Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Sure is. Especially, since there are several gamers on here interested in games for their phones. Smile. Pranav Lal wrote: Hi, I hear you. grin Still, it could be an idea for the future. grin Pranav --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-25 Thread Pranav Lal
] Releasing Some Old Text Games Hi, True, but then I'd have to modify the games to work on mobile phones, get a compiler for a mobile phone, and should probably have a mobile phone to test them. At this point I really wasn't thinking of putting a lot of work into them. Although, I certainly do like

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-24 Thread Valiant8086
hmm. Would inform do the job? - Original Message - From: Lisa Hayes To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games Thomas, maybe this needs to go to the developers list, but is their a program that I

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
I just don't care if I can help it to navigate round a console app. I prefur a native win32 application. At 06:12 p.m. 23/03/2009, you wrote: Hi Shaun, What do you mean by not have to navigate around a dos Window? Jaws, Window Eyes, and even NVDA all work nicely with the windows command prompt. I

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-23 Thread dark
Sounds fun. What sort of games did you design Tom? Anything exploration based? Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:58 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Releasing Some

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, If you mean by native Win32 application an application that draws it's own window via the Microsoft Win32 API as apposed to operating in a console environment point well taken. Although, no can do in this case. That would require totally rewriting the games from scratch for a

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, As I said in my original post all of the games are simple board and card games I created about 10 years ago when I was a student in college. Quite honestly after looking at my own source code I don't think I was a skilled enough programmer back then to even consider anything as

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
aah ok. I prefur a program with a menu bar and everything appearing in its own window. I can handle console windows but I prefur it that way I understand that you can't. At 08:04 a.m. 24/03/2009, you wrote: Hi Shaun, If you mean by native Win32 application an application that draws it's own

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-23 Thread Lisa Hayes
...@raineemusic.com - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games Hi Dark, As I said in my original post all of the games are simple

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
-list-subscr...@raineemusic.com - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games Hi Dark, As I said in my original post all of the games

[Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello everyone, over the last couple of days or so I have been looking through some of my old back ups when I found the source code for some old games I had written years ago. Most of these were text games I had written while I was a college student just learning Visual Basic, C++, Java, etc.

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Lisa Hayes
: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:58 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games Hello everyone, over the last couple of days or so I have been looking through some of my old back ups when I found the source code for some old games I had written years ago. Most of these were text games I had

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Charles Rivard
is the best medicine. Look around you and find a dose. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:58 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games Hello everyone, over the last couple

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread william lomas
: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games Hello everyone, over the last couple of days or so I have been looking through some of my old back ups when I found the source code for some old games I had written years ago. Most of these were text games I had written while I was a college student

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Steve
] Releasing Some Old Text Games Hello everyone, over the last couple of days or so I have been looking through some of my old back ups when I found the source code for some old games I had written years ago. Most of these were text games I had written while I was a college student just learning Visual

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Ann
Hi Thomas, Oh, please do! I'd be very interested, particularly in a checkers game. ~Ann Thomas Ward wrote: Hello everyone, over the last couple of days or so I have been looking through some of my old back ups when I found the source code for some old games I had written years ago. Most of

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread shaun everiss
well if you have them set out as text thats fine I'd like something like this. though saying that I don't care for any console type things where I have to navigate round a dos window. hmmm sapi may be nice but does not have to. At 10:58 a.m. 23/03/2009, you wrote: Hello everyone, over the last

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Bryan Mckinnish
Hi. That would be cool. I wouldn't mind having those. Bryan Mckinnish --- 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] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Pranav Lal
Hmm, You could release them for a mobile phone and then charge for them. smile I say mobile phone since these games are already there for the pc but there seem to be very few games for the mobile phone. This also gives you a cjance to develop for the sighted market since sighted people have

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Constantine
DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games Hello everyone, over

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, What do you mean by not have to navigate around a dos Window? Jaws, Window Eyes, and even NVDA all work nicely with the windows command prompt. I still use a lot of text based applications in the Windows command prompt window, and it is quite speech friendly. In a game such as mine

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, True, but then I'd have to modify the games to work on mobile phones, get a compiler for a mobile phone, and should probably have a mobile phone to test them. At this point I really wasn't thinking of putting a lot of work into them. Although, I certainly do like the idea of updating

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Right. There are not a lot of accessible games for the Mac currently that I know of. I'll probably release these games as open source so that if someone wants to port to Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, yu name it they can. Constantine wrote: Sure, why not. I don't think many accessible games support

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ann, Yeah, I bet. I don't think there are any accessible Checkers computer games besides the one made by Azibat Software, and that one you have to pay for. So I think the Checkers game should definitely be one of the games I should update and release. Smile. Ann wrote: Hi Thomas, Oh,

Re: [Audyssey] Releasing Some Old Text Games

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Well, they are already accessible since I wrote them to play long before I knew Audyssey existed. Though, since I am focusing mainly on MOTA it might be a while before I get a chanse to work on these old games. I want to basically do a line by line evaluation of the code, perhaps