I wish to apologize for my previous post...
the game I wish to discuss is Lode runner, not gold runner.
anyone who played this game when they still had eyesight, please contact me
so you and I can discuss the aspects of this game.
I am not sure if I am recalling the exact game play that made
I would like to discuss with someone on this list...offlist...an old game
called Gold Runner.
I remember this game from when I still had eyesight and it was a most
challenging game.
But it has been over 20 years since I last played it and I need to refresh
mymemory on certain aspects of the
Do you need to be a member of that site to download from there?
I seem to recall it asking me to login to download?
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Hello everyone.
I have seen alot of discussion on this list about the best language to program
a game for the blind in.
Some say C++ and others say Visual Basic 6 or VB.Net.
I am taking a different path.
this weekend while yard saling with a friend I ran across a table of software
somone was
I have loaded in a simple shooter game in Dark Basic and am looking at the
code.
The audio commands seem quite easy and they support panning...
and volume control...also support playing a sound file once or multiple
times.
also seems to be a command for playing midi files.
The program is
A year ago I went looking for source code to try to write a Risk game for
the blind.
I found one Risk game that had a most unique capability.
Instead of playing just the standard Risk world game board...it had the
ability to load in other designed play maps.
Some of them were the USS
Hello Jim,
awhile back I talked to you about writing a game in VB6.
The game was based on the 2-4 player card game called, Racko.
I asked you about artificial intelligence and I think you recommended a book
to me.
Can you tell me again what that book was?
or can anyone else on this list
Hello Phillip,
I would like to be a tester for your game creation toolkit.
I have a couple ideas for some games I am trying to write in visual Basic.
would like to se e if they could be done quicker with your toolkit.
thanks
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I apologize.
I am getting over a cold and did not read the EMail directive as I should
have.
thanks
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If I recall correctly...all laptops have a setting..button..whatever to
control the brighteness of the screen. So there is a way to turn the
brightness way down as if the screen were offgrin.
and this should also extend the battery life on your laptop...give you more
time between
Hello there,
I came into this thread a bit late...so I had to go back and read alot of
old messages to get the feel for what is going on here.
My experience to some of what is being discussed goes like this:
I used to live with a girlfriend in my house.
I also played shades of doom.
she is a
I am not sure if there are as many arcade room out there anymore. Home
computer systems...playstations and ms XBox systems have really given them a
beating.
Most of the older games took a single quarter.
When I had sight I spent alot of time in one of them near to my house.
the most awesome
Hello all,
Last week I bought a game called Are you smarter than a fifth grader for
Windows.
Got it at Target for $5.00
Installed on my ladies laptop and we have been playing it all week.
I am going to try to put on my desktop tomorrow to see if it is Jaws usable.
there is a part in the game
Hello there,
My sighted lady friend has been asking me if there are any games that she
can play against me.
I was going to install the Kitchen Trivia games on her laptop so we both
could play.
The only voice on her system now is the Microsoft Sam voice..not easy to
take..sigh.
Can anyone tell
Hello there,
I have never heard of Microsoft Anna?
is this a recent voice or has it been around awhile?
Yes, I am most interested.
is she Sapi 4 or 5?
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Hello there,
I am the one trying to make a talking Deal or No Deal.
The project was put on hold as it is now spring and I have a home that I
need to spruce up...new windows/flooring and the like.
also will be tilling my garden to get my flowers and veggies in.
Most of the work I have done so
Hello there,
Have you played KChess v4 Elite?
I downloaded the demo and am having major problems trying to figure out how
to use it.
Am I supposed to use the Jaws cursor mode to get to stuff or stay in the PC
Cursor mode to get to info?
Is there enough help for a blind user in the help menu to
Does anyone know how many blind accessible chess games there are out there for
computers?
I would like to play long distance snail mail chess games with a buddy of mine.
Do any of these games let a blind person play chess and will also show the
chess board or offer the option of printing the
I was not able to get Win Frotz to work under my XP home at all.
I did get Win Frotz TTS to work..and it seems to work quite well.
I am currently playing station fall.
Man does this bring back fond memories of days gone by.
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The Realtek HD sound chip that I have in my desktop system has a driver tht
ends in..
.5523
the sound from this chip was awesome!
but then I tryed to get into audio chat rooms for the blind..and quicly
found out the driver was flawed.
when I went to volume control..it was impossible to
Hello all,
I have un-installed Winfrotz TTS and put it back in again today.
I started up PlanetFall and then tried to restore a saved game.
is there some sort of restriction on what type name you give a stored game?
Perhaps the old DOS 8.3 name restriction?
I pointed the program to a folder
Hello all,
I am not 100% sure how I fixed my problem with WinFrotz?
I did re-install the program, and I started using smaller names for the save
files.
Perhaps I used an illegal character in the name? I'll never know.
I did a game save in Planetfall and I called it:
Planet_Elevator,
and the
Hello there,
last night I did download some Infocom games and the two versin of the
WinFrotz interpretors.
I love the TTS version.
I set my voice to Daniel and started playing PlanetFall.
it was awesome and a great trip down memory lane.
I am going to waste lots of time on these games.
thanks for
I have been playing Planetfall for a few hours now with WinFrotz TTS.
I have been saving games as i moved along in the game.
I took a break and came back and tried to start over and load in my last saved
game.
I choose open game from the file menu.
I pick the folder where the games are stored
Hello,
I was reading up on Infocom Text Adventure games.
I understand there is an interpretor to play these classic games under Windows?
I think it is called Winfrotz?
I recall from messages posted here about 1 year back that there are two
versions of this program..
a plain one and a talking text
Hello there,
the Deal or No Deal that I have is the Visual Basic 6 source code for the
game.
The game appears to be the british version with their unit of currency.
it is playable witht he Jaws cursor, but really needs to be redone for a
blind user to have full use of the game.
I am still
Hello charles,
My anti-virus stopped an E-Mail you sent me with an attachment of
DealOrNoDeal.exe on it.
What exactly were you trying to send me?
thanks
Robert
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Hello there,
I am a fledgling Visual Basic 6 programmer.
I ran across source code on
www.planet-source-code.com
site for the game deal or no deal.
I was able to compile this game and use it with Jaws cursor.
it seems to be the british version with pounds rather than dollars.
I am trying to convert
In my quest to find games I could print and mail to a long distance buddy thru
the mail I ran across this site.
it is loaded with free pen/pencil and paper games that you print and give/mail
to the other person to play.
there is a nice battleship game here that I printed last night and showed to
Hello there,
I am offering this game info up to blind folks that might wish to print a word
jumble puzzle to hand to their sighted friends/family.
I am not sure if we can play this game, but it miight be possible with OCR.
Word Jumble works like this:
you get 4-6 words that are all jumbled up.
Hello there,
I have downloaded the Visual Basic 6 source code from the net for Deal or No
Deal.
Right now it is not very accesible. I am digitizing sound bits from the
real show to put into the game and will try to get a blind accesible version
of this game up and running soon. If I can do
Hello there,
when playing your text adventure..which SAPI Voice are you using? Microsoft
Sam? if so I understand why you say it is hard to understand.
I can't stand that voice either. Do you have any other voices you can
switch to?
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has anyone up here ever played any snail mail games?
often called play by mail games?
I wish to do something like this with a sighted friend who I will be writing to
long distance for the next few years.
I tried to google this but got thousands of hits..and the little I read over
seemed to be
I am going to be writing snail mail with a friend for the next few years.
He is sighted. Are there any good free/easy to use play by snail mail games I
can get and play with them?
I can have a sighted friend local to me to read his mail and help me do the
next game move to him.
I had thought
This is totally out of control.
this is no longer a discussion group..it is a complain..complain and
complain some more group.
will the moderator in this group please shut this thread down...and tell the
combatants to drop this bickering or get booted off the group.
the messages sound like they
Man o Man,
talk about walking down memory lane!
I had Rescue on fractalus
on my Radio Shack Color computer 3.
geesh...had not thought about that game in decades...grin.
but I sure loved that old computer.
might even still have it up in the ole attic.
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I am also looking for MonkeyTerm.
I googled it, but all the links I tried to get the program were dead.
if u can help me out here I would really appreciate it.
thanks
robert
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Years back when i still had some sight..I loved to play a simulation type
game called Outpost.
Earth was going to be destroyed by a comet..and a life shipt was launched
into space for a long flight to a new world.
when you got to the solar system you selected..you could launch
Years back I bought a playstation one emulator..
drat, can't recall the name of it..it was like a $35 program.
You needed a computer running at 800Mz or faster for the thing to work
right.
but it did play the 8 or so PS game CD's I had laying around.
When you started the emulator up..you had to
Hello again,
I did a google search on the playstation emulators..and found the program I
had bought.
It was called Bleem.
there was another company called connectix that also had an emulator..I
think Sony sued both of them out of business.
Robert
But the bleem software might still be on the net
I have a question for players of the Sound RTS V8 game.
I know building a sawmill will help wood production.
My question is where to build it?
If the town hall is at A2 and the woods are at say A1..
and I have a meadow at A2 and at A1..
will wood be produced faster if the sawmill is int he same
Jim,
I am going to look over the Deal or No Deal code again this weekend.
I have not learned how to use text to speach yet..so I am goiang to have to
look over alot of other folks code on this to see just how to do it.
Would you be kind enough to test drive it when I finish?
then the next problem
Last night I had my Sound RTS v8 server up and running.
the server name was RCM.
a Player named Rameriz logged in and challenged me to two games.
Both games were in MultiPlayer game 3.
I don't know if he quit both games or the connection was lost.
We had no battles in either game.
But we were in
I thought I was good at visualizing games and game ideas..but I am
totally lost on this Reality game idea?
How does one take Kid Nation or Wife Swap and work that into a game that
blind folks would play?
I am not saying it can't be done, but I don't see how?
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I belong to a web site that deals with programming code.
it is called
http://www.planet-source-code.com
one of the most interesting files I downloaded frm this site a short time
back was a visual basic 6 version of deal or no deal.
It was more geared to a sighted person in its
I apologize for not saying this, but I thought I had..
I don't read braille.
But I do have a weird numbering system I made with a dynamo labeler..
I was thinking of putting these home made labels on a deck of Racko cards.
If I put them dead center on the card..it should not interfere too badly
Hello there,
Um, I am not quite sure what you are talking about when you say backgammon
and cover the holes with paper?
but i already have figured out how to use the backgammon set I already have.
Normally a set comes with tiles that are round and sort of flat.
Kindof like thick plastic nickels.
Shawn,
Right now I think we are going to take the backgammon board on the road with
us.
It is a game I loved playing years back when I still had sight.
Risk was another game I loved to play with 3 other buddies years back.
that would be an awesome game to play online against other blind players if
A sighted lady friend of mine asked me what games she and I can play together?
As I don't know braille and probably will never learn..it seems doubtful I can
go and buy some sort of game that we both can use.
I had considered teaching her backgammon.
I can take the pieces I would use and replace
Can anyone explain to me the Fog of War aspect built into Sound RTS?
Is there a way to diminish it?
Perhaps positioning of footman/peasants?
is there a way to prevent it?
what triggers it?
I understand that in times of war/conflict..there is a reduction in the
information that may be coming from
To any of the game developers up on this list..
Can you recommend any good reading material on Artificial intelligence as
regarding game development?
I have some ideas for some games, but they will all require AI opponents and I
ahve no idea how to tackle that part of the game.
I guess the
I don't know who LHXT is on this list..
but lat night he challenged me to a game in multi-playe rmap 2..
and he totally rolled over my troops.
I thought I was sitting pretty high with 4 farms and 18 footment at the door to
my town hall.
but then the gold ran out and I needed meadows to build some
Thomas,
the books on Game AI you mentioned for me to read..
are they available in electronic format or am I gonna have
to buy the book ane scan it in myself.
thanks for your assistance.
Robert
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It is about 2:45PM eastern U.S. time and I am going to put my
Sound RTS 7 server up with the name RCM.
I have been having luck in keeping it up by running my
outllook express mail program to keep my connection to the DSL server active.
I made the OE look for new mail every 1 minute..so far this
I wish to congratulate the player who was on my
RCM server last night.
You totally whooped my butt in a most timely fashion.
I don't know how you managed to get so many soldiers up to battle so
fast...guess I was
concentrating too hard on getting knights ready for battle.
My hat is off to you
It is about 11AM easter U.S. time..and I am putting my
Sound RTS version 7 Server up..the name is
RCM.
Is today a good day to die? Only the brave at heart can tell.
Robert
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I was told to go look for this file in the
documents settings/name/temp/soundRTS folder
the file is:
SoundRTS-server.log
Jean Luc was right...lots of interesting info in this log file.
I was in a 3 player game..getting my butt whooped badly.
lost my town hall..only had one building left..the
I can honestly say that when I first tried a multi-player game with Sound
RTS..
sigh..I did quit a few games.
part of it was the frustration of not knowing how to build up my army and
being ticked my lowly peasants were being picked off by 10 footman and 8
archers...g.
The smart thing to do
Tristan,
when you mentioned your wireless connection to the net..than things became a
bit clearer to me.
I have a linksys wireless router.
when I turn on my computer in the morn..it gets an IP address of
192.168.1.100
when I turn on my second computer downstairs..it gets an address of
I called Verizon DSL support and they tell me I have no control over my IP
address...duh..kind of knew that already!
the tech guy..from india..tells me my IP can change as often as every 5
minutes..sigh.
My system is behind a linksys router.
I never turned the router off..and yet about every 2
Trouble,
can we talk more about the linksys router off list?
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Regarding how to program for internet play, I use a dedicated server for
Rail Racer, not the cheapest solution, but probably the best overall.
Che,
exactly what does this mean to a game programmer?
Did you have to write program code that ran on the dedicated server?
While I have programmed a bit
Raul,
thanks for clearing up this dynamic versus static IP confusion.
and many, many thanks for the two web addresses you put in your answer too.
Robert
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I had originally thought the same way you do.
but then I found out that with my Verizon DSL account...my IP address is
always changing.
so, while I could test the program on my local network..I would not be able
to test it and make it work like Jean Luc's Sound RTS program.
I have no programming
I thought long and hard on the random factor of the game...
to make the game run exactly on two computers..the random function ov VB6
could not be used.
I am considering letting the robot creation program create a file of random
numbers from 0 to 9.
Perhaps a list of 64, 128, or 256 numbers.
This
Ok,
you are using terms here that confuse me totally.
I know nothing of host versus IP?
I kind of understand dynamic versus static...but only barely.
Can you fill in more on what you are talking about?
is this free or do I have to put out some extra money?
Robert
Jean,
I just talked to Verizon.net tech support.
it was painfully slow as I think both calls I made went to a service center in
India.
But what I managed to get from the tech guys was this:
Verizon DSL for customers..not business..their IP can change several times a
day.
This may explain why
The weird thing was I had no server up..
somehow the website that keeps tracks of the server is keeping
ghosts of the past servers on it.
I am not sure if Jean Luc knows this is happening on his web site.
I am going to try to put the server up today and do it as a private
server..then I will psost
Che,
that was part of the reason i wished to host the serverr and NOT play the
game.
I wanted to have a neutral server up and running for others.
Robert
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Okay,
I went to the web address:
www.whatismyipaddress.com
and they say it is..
70.16.154.69
So I am going to put up a private server in a few minutes..
I am not going to be playing..
and the Sound RTS will be version 7.
my server name will be RCM
but if you are typing in the IP
Jean Luc,
I have Verizon DSL in the United States..
it was my understanding that my IP is dynamic but should not change for 24
hours after I login.
I jus ttook the server down..not sure why you were not able to connect with
the IP address I gave..sigh.
Your game is excellant cause it supports
Let me say up front I am not a great programmer.
but I have this Idea I may work on.
It would be a play by mail game.
Each player would design a fighting battle bot to play against an opponents
battle bot.
Each player would design the bot and then program the bot.
The game would be based on a
Years back when I still had eyesight..
I kind of remember playing or seeing something like this battle bot game on
the Radio Shack color computer 3.
You had to program the bot..how far to travel..how often to use radar to see
what was around it..what to do if it bumped into something.
when
Jean Luc,
are u familiar with any software I can download and run that will quickly
tell me my IP address?
I have some visual basic code to do this but it only reports my
address as
192.168.1.100 as I am behind a router.
I have been using the web address:
www.whatismyipaddress.com
to get my
on Wed. Aug 8 at 3PM eastern U.S. time I will b putting my
Sound rTS server 7 up.
I will also post my IP address here in a message prior to 3PM.
Hope to see you folks online.
Robert
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Has anyone else noticed bizarre behavior with Sound RTS 7 lately?
I tried to do a multi-player game online and it showed me 4 servers and two had
my name on it?
Is Jean Luc having some sort of trouble on his website?
I noticed that all talk about sound RTS ont he gamers list just dropped off to
I know this is going to sound like a dumb question..
but here goes.
When I get a blacksmith going in Sound RTS..
and I choose to upgrade armour or arrows..
or swords, is the upgrade immediate?
Are all the troops I currently have getting this upgrade or only troops created
after the upgrade kicks
I belong to another list that I truly enjoy.
It also went thru a small crisis like this list.
Only instead of two users going off and tearing at each other..
it was one user consistantly
tearing on other users in this list.
I learned quickly how to use the filtering options in Outlook express.
Any
I belong to another list that I truly enjoy.
It also went thru a small crisis like this list.
Only instead of two users going off and tearing at each other..
it was one user consistantly
tearing on other users in this list.
I learned quickly how to use the filtering options in Outlook express.
Any
Che,
you did an awesome job with your Sound RTS tutorial..
Learned a few things..like digging gold or cutting trees down will leave a
meadow ehn it runs out.
and some of the movement options u showed..are loada quicker than the way I
was doing it..and we all know time is very precious in this
I am going to put my Sound RTS 7 server up at 1PM eastern US time today..
server name is: RCM
I'll leave it up till 7PM Eastern US time..
I won't be playing..so you can skip the invites..
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If the author of Sound RTS adds SAPI support he
should offer the option of not using SAPI support.
why do I say this...
I love the sounds built into this game..I love the ability to modify the
sound files in this game to my tastes.
Not everyone who has a windows XP system...has the money to go
I would like to assist in the Sound RTS7 tournament..
What times would be the best to put the server up?
I am in America on the east coast.
Robert server name: RCM
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When I talked about diferent blind games being hosted..I was not clear.
what I meant to say what:
if some of these great games for blind folks were hosted on a mainstream web
site/download page...
they would be reviewed by sighted folks..printed in sighted magazines...get
more word of mouth going
Warcraft is not a free game..not even sure if they ever released a demo.
It is a sighted game..not for us VIP folks.
Robert
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There are several things going on here with sound RTS.
1. I played the game for over 1 week till I had the movement down pat
before I dared to join an online game.
2. it took me two days to read over my linksys manual to find out how to
forward port 2500 so I could get online to play agame.
3. I
I won't have time to be in the competition..
having home repair done this week..sorry.
but if you let me know...I can keep a server up...just tell me the time slot
you wish it to be up.
and which version of RTS you wish to be running.
thanks for the tips you guys are posting..most informative.
This is going to sound cold..
but you have got the read the game manual over and over again..like maybe 20
times.
If you have never played a RTS game before like warcraft..you might need to
read it over and over again like 40 times.
the hardest part is to learn which keys do what..and be quick at
I noticed that in version 6 of the game..that as soon as the farm was
finsished..I had 4 more units of food on the status bar.
Robert on server name: RCM
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In order to be sure the peasants stay there and get killed off, don't you
have to first put them in offensive mode?
I am having trouble moving around the map with the control key and arrow
keys.
the docs say that tis allows you to pass any obstacles..but it does not
seem to be working for me?
I had my Sound RTs server up last night.
I was not going to play only let the public server up and running.
Well I got an invite for multi-player map 3 so I joined in.
there were 3 people in this game and I could do nothing at all.
only the tab key worked and it said nothing.
Is multi-player map 3
I would really like to know who logged into my server as
J A C O U?
He really kicked my butt!
How do they do it?
I was digging gold and hacking wood for like 6 moves and then my town hall was
over run!
How does a town hall get over run so quickly?
I sent my 4 peasants back to town but it was no
I thought the most exciting moment for me would be playing online against
another blind player and winning.
But I was wrong..
Winning was not the most exciting moment in the game.
It was when I figured out what I was doing wrong in all the prior 50 games I
had played.
It was so stupid simple..I
Now here is where I disagree with you.
Because peasants are not easy to get rid of...but they can be dealt
with..having too many peasants in the beginning is a liability.
As others suggested...a way to upgrade peasants to footmen would be nice.
Or perhaps just release the peasants backin the town
This also did not seem to be covered in the docs.
When you attack an enemy farm..do u take it over or is it burnt to the
ground?
what happens when you attack a barracks or sawmill? or workshop?
do u get that building or is it burnt down?
in a 3 player game..
when you take over the town
It is now 9:23PM easten time in the US and I am putting the
RCM server up.
I won't be playing tonight so don't waste time inviting me in..
The server will be a public server.
I am still confused as to how I can run a server fine..with my firewall turned
off, and my router handling port 2500
I was able to setup my system with a linksys router to act as a Sound RTS
server.
I setup the server so anyohne could start a game.
I entered Game Map3 and someone else joined the game.
I had my butt handed to me in less than 5 minutes.
How is this possible?
Don't all the players start off with
Would it do any good to go google any tips on playing War Craft to learn how
to better play Sound RTS?
It is a most addictive game.
Robert
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I put my robertm server up today for 2 hours..but will leave it up longer..
I heard about 18 people log in and out.
Also saw a bunch of invites being given.
But I have no idea if any games were played to conclusion?
Can anyone who played on my server let me know if the server ran well?
at his
Some of the features I might like to see in future versions of Sound RTS?
A game save option in single player mode.
When hosting the games..
some sort of logging system to see who logged in..for how long...and who
they played against.
and who won the game.
Perhaps some sort of simple chat system
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