okay I'll have a go, but some of these were more guesses than others (I'm
stil not certain on number 8):
1: Rudolf the red nosed raindeer.
2: silent night.
3:Oh Little town of bethlehem.
4: Good king wensleslass.
5: joy to the world.
6: hark the herald angels sing.
7: We three kings.
8:
Oh btw, I haven't read any of the other messages about these litle
puzles, I'll be interested to see how right I personally was, no
offense to Ron and Tom.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:
Hi Petr,
David Greenwood is beta testing a new game that he announced on his list but
I will not describe it as it is too early in development and he does not
want to get swamped with messages asking when is it ready.
I think he intends to eventually work on the Loan Wolf upgrade but has not
Sounds a cool idea. There are a couple of deafblind mailing lists, but not
specifically related to games.
Harmony.
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Behalf Of Sharon Hooley
Sent: 17 December 2009 11:06 PM
To: Gamers
Hello. Well I should know from first hand what playing as a Deaf-blind
gamer is like.
For one, the game would have to be able to use the braille display,
second it can't be too complex. Mainly due that most deaf blind folks
depending on if they ever seen or hear will not hve the clue on the
Hellow,
I downloaded the game crazy tennis, but is the idea do move the arrow keys
in the direction of the balls so you're kind of chasing them, or to wait for
them to come to you and then hhit them with the control key?
Thank you,
Harmony.
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Hey guys. It's been a long time since I emailed you. Hey, I'm wondering if
anyone knows how to email Spoonbill software? There's a limk on the site but
when i click on it, it keeps taking me to Outlook which I don't have. I have
web based mail. Can someone help me? Thanks. Merry Christmas.
guys, not sure if this was the lighttech that you were saying stopped
working, but, if it is, i can tell you its up again
http://www.lighttechinteractive.com/webpage/index.php
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Nice to here phil, though it doesn't surprise me in the least,
afterall vip mud came out of the blue too.
Beware the grue, who came out of the blue too too, to eat you, should
he get the chance to!
Dark.
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From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net
To: Gamers
Hi.
Move the arrows until you center the balls, then hit them back with the
control key i believe (though it's a while sinse I played the game so you
might have to check the keys). It really does! get rather crazy when you've
got a load of balls coming at you at once.
Beware the grue!
I like that game. That's what I thought, but the instructions sounded as if
you had to just wait for the ball to come to you or something.
Thanks,
Harmony.
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of dark
Sent: 19 December
Yep, that's the fellow!
Glad to see it's back, though it's anybody's guess whether this is just
their web hosts sorting things out or whether they're coming back in force.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: Mauricio Almeida mauricio...@uol.com.br
To:
Hi Shirly.
Just send an E-mail to ga...@spoonbillsoftware.auu with the request.
if this ever comes up in future and you find a mail to link, just press your
applications key (probably one left of your right control key), and select
properties, that'll give you an E-mail address you can copy
Well, you might not be able to hit the ball until it's at a certain
distance, but I don't remember it being a major issue.
Unfortunately sinse English isn't the first language of Vip gameszone, this
isn't the first time people have had issues with their instructions,
which is a
Can we actually see the score board, or can we only post our scores to it?
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of dark
Sent: 19 December 2009 7:19 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Crazy Tennis
Well,
Hi.
There have been a few postings about twitter lately. I always assumed twitter
was just another form of occasionally updated content, such as an rss feed,
however if it's able to run games I'd guess this is different.
sinse Klango now has a twitter client, I'd be interested to know
Hi Dark,
Twitter is a microblogging service primarily, although it has its own API,
so some developers have created games such as 140 mafia which utilise the
platform. You do need to register, however, just like many other social
networking sites, it is completely free to do so. The reason
Keep your answers and compare them to those I give after I receive them.
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Does anyone know of a site where individual songs can be purchased and then
downloaded?
I used to use the Walmart music downloads but that site will make my remaining
hair turn white from the frustration. It used to be a breeze to buy a song
then download it as an .mp3 file, but they obviously
Whichever way works. I follow the ball's motion across the screen and try
to get there just ahead of when it arrives. I sometimes anticipate where
it's going to be when it gets to me. It depends on how quickly it is
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From: Harmony
Have you tried itunes yet? I use itunes software version 8 with jaws 10 and
it works pretty good for me.
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Allen
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:36 PM
To: Blind Gamers
Subject:
Thanks Aiden.
that makes more sense. i see Klango has a twitter client, I'll probably
give that a try sinse the Klango ui is about as user friendly as it's
possible to be, in fact if the various twitter games are playable on
klango, they might count as self-voicing audio games, ;D.
Hi,
well
the alter aeon thing in mush, if you go to the text folder,
worlds/alteraeon/texts
there's a folder called scripting
You can find some stuff there.
hth
On 12/18/09, Greg gwblindm...@gwblindman.org wrote:
Hello all,
I have started using the custom Mush Client found on Alter Aeons
Yes, you listen for where the ball is bouncing, say from the left. then you
move your left arrow key until you hear it in the middle. then you zap it
with the control key! I've been almost addicted to this game, to the point
of dreaming about it! :)
Hth,
Sharon
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I think you can hit a ball no matter if it's just started, if it's centered.
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We should invent a vibrating platform, kind of lie the old optacon. I've
noticed on Independent Living Aids' site, a game system that can give you
bumps or some kind of tactile experience, but it seems that it's an aid for
hearing sound. It was very expensive.
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Hey - is the last one, number 20, Little Drummer Boy?
Eleanor Robinson
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Hi Yohandy,
It didn't used to be this way. I blame it all on David Greenwood. grin Back
when it was PCS Games and me, we would put out games and people would play and
comment on them. But then in 1999 - 2000 David Greenwood was working on the first
accessable first person shooter game. He
Hi Ryan,
Yes, definitely, if your speakers are not set up for good stereo separation, I
would use headphones for playing Triple J Shooter. The same for many of my
other games such as baseball, puppy 1, Mach 1, pong etc where the location of
the sounds are essential for game play.
HTH
BFN
Hi Richard,
Cool, thanks, I will work on the scoring slash speech thing and leave game play
as it is.
BFN
Jim
Nothing increases your golf score like witnesses.
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
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Hi Thomas,
Yeah, I have heard else where that VB Net is popular in the business community.
Thank you for the suggestion for me to check out the Learning Visual Basic .NET
from book share.
I was really just curious, doubt that I will switch languages for my games. I
mean just installing my
Hi Thomas,
Yeah, I was just being ornery. I didn't expect comments or at least not any positive
ones from ladies about TJS. I really ought to get to work on the women spanking men
part of spanker. grin
BFN
Jim
Born to be spanked.
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440)
Hi Che,
Thanks. I may take a look at C sharp. The only thing is, as I said to Thomas,
I think that I will just stick with VB6 for my games. I mean with the problem
of people needing to have the correct Net stuff installed etc. But as I said I
just love programming and should take a look
Hi Jim,
Yeah, the basic programming languages have evolved quite a lot over the
years as has everything else. Microsoft's Visual Basic project was a
smash hit with a lot of average people as it took most of the difficulty
out of programming complex programs quickly and as simply as possible.
Hi Jim,
Well, my biggest problem with .NET wasn't the languages or the .NET
Framework so much as Managed DirectX. It doesn't ship with Windows, and
nor does Microsoft plan to make it a core component since DirectSound
and the older DirectX libraries are on their way out anyway. So I
Hi Jim,
Oh, yeah. i remember that. Shades of Doom was really the first fully
accessible First Person Shooter for the blind. I was quite impressed
when it came onto the seen, and the fact he let us test the Alpha
version of the game. Up until then all I could find is card and puzzle
games,
Hi.
this is just a bit of idel speculation on my part here.
something I've always wanted to do for many years is program a text rpg in html
along the lines of Sryth. I've spent a fair amount of time working out
hopefully interesting systems for game mechanics such as tactical turn based
As I recall, SOD was comprised of 4 files that you installed in sequence.
Also, was it a DOS game?, or was that Lone Wolf's first version.
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Saturday,
When I do eventually get round to making a proper game after quite a while
of learning and practicing, I really want to include sound and graphics if I
can so everyone can play, whether they're blind or sighted.
I really should find Dark Basic or else download something that I can't
remember what
Hellow,
I know HTML, but haven't really managed to learn PHP or Javascript yet
because my laptop is being a ... when it comes to running a server of any
kind, although it is more powerful than most so it should work fine.
Anyway, I'd say probably use Javascript obviously along with HTML to make an
Hi Jim,
Yeah, Shades of doom was also the doom of the DOS game.
Me and Carl were happy creating DOS games for the blind just like you were,
then Shades of Doom came along and all we heard from customers was do your
games work with Windows!
Come to think of it Windows 95 was the doom of games
Hi Charles,
I am sure Shades Of Doom was a windows game from the beginning.
David's Lone Wolf and Star Trek 2000 started as DOS games.
SOD came in 5 parts as no one back then had high speed downloads and he
wanted the dial up download to not last all day.
smiles,
Phil
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Which game did he try to make playable on a Windows system? Was it Shoot
97? That was one of my favorites, and I would like you to remake it, if
possible? I think the first game I got from you was the DOS bowling game.
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From: Phil Vlasak
Hi Charles and all,
I hope Michael Feir will excuse me for reprinting the beginning of Shades of
Doom from,
Audyssey; Computer Games Accessible to the Blind
Issue 18: May/June/July, 1999
From David Greenwood:
Michael,
I have an idea which could be carried out on the Audyssey mail list
and
Hi Charles,
I don't have the source code on it but I think it might have been either Any
Night Football or Monopoly.
Those two played sounds but they did not have to be positioned in the stereo
field.
I think he couldn't get the games to compile and fixing errors that you did
not understand
Hi Dark,
Well, for the type of game you are thinking of you wouldn't actually
write the game in html. The game itself would be written in some sort of
web based scripting language like perl, php, Javascript, and the html
would be used to link the various scripts together and obviously display
Hi Phil,
Not only that but keep in mind that Dos and the early Windows releases
were 16 byt operating systems. When 95 came out Microsoft moved to a
completely 32 byt operating system forcing developers not only to
upgrade, but to convert their programs to 32 byt as well. They
completely
Hi Charles,
No, Shades of Doom was a Windows game from the beginning. Lonewolf and
Trek 99 were originally Dos games. However, he went back and wrote those
games in Visual Basic 6 to run on Windows 95/98 later on.
Charles Rivard wrote:
As I recall, SOD was comprised of 4 files that you
I remember reading in one of the later issues (after your excerpt)
that he originally developed a DOS prototype. It was broken and slow
and weird so he had to make the decision to switch to windows. I
don't actually remember playing a DOS prototype though - was that ever
released?
Anyway I think
Hi James,
If he did write a Dos prototype it was never released to my knoledge.
Besides that by 1999 and 2000 Dos was effectively the Dead Operating
System. Most people, definitely me, were using Windos instead of Dos.
Well, I was using older versions of Linux too, but it wasn't accessible
Hi Phil,
Oh, yeah. I do remember the split setup for Shades of Doom. for an
accessible game back then that was considered huge. Lol!
Now, that everyone I know is on cable for internet it takes , what,
maybe two or three minutes to download? Back then it took two or three
hours to download. A
Hi all,
I'd like to begin by wishing all of you a merry Christmas, and to inform you
that this year our old friend Santa Claus is in major trouble.
From the inner depths of the Blastbay workshop emerges our latest free game
called Kringle Crash. Santa's elves are not particularly pleased with
Hi phillip.
I checked a preview of the game, and it's really good, especially for a
christmas time, and some boring hours in could evenings.
Really, good work.
Cheers
Tom
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Will it be free? Sounds good though, so you'll get my money otherwise.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Behalf Of lirin
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:11 PM
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Hi Hayden,
I was feeling unusually generous at the time so I decided to make it free.
The game is too short to be worth any money, anyway.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
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From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com
To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org
Hi Tom,
I'm very glad you like it, now let's hope you enjoy playing the actual thing
also. Grin.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
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From: lirin seal11...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 6:10 AM
Subject: Re:
In that case...just keep being genrrous! Grin
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:31 PM
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Hey,
Reading back on issues of audyssey I remember PCS had a lot of more
complex maze-type games out. David Greenwood did Lone Wolf back in
1998, but PCS had a Pac-Man game, Tank Game, Cops N' Robbers game (I'm
not sure if I'm making that one up) and everything. I remember playing
Fox N' Hounds
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