Sadly the same goes with q9 I only have 1 key sadly, however the same

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
also while there were archives a lot of older games will not work with windows current or later versions so may not work anyway. On 11/08/2015 8:59 a.m., john wrote: Hi list, Recently I've been thinking about all the messages and posts I've seen where somebody's asking a question like

Re: [Audyssey] anyone plays either text adventure, or online text games?

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
sometimes I do though when I do I play mostly the newer glulx games and I havn't found any really good ones that have tickled my fancy since hadyan lands which I am still not done with. On 11/08/2015 7:06 a.m., Rajmund wrote: Hi all, Well, the subject pretty much says it. Anyone still

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
wow ambcious. Ok, what exactly do you want, I have a lot of games, some of them are full versions like grail to the thief so obviously I can't archive those. I have a lot of old dos games, therre is jims games which are mirrored now. There are others, sadly I think us guys at realitysoftware

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 Has a New Home

2015-08-12 Thread Josh K
that can't be because we have vocalizer addon for NVDA and vocalizer is not open source. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 8/10/2015 11:49 AM, Gmail wrote: From what I heard, the developers of Leaseyo did actually approach the developers of NVDA about supporting it; things fell through,

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread john
If you can give me a snippet of what you're thinking for an organizational system that'd be awesome, maybe 10-20 games in a zip file or something. My concern is that if I'm going to do interactive fiction, step one is going to be going into ftp.ifarchive.org and copying everything down for

Re: [Audyssey] game archive project?

2015-08-12 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs
Hello, I think this would be a great idea! Has anyone checked out https://archive.org/ to see if they could help? Otherwise we could ask Aprone if he would be willing to host them, we could setup an amazon s3 bucket that is $1 a month every 100 gig, or we could see if we can use github and

Re: [Audyssey] support status of some games

2015-08-12 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs
Entombed yes. There is an email list. thanks, Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/ On 8/12/2015 10:57 PM, john wrote: Does anybody know if the following games are being supported anymore (supported means I can contact the developer about the game and get a likely and at least

Re: [Audyssey] support status of some games

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
well I know arion who is the light tech guy is still on the audiogames forum. entombed still exist, bpc, and draconis I assume, railracer is with a new version I am not sure if they exist but they probably do. The blast bay stuff, well phill does exist and is on the forums. On 13/08/2015

Re: [Audyssey] All of Jim's games in 1 neat installer.

2015-08-12 Thread Shaun Everiss
someone should post this on the forum. Jim would be happy he has now a sink. On 13/08/2015 7:43 a.m., Darren Duff wrote: Hi guys. Here's a link to the web page where you can download all of Jim Kitchen's games in 1 installer. http://blog.bryansmart.com/2015/08/12/kitchens-sink-1-0/ ---

Re: [Audyssey] anyone plays either text adventure, or online text games?

2015-08-12 Thread Rajmund
Hello John, OK, This worked. But, what are games, exactly? Like, where do I go after the home page? - Original Message - From: john jpcarnemo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2015 1:54 am Subject: Re: [Audyssey] anyone plays either

Re: [Audyssey] anyone plays either text adventure, or online text games?

2015-08-12 Thread john
If you click on any of the gamebook names (I think they currently start with shrine of the salamander) you'll go to that gamebook. -- From: Rajmund brajmund2...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 7:38 To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re:

[Audyssey] Fwd: Virtual BNS emulator: eSpeak and Accessible_output2

2015-08-12 Thread Josh K
follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 Forwarded Message Subject:Virtual BNS emulator: eSpeak and Accessible_output2 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:10:44 +0200 From: 'Sukil Etxenike' via Talking DOSbox talking-dos...@googlegroups.com Reply-To: Sukil Etxenike

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen obituary

2015-08-12 Thread Ron hopkins
I'm very sorry to hear abourt his passing. He was a big part of this community and will be sorely missed. R.I.P. jim. --- 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

[Audyssey] All of Jim's games in 1 neat installer.

2015-08-12 Thread Darren Duff
Hi guys. Here's a link to the web page where you can download all of Jim Kitchen's games in 1 installer. http://blog.bryansmart.com/2015/08/12/kitchens-sink-1-0/ -- Darren Duff. amateur radio station KK4AHX. Follow me on twitter @darren_duff friend me on face book

Re: [Audyssey] All of Jim's games in 1 neat installer.

2015-08-12 Thread john
Thanks for this. -- From: Darren Duff duff...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 15:43 To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] All of Jim's games in 1 neat installer. Hi guys. Here's a link to the web page where