[Audyssey] Westfront

2009-05-12 Thread dark
Hi. I've been trying out westfront, and while it's an intreaguing game, I'm finding a couple of things mildly frustrating. Firstly, is the way you can just get randomly teleported around by using objects or spells and not know where you were or how to get back. Second, is the total lack of

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Clement Chou
If it's anything like the Mortal Kombat games for the pc... then JAWS will not read one single menu. It'll all be in the game itself, and JAWS will have to probably be unloaded like most screenreader game situations. - Original Message - From: Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Chesworth
I'd be amazed if Jaws read anything. As Clement says, I've never seen a pc spin on a console game that does in my life. On 5/12/09, Clement Chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: If it's anything like the Mortal Kombat games for the pc... then JAWS will not read one single menu. It'll all be in

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Yohandy, It is extremely doubtful Jaws will read anything on the screen in the game. That is essentially because what is displayed on screen isn't normal text that most Windows applications use, isn't handled via a standard window API, and is drawn directly to the screen through DirectX

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Thomas, I have heard that some people print the screen to a graphics file, then run that file through an OCR package to read a graphics screen. In the future maybe Screen reading programs will have this capability. Of course reading the text would be only half the problem as you would also

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread ChB
If jaws would read PCs games, man that would be the break thru for blind gamers. Imagine how many of the mainstream games would be available. Sounds funny but more than anything I miss being able to play all those hundreds of games. I was an avid pc/console gamer before I lost all my sight:(

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Clement Chou
As a consolation to those pensive about wiether the game will use the mouse or keyboard... most fighting games I've played use the keyboard for navigation, and the mouse generally has nothing to do with the game. So unless I'm mistaken, SFIV should have the same design. Though given the game,

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, there are very few games that would. As I explained in my prier e-mail the fundimental issue is that text in games is piped through some high end graphics API like DirectX or OpenGL rather than through a standard toolkit like Win32 and screen readers are totally blind to any text on

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Chesworth
I heard rumours a while back from a buddy of mine who saw a presentation that Cobra would b able to do realtime OCR in situations like this. Of course even if they get the Screen Reader off the ground there'd still be an extra level that you wouldn't find in accessible titles of reading the menu,

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Yohandy
actually, I read a comment somewhere from capcom that said they didn't want to limit the game to 2% of people with powerful systems. something like that. at any rate sounds like good news. they really want this game to sell well. I think if a powerful computer was needed to run the game, they

[Audyssey] Accessible Chinese Chess

2009-05-12 Thread Dean Masters
From: http://inventorspot.com/articles/chinese_chess_27331 Chinese chess (Xiangqi) is centuries old; some historians date the game back to 400 BC. All this time, blind and other visually disabled persons have been unable to participate in one of China's most popular games. But last year,

Re: [Audyssey] Other baseball computer games.

2009-05-12 Thread Gary Whittington
Well, Jermy, as you noted the Game needed to be played in your CD Rom is very True. playing this game back in the 90's, I can say, that the game well go through CD Rom players. That was the only fault in the game. Also to not that gamers will need to upgade to 5.5 to get any recetnly roster

Re: [Audyssey] Other baseball computer games. Was Re:harry hollinsworth world series game

2009-05-12 Thread Gary Whittington
Ron this is a good question and may be why there are dong a version 6 of Baseball Blast. Crash - Original Message - From: RONALD HOPKINS rrhopki...@verizon.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 1:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Other baseball

Re: [Audyssey] Other baseball computer games. WasRe:harry hollinsworth world series game

2009-05-12 Thread dennis
it works with 32 bit of vista not 64 bit they are working on a new version the phone number is below also you may want to mechen about makin g it more screen reader frendly 717-872-6567 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] Mach 1 tts

2009-05-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Well, it really depends on the game. Most mainstream PC games have keyboard support as well as the mouse and some type of joystick controller support as well. Some more complex main stream games uses a combonation of mouse and keyboard together to perform certain actions and moves

[Audyssey] BPCPrograms

2009-05-12 Thread Hayri Tulumcu
How can it be to www.BPCPrograms have gone down? --- 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] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Maslo
When you find out if it works with screen reader can you post it? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Yohandy Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:21 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV

Re: [Audyssey] windows 7

2009-05-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Aaron, Did you try using Vista drivers? From what I understand from reading Windows 7 drivers are basically going to be the same as Windows Vista since Windows 7 is pretty much an enhanced and fixed Windows Vista. When I put Win 7 on my laptop I installed the vista drivers and they worked

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Yohandy
as I said previously, this isn't a game played with a screen reader. It's a fighting game. - Original Message - From: Mike Maslo mmaslo1...@swbell.net To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Mike, It isn't an accessible game, and it doesn't work with a screen reader. You will need to remember the menus etc just like you would if playing the console version. Mike Maslo wrote: When you find out if it works with screen reader can you post it? --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Maslo
Yes I know that. But Thomas answered my main question. If the menu would read. If you are blind the game is unplayable. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Yohandy Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:14 PM To: Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Maslo
To play this game, ;how hard is it to learn the moves? What are the keystrokes to play? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Mike Maslo Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:49 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Clement Chou
Once you have menus and character selection screens memorized, the moves themselves aren't so hard to pull off. Stuff like down forward with a particular punch or kick, half circle motions, not too complicated once you get used to it. Though you might want to be aware of the fact that

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Clement Chou
This is why I like all the anime-based fighting games so much. Most of their menus are narated. They don't particularly tell you what the menu item is, but they give you a description of what you'll find. For example, one of the items in Dragon ball z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 of course, is options.

Re: [Audyssey] windows 7

2009-05-12 Thread Liam Erven
with the devices I have, I just used vista drivers and it worked fine -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:11 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] windows 7 Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Yohandy
which is why I recommend that those without a pc gamePad get the bundle if you're planning on getting the game at all. Man pulling off sf moves with a keyboard gotta be hard. some of them are hard enough to do with a controller. - Original Message - From: Clement Chou

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Clement Chou
I actually do it all the time... it isn't so hard. By the way... you know if the game pad will be just a joystick? Or will it be a dpad as well as a stick? Because if it was both, then I might get the bundle... - Original Message - From: Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] windows 7

2009-05-12 Thread Valiant8086
There aren't any vista drivers from asus for my netbook. I guess Asus figured who would want to bother using vista on a netbook, so there are no drivers except for windows xp and linux as far as I can tell. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] windows 7

2009-05-12 Thread Liam Erven
what I noticed when I installed windows 7 RC 1 was that it downloaded drivers for me. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Valiant8086 Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:57 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers!

2009-05-12 Thread Yohandy
I have no clue. try searching for reviews and such - Original Message - From: Clement Chou chou.clem...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Great Street Fighter IV news for PC gamers! I actually do it