Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2014-01-30 Thread Travis Siegel
a mac mini is $599, so purchasing a mac isn't as expensive as folks might think. Admittedly, if you want to use apple tools, then yes, an apple developer account helps. However, it's not strictly necessary. If you're only interested in writing programs for the mac (and not ios) then you need

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2014-01-27 Thread Devin Prater
Oh wow! I'm glad I have win 7 now then. I do wish I had win 8 though, because my laptop has only 2 gigs of memory, so sometimes things run slower, like the copying of files and such. But that shortcut will be extremelz addesome! sent from the braille plus valiant8086 valiant8...@gmail.com

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Shaun Everiss
Well its why I have both systems. right now for example my xp box is restoring my hdd which had a partition falier and that will take a while maybe another day. I am gaming and writing on this win7 system. I didn't have to upgrade but having an old system for gaming and non secure stuff and a

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Shaun Everiss
Well personally I do wish that this time of unsertainty will pass quickly. I don't play the old gma games as much as I used to, and to be honest who knows what will happen in the future. Howevver I do hope that there is more progress at least publically reported. Sometimes it feels like that

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Shaun Everiss
I agree with you mike. win7 I can mostly live with since I have to handle that daily but 8 scares the living daylights out of me. So much visual stuff and stuff I am not used to. I have heard all the info and I am still scared to death. I have used classic systems for ages, even7 is still

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun: Makes sense. As it happens my ex and I also use to do something similar. We had an old desktop computer in the living room with XP on it that we used for games and other things. It wasn't on the Internet or anything like that, but was basically just there to play games on, run older

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun: I think you are seriously over reacting. I don't know why you would be scared of Windows 8. There is absolutely nothing to be scared of. As Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, all we have to fear is fear itself. That seems quite apt for this situation. Sure, I won't deny Windows 8 has a

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Dallas O'Brien
hi. one note, maybe you haven't used this command, perhaps you don't even know it is there. lol. but in stead of going to your desktop then tabbing over to your task bar, simply press windows T. this will jump you to the first item on your task bar, from where ever you are. anywhere in the system

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun: Well, not likely. Most game developers aren't in the habit of discussing their future plans or publicly address compatibility issues unless they have something in the works. Besides your idea of a weekly or monthly update from each and every developer is a bit unrealistic. For one

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dallas: Yes, you are absolutely right. I forgot to mention those commands in my prior e-mail, but all the same things in Windows 8 are very easy once you are made aware of commands like Windows+t to jump to the Taskbar or the Windows+1 through Windows+0 commands to launch apps from the

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-29 Thread Dallas O'Brien
LOL, perfectly said! Dead right. Windows 8.1 is my windows, and nothing else but going forward will do for me now. The accessibility in windows 8 / 8.1 blows the pants off 7, let alone! XP! Hahah. And anybody that says narrator in windows 8 isn't getting good, obviously hasn't actually bothered to

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-27 Thread Amanda Burt
-- From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:56 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Shaun and all, Well, here is what I think will happen. I don't think

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-27 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Amanda, That is correct. The thing about security is that everyone is a sort of link in the chain. If you are able to keep your PC clean of viruses, Trojans, worms, and various other malware you won't be able to pass it onto anyone else and infect their PC. However, if you were running out of

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-27 Thread Amanda Burt
@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Amanda, That is correct. The thing about security is that everyone is a sort of link in the chain. If you are able to keep your PC clean of viruses, Trojans, worms, and various other malware you won't be able to pass

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread Draconis
you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Devin

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread shaun everiss
it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread shaun everiss
I see your point. I do wander in that case what the future of audiogames will be. Its obvious that in the short term a lot of what we know will probably die off. Its almost we need a shot up the rear but question is what. I once thought getting main stream companies on our side or making games

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun and all, Well, here is what I think will happen. I don't think it is anything to be afraid of because as I have said many times a lot of the stuff we have now can be run on Windows 8.1 with a little bit of tinkering. Yes, while there will be certain issues such as 3d audio support is

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Well, the money is precisely the reason we can't get big mainstream companies on our side. If a game developer says he made $10,000 last year on game x the mainstream companies will laugh in our faces. Sony, Capcom, Nintendo, Activision, EA Games, and others are use to making millions

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread Michael Gauler
@Draconis: I haven't bought Change Reaction 2 or Silver Dollar either for Mac or Windows, so I can't compare the two versions... However I tried your games before you introduced your new engine. I am talking now not of technical features or your internal design of the engine or the games. I

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread Michael Gauler
I know that XP is near its end. I also know that there are newer operating systems (just the ones from Microsoft). I know that security is a factor which might bring people to upgrade at some point. True, if XP is now longer supported, hackers and other people can possibly find holes in the

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread Draconis
Hi Michael, Answers throughout your message: *snip* @Draconis: I haven't bought Change Reaction 2 or Silver Dollar either for Mac or Windows, so I can't compare the two versions... However I tried your games before you introduced your new engine. I am talking now not of technical

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-26 Thread Devin Prater
Hi all, I have Silverdollar for mac, and enjoy it when there is nothing else to do. Its a fun way to pass the time for 15 minutes or so, and I believe that was its purpose. I do love this new engine, and am thinking about getting change reaction. On Dec 26, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Michael Gauler

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-25 Thread Charles Rivard
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Charles: You can certainly play several text adventure games on Windows 8.1. If you have Winfrotz you can play pretty much every game written in Inform and ZCode that was ever written

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Draconis
Hi Tom, Cara, and all, One funny thing about this conversation, and I don’t mean “ha ha” funny, is that we see on this list on an ongoing basis, people struggling to find ways to play older games on newer machines with newer operating systems. We hear their frustrations, their hacks, and so

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Well said. It is precisely for that reason that once I complete MOTA and Raceway all future games will specifically be designed using newer APIs with Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 in mind. I fully realize that designing for XP may satisfy a lot of customers for the short term, but they

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Devin Prater
I totally agree with the devs on this one. I have a Windows 7 laptop, a mac desktop, an iPod touch, and soon, tomorrow in fact, a new android phone, running, unfortunately, android 4.0, the latest being 4.4. Anyway, I seriously don't see much need in sticking with XP anymore. Windows 7 is good,

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Dallas O'Brien
hi. wow, what a mix of systems you have! haha. good way to go though, as that way you have the best of all worlds. and yes, i agree, leave poor, depressed, out of sorts, slow, and otherwise painful arthritic sam behind. rofl. dallas On 25/12/2013, Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Devin, Interesting enough you have hit upon one issue that should convince people to upgrade if nothing else. The Sapi voices for XP such as Microsoft Sam, Mary, and Mike were absolutely terrible. The newer Sapi 5.5 voices that come with Windows 8 are much better , and are certainly decent for

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun: Well, I can't share any actual figures, but what I can say is I have been told by other accessible game developers that none of them actually made much money off the games they wrote. I have heard roomers that some games only averaged around $10,000 USD, and that was for a game that was

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Although I basically agree with your sentiments next time you should try and word your opinions using less profanity and not be so harsh. The way you worded your message below could be very offensive to some developers and I'd prefer we not do that while expressing a point of view.

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread shaun everiss
I agree with you draconis. You devs all of you should be looking at upgrading if you are not allready. I like old xp but I'd prefur to play games in 7 and 8. More games for xp? Well maybe that was when there was vista but seriously, I don't think people should keep making games in vb6 anymore or

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread shaun everiss
I agree. The only reason I hang on to this old xp machine is to really play games that will only run on xp propperly. I do actually have a brand new i5 with win7 and an 8 upgrade I got this year and I have not really gamed on it much. At 05:49 AM 12/25/2013, you wrote: Hi Josh, Well said.

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread shaun everiss
I agree. The reason I still use xp apart from liking the find features and the sound recorder plus the simple interface are all the games that still use direct sound and vb6 code. Oh would I like to say Look I will go full time to 7. I have 7 I even have 8 if I want it. But there are just some

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Charles Rivard
, 2013 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Devin, Interesting enough you have hit upon one issue that should convince people to upgrade if nothing else. The Sapi voices for XP such as Microsoft Sam, Mary, and Mike were absolutely terrible. The newer Sapi 5.5

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Charles Rivard
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Shaun, Although I basically agree with your sentiments next time you should try and word your opinions using less profanity and not be so

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Charles Rivard
: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question I agree with you draconis. You devs all of you should be looking at upgrading if you are not allready. I like old xp but I'd prefur to play games in 7 and 8. More games for xp? Well maybe that was when there was vista but seriously, I

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles: First, I think we should make a distinction between commercial and non-commercial game developers here. Jim Kitchen is a non-commercial game developer and does not take any money for the games he creates. Therefore he is not obligated to any customers to continue supporting new

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles: You can certainly play several text adventure games on Windows 8.1. If you have Winfrotz you can play pretty much every game written in Inform and ZCode that was ever written with your screen reader or Sapi speech output. If you have Agility for Windows you can play old text

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread Devin Prater
Yes. I would even compare them with the mac's speech. I converted a novel using Zira with Balabolka and enjoyed it thourghly. I do have a mac, and would love to have windows 8 in a vm, and would need vm player and all. I have also a windows 7 laptop, but isn't at all good for gaming, being a

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-23 Thread shaun everiss
@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question hi. personally, I think it's time that the blind gaming community did what most of the real gaming industry did a while back. bring out a game, and say here you go, here

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Cara, My thoughts exactly. I have heard lots of reasons why or why not to upgrade to Windows 7, Windows 8, switch to Mac OS,etc, but I haven't heard anything constructive from those people how this situation could be resolved. Particularly by the audio game developers who are caught in the

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, If we were talking about financially speaking I would be in a much worse situation, but I think we know by now developing audio games is not and never has been about the money for me. I primarily write games for myself first and for the community second. So from that perspective

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, I don't know what else I can say that hasn't already been said a hundred times over. Clearly we have reached a point in the discussion where nothing I say or do will sway you from your opinion, and nothing you say will remotely change my mind either. So we will simply have to agree

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dallas, I'm right with you there. A lot of companies, particular the mainstream, release a product, say here is the specs to run it, take it or leave it. Not a lot of accessible software developers are willing to be that harsh, but maybe they should. If more accessible developers took a more

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
I agree dark. a simular discussion is going on the nvda list. I have 7 but a lot of the games that are for the blind are old. I have used xp for ages, and it still works. 7 is a good system as far as its better than vista. 8 though I don't know its ok but there are som many visual things now.

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Amanda Burt
thomasward1...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Josh, I definitely agree with your points. As far as USA Games is concerned we aren't going out of our way to drop

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
I agree allex. There are people I know in enterprise companies that simply don't update or secure their systems as far as ms goes or with minimal security because of the fact that any update has potentual to stuff something and since time is cash they only update the most critical and even

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
Well personally once ms gets it right I just hope they stay right. they got it right with xp. some what with 7 after that its if you like it then fine but if not well. At 08:50 AM 12/20/2013, you wrote: Well Dallas, your supposition doesn’t hold up to much scrutiny, since Apple has, and does,

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
Well I hope this does not come off to strong, but the reason I am still hanging on to xp is because some games, missippi, and the gma games gtc, lonewolf and sod really don't work that well witn 7. There is also the vb6 issue that will probably eventually come up. Now if the games we have that

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
: Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Josh, I definitely agree with your points. As far as USA Games is concerned we aren't going out of our way to drop support for XP, but neither are we going to go out of our way to support

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Charles Rivard
finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Dallas O'Brien dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question hi. personally, I think it's

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Honestly, I think you are seriously over reacting to upgrading. I know some people hate change, but going to special devices made specifically for the blind most certainly is not the answer to the problem. They are often over priced, way too expensive, and proprietary to the point they

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Oh, I won't deny the fact that most blind people are unemployed and are dependant on disability income like SSI and SSDI, nor can I ignore the fact that the cost of living in the U.S. is pretty high right now. That said, though, there are certainly ways to perform upgrades and get new

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Well, not true. While I suspect most people have at least .NET 4.0 installed that has absolutely nothing to do with touchscreen devices. Microsoft .NET is a programming API designed for rapid development and deployment of applications cross Windows platforms and has nothing to do with

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Bryan Peterson
:35 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Charles, Oh, I won't deny the fact that most blind people are unemployed and are dependant on disability income like SSI and SSDI, nor can I ignore the fact that the cost of living in the U.S

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Regarding virtual machines for playing older games etc unfortunately performance will always be something of an issue. You need a lot of ram and CPU power to run a guest operating system in memory and get something like native performance. As a rule of thumb the more ram and CPU power

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, You want to know what I find amusing about that comment? I think a lot of people in this community have completely forgotten the uproar caused by Microsoft releasing Windows XP. I remember people on the Jaws list and elsewhere swearing up and down they would never upgrade to XP, that

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Dallas O'Brien
hi. yeah, i agree. lol. it's amusigin to watch how most of the blind commnunity works. even though i myself am blind, i sort of feel like i'm on the outside, looking in. ahaha. also, about the money / saving up thing. not being funny here guys, but lets just put it this way. i am on australias

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Josh
and if I really need a new computer my bank said although I am on social security I can go take out a personal loan for $5000, pay them back $4600 of the $5000 buy a new computer then just slowly pay off the rest of the loan. using windows7 laptop On 12/20/2013 3:30 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Josh
its easy an inexpensive to upgrade. computersfortheblind.net and newegg.com and blaire technology group all sell good refurbished machines with windows7. and eventually will have them with windows8. if you really want windows8 just go get one from walmart or amazon maybe. using windows7

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Josh
or get a bank account, take out a loan pay back what you don't need right away buy the new machine then pay back the rest of the loan. using windows7 laptop On 12/20/2013 6:35 AM, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Charles, Oh, I won't deny the fact that most blind people are unemployed and are dependant

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread Cara Quinn
, December 19, 2013 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question hi. personally, I think it's time that the blind gaming community did what most of the real gaming industry did a while back. bring out a game, and say here you go, here are the requirements. its up

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
Yeah my eventual plan is to get a more powerfull desk tower to do a lot of this stuff. I don't care about full performance, but I do want as fast as at least my core2 is, I won't want to use all my cpus for a vm anyway. My other plan was to have an old xp box hanging round I have one for now.

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
grin I remember tom. Ofcause we didn't have nvda then. Everyone was going over from not caring to what they ran their readers and how many ran if you ran 2 by mistake on win98 and lower so what. On the early xp days you got things wrong installed or uninstalled things the wrong way out of order

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Dallas O'Brien
yep. go the windows defender. it's awesome! and very good too. and i have rarely found any scanner so accessible or simple to use. ok, it took microsoft about 10 or more years to do it, but it's there now. and it works well. and, as a side note, having a faster machine means that you get your

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread dark
use mac or windows. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:27 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Dark, Actually

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dallas, Oh, that is for sure. You don't really know how much better a little speed boost will make in every day tasks such as saving files, starting programs, or opening files until you experience it first-hand. For example, I do a lot of work with audio such as editing sounds and music and

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Sigh...You are probably right about the fact that we have said all that can be said on this subject. I feel like I'm in a boxing match where neither person has made any impact on the other and all we are doing is going round after round not getting anywhere. However, before I close this

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Josh
well, I think people will start upgrading to windows7 and windows8 when xp support dies next year and their xp machines start getting infected with viruses and having major security flaws. and upgrading isn't really that hard or expensive. you can get a new dell latitude e4310 with windows7

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Draconis
Hi Tom, Your discussion of VB6 was one of the best explanations of the situation I’ve seen on this list. We’re in the process of rewriting old titles to use the new Engine. The old ESP Softworks titles were all VB6. This is going to be an arduous transition, but we’ll get there, and the games

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Dallas O'Brien
hi. personally, I think it's time that the blind gaming community did what most of the real gaming industry did a while back. bring out a game, and say here you go, here are the requirements. its up to you how you deal with that. if a game dev brings out a game that takes advantage of newer

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread dark
Hi Tom. to be honest I don't agree with you about microsoft simply because of the money involved. on xp I can run programs for dos written in qbasic, C and goodness knows what from 20 years ago. That is a huge corpus of material. Up to xp microsoft had a care for all that legacy support

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Alex Kenny
Dark, I'd just like to point out some misinformation in this post, and some misunderstandings about Mac and iOS. First, you said that iOS apps never have compatibility issues with iOS upgrades. This is definitely not the case. Several apps, including Solara (to bring this somewhat back to games)

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Draconis
Hi Alex, Just adding a bit to your comments. Apple’s aggressive strategy regarding software upgrades tends to keep their platforms more robust and stable, but comes at the cost of some backward compatibility. That said, though, Apple has also made it extremely easy for developers to keep

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Alex Kenny
Hi, Yes, I would definitely agree that Apple has always handled these transitions very well, much better than Microsoft. I think one reason for this is MS's large number of Enterprise customers. Enterprises tend to migrate to newer technologies extremely slowly, and I think this is holding MS

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Dallas O'Brien
hi, it's not only that, but simply because apple's user base is actually nothing, when it comes to a number situation. they have all of about 50 to 70 million users on mac, not all of which are up to date, but more then not. then Microsoft, has over 1.5 billion! users in windows. they have more

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Draconis
Well Dallas, your supposition doesn’t hold up to much scrutiny, since Apple has, and does, major transitions on iOS all the time, and there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 to 700 million iOS devices in use. A much more key difference is that, with Apple products, the hardware and

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Draconis
Just an interesting tidbit on this discussion. Marco Arment, original developer of Tumblr, InstaaPaper, and the Magazine, has been doing some research today regarding the release of the Mac Pros and how they compare to PC’s of similar spec. His comparisons are with the $3999 Mac Pro. For a

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, I definitely agree with your points. As far as USA Games is concerned we aren't going out of our way to drop support for XP, but neither are we going to go out of our way to support it. At some point when we begin adopting newer Windows components and if it isn't XP compatible too bad.

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-19 Thread Charles Rivard
...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Josh, I definitely agree with your points. As far as USA Games is concerned we aren't going out of our way to drop support for XP

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. I don’t mean to give anyone a hard time or anything, I see what you’re saying. But, what about the security wholes in xp that won’t be patched anymore? How will you be sure to remain secure? regards Maria and crew from australia email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com check out

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread dark
it. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi. I don’t mean to give anyone

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Not only that, but there are workarounds for running older software in say Windows 8.1. As I have said many times a person can get VMWare Player, install XP in that, and run it side by side with Windows 8.1 allowing you to play any games or use any apps that does not work with Windows

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Just a correction here. Windows 7 was released in 2010 not 2007. Windows Vista came out in January 2007. I wanted to point that out as you seem to be confusing the two here. However, I do take your point. The reason XP is still widely supported by websites, some third-party programs,

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Just a correction here. Windows 7 was released in 2010 not 2007. Windows Vista came out in January 2007. I wanted to point that out as you seem to be confusing the two here. However, I do take your point. The reason XP is still widely supported by websites, some third-party programs,

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Dallas O'Brien
hi Thomas, a correction to the correction. lol. windows 7 came out in 2009. July 22, 2009; 4 years ago General availability October 22, 2009; 4 years ago dallas On 18/12/2013, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dark, Just a correction here. Windows 7 was released in 2010 not 2007.

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dallas, Oops! I stand corrected. Still, my basic point still stands. It was not 2007. :D Cheers! On 12/18/13, Dallas O'Brien dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com wrote: hi Thomas, a correction to the correction. lol. windows 7 came out in 2009. July 22, 2009; 4 years ago General availability

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Dallas O'Brien
yep, I know. lol. it's amusing in a sense, it doesn't feel that long ago that 7 came out. but when you look at it, its now 4 years old. even windows 8 is now a year old. time gos fast, doesn't it. dallas On 19/12/2013, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dallas, Oops! I stand

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread dark
Hi Tom. I was probably thinking of vista, since I do know when getting my desktop repared in 2008 I very much didn't want a machine with newer windows, which was one other advantage of going to a local custom manufacturer since all the main shops like Pc world were the slaves of microsoft

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Draconis
Hi Tom, Dark, and others, I am not sure that anyone is misrepresenting your position, Dark. You want tangible benefits to a very small set of criteria, but life is made up of a combination of both tangibles and intangibles. For instance, perhaps you don’t spell check because you are using XP.

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dallas, Yeah, time is definitely passing by. I guess the reason I thought Windows 7 came out in 2010 because that must have been when I upgraded my machines from Vista to Windows 7. Still, it is hard to believe that much time has gone by, and Windows 8 is a year old already. It does not seem

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Just a note about the spell checker. It is true that in older versions of Outlook Express it did not come with a spell checker. However, Windows Live Mail, the e-mail client that replaces Outlook Express on Windows 7 and Windows 8, does come with a spell checker. So that does help your

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I certainly don't want to misrepresent your position, and I do think I understand your position very well. I guess for me I'm just very concerned that you are making a bad decision based on very flawed criteria, or at the very least the perceived benefits you are looking for are too me a

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread dark
Well i wouldn't say my criteria are that narrow, I just want something that actually is of some use to me in what I do. To me your like someone who says buy this new car. it doesn't go any faster, use less fuel or handle better, but it's got different engine parts and so will wear out in 40

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Ken Downey
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Well tome there is also the fact that it is possible to get used to just about anything, indeed there are situations where the human ability to do

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread dark
Well Tom I do agree our criteria are different. I think part of this is that you, as a person with a rpactical interest in computers attach some sort of intrinsic value to the efficiency of hardware and software. You care for example that modern machines have more ram and use more memory

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread dark
, 2013 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Well, look at iOs 7. I really didn't want to upgrade. I was used to iOS6, but apps just stopped working with 6, like Fleksy, so I had no choice. Also, i wanted the opportunity to try DoItWrite, but that alone

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Charles Rivard
...@thepionear.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Well, look at iOs 7. I really didn't want to upgrade. I was used to iOS6, but apps just stopped working with 6, like Fleksy

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Arifi still works? I like that game a lot. I just haven't played it for awhile. Teresa Sent using Alpine messaging system in Mac OS X Terminal On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Ken Downey wrote: Well, look at iOs 7. I really didn't want to upgrade. I was used to iOS6, but apps just stopped working with

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