Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Ben
I will always use xp because it runs all the stuff I run and that's it -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: 07 July 2010 05:11 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error well

Re: [Audyssey] Upcoming BGT version

2010-07-07 Thread Willem
I doubt it. When a game is compiled there won't be that problem though. You'll have to wait for the developers of those games to update them, or fix them yourself. - Original Message - From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] keys was: MOTA (Standard) Beta 13 Released

2010-07-07 Thread dark
Yep, i forgot about the view menue which wasn't clever, but I would prefer that setup sinse the keys would be more accessible in battle and closer to the sspacebar if I've got my hand on the arrows, - though it's up to you of course. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message -

Re: [Audyssey] keys was: MOTA (Standard) Beta 13 Released

2010-07-07 Thread Willem
I have no issue with the keys as is. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] keys was: MOTA (Standard) Beta 13 Released Yep, i forgot about the view menue which wasn't

Re: [Audyssey] WII Bowling

2010-07-07 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Alicia was not there last night, so it took me a few tries. I tried to drop the ball on my head etc. That did not work. But when I swung my arm and brought it up to sort of my left shoulder and released the ball, it dropped on my foot, I screamed and the ball rolled towards the

[Audyssey] looking for a voice actor

2010-07-07 Thread peter Mahach
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Re: [Audyssey] Aurora: An Accessible space strategy game

2010-07-07 Thread dark
We are also currently trying to decide upon what access changes might need making to the game, so some in put from people would be helpful, particularly recognizing the fact that this game is ridiculously in depth and takes a lot of getting into even before you start considdering acess

Re: [Audyssey] Upcoming BGT version

2010-07-07 Thread Bryan Peterson
Ah I see. So it's more a matter of having more options. Options are good. LOL. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@u7142039.fsdata.se To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:03 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Upcoming BGT version

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Philip, As I said very very cool. BGT is really coming along nicely. Evry time you put out a new release it makes it that much better as a development tool. On 7/6/10, Philip Bennefall phi...@u7142039.fsdata.se wrote: Hi Thomas, I'm glad you think so. I'll be tweaking and adding a few more

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Oh, I don't know. A lot of the newer stuff for Windows 7 simply is not backwards compatible with Windows XP. That's why Microsoft doesn't have an upgrade installation that upgrades Windows XP to Windows 7 and you have to do a complete reinstall. The operating systems are just too

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, To be honest that's something I don't quite get about VI computer users. Just about everyone I've met uses classic start menu this, classic desktop that, etc. Why in the heck not just use XP with the default settings? I have ever since XP came out, I have never used the classic menus etc, and

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, last I heard Windows XP is going to be supported until 2014 which is quite a while yet. Microsoft was going to drop support in 2011 but several corperations screamed bloody murder over that because several businesses still haven't upgraded to Vista or Windows 7 yet. Anyway, you have a

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Damien Pendleton
Hi, If support will not be continued for old software then I at least wish that developers didn't continually update the user interface to something that a regular user has to start exploring all over again as if he were a beginner. There are some pieces of software that I point blank refuse to

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA (Standard) Beta 13 Released

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Assuming I did use a laptop mode, which I am not going to do, not all of the keys would change. I would simply setup all of the commands to use the left control key rather than poll for a left and right control key individually as it would in desktop mode. However, as I said before what

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Damien Pendleton
Hi, I think it's because, like me, some people just don't like change after so long of getting used to it. It makes some people, including me, feel very small and intimidated. Even if it is just as accessible, it's not what we were brought up to use. I also use the classic menus. If I have

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA (Standard) Beta 13 Released

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayden, Ah, okay. I didn't remember that. I've made so many changes to the game over the past two years I don't remember each and every change. Smile. On 7/6/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Yep, you did. That was either BETA 5 or 6 when you changed it. Best

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Damien Pendleton
Hi, True enough. Like I said though, to me, updating software does not mean completely changing interfaces, removing popular features, changing the core of the system. To me, updating is simply fixing bugs and adding new features. One thing Windows could do with more of is accessibility

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Damien, I know what you mean. I've looked at windows 7 myself, and it ran fine. However, it's still a radical change from Xp. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Damien Pendleton Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Damien, You definitely have a good point there. However, as a software developer myself I know one way we keep ourselves in business, make our money, is simply by revamping our existing software products to have a completely new look and feel along with a handful of bug fixes and perhaps a new

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Damien, One program suite that underwent some interesting interface changes was office 2007. Although, I must say, the ribbon did make a couple of things a little more accessible. I'll stop now, since this really isn't game related. Smile. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message-

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, I've checked out Microsoft's what's new on Office 10. I don't see anything different. Though it's possible something I wouldn't know about until I bought the thing had changed, and as much as Freedom Scientific can be put at fault their tutorial for Office 07 wasn't that bad. Best

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Bryan Peterson
I'd like to get WIndows 7 eventually since I hate Vista with a passion, but right now I can't afford it. And by the time i can it's likely that the new Windows will be out anyway so who knows. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Damien Pendleton

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, One thing I like about the classic start menu is that you can add things to it with out worrying how many thousands of program shortcuts you'll get as well. The XP start menu is certainly as accessible, but I get irritated for some reason when I find that my start menu has 10 programs

Re: [Audyssey] Upcoming BGT version

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, Thinking of changing your engine? Grin Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 8:16 AM To: Philip Bennefall; Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA (Standard) Beta 13 Released

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, Lol. I can't blame you. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:19 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] MOTA (Standard) Beta 13

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
I'm using Microsoft Word 7, unfortunately. They switched from classic pulldown menus to a stupid ribbon system. It might look?? better, but I! don't! care! It's not as user friendly if you cannot see it, and, to me, that's what matters. Microsoft Word 2003 was much more intuitive and easily

Re: [Audyssey] Upcoming BGT version

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, Thinking of changing your engine? Grin Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 8:16 AM To: Philip Bennefall; Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Upcoming BGT version

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Phillip, Do you ever intend to make an IDE for BGT? Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Philip Bennefall Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 12:04 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

[Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Yes, Microsoft certainly could have kept the Windows 98 look and feel in XP, Vista, and Windows 7, but it all comes back to what I said earlier about perceived obsolescence. Part of what a software developer does to make money, I should know since I am one, is update the user interface

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
Games are updated and improved through the use of patches instead of entirely different cores and layouts in a lot of cases, aren't they? Games, just like an OS, are software. Should it be absolutely necessary to buy a game controller and never use your keyboard again if you want to play the

[Audyssey] upcoming bgt

2010-07-07 Thread Josh Kennedy
Hi I missed the announcement. will the new bgt have features to enable you to make a game with little or no scripting knowledge? in other words to roll out a game quickly? Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
Chess, too, is ancient history. Has it been discarded because it is over a thousand years old? No. It has evolved, but not thrown out. Why? Because it does what it was designed to do, and it still works. So does XP, and it should be updated rather than just thrown out because it is old

Re: [Audyssey] Star Trekk Games, both Final Conflict and Trekk 2000...

2010-07-07 Thread Ben
I'm up for a star wars game! I can help if you want with sounds etc -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 11 June 2010 06:37 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Star Trekk Games, both Final

Re: [Audyssey] startrek games

2010-07-07 Thread Ben
Which beta/alpha is it? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 11 June 2010 09:08 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] startrek games I have the last beta which was released under the n ame

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Willem
I turn off the visual effects and I run xp because it's more memory and processor efficient. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
You hit the nail on the head by saying, as I updated to Office 2007 when I got my new laptop in 2008 I see no compelling reason to buy Office 2010 as there is really nothing new that 2007 doesn't already do for me personally. So what would you think if you had?? to buy it becaise Office 2007

[Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles and all, Yes, I take your point, but comparing something like Chess to a piece of computer software like XP isn't a fair comparison in my opinion. What it really boils down to is simple economics and making money. You are totally looking at this from a consumers point of view. You want

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Damien Pendleton
Hi Charles, Quite agreed. Blind people should be able to use a piece of software without having to use set files, scripts, map files, macros and goodness knows what else just to make it work. The mainstream industry should care about everybody without being so prejudiced. It's the same with

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Not really. The reason is I am willing to see both sides of the argument clearly. I am able to see it both from a customers point of view and a software developers point of view and I pretty much understand why they do what they do even if I don't always agree with it personally. I

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Willem
So instead of creating inovative software, they'd rather mess around with user interfaces and change their dot net and whatnot so people have to update. While some of the standard libraries become out of date the process doesn't usually happen so fast if a propper standard is followed. Java is

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Well, that may be, but regardless of what we think Microsoft isn't exactly going to change their minds. They have their opinion we have ours, and we either have to roll with the change or get left behind as we stick with XP until our computers fall apart and their are no more upgrades

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
I know. The consumer always gets the business end of the shaft. By the way, I haven't loaded MOTA beta 13 onto this laptop PC because of the keystroke discussion. However, I would think that I could, because I use an external keyboard. Just my luck, though, if I started working with the

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Well, in that case the only answer I can give you and the others is go Linux. Then, you don't have to end up paying for upgrades etc. If you don't like that solution to the problem then there is really nothing anyone can do for you guys. There is really no point incontinuing this

[Audyssey] mota glitch

2010-07-07 Thread Ben
Discovered this this morning and have checked several times and it is ever present: glitch: 1. you can have 2 torches running at once (at least), and the torch that runs out doesn't let the other one burn, if that makes sense. 2. when you die with a torch on, when you return to the main menu,

Re: [Audyssey] mota glitch

2010-07-07 Thread Milos Przic
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[Audyssey] games from travis

2010-07-07 Thread Travis Siegel
The one I'm working on at the moment will have sound in it, though the games I have ported from other operating systems do not have sound, they are located at: http://www.softcon.com/mac/ and you will find some games there, as well as other things that you may or may not find useful. Thanks for

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Willem, Oh, absolutely. I agree with you. I am also a fan of open source for exactly those points you made. With Linux software upgrades are simply just upgrades. Open Office, for example, has the same relative interface it always has had since 1.0. It has more features, several bug fixes, etc

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Smile. Yep that is Business 101. We keep the gold and you get the shaft. Lol! As for MOTA beta 13 I should have a patch this weekend that fixes that keyboard issue. I am hoping to release beta 14 sometime next week with a bunch of these miner updates etc. On 7/7/10, Charles Rivard

Re: [Audyssey] mota glitch

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello Ben, Thanks for the bug report although we happen to know about this bug for quite some time. Unfortunately, we have not been able to resolve the source of this bug/issue yet. Anyway, thanks for posting though. Cheers! On 7/7/10, Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk wrote: Discovered this this

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
For me, using classic menue settings isn't anything to do with accessibility, it's because I really hate the business microsoft has of reactive controls and menues such as auto complete, most recently viewed etc. i like to index things such as favourites lists, program shortcuts etc the way

Re: [Audyssey] mota glitch

2010-07-07 Thread Bryan Peterson
This already known and on the to do list. But so far Thomas hasn't found a solution. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 11:18 AM Subject: [Audyssey] mota

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
Wouldn't Microsoft make more money if they would quit reinventing the automobile and charge a small fee for adding spokes or tires with different tread patterns to the wheels, improving performance, while cutting down the expense of development? This is, for the most part, what Freedom

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
I personally don't have anything against upgrading accept that various things I currently have, such as older games will no longer be supported, which will be a pain. Look at all the topics about how to play cpmsp;e stu;e games like fallthru, eamon delux, world of legends or drone, and when

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
well I have no plans to get 7 or any new updated readers or anything unless I suddenly need that. Ofcause I may be forced to do it half way as things like our next system will probably have win7 though since we are all xp if we can stay with that no biggy. Sertainly if I get my next system its

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
I also aggree. I have the libs but it would be good if you got stuff and were able to get say if windows couldn't find a file it would search for libraries it needed then install them. as long as they were standard libs. At 04:35 a.m. 8/07/2010, you wrote: Hi Charles, Quite agreed. Blind

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
If I understand it right, all the rubbish we don't want, and would disable because we don't want it, is there for a reason that would be defeated by disabling it. And there's one of the complaints. Why buy it and then not use it? It's because Microsoft says so. It's baloney. ---

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree with you on that. I personally thought the office 97 and later 2003 interface works out of the box. so does the win xp interface. ie 6 works well to well its interface does. But people normal people want fancy buttons and search boxes. If there was a way to run the older win interface

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
I don't mind going up and up but so quickly? there is an addon that is supposed to work for the office updated versions. I always fix things that I can get away with even installing extra things so I have an easier job but ms fixes things by chucking everything away. NOt to mention security

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
Bloody capitalism! I did actually find the switch to office 2007 quite irritating, not that it was expressly inaccessible, but having to look for things like spellcheck in random places was a real pain (I stil haven't found the wordcount option). It is ultimately an inherent access problem

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
well you just need to get used to the right control key with the ext keyboard. if you are forced to use a laptop board light a torch and then check how many but you probably can remember what you have anyway. I know. The consumer always gets the business end of the shaft. By the way, I

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
true, I have no needs for upgrades but there are casts where people find the system real easy. I suppose you adjust to things. right now for example I have to hit a few keys and then open this and that. in the newer system you have search boxes everywhere which suck but you can also seardch for

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
A friend of mine has a theory. Back in 1980, microsoft made a perfectly secure absolutely fantastic, and completely user friendly operating system called windows. They then realized that if they released it, they'd never have to release another os, which would mean no more money! So, they

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
I do wonder though, why they can't put in the classic mode. Afterall, it's not just the wiz kid computer junkies who will buy newer versions, it's people like my dad, who are absolutely computer novices and find the hole business with menue ribbons and flashy graphical shenanigans something

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
well I think the xp interface is supperia to win 9x ever was. the win7 interface? well if you can get classic menus back maybe and other things maybe. if not i think its a crazy system but then some say its actually quite good. At 03:46 a.m. 8/07/2010, you wrote: Hi Charles, Yes, Microsoft

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
h aparently is 7 but hmmm At 04:19 a.m. 8/07/2010, you wrote: I turn off the visual effects and I run xp because it's more memory and processor efficient. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Willem
Do you think Microsoft are doing only a few sales? At this moment they have the largest market share, mainly because of the miss conseption that you get what you pay for, so free software should be rubbish and because most games need microsoft. Also it is an infinite circle (the more people own

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
in fairness this is just capitalism for you. What is required is something that sells, not necessarily something with is better, more economical, more user friendly or anything else. ultimately it comes down to the fact that the vast majority of companies are there to generate prophit, not

[Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Oh, I know. It is a serious pain when older games won't run on newer Windows releases. I know Windows 7 professional has an XP compatibility mode, but I really don't know how well that works with any of the games you mentioned below. However, compatibility modes only go so far. That's why

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Willem
Microsoft does have an excuse um I mean accessibility solutions, like their sapi voices and charmap. They show it off to make people see how kind they are accomadating the disabled. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
I think this is another thing that hits accessible games far harder, sinse there are fewer users, and even fewer people who can investigate compatibility options. Take for instance one game I have, the original Turrican 2 released for Dos in 1991. Someone has created a pre-configured version

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
Yes, that's why we all use that great microsoft provided screen reader known as narrator ;D. The words tocan gesture rather leap to mind here. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Willem dwill...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Audyssey] games from travis

2010-07-07 Thread shaun everiss
hi travis. well looked at the docs for your games some look good the battle star one looks quite good. I was never able to finnish that in dos. unfortunately there is a 0 byte file in the zip called com1.c which is corrupt. By mistake i was able to get that to extract to a directory on my

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
Meanwhile, what they don't show is the nightmare that software developers have to get their software able to be actually used by those who cannot see. I worked for a major credit card company that proudly proclaimed that they were always willing and able to hire the handicapped and work with

[Audyssey] Aurira Blind Newbie Experiment

2010-07-07 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, My current game of aurora is entitled Blind Newbie Experiment. It's pretty much what that title implies: I'm a newbie experimenting to see how well I can get Aurora to work for us blind folk. One thing that occured to me was that some kind of after-action report with an accessibility

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Exactly. You just hit the nail on the head. All that it really boils down to is capitalism at its worst. Nothing more and nothing less than that. It is no secret that after the United States won the war of independance one of the first things Alexander Hamelton did was setup a new

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Muhammed Deniz
When will the FPS be released? My audio games for the blind group. Discussions off topic are welcome in the holidays. Talking about games is welcome, talking about computer problems is welcome when their are know holidays but that's only in easter holidays or know holidays. If you want to

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I think it is a case of won't rather than can't. they could do anything they want in terms of going back to classic mode as they shode with Windows XP, but Microsoft just decided to enforce the new look on everybody sighted, blind, young, and old alike. Smile. On 7/7/10, dark

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread dark
I do find it slightly odd that they don't considder a less cluttered and flashy display method, ie, a classic mode for as I said, computer novices, - but as you said earlier Tom, microsoft have a monopoly, therefore they pretty much dictate, and everyone, blind, sited, novice, experience

Re: [Audyssey] Aurora Blind Newbie Experiment

2010-07-07 Thread Christopher Bartlett
You certainly have my attention. I love the idea of a sprawling single-player strategy game, as I often have to snatch game play time in odd moments when others wouldn't necessarily be available. I loved Anacreon for this reason. Chris Bartlett --- Gamers mailing list __

[Audyssey] Newbie Experiment: Part 1

2010-07-07 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, Well, I figured I'd start this little periodic action report with a bit of background. The current situation is easy enough to summarize, and there are a few access issues I need to mention too. To begin with, Aurora requires a high screen resolution. Aside from the irony of a blind

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Bryan Peterson
When it's ready. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Muhammed Deniz muhamme...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error When will the FPS

[Audyssey] MOTA Question

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, I recall, in the last few weeks or so, you mentioning a bronze breastplate. Is that just in the game on expert, or have I simply had no luck in locating it? Best Regards, Hayden --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Muhammed, Patience, grasshopper. Good things come to those who wait. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:58 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Charles Rivard
It's the same answer you're gonna get whenever you ask about when a game will be made available. When! it! is! ready! --- Shepherds are the best beasts! - Original Message - From: Muhammed Deniz muhamme...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Charles, Lol, thatseems to be the way Microsoft works, you nailed it on the head. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:41 PM To: Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Dark, Oh yes, Narrator is excellent. Even if it cost $2000, I'd still buy it! Or not? Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:30 PM To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Dark, Spell check's easy enough, just hit F7. As for word count, just alt t, then w. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Willem Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:14 PM To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, Could you just imagine it? Jim, taking all of his games, and upgrading them from VB 6 to VB .Net? Talk about a nightmare! Though, I can't say, since I haven't really checked out .net, and my knowledge with VB6 is also quite limited. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message-

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Dark, Lol, that's quite a conspiracy theory. Though, it would work, since...well, they are still in business, even after the nightmare that goes by the name Windows Vista. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org]

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Willem
Yes, but mr b.g has fallen from the richest to only about the fourth richest person in the world. How sad for him. - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 1:57 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayden, Oh, I would imagine that would be a major undertaking for any game developer. The differences between VB 6 and VB .Net are quite sugnificant. For a developer that knows both it wouldn't be so much difficult as totally time consuming. Unfortunately, for a developer like Jim Kitchen he

Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, that's why I wish more game companies would do what ID Software has done in the past with several of their major titles and release their old releases as open source after so many years has passed. ID Software released Doom I in 1993 and Quake I in 1996 and both are now open source

Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Bryan Peterson
The main down side to Audio Quake I saw is that I couldn't find the demo, and that seems about as far as the accessibility went apparently. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Right. Audio Quake certainly could have been done better in my opinion etc, but that wasn't really my point. The fact is ID Software put Quake out there in the public domain and I could grab the source and produce a fully accessible Quake clone tomorrow if I were so inclined to do so. I

Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Ryan Smith
Hi, VB6 has a poor implementation of OOP called class modules. They can certainly improve VB6 developers programs, but are missing key elements, such as inheritance. The switch from VB6 to VB.NET was the best thing I've ever done! (Okay, maybe that's a little exaggerated.) What I don't think

Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Believe it or not Microsoft was actually considering something like that back in 2001 just before Windows XP was released. The roomer was that with XP you would purchase the operating system and then pay a monthly or yearly subscription to the Windows update service. I don't know what

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Question

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayden, That is one of those works still in progress.It is technically in the game, but it is currently unavailable in beta 13 as I got side tracked from working on that with other things such as the view menu, adding extra doors, fixing several bugs, etc. So the work on the bronze brestplate

[Audyssey] Aurora direct links

2010-07-07 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, Someone on this list asked for direct links to Aurora and its patches. Here they are, in the proper order: http://www.pentarch.org/steve/AuroraInstall491.zip http://www.pentarch.org/steve/Aurora510.zip http://www.pentarch.org/steve/Aurora514.zip Download and install 4.91. The installer