Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
regarding improvements are welcome. Cheers! On 10/29/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: You have a point dark everyone that wants to be everyone has a central website. Its the seat of power and where they shout to the universe at large. Its never took off for us. How much resource

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
well I'd be happy to input if I could to the project of magazine reconstruction. At 07:17 AM 10/30/2013, you wrote: Hi Dark, I agree. That does seem like a good idea. Something to try. Converting Audyssey over to a webzine like Spag is a good idea. It would take a while to build the site up

[Audyssey] audiogames forum

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. traced the error. looks like one of the dtabase third party sites has issue went to stats.creativehero.es Can not connect to database in index.php[46]: User md11790db114463 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections So its not audiogames.net per say but one of its

[Audyssey] audiogames forum

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. if you use forum.audiogames.net/index.php you can bypass the error. --- 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] forum

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
disreguard last message it appears it only worked once now that link errors to. --- 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] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
Well we really need to make the audio game format interesting. Not sure how we would do that. for some of my friends, the interactive fiction really makes them rock. they like old games. For some audio games cool. For others no graphics = crap rubbish and nothing much doing. audio games are crap

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
well thats good to know. it appears that the forums on audiogames.net eventually did come right for me. At 10:09 AM 10/30/2013, you wrote: Hi Tom. I know html converting is a somewhat urcsome task, but that would! help, and btw, if you really! want to see a fantastic preservation of far

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
well its good that you have appeared and are willing. This fact is why we need to have more than one editor. we also need a dropbox or something where all content is shared. if one guy gets sick or drops his hard drive on his foot breaking it and the drive we need to have backup. it would be

Re: [Audyssey] happy birthday Swamp

2013-10-23 Thread shaun everiss
jail time. Cheers! On 10/22/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Well ken I can accept the hacking its just human nature. This last one, really makes me want to bash someone's f**king face in. I can understand spammy hacks, and the cheating hacks, I myself joke round and if I can get away

Re: [Audyssey] Unable to Access Audiogames.net

2013-10-23 Thread shaun everiss
just accessed it ok and it works. At 07:36 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: Hi all, For some reason I can not access Audiogames.net. Not the forum or the main site. Anyone having a similar issue? Thanks. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net is back

2013-10-23 Thread shaun everiss
aargh! the y10 k bug is back, run for your lives!!! At 10:17 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: Hi Dark, I think it might have been when the Swamp Forum went from message 9,999 to 10,000 and was not told how to handle such a momentous moment. Or maybe just like an automobile distance counter it turned

Re: [Audyssey] happy birthday Swamp

2013-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
Well ken I can accept the hacking its just human nature. This last one, really makes me want to bash someone's f**king face in. I can understand spammy hacks, and the cheating hacks, I myself joke round and if I can get away with it so be it. But I'd never take advantage of anyone, spoil it for

Re: [Audyssey] Problem with Swamp

2013-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
download the latest swamp from kaldobsky.com sometimes there is just patches, download those as well. at any rate swamp 2.9d is the latest and due to the hacker attack swamp is broken anyway and being repaired. its still up if you care to bother though. At 12:35 AM 10/23/2013, you wrote: Dear

[Audyssey] Fwd: Release of six new blind gamers games

2013-10-16 Thread shaun everiss
Hi all. bellow are new games from spoonbil software. Hi, You are receiving this email because you have previously ordered a blind accessible game from Spoonbill Software. This is to announce the release of six new games in the Blind Gamers series. There are three new word games and

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: Release of six new blind gamers games

2013-10-16 Thread shaun everiss
...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: 16 October 2013 10:30 To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Fwd: Release of six new blind gamers games Hi all. bellow are new games from spoonbil software. Hi, You are receiving this email because you have previously ordered a blind accessible

Re: [Audyssey] What ever happened to extant

2013-10-11 Thread shaun everiss
Hmmm I have forgot about that game, it was a nice concept, a nice bridge between swamp when swamp was not that big. I am not sure what worth it would have bar crap all. The atmosphere was nice, something swamp has not totally got just yet and probably won't have as much of. I can't remember

Re: [Audyssey] GigaPack for Top Speed 3?

2013-10-10 Thread shaun everiss
well if enough ask I can put them back but they need a perminant home to be honest. At 11:46 PM 10/9/2013, you wrote: hi can some1 host them I need to download it On 10/9/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: no problem. hopefully these can be perminantly hosted. I have removed

Re: [Audyssey] GigaPack for Top Speed 3?

2013-10-10 Thread shaun everiss
never made any. At 11:47 PM 10/9/2013, you wrote: also please host any tracks or cars and bykes that u made On 10/9/13, austin pinto austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com wrote: hi can some1 host them I need to download it On 10/9/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: no problem

Re: [Audyssey] GigaPack for Top Speed 3?

2013-10-09 Thread shaun everiss
. with warm regards Mohsin On 10/9/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: well anyone can download, but just know that it won't stay up. If my limit is exceeded and I am banned it will be deleted as I don't want want to be dropped from dropbox. If my folder is full it will go to. If no one

Re: [Audyssey] GigaPack for Top Speed 3?

2013-10-08 Thread shaun everiss
day banns in the last year and I don't want to get to a level where I simply can't dropbox. At 05:42 AM 10/9/2013, you wrote: @ shawn: Please wait , dont remove it , I also need to download , thanx On 10/8/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: no problem ken, just tell me when you have

Re: [Audyssey] NVDA was Re: My Opinions Regarding Windows Frotz

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
versions I know of. Cheers! On 10/1/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: well I don't know what version I have I got it ages ago it works with sapi. insidentally its why I have given up on tads. wintads never worked right and dostads never displays even though I use the 32 bit djgpp

Re: [Audyssey] Crazy drivers

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
Hi ken. I don't know if I'd pay for a game like this. I may play it for free but its not likely to interest me unless the price was 5 or 10 bucks but that would be the limit. If you were a cop or someone that was good, etc, maybe a back story with some mega voice acting a few movies a few

Re: [Audyssey] Crazy drivers

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
Hmmm customisable maps maybe sounds, um sounds like a tb spinoff still wouldn't qualify for a full game. now if it was a gta 5 standard or blackopps2 type with full story etc then I'd pay loads for it. Your game, not really. At 11:43 AM 10/4/2013, you wrote: One of the coolest things about

Re: [Audyssey] Upcoming technology for game music rendering

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
wow this rocks. I wander if you could have a game where as you went along you made sequences of tones eventually making your own music. would work well with smart phones not sure about computers but still. At 06:34 AM 10/5/2013, you wrote: Hi all! I have been rather silent for the last few

Re: [Audyssey] GigaPack for Top Speed 3?

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
ken I think I have what you want. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1407689/Top%20Speed%203.zip Be aware that the file is uploading and will take about 30 mins or so. its 40mb in size. This is everything from ts1 and up that I have saved from servers and others over the years of topspeeds

Re: [Audyssey] A Moderator Request

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
I have been so used to call the gma games like tank commander and shade of doom by their short hands, gtc, and sod I scarsly give it a thought. And on the list for tactical its always been called tb since I have joined and started testing it. In fact its odd to even call the games by their

Re: [Audyssey] A Moderator Request

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
grin well thunderbird is also tb. At 06:05 AM 10/8/2013, you wrote: Tuberculosis? Or maybe he was playing a game using a TB console. (grin) Anyway, Tom, thanks for this moderator request. I totally agree with it, because I am one of those who doesn't like abbreviated game references that

Re: [Audyssey] audio limitations was: Re: More Halloween type games.

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
vipgameszone did have one not sure where it went. I don't mind testing and contributing for games either. Firstly all I want is a free game but since I work in the industry of testing anything I do outside the workplace increases my officiency and in the current industry climate the faster you

Re: [Audyssey] audio limitations was: Re: More Halloween type games.

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
What about soundcloud, its there, ok the classic version needs to be used but well. Next, I am not sure. I don't know what would be required to set up that sort of service. I don't have cash as such, but if I could set things locally or in a country like australia with someone close to me thats

Re: [Audyssey] Games on Android

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
www.choicegames.com has text games not sure if they would be usefull. the audiogames forum has a lot of stuff. blindcooltech and coolblindtech have a lot of stuff. pcsgames.net has a list of games. There are other lists I remember but I have not got to the stage so have not bothered. The Iphone

Re: [Audyssey] Rr2 questions was: Re: BA games on iPhone, was: RE: The Apple iphone, was RE: building in the storm 8 games.

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
I was not aware that the game was in beta yet. What happens to those that beta tested the old game like me and got it for free, especially since the lince system has been down for ages and I have been unable to play my coppy for so long. What is the price for us or what is the status. I'd

Re: [Audyssey] GigaPack for Top Speed 3?

2013-10-07 Thread shaun everiss
, The Believer and Skeptic Show, at iTunes! If you want to reach me, you can call 419-744-0517, friend me on Facebook, (KenWDowney,) or write me at kenwdow...@me.com . - Original Message - From: shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday

Re: [Audyssey] Night of parasite help.

2013-10-01 Thread shaun everiss
Someone tried once but to be honest I never finnished and well now the author seems to have dissapeared and the download link does not work bar those that people put on dropbox I don't think there is much call for it. The game was good, but I never got into it. At 05:33 PM 9/30/2013, you

Re: [Audyssey] Help with playing Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands

2013-10-01 Thread shaun everiss
alisin you will need the following plugins or components of mush z loaded in your world file. capture mud output omit blank lines afk timer and mush reader. in addition you may want to load audio.xml the com audio library and msp. One thing I found with mush-z is that if you don't have

Re: [Audyssey] Help with playing Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands

2013-10-01 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm I have not played this either. is there a sound pack for it? At 03:49 AM 10/1/2013, you wrote: I've played that a little bit, but find myself getting lost a lot. Aetolia, which is created by the same developers, has been friendlier to me, as they have a pathing system. It should ask you

Re: [Audyssey] NVDA was Re: My Opinions Regarding Windows Frotz

2013-10-01 Thread shaun everiss
well I don't know what version I have I got it ages ago it works with sapi. insidentally its why I have given up on tads. wintads never worked right and dostads never displays even though I use the 32 bit djgpp one. Is there a sapi tads or something. It just make things a bit more playable.

Re: [Audyssey] For those of you who like text adventure games, IF Comp has started!

2013-09-29 Thread shaun everiss
cool tyler. I will be on holiday in a couple days but I do have some time to do some new fiddling. At 11:33 AM 9/30/2013, you wrote: Hello! For those of you who want to play brand new (and I mean just released within the past day) text adventure games, check out the Interactive Fiction

Re: [Audyssey] Halloween games.

2013-09-28 Thread shaun everiss
I have highquality voices for sapi from a friends jaws8 disk. I have run winglulx and winfrotz in sapi mode and it does work in a fashion probably not as fast but its ok. At 05:31 AM 9/29/2013, you wrote: Hello I was using win frots tts, but I'll look into getting a new one, and seeing

Re: [Audyssey] real life swamp

2013-09-26 Thread shaun everiss
kiding, my blind but would probably run myself right in to a wall and knock myself out. then the zombies would have a field day on my body. Thanks for sharing that link. bfn James -- From: shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday

Re: [Audyssey] I need some advice regarding the bopit extreme2 game

2013-09-26 Thread shaun everiss
I wouldn't bother with the bopit extreem. the xt which is the current unit or at least a newer one is just like the extreme with as far as I can see the same features as the extreme. I have a standard bopit and the xt which has bop twist pull flick and spin and I think thats all the extreme

Re: [Audyssey] real life swamp

2013-09-26 Thread shaun everiss
for a really awesome well done audio drama type podcast. The sound effects are amazing in this one, and it will make you want to play swamp all day long. -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:16 PM

Re: [Audyssey] I need some advice regarding the bopit extreme2 game

2013-09-26 Thread shaun everiss
well I used the headphone jack for phones and for an amp and speakers. The bopit sounds good on its own speaker but crap if on others I suspect because of its chip sfx. Now what I'd really like was a musical bopit with maybe a nentendo theme. At 03:35 AM 9/27/2013, you wrote: Hi Nicol! I

[Audyssey] real life swamp

2013-09-25 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. just got this from one of my daily deal sites for nz http://www.treatme.co.nz/Deal/Auckland/zombie-survival-challenge-sep13sj?utm_source=dailydealutm_medium=emailutm_content=smallviewbtnutm_campaign=ddAucklandds=2013-09-26s=a6a0e2b5-5faa-43fd-b602-a976a23aaddec=falseab=p=1 My only question

Re: [Audyssey] vip mud

2013-09-24 Thread shaun everiss
I have been using mush-z the only thing I did do was update the mushclient in that package by downloading extracting with 7zip and coppying the program over as the current version if pulled directly from the files directory is 4.90. On that note are there other muds that are good that have

Re: [Audyssey] vip mud

2013-09-24 Thread shaun everiss
yes its good. however, you need to go to allinaccess.com and go to their mudding page. download mushreader, and com audio and mc base. you then need to coppy the dll files in the zips into the mush-z install root folder for this to work as it should. no idea why these were never added and also

Re: [Audyssey] vip mud

2013-09-24 Thread shaun everiss
not sure my issue is that stuff happens so fast that its hard to track events even when you are with yourself. Sometimes I bash away at a monster before I know what it is because by the time the reader gets through the first bit it takes ages to catch up and then you are half dead. At 12:38

Re: [Audyssey] vip mud

2013-09-24 Thread shaun everiss
pluss mush z has some things like the capture mud output by sean randel which are sadly no longer round at all. Yeah mush-z is good. Now if only more muds would be added to the engine maybe extra packs and such. yes its 400mb probably per mud but heck for a full featured adventure game scripted

Re: [Audyssey] smugglers 5?

2013-09-24 Thread shaun everiss
my issue with smuglers is that once with my avalanch I attempted to catch a battleship but was not able to. In the times I have tried to capture a cruiser I have run out of crew half way through. Or if I finally get my avalanch, I get hit by a stonewall and because of its minigun I die. In the

Re: [Audyssey] Game: Over.

2013-09-16 Thread Shaun Everiss
lol, game over. At 08:32 a.m. 17/09/2013, you wrote: Games we wouldn't like to play: by Phil Vlasak. Game Over: The world's shortest cool audio game for IOS. Well, there's not much to say about it other than I love the voice. You just need to turn Voiceover off, listen, and touch the screen,

Re: [Audyssey] text sports simulators

2013-09-16 Thread shaun everiss
never heard of them, I may check them out and see. At 12:12 PM 9/17/2013, you wrote: hi I found two websites dolphinsim.com and also dksports.com . Has anyone ever played any of those games? how accessible are they? Josh -- sent from my vinux4 linux laptop --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] out of the park baseball

2013-09-16 Thread shaun everiss
where do you get out of the park baseball from I have a sonar system here I can fiddle with. At 12:33 PM 9/17/2013, you wrote: hi is out of the park baseball accessible? I am trying to find out but can't get the installer to run on my 64bit vinux4 system I get an error libxpm.so.4 is not

Re: [Audyssey] out of the park baseball

2013-09-16 Thread shaun everiss
thanks At 04:38 PM 9/17/2013, you wrote: get it here. http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/out-of-the-park-baseball/index.php sent from my vinux4 linux laptop On 09/16/2013 10:54 PM, shaun everiss wrote: where do you get out of the park baseball from I have a sonar system here I can fiddle

Re: [Audyssey] GMA games DirectSound issues, was A Note to XP users

2013-09-15 Thread shaun everiss
don't have a lot of options and what options we do have such as FMOD and Bass costs money Complaining to us won't solve your problem because we don't have a lot of options either.. Cheers! On 9/13/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm what formats have you found. I am not so keen

Re: [Audyssey] paying for upgrades - Re: A Note to XP users

2013-09-15 Thread shaun everiss
the mainstream community will have to roll with the change. Cheers! On 9/13/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: yeah remember the sfml test of mota. ok I was able to handle things but it was a bit hit and miss, stuff was off centre till you got over the other side of the pit

Re: [Audyssey] Weirdest game ever encountered

2013-09-15 Thread shaun everiss
with this. Thanks. -Ryan On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:02 PM, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: never been able to run the rsgames client on win7 thank god quentin c does run on win7. At 01:14 AM 9/14/2013, you wrote: Hi folks, some of you may have game clients as I do, particularly the RS games

Re: [Audyssey] GMA games DirectSound issues, was A Note to XP users

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
thats good to know there is a fix for this. its one of the reasons I don't just go 7 right now to many old titles need old oses. its good to know that people are aware of the issue. I don't mind playing old games on older oses but I would like to take my games where I go and old os and old

Re: [Audyssey] GMA games DirectSound issues, was A Note to XP users

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
I think that we should see more mouse control in game and as well as have a game be able to use keyboard and the mouse be able to use the touchpads as touch and in fact touch jestures will be what will take over a lot of computing sooner or later. At 11:32 PM 9/13/2013, you wrote: I can't

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
of virtual machines. sent from my vinux4 linux laptop On 09/12/2013 09:11 PM, shaun everiss wrote: hmmm we just can't win eh? its why I still do use xp for now. eventually my plan is to have at least for home a system dedicated to running among other things vms of all sorts so I don't have

Re: [Audyssey] Weirdest game ever encountered

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
never been able to run the rsgames client on win7 thank god quentin c does run on win7. At 01:14 AM 9/14/2013, you wrote: Hi folks, some of you may have game clients as I do, particularly the RS games client and the QuentinC playroom client. Well, the QuentinC programmers have added another

Re: [Audyssey] paying for upgrades - Re: A Note to XP users

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
I'd pay for the upgrade, as long as there was a reasonable change. ie improvement and most of them are. however can you blame people for not paying when readers like jfw are the same product but you need to buy them again to use them on another os and its exactly the same. I wouldn't pay full

Re: [Audyssey] OS development outruns game development

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
I don't think it is fair to have ordered anything not got it then spend more cash to get a program you hadn't got in the first place. I'd rather crack it or bale alltogether on it if a dev decided to charge for this. We are still living with the curse of the overdue preorder sigh I'd preorder

Re: [Audyssey] paying for upgrades - Re: A Note to XP users

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
yeah remember the sfml test of mota. ok I was able to handle things but it was a bit hit and miss, stuff was off centre till you got over the other side of the pit but there was no middle pan. At 07:58 AM 9/14/2013, you wrote: Hi Charles, Unfortunately, I don't see everyone being satisfied

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
Yeah in my heart of hearts I wish that all devs would chuck xp if it was not for all the older programs that needed it I'd have left ages ago. I still like the easy interface but I can sort that easy enough if I want to. At 09:10 AM 9/14/2013, you wrote: Hello Thomas You can say that

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
some have had success with a few mods and such, but apple sertainly have coined it. myself I plan to get an i phone but maybe the cheaper c class when it comes out later this year. you get what you pay for and apple you pay the best for the best, I started in windows but my phone well that

Re: [Audyssey] GMA games DirectSound issues, was A Note to XP users

2013-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm what formats have you found. I am not so keen with open al/ sfml after the disaster with panning and program crashes we had with some of the mota betas. now if only we could get panning right so it panned ok that would be fine. with most panning as long as it went left and right that was

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
good point, mainly because 98's usb support sucks and you need drivers for everything. and well security stuff getting that to run on 98 just doesn't seem worth it. pluss I was never able to get it on the broadband stuff yes dialup users on 98 maybe but you can't run nvda on it. xp and 98 are

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
yeah I was one of those. I think my main gripe was the switching of jaws and other licenced software to xp and then to use pro xp to switch again. The only good thing was that dolphin adjusted all its licences to one thing and once you have a pro jaws licence it stays pro. in fact there is no

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
I also aggree its just in the case with ms it happens suddenly and sometimes for no clear purpose. ie the xp core At 07:20 AM 9/13/2013, you wrote: has never given me that much issue. Then they just managed to get the vista core to a point I could accept it for what it was generally then they

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
they will work on win8 with uac off and all the vb libs loaded but yeah I aggree if all devs could just chuck old vb 6 and other libs then there would be no reason bar old dos games which I hardly play anyway these days to go away from win xp and continue higher. At 07:22 AM 9/13/2013, you

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
I think the touch screen is quite good but support with windows is not like apple, anyway the blind traditionally started with the keyboard. I have been with such all my life and can't see the point of moving now. At 07:17 AM 9/13/2013, you wrote: Hi tom. I actually fully agree with touch

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
the only reason I have stayed 32 bit to be honest is that apart from a few codecs and some stuff most of my software 99% is 32 bit. There is simply no insentive to switch. all my software ran on xp with 2gb ram on a core2 duo and it has an i5 and double the ram. At 09:22 AM 9/13/2013, you

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
that was my main gripe about win8, I don't mind the win7 search interface but the win8 tile interface. Yes I understand how good it is but for the blind it just doesn't make sence right now. nvda is the only thing that supports for now touch jaws will do so soon but even so. At 01:59 AM

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree, I can remember when I switched to win xp or even ie 5 I saw no advantage. some of this new stuff may just take longer for me to stomach but eventually well who knows. so many tablets anyway I will probably have a couple pcs and at least 1 or 2 tablets eventually anyway so who knows.

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
well I'd prefur to go for the updated versions ofcause. but stuff like shades of doom still uses the old direct sound libs and well, the fact is they are quite old no matter that the panning works nicly. I think for now at least making all the game engines bgt, etc to use the modern tech if

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
I could get shades of doom working but all the sounds sounded straight in front of me or behind me yes I could play it without the panning effects but it would be quite hard to do so. At 10:58 AM 9/13/2013, you wrote: Hi Charles, The main thing you would lose, assuming you got a new 64-bit

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
then all games and such will die, everything will be pirated and the industry will just shut down at least comercially. Though I'd like to think that most devs that have not left us at least like bsc are actually doing something to combat the obvious short fall in the os compatability front at

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
that depends on who is changing what. its debatable if any of ms changes are for the better and if they are its because we were lucky. same with some security and blind related software. At 10:19 AM 9/13/2013, you wrote: Nor is it always for the worse. Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
which brings up the question of switching all products over to the newer systems as soon as possible. I aggree that is as likely as to happen as I suddenly seeing but still, thats basically what needs to happen. but you are right about it just working. While I have got down to using what I

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
well thats true except that all of the games we have well for the last decade are vb6 types and well once they die the gaming industry gets smaller than it is already. ofcause it may mean that the comercial audio game may be on the way out at least for a time. The true end of most of this stuff

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
I have heard some success stories and such with upgrading, however not many blind people say they are even using 8 or likeing it or officiently saying or doing anything with it. This excludes screen reader companies ofcause. So either the new tech is so good they forget to tell us about it or

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
answer is upgrade to XAudio2, but of course no one is doing that yet. However, XAudio2 has a few bugs of its own I am not happy about, but anyway the issue with Shades of Doom etc is Directsound. Cheers! On 9/12/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: I could get shades of doom working

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
true I aggree charles. its still the main reason I havn't gone fully up, most of the blind games that have existed, at least 50% of comercial and maybe more are still using old tech, vb6 etc and other junk. We are stuck till the old stuff can be finally dumped in favor of the newer bits and

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree charles. I have switched but only because the older system has some issues. but it was more premptive rather than needing to right now. I will always have some older box just to handle stuff that really does not need the extra hardware. At 10:17 AM 9/13/2013, you wrote: If I

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
yes if you put it like that that in itself is sertainly a good reason. a lot of stuff just doesn't run as it used to like some of the games see my previous message. Then there is what ms thinks security is, all oses seem to have the same security holes or soon do have that many patches. and you

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
well ms support on malfunctioning things really is not great I could go on about the good and bad things I had with ms. I had one issue with support and some updates and this was resolved and noted down. over the phone. However I had a speech issue and did it over email. the solution totally

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
well we will loose hardware support for all newer drivers and hardware. but since a lot of stuff thats used now is realtech that won't really happen. We will loose xp spaciffic updates for spaciffic components but even now ie6 is still being updated with critical updates and I have seen updates

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree I payed for all the games I got. At 02:37 PM 9/13/2013, you wrote: If we paid for the initial releases, which we did, that's fair enough. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Help with TTS.

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
I should also add that if you do want to buy a voice I'd do ivona. and only that because you also donate to nvda and I think the klango network to. At 03:50 PM 9/11/2013, you wrote: Hi Michael, Well, if you are looking for free voices for Windows 7 there aren't a whole lot to choose from.

Re: [Audyssey] Help with TTS.

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
probably not. At 01:33 AM 9/12/2013, you wrote: Hello all I was just wondering if I can use the sapi5.5 voices on my XP computer? and if so is there anything I would have to do to make them work? Thank you James --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
tom we really need a faq on the list for coman questions including coman off topic questions asked so we don't get in a bother with this sort of stuff. also what things not to ask, etc. I am not sure if it would help, it would overt any nastyness that could appear from time to time. maybe have

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
well I still use xp for my old games and I will probably always use xp or have an xp system at least. win7 though is good and I have a 7 system. My basic home work for when I am not on the road ie gaming, etc seems to favor xp over 7 right now but once people like gma upgrade their stuff that

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
my issue is the speed of the vms. I use win7 as my default and I seem to have things slow down a lot. However I never boosted a 64 bit os on it or extra ram, and I know it if I use 1 or 2gb of ram in the box for a vm, I did not start with it in mind origionally else I would have jacked the

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
yes you can with vmware fusion I think its called. At 07:29 AM 9/12/2013, you wrote: That is likely what I will end up doing eventually, can you run an xp vm on a mac? I see myself more likely to go with mac than lynux, since mac has more options for access etc than windows, unless

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
well you can get office for mac. ofcause its harder to move when all your stuff is in 1 os or another. all my resources are windows based ones payed and not payed. so it makes sence for me to stay with some flavour of windows. At 07:52 AM 9/12/2013, you wrote: The inability to access Excel and

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
card, rather than emulated, so its not as good in that case. However, it really depends on which OS you will be using most. If Windows 7 were your primary then use it as the host and everything else as guest operating systems. Cheers! On 9/11/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: well I

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
I don't care for 16 bit support I just want an emulator that will work maybe like the windows console or something. 16 bit is dead though so basically its linux for that stuff or something. Its a pitty there is no emulator that will emulate say an old dos system but behave like a windows

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
games like Piledriver and Wrestling League Manager which means I'd have even less desire to create a Dos emulator for Windows. :D Cheers! On 9/11/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: I don't care for 16 bit support I just want an emulator that will work maybe like the windows console

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
thats true bryan though its a lot cheaper with nvda. the base os and system upgrade. I don't use office else I'd have to probably upgrade that to. then there are all the hardware drivers and new hardware you need to support the system if you don't have it. then there is jaws or other reader I

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree darren, sn is used for some games and its support and deal I got at time of upgrade was quite good. Sadly if you work jaws is the accepted norm at least in the big companies. however nvda is sertainly being recognised. At 09:14 AM 9/12/2013, you wrote: I use NVDA every day now and

Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users

2013-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree dark. and in some cases while some games have been upgraded to use modern components, the large majority of them still use old files. and though for now the majority of them will work some of them that use old stuff like the gma stuff just don't work right on the newer systems. At

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