Absolutely. Also sometimes games can be a good way of stress relief as
well. Or if you're seriously annoyed at something you can vent that
annoyance in a game. Whether it be something like doom or anything else.
To my mind games are harmless. If kids for example get a hold of said
games then quite
Though I stil have enough vision to play original packman (symple high
contrast graphics), I actually prefer the audio version as a game.
You have the added task of navigating the maze and locating the dots, and
it's much more enjoyable suddenly turning a corner and being faced with a
ghost
Hi,
The articles appeared to have no credible information at all; from start to
finish, they kept naming one youth who said this or that. Very rarely
did they mention names, and to me that's suspicious as far as their content
and research is concerned.
Further, they explained their arguments
Hi,
The articles appeared to have no credible information at all; from start to
finish, they kept naming one youth who said this or that. Very rarely
did they mention names, and to me that's suspicious as far as their content
and research is concerned.
Further, they explained their arguments by
The incredibly stupid part is also that usually the ones
condemning video games are the ones who have nebver even
played a single one of those games themselves.
Bigottry comes with a lot of prejudice, be it games or
against other minority people. It is probably best to just
ignore such attempts
Hello all, my question can be treeted as off-topic, but it could also be
related to games as long as sapi is used in certain games. I am looking for a
sapi 4 or sapi 5 voice that that speaks with the voice of the eloquence
sinthesizer. I hurd that such voice exists, that's why I ask. So
Hi,
Agreed. A lot of it comes down to harmless fantacy or roll playing on
the part of the gamer. In real life I would never beat the crap out of
somebody because I was angry at them, perform a spinal rip, or chop
their head off. However, afgter having an extremely stressful day or big
Hi Dark,
Yeah, Packman Talks is strategically different from the original in that
you can't see where all the ghosts are at one single glance. There is
always that possibility you will be zooming down a corridor at maximum
speed and a ghost will get you buy surprise.
However, the original
I punched a lot of pillows as well, and it did help.
Also I would rather see a kid playing appropriate games for
his age at home, then have him beat up old ladies and rob
handbags.
chrissy
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Hi,
The voice you are speaking of is called Viavoice Outloud. It is Sapi 4
compliant so would only work with games that supports Sapi 4 voices.
Milos Przic wrote:
Hello all, my question can be treeted as off-topic, but it could also be
related to games as long as sapi is used in certain
Absolutely right. That energy has to go somewhere you have to release
it. If it's a question of releasing it on another or on something that
is otherwise meaningless but won't be harmed, what do you do. If I'm
really annoyed at something I'll just power up x2 or something like
that, fly to a
Ok, but still, where it can be found? Is it free?
And thanks for a quick response!
Milos Przic
skype: Milosh-hs
msn: milos.pr...@gmail.com
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Hi Munawar,
you have raised some good points here. The opinion of one or two
individuals doesn't make a solid case for how the majority of parents or
children feel about these games. They wouldn't even name the individuals
that were supposed to have been interviewed making the research
I was searching a little, and found something called IBM Viavoice. Is
that the thing we are talking about?
Milos Przic
skype: Milosh-hs
msn: milos.pr...@gmail.com
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Hi,
No, it is not free. The only way I know to get Outloud is by buying the
full IBM Viavoice software. IBM Viavoice is a dictation program similar
to Dragon Naturally Speaking, but isn't as accessible.
Milos Przic wrote:
Ok, but still, where it can be found? Is it free?
And thanks for
Hi,
Unfortunately, I've met my fair share of people like that. My in-laws
are a prime example of the type of bigots that they think they are the
judge, jury, and executioner on everything and anything regardless if
they know anything factual about it or not. Such condemning evidence can
come
If my other half would only realize this. When I get frustrated, or worse,
mad, I sometimes stomp on the floor or talk under my breath. That's better
than hurting any human, isn't it? It does not make me a terrible person if
I do these things. I sometimes play a game of either Aliens in the
My grandma is generally like that and so was my very first girlfriend. You
didn't mention Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter or even CHronicles of Narnia
around them. I found out that they believed Aslan was actually the devil
since God would never give himself any kind of physical representation
Lol and there was me thinking that you were going to start up a protect
the earth federation because of the threat represented in aliens in the
outback? Lol sorry couldn't resist smile.
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On Behalf Of
And yet the author of LOTR himself was a christian and interweeved a lot
of his beliefs into the whole story. So I don't quite get that one.
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On Behalf Of Bryan Peterson
Sent: 10 September 2009 17:03
I wrote a plugin ages ago that would send text directly to jaws, but I never
really got it finished. I used to play motis oporandi.
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Behalf Of Jeremy Hartley
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Hi,
That's just another example of how diverse opinions can be between
Christian groups, and why we should be careful not to paint everyone
with the same brush. I've read that J.K. Rowling is suppose to be a
Christian, but yet some Christians revile her for writing Harry Potter.
There
Quite right. The thing is people only tend to look at the negatives. Now
if you've read lord of the rings, all that whole series there's tons of
interesting stuff in that. Anybody who does think that book is for what
ever reason evil I would seriously suggest reading it. Especially the
silmarilian
Hi Tom,
Yes, I know several groups who have expressly condemned Harry Potter and
some places of worship (not necessarily all Christian) have banned their
members from reading the books. I agree with your point that in the end
Harry Potter shows good character and morale--that friends are
Hi all
Those of you who were sighted before you became blind, I've got another
question for you.
I'm very curious.
How did the arcade machines in shops work like?
What games could you play on such an arcade machine?
Could you play pack man?
How many money did you have to throw into such a machine
You get them all over the place. You get them in the UK as well but they
are very expensive to play.
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On Behalf Of Nicol
Sent: 10 September 2009 19:36
To: gamers
Subject: [Audyssey] game arcades in
The time I can remember playing them, it was like 25 cents
in the states. They had everything, from space invaders,
galaga, xevious, pacman, donkey kong. Later on we had street
fighter and stuff like that. Games that you play sitting on
a motorcycle.
You can still find arcades in shopping malls
Yeah but it's more like $1 now to play or something very near that mark.
Those games aren't fun any more because of the price.
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On Behalf Of ChB
Sent: 10 September 2009 20:09
To: 'Gamers Discussion
Hi Nicol,
While I was growing up in the 1980's there were several arcade machines
around in the malls, in most department stores, and there were even
sspecialized arcades filled wall to wall with arcade machines IN terms
of what games were available back then most games were first introduced
I tried the motorcycle racing game some time ago at a
laundrymat, it was like 50 cents a game. Yes 25 cents was
when I still had vision left, have not tried out any in a
long time other than the aforementioned.
chrissy
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Hi,
The new 32gb and 64gb ipod touch 3rd generation now come with VoiceOver built
in which means blind people can use it! And I think there are a few aaccessible
games for it, well anyway there are games for the IPhone 3gs so they may work
on the IPod touch 32 and 64gb as well.
Josh
Join me
go apple! nothing like ms, they make a lot of their stuff accessible... but
I'll stop ramblin as it's OT.
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To: gamers list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:27 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] new ipod touch
Hi,
The new
Hi,
Yeah, I think cost has a lot to do with why stand up coin operated
arcade machines are on the decline. They are still around, but I often
don't let my son play them because they cost too much to play very many
games. I've seen some that are like 50 cents and plenty of games that
costs as
all we need now is an audio game from draconis or osmeone
On 10 Sep 2009, at 20:25, peter Mahach wrote:
go apple! nothing like ms, they make a lot of their stuff
accessible... but I'll stop ramblin as it's OT.
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To: gamers list
Hi,
You go girl. Did you get very far on that motor cycle game?
grin
ChB wrote:
I tried the motorcycle racing game some time ago at a
laundrymat, it was like 50 cents a game. Yes 25 cents was
when I still had vision left, have not tried out any in a
long time other than the aforementioned.
Hehehe, quite a bit, I had a friend with me, who told me
directions like they do in nascar, so I knew where the other
cycles came up to me what side and so far and called out the
directions I needed to go. It was quite funny as my friend
played a two player game and did worse than me, even with
A whole area of gaming I never realised existed until recently is the
cultivation of those old arcade cabinets. Their are guys and gals all
over the world buying them from arcades that close down, redesigning
the interior to occomodate a mac or pc running the emulator of choice
(usuallly some
Hi.
Arcade machines play one single game and in England cost betwene ten pence
and fifty pence a time (that's about 6 cents to 30 I think).
For fighting games and games like packman you usually get a number of game
lives for your money, usually 1 or 3 depending upon the difficulty of
Yes I would love to get an old arcade machine like that for
home, just for the heck of it and old times. Something like
maybe space invaders or donkey kong.
Those things I can still hear the unique music and sounds
they made, in my head. Lol about the motorcycle game, I
would need to move to a
Well that's true Tom, but what I was getting at in my post is the difference
in play mechanics betwene visual and audio packman.
The standard packman is a game simply of fast reflexes where (as you said),
you have to run like the clappers to avoid ghosts and make quick decisions.
The audio
would be nice josh.
but ms would never aggree to that.
I think some others would, not sure who.
apple uses its own hardware, but some have already done this.
sun has and ofcause we have linux.
I think ibm has to an extent.
not sure about others but.
At 01:16 a.m. 9/09/2009, you wrote:
Hi,
What
Not a game arcade, per say, but the first games I remember seeing were
bowling machines. They were about 15 feet long and maybe? 3 feet wide.
From 1 to 6 people could play for a dime (ten cents) a game, or 2 games for
a quarter (25 cents). The bowling pins hung just above the surface of the
on that note, entoombed will have a standard free version and a delux version
with more features.
you will have to pay for extras though, but the basic game will be free as far
as I get it from the group.
ofcause thats a ways off.
At 03:28 a.m. 9/09/2009, you wrote:
As a follow up to my last
Well, while I don't go in for the cabinet thing, I do own an X arcade
joystick which is fantastic!
Basically it's what would happen if you sliced the control section off a
streetfighter or turtles cabinet, a huge, steel shafted joystic, pluss
about eight buttons.
I've not got the pc
I also will pay if I have the cash.
Now in new zealand although its not alegal yet the isps slow down any sharing
programs now.
So I figure if I like more than 3 tracks on a album I'll buy that disk.
still doesn't mean I will buy loads of cds, I get a load of creative commans
music now.
and
Hi, I was trying to visit audiogames.net and it comes up with some other site,
has the audio games site changed? Thanks
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As far as releasing programs under the gernal public lisence, I think
that that is fine if the author wishes it. But it does take a lot of
time and hard work to learn any time of programming, be it Moo, C++,
even basic. So I don’t support releasing everything as freewear.
What game was made based
Hi Nicol,
Great question and it brings up alot of nostalgia.
Usually the cabinet games were a single stand up model. It had a moniter
inside the cabinet, and usually a piece of glass seperated the screen from
the outside but not all of them were like that.
On a flat surface sticking out from
I am not sure if there are as many arcade room out there anymore. Home
computer systems...playstations and ms XBox systems have really given them a
beating.
Most of the older games took a single quarter.
When I had sight I spent alot of time in one of them near to my house.
the most awesome
Hi all. throwing in my 2 sense worth. I can remember playing pinball when I
had my sight and pressing the buttons to make the paddles work. I remember
the shape of the machine was kind of slanted towards you with the screen
away from you at the top and the 2 buttons on each side. A Few years
on the subject of games.
through www.synthstudio.net
I got a site www.queststudios.com
this has a database of the sierra
soundtracks.
also actual tracks from the cds remixed.
some midi to for various yamaha and roland synths.
I spent the last week getting all I could access from the misc and other
They need to register their domain, I think.
Hope this helps.
Tristan
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TrekGames.net, port 1234.
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thanks
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They need to register their domain, I think.
Hope this helps.
Tristan
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I wonder if they still make pinball machines anymore. It probably costs more
then a quarter to play today if there is still some around.
al
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Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:19 PM
Good times, smile. ..
I just remembered a few other games, q bert, contra wars, and golden axe.
Golden Axe was cool because you could play a male fighter, a woman fighter
or a dwarf, and they all had special movies that allowed them to grab the
bad guys and throw them off cliffs or bridges.
As
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