Re: [Audyssey] google chrome, chromevox, and games

2013-12-03 Thread shaun everiss
well its interesting to note that it could be system spaciffic weather it works or not. I know ie11 does not render right on my toshiba laptop but does on the file server could be because i made tabs go in ie 10 in my box. but I don't care. Chrome does not work on the server box or my system

Re: [Audyssey] Some practical questions reguarding the Monopoly game

2013-12-03 Thread shaun everiss
One of the games I still miss was based on the monopoly concept. You were trying to become the presidant of a company. if you failed you would become the cleaner. It was visual but I got materials and designed a board with cardboard and foil and with some braille dice and cards and some monopoly

Re: [Audyssey] Some practical questions reguarding the Monopoly game

2013-12-02 Thread shaun everiss
I must say its been years since I have been playing with family board or card games in the physical case anymore. There was a time back in the past before people really got busy with life we would use to do that. Sadly thats mostly gone now. Even when we are away unless we part with almost

Re: [Audyssey] Alter aeon

2013-12-02 Thread shaun everiss
what I have done is go through arieas even if I have a high or lower level. there are some arieas where you just deliver stuff around and you can get easy things. the only ariea I have not been able to get back to is the vemarkin garden though I have got close to it, I found it once but I

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey babble report for November 2013

2013-12-01 Thread shaun everiss
oh man. Thats a large list. 71 posts are mine. hmmm dark has almost 100 and tom ward well 140 wow. Ofcause this report does tell us who is active on here and how much is done. At 02:36 AM 12/2/2013, you wrote: 88 people posted 711 messages. 140 From, Thomas Ward. 98 From, dark. 71 From, shaun

Re: [Audyssey] Hack and Other Simple Games

2013-11-26 Thread shaun everiss
aspect and some of the battles could get detailed. however I don't think tom was thinking a full on complex action fighting game like One must fall, but something more simple and turn based. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Doctor Who 50th anniversary

2013-11-25 Thread shaun everiss
the only dr who games I know are in bgt and I think another is in inform. The mars game in agt is the best one the other is medioca to me. I'd really like an audio one or series even if I have to buy it. At 12:35 AM 11/24/2013, you wrote: Hi Folks, To keep this on topic, are there any Doctor

Re: [Audyssey] Hack and Other Simple Games

2013-11-25 Thread shaun everiss
Yes there is tom. Back in 1993 I played with a friend one must fall an old dos game that was improved later it had good battle music and was a robot war it was really cool. You could choose your units, or unit, equip it and train it then fight your way to victory. You can get cash for winning

Re: [Audyssey] audiogames forum down

2013-11-22 Thread shaun everiss
! On 11/21/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. this morning I logged on to see that all connections were used the the site was full but I also got this Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system

Re: [Audyssey] This message is for Dark

2013-11-21 Thread shaun everiss
of their greedy practices. As I said there are always checks and balances even for the mightiest corporations. Cheers! On 11/15/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Well I was talking on the subject of copywrite on another list. And I have come to the sad conclusion that the bigger the companies

[Audyssey] do it ios

2013-11-21 Thread shaun everiss
Hi all look josh you got a mention on a local news release on my local blind or tech list DoItWrite App iOS Cost NZ $2.59 Thanks to Anthony Horvath for pointing out this new app to help iOS users getting acquainted with VoiceOver’s handwriting features. Not only can you practice drawing

[Audyssey] audiogames.net down

2013-11-21 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. decided to go to the forum but was told the site could not connect to its database. then I tried the main site and got nothing either. --- 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

[Audyssey] audiogames forum down

2013-11-21 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. this morning I logged on to see that all connections were used the the site was full but I also got this Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 110 in

Re: [Audyssey] Moderator Important Message

2013-11-16 Thread shaun everiss
I agree I like both. I have a big time trying to access everything I want in audiogames. These days I only really go down the first 3-4 topics on each topic page and every sub forum. There are to many to view them all. And there are spam posters, and other things to. Sometimes the audiogames

Re: [Audyssey] This message is for Dark

2013-11-16 Thread shaun everiss
Well I was talking on the subject of copywrite on another list. And I have come to the sad conclusion that the bigger the companies get the smaller their customers get and the less they actually care. The sharks care about anyting that can pose a threat in the case of companies these are

Re: [Audyssey] apple 2 ee emulator questions

2013-11-14 Thread shaun everiss
to be honest I tried the emulator for apple. there was a burst of activity on dropbox and such but it died quite quickly. Even on the audiogames forum its dead. The emulator was a curiosity, a fad but no one really does much with it, maybe we have exhausted material. I never really got into it.

Re: [Audyssey] Moderator Important Message

2013-11-14 Thread shaun everiss
Well I guess if we had to go forum then we could go forum. I still like the list idea, I barely have the time to make it through the audiogames forum as I always have a lot to cover, the general, the new games, the articles and news and offtopics. True I don't read all of it but often things

Re: [Audyssey] Moderator Important Message

2013-11-14 Thread shaun everiss
the web portal of googlegroups is not accessable at all for the blind to handle the new systems google uses really have not sat well with me and don't get me started on yahoo. there is freelists but unsubscribe and format and other such things are interpreted as list commands and the system

Re: [Audyssey] Moderator Important Message

2013-11-14 Thread shaun everiss
Well catch it and stick it in the microwave grin if you have seen the gremlin 1 and 2 films you will know what I am talking about. hmm also I think the film mentioned not feading it after mightnight. Dark have you being feeding the gremlin again or something lol At 06:02 PM 11/15/2013, you

Re: [Audyssey] Flight simulators

2013-11-13 Thread shaun everiss
yes nick. There are. 1. ms flight simulator x with its your plane. thats been discussed on blindpilotsproject but I don't know how updated their content is. they tested this with a program called radar contact and a few other things. its your plane is a voice recognition based system though so

Re: [Audyssey] I still need help to buy bopit xt

2013-11-12 Thread shaun everiss
well if you have farmers or the warehouse where you are then you are probably ok or something like k mart then you should be ok. At 11:35 PM 11/11/2013, you wrote: Hi all I am still struggling a lot to buy bopit xt. Tom thanks, I clicked on the link you gave for the accessible amazon page. I

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-12 Thread shaun everiss
in it. Despite having it for nearly 20 years they are still in good condition and the cardboard sleeve is a little warn, but still in decent shape. Whoever had the discs before you must have beaten the crap out of them. Cheers! On 11/10/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Well I don't, I

Re: [Audyssey] games we'd like to play: dialogue flight simulator

2013-11-12 Thread shaun everiss
Hi nickel. I understand where you are coming from. Your idea as it is is um, well to put it politely rather jumbled and messsy. Firstly a game like this could be made but people wouldn't like it. You are thinking of something like flight simulator for ms. I can see that now. Unfortunately, have

Re: [Audyssey] games we'd like to play: dialogue flight simulator

2013-11-12 Thread shaun everiss
also there is a load of computer stuff. we already have its your plane and ms flight sim if you really want to go down that hill. I agree with the general concept of a flight sim. At 05:06 AM 11/12/2013, you wrote: Here are my first thoughts: Far too much tabbing. Very simplistic. Also, to

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-11 Thread shaun everiss
in their cases, and I always make duplicates of my original software discs so I will use the copies rather than the original discs. That keeps the original media in good condition. Cheers! On 11/8/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: I have the game but its probably not worth playing I have played

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-10 Thread shaun everiss
I have the game but its probably not worth playing I have played it about 50 times though. I have the origional though broken disks in their broken cases but I don't want to use them that much as their condition was well used. If I ever lost or intentionally deleted the game the cds may or may

Re: [Audyssey] Lets play papa sangre 2.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
thanks for that. all the rest of your casts are on my hard drive. Its pouring buckets today and your stuff will definately rock. I got blindside a bit ago as a trade for somethiing, however have never managed to get over the hall with the sleeping zombies in it. I like other peoples takes on

Re: [Audyssey] Lets play papa sangre 2.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
I was on the pg13 site and there are only a few of them and papa2 doesn't even work and I had to get it from sendspace, my impression was that all casts would go up there but yeah I do want to listen to the rest of the stuff. The quality is really good and its addicting. I like the comments

[Audyssey] pg13 casts

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
Hi darrin. Your podcast really kick but. Often I play games to win but you just play games to win but to also loose whatever. I like how you do it all. The casts also mentioned a stream. Do you have a net radio station, where do you go to do it, how do I get notified for streams and when do

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
Dark sadly I know a lot of sighted games that still run from the cd or need the cd for varification when run so I think while a lot don't that this seems to be an industry practice rather than a minority one. I don't care for this either. it puts extra ware on the drive and disks, and for a lot

Re: [Audyssey] Escape the house

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
well lorry what about the dimentions game on Iphone. I have always wandered how you could walk round in 2 worlds at once lol. At 04:49 AM 11/8/2013, you wrote: Lol, I'll get some funny looks if I'm ever out in the street playing it, people will think me mad shouting into my phone. I wonder

Re: [Audyssey] iOS audio horror games.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
Well dark have you ever played the old pork series on agt that was a parody of zork. I never completed pork2, but in pork1, the grue was friendly. It replaced batteries if you ran out of light. At 05:08 AM 11/8/2013, you wrote: Hi lori. Grues were creatures in the original Zork interactive

Re: [Audyssey] iOS audio horror games.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm never thought of dark having a grue. But if you do look at the audiogames news section he does mention he has slaves, elf slaves, and cyber security guards and a few other monsters in his dongeon. So a grue for a fella such as that probably is no brainer. Instead of a dog he has a grue.

Re: [Audyssey] iOS audio horror games.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
ok, I won't be breaking into your house then, I don't want to end up lunch. At 11:56 PM 11/8/2013, you wrote: Hi Tom. Well I don't have a grue for a pet, at least not one I'd admit to, you need a license you know. I do however have a Reever! currently sitting on my feet. which, if you seen

Re: [Audyssey] pg13 casts

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
is to follow me on twitter @blinddrummer and message me to let me know you are on. -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 11:56 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] pg13 casts Hi darrin. Your

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
alone. Plus the more stuff a person stores on their boot drive the slower the operating system will run, and as a performance fanatic I'd go nuts having my OS dragging down to a snails crawl because I had x number of games on it. Cheers! On 11/8/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
well its why I still use my xp laptop for gaming. Most of the old vb6 games do not work right on 7. The newer ones do thank goodness. At 02:49 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote: Hi Dark, Yeah, I agree with you. I don't have a problem with Azabat producing card, puzzle, and board games. As I recall they

Re: [Audyssey] iOS audio horror games.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
well I did not know that but I have not touched that game in some years though I still have it. At 04:50 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote: Lol sean no, I've not heard of pork at all, it sounds amusing indeed! I think the best grue parody I saw in an if game was the game augmented forth. If you

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
what is the error. if its about the drivers, don't worry thats not important. from each disk you need to copy to your isteel folder, all idx data. all avi or mpg video. all wav data all wav idx data. all id files. the setup is needed to make the game.cfg. you in addition need the composer.lg file

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
its an old submareen game written on windows 3.11, based round I think the cold war. From what I read the sub is nuclear and it was set in the 1960s, however, not much more. You basically have to sink 2 subs, capture and deal with a traterous officer and a few things. The plot is not much, and

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
well it needs a sertain codec tom. vfw something or rather. I have the klite mega codec pack which is supposed to have it but the cd for silent steel has that old codec so maybe if you installed it that would make it work. Hmm just tried it on 7 32 bit and it does work. go to

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
no charles. Compaired to lonwolf its quite basic. A video file and an audio file. each disk has these pluss a data file with its id and number. Each bit or audio or video has an index and then its matching the dots to the indexes. At 08:16 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote: Is it anything like Lone

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
well the videos are cinimatics. the voice for all options will work if you push up down and enter. At 08:00 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote: Hi, how is this game accessible? I read on wikipedia that you have to make choices to progress the story. Are these choices spoken or anything? Thanks for

Re: [Audyssey] Any Accessible Android Games

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
Well with things as they are people are pointing at the lg nexus phones. At 09:23 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote: Hello everyone, I've been comparing an Apple iPhone with a Samsung Galaxy, and so far I think in many ways I personally prefer the Galaxy S4 over the Apple iPhone 5. It has a bigger touch

Re: [Audyssey] Any Accessible Android Games

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
thats what my other conflict is. the droids sertainly are cheaper but you get less than the iphone. At 09:33 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote: In my opinion, there are more blind friendly apps for the iDevices than for Androids. At least, this is what a whole slew of people have been saying. I started

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
well its ok, you take part in deciding the way the moovie will go and what indexes of video will play in to responce to indexes of audio. At 09:01 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote: Nuts! It sounds like it would be a really fun game! --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. -

Re: [Audyssey] Running silent steel under win7.

2013-11-08 Thread shaun everiss
well that may be why it works on my 32 bit os then. it was win 3.1 so is 16 bit. To be honest if lonewolf got some mods for it, a couple missions could be made for the game quite easily. At 08:18 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote: Hi Darren, I haven't confirmed this, but I think Silent Steel was a

Re: [Audyssey] Will the real Audyssey Mod please stand up. I repeat, will the real Audyssey Mod please stand up.

2013-11-07 Thread shaun everiss
interests to moderate you so that only messages with a clear point, a more positive outlook, and does not flame or attack someone get through while filtering out all the other less desirable messages. Cheers! On 11/6/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hi scot and all. Firstly

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey

2013-11-07 Thread shaun everiss
to give the date of the cast, the episode number, and the contributor or contributors to the cast. So if we want to be semi-professional about this we need someone with a clear brodcasting voice to do the weekly or podcast intros. Cheers! On 11/6/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-07 Thread shaun everiss
Well to be honest the best solution is to have an ftp server but as general users probably don't have the cash to afford a remote ftp or have the means to run one without going over their cap or unless spending more on the data it may as well be impossible. Dropbox is good if you share folders

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-07 Thread shaun everiss
Shaun, Well, that may be the case, but as I said earlier on list I think if we do decide to setup a blog we will run it directly off the Audyssey server. I would like to keep everything together on the same site, same server, etc. Cheers! On 11/6/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: well

Re: [Audyssey] games by E A Sports

2013-11-07 Thread shaun everiss
I agree I have actually played some of the ea sports games and they do sound good. At 02:08 AM 11/7/2013, you wrote: Hi, guys. I was wondering if anybody ever communicated with Electronic Arts about making their sports video games more accessible for blind people. I used to like playing their

Re: [Audyssey] Will the real Audyssey Mod please stand up. I repeat, will the real Audyssey Mod please stand up.

2013-11-07 Thread shaun everiss
positive outlook, and does not flame or attack someone get through while filtering out all the other less desirable messages. Cheers! On 11/6/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hi scot and all. Firstly a clarification on my message. 1. I was refering to how some sighted

Re: [Audyssey] papa sangre has returned

2013-11-07 Thread shaun everiss
Thanks darren. I will definately check those casts out. At 03:00 AM 11/7/2013, you wrote: http://pg13.tdrealms.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

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-07 Thread shaun everiss
I just don't aggree with asabat stuff being what the blind game should be represented as such. Now don't get me wrong, they may be a good company, its just that I feel that they portray the blind as simple people that have no hope. I have seen the games out there here and on the forum and it

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
well I do use wordpress, and do in fact have it on 2 such blogs one of which I own. At 09:10 PM 10/31/2013, you wrote: Hi Cara, Well, that is an interesting suggestion to be sure. One advantage to havig a blog such as Wordpress is that people could leave feedback for the author's and comment

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
Well editors should correct mistakes though those that do post should indevour to fix as much as they can. Editors in some cases do put the magazine or whatever together unless its handled by someone that puts things ttogether before distribution at least that is what I understand of the deal.

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree tom nothing is 100% accessable. same as nothing is 100% secure. I just got a notification of yet another ms security update. At 09:25 PM 10/31/2013, you wrote: Hi Dark, Definitely true. No game in the universe is 100% accessible to everyone else in the world. It can be something as

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
Well sertainly I'd like some catogry system but I wouldn't like a entire giant list as I feel there would be to many though I aggree that that would be good. I actually don't have to many, more things like catogries and extra indexes means more to track. At 09:40 PM 10/31/2013, you wrote: Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
well there are 2 ways to handle those. 1. have the intro and endings prerecorded then just put them in or have new intros and endings each time. The second approach could allow for changes, in content, etc. The first one would allow easier and quicker implimentation though they would be the

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree with dark. I am a bit lazy in this reguard, but then I can't remember my last article I did so who knows. At 11:29 PM 10/31/2013, you wrote: Hi Kara. What I meant is it is unfair to lumber an editer with the job of spellchecking every single article. An editer certainly can check

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
well there is no problem with doing as you say. anything is possible. At 11:33 PM 10/31/2013, you wrote: I don't see why we couldn't do that! :) -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 6:24 AM To:

Re: [Audyssey] papa sangre has returned

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
I actually listened to a podcast on coolblindtech.com yesterday and must admit that its quite good. I have a recording of the origional papasangre and night jar and while both of these were good papa 2 really does rock. I in particular like the notion of stealing memmory and other such things.

Re: [Audyssey] Will the real Audyssey Mod please stand up. I repeat, will the real Audyssey Mod please stand up.

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
On 10/29/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Well you sertainly have hit the zombie right there. I know our local blind org has experimented with audiogames sertainly knows about them. Would they publish an interesting mag, probably but I am not sure about the reviewing process. We

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
One thing that is not touched on as ar as I know is the dictionary used. When I used to use office, it always used the us dictionary. and the program made it quite fiddly to make that change to another dictionary stick. so some words were wrongly spelt by the checker for my country. Yes I

Re: [Audyssey] Papa Sangre II Controls Hanging

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
Well I was listening to the coolblindtech cast and the podcaster was having the same issues where the game seemed to slow down and or seemed to stop for a few seconds during gameplay. At 03:52 AM 11/6/2013, you wrote: Hi All, To those playing Papa Sangre II, as mentioned before, in

Re: [Audyssey] Will the real Audyssey Mod please stand up. I repeat, will the real Audyssey Mod please stand up.

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
well I do try to be constructive, yes I aggree I get carried away and have a bad negitive side which sometimes rears its ugly mug, but I don't pretend to know everything and if my messages come as all knowing, then I appologise for that because sometimes I talk through a hole in my head and I

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
I can see where you are coming from. Accessable games seem to be routed at one dissability or another. Now ofcause I am blind so I concentrate on that but it does get me thinking what others are out there. I do aggree with the universal access thing myself. At 12:22 AM 11/1/2013, you wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] Moderator Notice was Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
I apologise to you and the list didn't mean to put anyone down at all, its just that I dislike it when some choose to think that the blind can only play simple games. And not seem to even acknowledge that others exist, granted they may actually look. most of what I have said in this case was

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-03 Thread shaun everiss
Well you sertainly have hit the zombie right there. I know our local blind org has experimented with audiogames sertainly knows about them. Would they publish an interesting mag, probably but I am not sure about the reviewing process. We would need editers and people in all countries that had

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-11-03 Thread shaun everiss
the fault of the editor for not providing a consistent schedule and possibly for not encouraging enough readers to submit new content. Cheers! On 10/29/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest, do we even need a magazine. Its been overridden with the email list and the forums

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
the in thing for allot of younger gamers. We could renew interest in text games by developing newer games that might be of interest to them. Cheers! On 10/29/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Well we really need to make the audio game format interesting. Not sure how we would do

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
of text to read and they'll play it.So adding text will go a long ways to giving sighted gamers something to look at instead of graphics. Cheers! On 10/30/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm I am interested in hybred games. audio and text would make best of both worlds

Re: [Audyssey] text based games was: Re: Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
thats true dark, I have an autistic game friend that is graphic hungry I have another friend that doesn't care and I have another blind friend who's father plays ages of empires and other adventures which both use mouse, graphics text and sound. Apart from the japanese games though a lot of

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
a black screen, but give them a bit of text to read and they'll play it.So adding text will go a long ways to giving sighted gamers something to look at instead of graphics. Cheers! On 10/30/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm I am interested in hybred games. audio and text would

Re: [Audyssey] text based games was: Re: Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
yes and sadly that is what the industry is coming to. They don't want real games they just want crappy after crappy game. they have grone up just going bang, bang, bang. To change that is going to be hard. people like going bang for some reason never mind what sitting for hours bashing a game

Re: [Audyssey] unsubscribing and resubscribing using a different email address.

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
criss I'd actually go and use gmail rather than hotmail. you should be able to foreward your blueyonda to your account on gmail or hotmail I forget now right now. My dad still has a telecom account locally and forewards it to gmail in case business and stuff he needs access to email him.

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
true tom and also blind games were vastly different from the sighted. That gap is largly no more. Yes there is still a difference but we are finally after quite a few years are close enough that we have the same level of tech the sighted has with maybe a few less things with graphics and3d fx

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
well I think the word blind could be substatuted as graphicless. after all being blind is in fact not far from the truth of being graphicless or imagless. We are for the most part only audio enabled. I joke with my computer and hacker friends when they ask me what is being blind like. And I

Re: [Audyssey] text based games was: Re: Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
true, this excludes the japanese stuff which always seems to be good. Though the same could be with tv. used to battle to see what scifi program I'd watch. its not all reality and tallent. thats fine but real life on tv is not always the thing you want. At 01:50 AM 10/31/2013, you wrote: Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
well true. Ofcause a lot of people that are sighted wouldn't think twice about how bad some blind software is because its not for sighted. However I have used both sighted and blind enabled programs for admin and guess what the simpler programs without all the extra guff are more userfriendly

Re: [Audyssey] text based games was: Re: Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
well thats why I like alter it is in the most point open ended. At 03:30 AM 10/31/2013, you wrote: Hi Tom. that is unfortunately true, though of course it's not universal. My brother is a big dark souls fan precisely because! of the open ended story, detailed mechanics and complex world,

Re: [Audyssey] space odacy help

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
well I do know alter ian does have pk in sertain times but only for sertain times and sertain things. I have tried once to see and you can't actually do that though you can kill all npcs if you wish it. At 03:33 AM 10/31/2013, you wrote: Well Darren I sort of assume if you try to attack

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree. With the level of tech these days most things do work. I do mention it if I need to, navigation wise, tech wise and other things wise sertainly a different outlook. I never say because I am blind I am entitled to this or can't do that or don't need to do that though. In some cases

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
I could handle the dropbox side or someone could but I'd have to buy the space ofcause. same with sendspace. I could go unlimited data and use a server but then I'd need at least 50-80 dollars a month in donations to make it viable or at least half of what I was paying maybe 40-50 bucks a

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
ron what about sending the list 55 if its finnished at least we get 1 normal issue this year if its ready. after that though we will need to get our act together on what to do with it. All issues should still be downloadable as text and things. My idea for the cast could either be. 1. a pdcast

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
well you can share links with the dropbox folders but yeah people would have to subscribe to it. Even so. on the other hand a perminant ftp server would be better but space bandwidth etc. At 04:34 AM 10/31/2013, you wrote: The problem with sendspace is that the files don't stay there

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree fully with tom. now question is how do we do that. firstly other disabilities. I know of them physical, interlectial and a few other things. I do not know how to adapt for them though and even if we did that, how would get abled people on our side in a big way. Ideally we need the power

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
Of shaun everiss Sent: 30 October 2013 20:32 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine well true. Ofcause a lot of people that are sighted wouldn't think twice about how bad some blind software is because its not for sighted. However I have used both sighted and blind

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:47 PM, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: ron what about sending the list 55 if its finnished at least we get 1 normal issue this year if its ready. after that though we will need to get our act together on what to do with it. All issues should still

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey

2013-10-30 Thread shaun everiss
well I have never seen a podcast over 40mb. some dramas can reach 80-200mb but not much more than that. huge archives well. zipped casts could be big. At 11:03 AM 10/31/2013, you wrote: Actually darren with a sendspace pro account the files do! stay perminantly. With a free account they expire

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
To be honest, do we even need a magazine. Its been overridden with the email list and the forums of audiogames.net and there is so much out there and so little. Yes if you are in the middle of a project like me its all on but don't take it the wrong way but there is basically f**ck going on.

[Audyssey] audiogames forum down

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
Hi all. the forums are offline going to the page I get this rubbish Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User md11790db114463 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /public/sites/stats.creativehero.es/write_logs.php on line 37 Can not connect to

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
I think the mag's primary purpose was to keep people informed before the net which iit did. Now though yeah the old format no longer fits. It needs to be majorly expanded which means more than blind games, maybe mainstream and blind and then maybe other things to. I really liked the game mag

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree, we almost need to have a safety buffer of info or something. ideally we would need to have so much info we couldn't publish in one mag. Every few issues maybe 2-3 we would pull things out and put them up. But we could have a safety valve of 2-3 issues to cover any holes, ofcause thats

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree darrin. what say people if we just move the mag to smomething that has the power audiogames.net has a lot of stuff. Adding to it seems to be what is suggested, it has some organisations on it and a lot more people. It has the power to change the universe well enough for the plannet

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
and it can remain in email format charles, html or on a website no one is suggesting it should soley go over to forums though I admit that would help if it was published on its own room or the articles room in audiogames. We are not after a sole resource it will take more than 1 resource to

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
well there is coolblindtech. They are not always garenteeing to put up content but they are approachable on the at least initial setup they may not ofcause include things it is their choice but still. At 03:37 AM 10/30/2013, you wrote: With respect charles,I disagree on the spelling and

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
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 would it take to write one or pay for an accessable one which is attractive to be written. We have a

[Audyssey] forum still down

2013-10-29 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. forum still down for me. error Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User md11790db114463 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /public/sites/stats.creativehero.es/write_logs.php on line 37 Can not connect to database in count.php: I can funnily

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