Re: [Audyssey] problems with alteraeon server?

2017-02-11 Thread Dennis Towne
I'm guessing it was a local connection problem somewhere. The server has been up for five days and we didn't see any weird lag spikes last night. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Keith S wrote: > Hi, just tried to log into

Re: [Audyssey] alteraeon mad alchemists castle

2017-02-09 Thread Dennis Towne
I'm pretty sure the slimes don't do anything special. It's probably just a splat type, which internally mostly looks like pound. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > What kind of attack are the s

Re: [Audyssey] Door in lava tunnels area on Alteraeon

2017-01-14 Thread Dennis Towne
> for very long. Please contact me on my other public address, d...@xgam.org. > When I have a new private address, I will let everyone know. > - Original Message - From: "Dennis Towne" > To: "Gamers Discussion list" > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 12:42 AM

Re: [Audyssey] Door in lava tunnels area on Alteraeon

2017-01-14 Thread Dennis Towne
I finally managed to hunt that door down, and you're right: it's a full out level 25 lock with no keys. I've set it to level ten pickable in the short term, but adding a key for it will have to wait for the actual builder. You should be able to knock it open pretty easily now. -dentin Alter Ae

Re: [Audyssey] Alteraeon knock spell

2017-01-12 Thread Dennis Towne
(Note - replying only to the original post by Dark. The rest of the thread is a tarpit I'd rather not be mired in.) Locks are an obnoxious mechanic that we as builders haven't been happy with for a long time. The core issue is that locks are too binary; you can either unlock them fairly easily,

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon Cleric Expansion

2017-01-02 Thread Dennis Towne
Dark, As far as I know, there's no new quests for these; they're the areas before you get to the encampment, right at the very beginning. The goal is to teach new players how to use the starting spells and skills for each class, so each area has different stuff in it to make that work. Most peop

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Cleric Expansion

2017-01-01 Thread Dennis Towne
The new year brings changes, and this year we've been working on a massive set of updates to the cleric class. The biggest changes include: - Add new 'vigor', 'fortitude' and 'expiation' spells to the 'divine aid' spellgroup. - Add new 'divine conjuration' spellgroup, with new spells 'radiant or

Re: [Audyssey] xmas event on cyberassault.org

2016-12-19 Thread Dennis Towne
That's because tintin-alteraeon is designed to work with Alter Aeon, not with Cyber Assault. What exactly were you expecting? Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > tintin-alteraeon works no differently than tin

[Audyssey] A very Alter Aeon Thanksgiving!

2016-11-25 Thread Dennis Towne
Our yearly thanksgiving event is in full swing! Come get lost in the corn maze, hunt down some turkeys, or gobble your way to victory as a turkey in our PvP arenas. The event be open until the end of November, when new areas will be released. Along with the festivities, we also have a bunch of ne

Re: [Audyssey] command suggestions for Alteraeon

2016-07-11 Thread Dennis Towne
Todo and done keywords added to the quest commands, eg: quest sloe done quest kordan todo -dentin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: > Oh, I use the grep command all the time in my aliases. > I have one that shows my experience, and (t

Re: [Audyssey] command suggestions for Alteraeon

2016-07-07 Thread Dennis Towne
Just now getting caught up on my mail. The TODO in the quests command is in uppercase - so if you do "quest arch | grep TODO", it'll work. I can also look at getting a generic todo keyword added for filtering. -dentin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:31 AM, dar

Re: [Audyssey] Apple bread quest on Alter

2016-06-17 Thread Dennis Towne
The plane quests have been a problem for a while; we originally thought that people high enough level to get to gad's landing would have most of the spells. The current plan is to put scrolls for each of the spells in the guild itself, so that everyone can complete those quests. I can't answer to

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Summer Solstice Event

2016-06-12 Thread Dennis Towne
Our yearly summer solstice event has started, and will run through June 22. This is a high level, three part event, with act 1 running now, act 2 starting in a few days, and act 3 starting on June 20. The theme of this year's event is 'Ice from the skies', as an icy planetoid is on a collision co

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Necromancer Update

2016-05-14 Thread Dennis Towne
It's taken forever, but the level 37 necromancer release is finally out. We've got improvements to minions, utility spells, and more! Add level 8 obscure spell 'strawman'. Add level 16 obscure necromancer skill 'harvest bone'. Add level 21 necromancer spell 'spectral ward'. Add level 24 necromanc

Re: [Audyssey] Mush-Z output issue

2016-04-29 Thread Dennis Towne
Yes, but what is the actual problem? Mush-Z should have everything you need configured already, and this shouldn't be necessary. Are there updates in the latest mushclient that are needed on some platforms? -dentin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Shaun

Re: [Audyssey] Recent Alter Aeon Updates

2016-04-24 Thread Dennis Towne
really does seem to be limited > in its alpha state. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 24, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Dennis Towne wrote: >> >> I don't normally do this, but I wanted to talk about some of the stuff >> we've been working on for Alter Aeon. T

Re: [Audyssey] Recent Alter Aeon Updates

2016-04-24 Thread Dennis Towne
ntin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Justin Jones wrote: > Are you planning on adding additional crafting skills? It seems to me > that additional crafting skills might help to move the game's economy > a bit more. > > On 4/24/16, Dennis Towne wrote:

[Audyssey] Recent Alter Aeon Updates

2016-04-24 Thread Dennis Towne
I don't normally do this, but I wanted to talk about some of the stuff we've been working on for Alter Aeon. The biggest thing on my mind right now would be ease of use updates, and the biggest one of those would be the 'list search' changes. List search started a long time ago, as a way for play

Re: [Audyssey] Well I decided on a lcass

2016-04-21 Thread Dennis Towne
We've added a handful of new areas to the islands, including two new areas and an area expansion on archais. It probably won't completely fix the grinding issue, but it definitely has made things better. Let us know how it works out :) -dentin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Thu, Ap

Re: [Audyssey] Alteraeon stuck

2016-04-20 Thread Dennis Towne
As John mentioned, you keep your equipment gold, and credits when you restart. However, you also get back practices you bought with credits as a 'bonus' when you restart, so instead of starting with the standard 16 or whatever practices, you'd start with 36 if you had bought 20 practices with cred

Re: [Audyssey] the future of this list and the audyssey domain.

2016-03-12 Thread Dennis Towne
Honestly, I wouldn't mess with it. What we're doing now works fine. If we switch the list to something else, it'll just mean that we lose half of the list participants, and the people who remain will have to figure out brand new bugs and problems with the new service. Don't try to fix what isn't

Re: [Audyssey] the future of this list and the audyssey domain.

2016-03-04 Thread Dennis Towne
dly run it myself if that's what's needed to keep it going. It's just plain terrible that Thomas is gone. Dennis Towne On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:27 PM, christopher hallsworth wrote: > As for iOS games there are some good ones particularly those by Kid Friendly > Software and t

Re: [Audyssey] Mush-z error

2016-01-30 Thread Dennis Towne
The only thing that comes to mind is if you installed it as administrator or something like that. I don't really know how windows 10 handles its permissions. Sorry :( On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Tobias Vinteus wrote: > Hi, > I'm installed mush-z to be able to play Alter Aeon with all the

Re: [Audyssey] alter-aeon

2016-01-15 Thread Dennis Towne
Justin, if you had a day of Dentin time, what things would you have him look at and in what order? Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Justin Jones wrote: > Jeremy, > > I think I would be a bit less critical if Alter Aeon had been aro

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Holiday Imps

2016-01-01 Thread Dennis Towne
It took some effort, but we finally tracked down why the holiday imps were overspawning. If you were having reader spam issues with them, it should be straightened out in the next 15-20 minutes as they despawn. -dentin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@au

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon December Update 3

2015-12-25 Thread Dennis Towne
Merry Christmas and happy new year from the staff at Alter Aeon! We've added a lot of new things since the last update and still have more to go: Add new level 16 warrior skill 'attract'. Add new level 21 warrior skill 'ground strike'. Add new level 24 warrior skill 'enrage'. Upgrades to the warri

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon December Bash

2015-12-08 Thread Dennis Towne
The first and second batches of December skill and spell updates are in! The first batch, which was added a few days ago, contained scroll scribing and greater fire elementals for mages. This set of updates includes two new druid salves, thorn armor, a new high level attack spell, and the obscure

Re: [Audyssey] Problems installing mush z

2015-12-08 Thread Dennis Towne
k from online, so I think something might > be messed up somehow. I am sorry I didn't give this information before, I > didn't find all of it until I had already sent the eMail > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 8, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Dennis Towne wrote: >> >&

Re: [Audyssey] Problems installing mush z

2015-12-08 Thread Dennis Towne
I've never even heard of that error before. Do other applications install ok? Are you maybe trying to install it into a protected directory when you have UAC turned on? -dentin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Jessica Hodges wrote: > hello all. I recentl

Re: [Audyssey] Alter-Aeon

2015-12-01 Thread Dennis Towne
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Justin Jones wrote: > Take, for instance, the change where lightcatchers will now have a > chance to break when they are used. Why? Why has Dentin felt the need > to make this adjustment? There is no call to do this? Actually, there was a simpler reason for the li

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon December Bash

2015-11-30 Thread Dennis Towne
This December is going to be a big one for us! We've got a lot of things planned, starting with the Advent gift calendar that begins tomorrow. There will be events toward the end of the month, near solstice and new years eve. Most importantly, we'll be releasing new spells and skills every few d

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon 2015 Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread Dennis Towne
Just a quick announcement, we're once again having a Thanksgiving celebration on Alter Aeon. For a list of events and contests, see the ingame event info. This event was put together basically overnight by Morpheus, so Kudos to him! Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com --- Gamers mailing lis

Re: [Audyssey] Portable interactive fiction game playing device/unit

2015-11-16 Thread Dennis Towne
A 48 khz sampling rate has nothing to do with audio quality. Lack of surround sound is probably pretty big though. Dennis Towne On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Cara Quinn wrote: > Hi Travis, > > Actually OpenAL does support positional audio in software with a stereo setup. > &g

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon 2015 Halloween Havoc

2015-10-24 Thread Dennis Towne
A dark power is growing, a power long forgotten by the empires of men, dwarves, elves and even some of the older dragons... Our annual Halloween Havoc is just around the corner! Festivities kick off next weekend, on the morning of Thursday, October 29. We've got lots of stuff lined up this year,

Re: [Audyssey] Save files and different regions

2015-09-25 Thread Dennis Towne
strict about byte order specification, but I would recommend against it given the expected usage case. Dennis Towne On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:00 AM, wrote: > I'm going to take a guess and answer this question in a way that might not be > what you meant at all. > Save files fo

Re: [Audyssey] looking for MMORPG games

2015-09-06 Thread Dennis Towne
l and good creatures, quests, achievements, equipment upgrades, and lots more. The main web site can be found at: http://www.alteraeon.com Dennis Towne On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Dacia Cole wrote: > Hi, > > As the subject says I'm looking for MMORPG games and other adventur

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 Has a New Home

2015-08-09 Thread Dennis Towne
Thomas, When people are angry and need a target to lash out at, they'll find one. It doesn't have to make any sense, because it's not about fixing the problem - it's about venting. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Thom

Re: [Audyssey] AlterAeonquestion

2015-07-11 Thread Dennis Towne
If you do end up trying something for AA, keep in mind that we've got a lot of metadata support. Try 'help kxwt' for help pages talking about our unspoofable exported metadata. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Travis Siege

Re: [Audyssey] starship traders back online

2015-07-08 Thread Dennis Towne
Darren, Would you by chance know if starship traders was offline due to a DDOS attack? Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Darren Harris wrote: >Hi all, > > > > Just to tell people that may not know, starship t

Re: [Audyssey] AlterAeonquestion

2015-07-02 Thread Dennis Towne
code works properly with everything else listed above. Obviously, a more limited subset of functionality would be easier. A very, very limited subset. It would be easier to start over. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Devin Prater wrote: >

Re: [Audyssey] info AudioGames Game Engine

2015-07-01 Thread Dennis Towne
possible to attach a backhoe to a bicycle, there's a reason you don't see very many of them in the real world. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:31 AM, dark wrote: > Hi Dennis. > > I don't have enough knolidge of unit

Re: [Audyssey] info AudioGames Game Engine

2015-07-01 Thread Dennis Towne
nd in mind, instead of trying to force developers to tack on token support that won't help anyone anyway. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Daniele Casarola wrote: > I'm sorry Thomas to read your words, above all after reading i

Re: [Audyssey] what to do once you finish the newbie island on Alter Aeon

2015-06-30 Thread Dennis Towne
long the southern road, things are less consistent. Going south the level increases more slowly, but we haven't been working as hard to clean things up down there. Good luck! Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Jeremy Brown wrote: > Thi

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: A Quick Question About PC Shoot

2015-06-26 Thread Dennis Towne
The speed controls are control-f11 and control-f12. See also the hotkey page for dosbox: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Special_Keys Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Valiant Galaxy Associates wrote: > Hi. > There is a way to change emu

Re: [Audyssey] info AudioGames Game Engine

2015-06-16 Thread Dennis Towne
they're given. It wouldn't look that great for their financial reports to say "we helped 1 million blind people learn how to play video games this year!", while the employment numbers for those people remain abysmal. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Tu

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Summer Solstice 2015

2015-06-13 Thread Dennis Towne
This year's Summer Solstice Celebration will begin on June 14th. Event areas and associated quests will be available for a whole week, with the celebration wrapping up on the summer solstice, which is June 21st. There will be three event areas of varying degrees of difficulty, with content appropr

Re: [Audyssey] Pocket Mud

2015-05-27 Thread Dennis Towne
Unfortunately, there's no way to get the desktop sounds anywhere other than the desktop. The desktop client is very heavily customized and has a 400 meg soundpack, but it's not portable at all. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:01 AM, L

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon May 2015 Updates

2015-05-21 Thread Dennis Towne
Alter Aeon is a well established MUD with a long history. It is set in a world of magic and dragons, with regular updates and system-wide events. The game is blind friendly for the visually impaired. Here's a list of changes since our February posting: New and updated areas: - A new level 21 a

Re: [Audyssey] Best Free Games for Windows

2015-05-18 Thread Dennis Towne
on it. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Josh K wrote: > talking dosbox already also has a ton of free games in it, including all of > jim's older free games and some others. > > follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 > >

Re: [Audyssey] i don't believe you did that! - Re: att: Thomas Ward

2015-05-07 Thread Dennis Towne
I don't really see the problem. My phone number has been available on the internet for years. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:04 AM, darren harris wrote: > oh my goodness this is seriously the biggest mistake anybody could make on > t

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon on Linux

2015-05-05 Thread Dennis Towne
details. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Josh K wrote: > get tintin plus plus it works good. > > follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 > > On 5/4/2015 9:45 PM, Edgar Lozano wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Would some

Re: [Audyssey] Mush-Z

2015-04-13 Thread Dennis Towne
Yes, Alter Aeon is the only mud that works with Mush-Z. If you know how, you can connect to other servers, but basically nothing will work, and it would be better to just use ordinary mushclient for other servers. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 7

Re: [Audyssey] alter aeon help needed

2015-04-07 Thread Dennis Towne
e 'check' command to look over your character and see if you've missed any of the more important skills and spells. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Keith S wrote: > the minion suggestion is a good one, and if you have the mag

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Leaping Leprechauns!

2015-03-17 Thread Dennis Towne
Our annual Leaping Leprechauns event is now running, with pots of gold out there for everyone to collect, a mob PK arena to compete in, and a special event quest area. You can use the 'show event' command at login to see which events are open when, and how to access them. The event will run until

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon help

2015-03-17 Thread Dennis Towne
Dacia, One of the best things to remember about commands is that most command words, spellwords, and item keywords can be abbreviated. For example, you can type in this command: drop zombie sleeves Or, you could type in this much shorter command: dr zombie Or even: dr zom In general, you ca

Re: [Audyssey] creating a character on alter aeon

2015-03-17 Thread Dennis Towne
MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:50 AM, David Bartling wrote: > HiAll, > I apologize, it was my mud client I was having trouble with. I'm using > pocket mud pro and for some reason, you have to click the text that is > a result of your previous command to get

Re: [Audyssey] creating a character on alter aeon

2015-03-16 Thread Dennis Towne
Do you have speedwalk enabled? "new" will be treated as 'north east west' if you have speedwalk turned on in your client. When you first connect, the game asks: Would you like to create a new character? If you answer "yes", that should put you into the new character process. -dentin Alter Aeo

Re: [Audyssey] any newly discovered browser MMORPG games out there?

2015-03-05 Thread Dennis Towne
to get people used to playing the game and learning the commands, but after that it becomes a lot more free form. The game is extremely large, and it's been running for a long time so the game world and mechanics are pretty solid. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Thu

Re: [Audyssey] any newly discovered browser MMORPG games out there?

2015-03-05 Thread Dennis Towne
Do they have to be browser based? If not, games like Alter Aeon fit the bill - you just have to download a client to play it. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon RPG http://www.alteraeon.com On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:49 AM, darren harris wrote: > Well am playing lords and knites, a we bit slow when fi

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Febuary 2014 Updates

2015-02-14 Thread Dennis Towne
Alter Aeon is a well established MUD with a long history. It is set in a world of swords and magic, with regular updates and system-wide events. The game is blind friendly for the visually impaired. Here's a list of changes since our December posting: New and updated areas: - The Bonechewer Gn

Re: [Audyssey] materiamagic

2015-01-21 Thread Dennis Towne
Mush-Z only works properly with Alter Aeon. To play on other mud servers, use basic MushClient (from http://mushclient.com) along with the MushReader plugin. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:40 AM, wayne17a wrote: > Hello list was it here t

Re: [Audyssey] Mudding

2015-01-20 Thread Dennis Towne
As far as I know, the default plugins that install with Mush-Z support both readers. Dennis Towne On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Damien C. S. Pendleton wrote: > Hi Dennis, > Reader plugins? I don't think there is an NVDA addon for MushClient, unless > I'm missing so

Re: [Audyssey] Mudding

2015-01-20 Thread Dennis Towne
We have a lot of NVDA users using Mush-Z on Alter Aeon without any trouble; it may have more to do with the reader plugins you're using with MushClient than NVDA itself. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Damien C. S. Pendleton wrote:

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon 20th Anniversary

2015-01-15 Thread Dennis Towne
or current event information, see the 'show event' and 'show schedule' commands in-game. Happy playing! Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audysse

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon 20th Anniversary!

2015-01-03 Thread Dennis Towne
The 20th anniversary of Alter Aeon is coming up! We've got a big event and some new high level druid skills planned for it, starting on Thursday, January 15 and going through Sunday, January 18. This is a multi-day system event, with various smaller things to celebrate two decades of Alter Aeon.

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon 2014 Year End Celebration

2014-12-22 Thread Dennis Towne
Our year end celebration starts on Wednesday, December 24, and will continue all the way through January first! We have several sets of events planned, including present cannons, teleporting gifts, mob arenas, and an event area with quests. In addition to the events, the advent calendar will be g

Re: [Audyssey] audio games popularity

2014-12-16 Thread Dennis Towne
focus on making areas fun and playable, with quests and stories instead. Because of that, Alter Aeon is a pretty big world now, and we can maintain it with a pretty small volunteer staff. Mainstream games generally can't provide anywhere near as much content as easily. Dennis Towne Alte

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon December 2014 Updates

2014-12-13 Thread Dennis Towne
Here's our list of changes since the last update announcement in October! New and updated areas: The underground city of Runn-Khal has opened on the island of Kordan. This level 16 zone provides a fun story and quest line for players not quite ready for Qoorik or the other high level areas on Kor

Re: [Audyssey] AD and D muds?

2014-12-05 Thread Dennis Towne
well. I know there are a few games that claim to use D&D rules, but it's invariably with a ton of tweaks to make the game playable. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Keith, > > I’m afraid I don’t kno

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon 2014 Turkey Days

2014-11-22 Thread Dennis Towne
Our annual turkey day event is coming up this next weekend, from Thursday, November 27 through Monday, December 01. Come play around in the corn maze, fight scarecrows, and cook yourself a turkey! We'll also be having a handful of contests, including turkey arena battles and a system event quest.

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Mush-Z

2014-11-16 Thread Dennis Towne
If you've been recently had trouble with Mush-Z not starting or your screen reader not reading properly, please run the updater and grab our most recent updates. We fixed a pretty major startup bug, and now have JAWS 16 reading out properly. Thanks, Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD

Re: [Audyssey] cross platform programming

2014-11-16 Thread Dennis Towne
versions of fopen in your code is bad, but having a chunk of code for windows apps which checks for administrator permissions is probably necessary. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gam

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Halloween event

2014-10-31 Thread Dennis Towne
Halloween Havoc has officially started! PvP arena contests are already underway, and pumpkin cannons have been set up outside all of the major towns. The main event quests are also set up, and available to players of all levels. Listen to the 'event' channel in-game for details. Lastly, we've s

Re: [Audyssey] end of keyboards, was Throwaway Tech

2014-10-26 Thread Dennis Towne
Keyboards will be around for a long time. There's a lot of skills, like programming and gaming, which really just can't use dictation effectively. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Josh k wrote: > and if the dictation gets

Re: [Audyssey] mush-z problem

2014-10-25 Thread Dennis Towne
There's a different plugin, lua_jfw, that should be there in the main mush directory. That's apparently what most jaws people use, and it supposedly fixes the jaws 16 issues. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Matteo Hapta &

Re: [Audyssey] mush-z problem

2014-10-25 Thread Dennis Towne
Is that maybe part of the jfwapi-installer.exe that's in the jfw/ directory? I'll ask around and on the game and see what I can figure out as well. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Matteo Hapta wrote: > hi, > does anyone

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon 2014 Halloween Havoc

2014-10-25 Thread Dennis Towne
and see the daily events, use the in-game 'show event' command. We hope to see you there! Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make cha

Re: [Audyssey] JAWS 16 not working with the Playroom?

2014-10-10 Thread Dennis Towne
The current consensus of the Mush-Z devs is that FS needs to fix jaws, and that they'd rather not fix something for a beta version that they consider buggy. Does anyone know if FS intends to fix this, or if it's going to stay this way? Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeo

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon October 2014 Updates

2014-10-04 Thread Dennis Towne
nment in groups. There's also new Mush-Z and DClient releases, with more druid sounds! Lastly, don't forget that Halloween Havoc is coming up in a few short weeks. We'll post more information about the Halloween events as we approach month end. We hope to see you there! Dennis

Re: [Audyssey] should I steal these titles?

2014-10-03 Thread Dennis Towne
mes, create new ones with a different name. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com --- 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 http://

Re: [Audyssey] gaming suggestions please

2014-10-01 Thread Dennis Towne
Emily, You can get Mush-Z (which includes the soundpack) from http://www.mush-z.com I just put out new versions with more druid sounds, so let me know if you have any problems installing it or getting it running. Thanks! Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Oct 1

Re: [Audyssey] Announcing the first release of Park Boss, an amusement park simulator.

2014-09-27 Thread Dennis Towne
Nick, I may be able to host the download for you to help reduce your bandwidth issue. Please contact me offline if you're interested. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Nick Adamson wrote: > Hi. > I'm working on it. > Ne

Re: [Audyssey] Lworks discontinuing sales of legacy games

2014-09-10 Thread Dennis Towne
: the server was purely text based, we had spam filters for other reasons, and our blind community started Mush-Z on their own. Most mainstream games will have zero of these things, and it'll be a LOT more work (if not impossible) to convince developers to support the blind. Dennis Towne

Re: [Audyssey] microsoft changes - Re: Fwd: LWorks discontinuing sales of Legacy games

2014-09-10 Thread Dennis Towne
ility because it's not the best use of their time. This is almost entirely because the market is small. There's nobody to blame for this, nobody to sue, and no way to legislate the problem out of existence; it's just the way things are. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alte

Re: [Audyssey] microsoft changes - Re: Fwd: LWorks discontinuing sales of Legacy games

2014-09-10 Thread Dennis Towne
arguably the least time consuming part of the process. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Jody McKinniss wrote: > Tom, > > Interesting that ignorance is the reasoning, since it did not take me long > at all to pull up information on a

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread Dennis Towne
tion, and it rankles that people think there is when there clearly isn't. Of course, I intend to keep my games up and running for the forseeable future, likely several decades; however, I am doing this because I -like- doing it, not because people would be sad if I stopped. Dennis Towne Alter

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread Dennis Towne
hese and other games free in the future, then we should get together, assemble the necessary cash, and pay the developer to have it done. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 3:08 PM, dark wrote: > Hi Dennis. > > You are certainly correct that Liam

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread Dennis Towne
keygen from him. For a sufficient price, he can probably be convinced to turn over everything, as long as someone else deals with the support issues. If we can't come up with a price he's comfortable with, it's not his fault, and we shouldn't pester him further. Dennis Towne A

Re: [Audyssey] Problem with Mushclient

2014-09-07 Thread Dennis Towne
There is a way to set mush to automatically open a world on startup, but I don't use mush regularly and I'm not currently near my windows machine to figure it out and post instructions. Next time I fire it up I'll try to remember to write an autoconnect guide or something. Denn

Re: [Audyssey] Problem with Mushclient

2014-09-07 Thread Dennis Towne
We added autoconnect only a few months ago. You probably installed from an earlier version that didn't do autoconnect. Running the updater can update most of your settings, but it won't update the autoconnect setting. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Sep

Re: [Audyssey] making things last

2014-09-04 Thread Dennis Towne
w one, but if your last good drive goes, you're screwed. Always keep lots of backups of your data. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:29 AM, john wrote: > I'd like to testify to the fact that babying your hardware will not > necessaril

Re: [Audyssey] dota 2

2014-08-12 Thread Dennis Towne
No, there are no reasonable Dota screenreader interfaces. Someone would have to make a custom interface. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Lucky wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible for us to play Dota? > It's good game but jus

Re: [Audyssey] dota 2

2014-08-12 Thread Dennis Towne
early in the game, and teamwork is hugely important. It's rather fast paced and relies a lot on being able to see the surrounding terrain. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:00 AM, dark wrote: > I've not heard of dota 2, but if it i

Re: [Audyssey] dota 2

2014-08-11 Thread Dennis Towne
Dota is a really, really hard game. I may try to design something like it for AA in the future, but it won't be easy and probably won't appeal to many people. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Josh wrote: > hi > > Is alt

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon August 2014 Updates

2014-08-10 Thread Dennis Towne
27; command in-game for a list of recent zones. We hope to see you there! Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com --- 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 subscrip

Re: [Audyssey] People spouting off before they know the details -was- Re: Question to Cara quin about audio quake

2014-07-28 Thread Dennis Towne
A few years ago it took the combined effort of the worlds scientists several years to sequence the first full human genome. Now it takes two weeks and you can get it mail order. Things change, sometimes quickly. "A few years ago" is a very, very long time. Dennis Towne Alter Aeo

Re: [Audyssey] BSC games with new computer

2014-07-06 Thread Dennis Towne
ich it would be pointless to go into here. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 10:09 AM, David Reynolds wrote: > This type of situation should never have arisen in the first place. If the > company was closing down, all those who'd previously pur

[Audyssey] Alter Aeon 2014 Solstice Event

2014-06-18 Thread Dennis Towne
ht the event scripts will be automated. Along with these quests, we will be releasing several new and updated areas, including one of last year's event areas. All of these areas are permanent and will remain open after the event. We hope to see you all on Saturday! Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD

Re: [Audyssey] How to connect with Mush cliant?

2014-06-01 Thread Dennis Towne
To play Alter Aeon, it's probably best to use Mush-Z instead. You can get it at: http://www.mush-z.com Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:24 AM, ishan dhami wrote: > Hello everyone! > I am not able to connect alter aeon and cyber assaul

Re: [Audyssey] Dungeons & Dragons for the blind

2014-05-28 Thread Dennis Towne
Tyler, are you looking for true D&D, or just an RPG with swords, magic, dragons, and other D&D related things? There's a lot of online servers for such things, just not many that are true D&D rules. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, May 28, 2014

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