Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-23 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicole, That's cool. I know that different people like different types of games. The games that I have are; Awesome Homer, Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, coupling, Craps, Draw Poker, Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, Life, Mach 1, Mach 1 tts, Master

[Audyssey] Hi Dark

2012-01-23 Thread Jim Kitchen
I don't know, for some reason hearing the same human speech over and over in a game bothers me. But hearing the same sapi5 voice over and over does not. Now if I had sight and saw a human on the screen, I would expect to hear human speech. But when I had sight, nothing on the screen looked

Re: [Audyssey] 2012 Top 25 List for Gamers who are Blind

2012-01-23 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Eleanor, Thank you and all of you at 7-128 Software for the top 25 list for 2012. Sure looks like allot of research and work goes into developing the top 25 list. BFN Jim I like Visual Basic 6.0 because I can not C. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920

Re: [Audyssey] Hi Dark

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Hi jim. Well i suppose if you've sort of got a mental picture of games with 80's graphics even when your making audio games that makes sense, however for myself sinse audio games don't have graphics, I don't think of them as graphical, - well there are my coloured synaesthesic impressions

[Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread michael barnes
Hey. I just got done reading the top twenty five game list, and I saw something on there that was interresting! What I saw was that Terraformers is now a free game to get! I found the site that people can go and download the full game. Here is the address for that site. mofunzone.com --

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread Ian McNamara
Hay Michael thanks for this. Like that game it's brilliant. Ian. --- 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] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Actually michael, the game is stil available on http://www.pininteractive.com/ I don't know what that site you've found is, but it's possibly a hack of the game, though even on the pininteractive site it seems that that the game is no longer being sold which would indicate that that is indeed

[Audyssey] game speech

2012-01-23 Thread Charles Rivard
While I prefer human speech in games, I don't mind a good quality SAPI voice that has the proper accent. It's a personal preference, but when the word are is to be pronounced, I want to hear are, not ah, heart instead of hot, and so on. There's an R there, so pronounce it. enter, not enTuh.

[Audyssey] X Hour?

2012-01-23 Thread Milos Przic
be accessed). So, does anyone know what happens? And like Terraformers, is it going to be a free game? Best! Milos Przic msn: milos.pr...@gmail.com skype: Milosh-hs __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6819 (20120123

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread michael barnes
Well, I just downloaded the Terraformers game and to my suprise it is free! Just download the game and install it. If you go into the chick license it will say demo, but pay no attention to it. I thought I would play the game to see what would happen if I complete the training level and I like

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread fred olver
Which operating systems can this game be played from? Fred Olver - Original Message - From: michael barnes c...@samobile.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers! Well, I just downloaded the

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Fred. I just tried it on my 32 bit windows seven machine. I know it will also work on xp. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to

Re: [Audyssey] game speech

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Hi charles. I agree, but Funnily enough I'm the opposite way around with synths, but being english I would be. I have no care whether the letter R is pronounced, but do like long A's and short o's, --- -indeed with the English pronunciation of hot you could never mistake it for heart

Re: [Audyssey] X Hour?

2012-01-23 Thread dark
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Re: [Audyssey] 2012 Top 25 List for Gamers who are Blind

2012-01-23 Thread Darren Harris
I notice though that ce isn't on there and I think it should be as coops does make a real effort for us. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 22 January 2012 16:51 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Hi Michael. Actually the demo finished not after the training level, but when you collect the first computer part in the mining area. i'd stil check, and also I'd like some confirmation from the Pininteractive team if it is to be made freeware. Beware the grue! dArk. - Original

Re: [Audyssey] 2012 Top 25 List for Gamers who are Blind

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Hi Darren. this was discussed back when they were listing sites. The problem with adapted online games is that there are now many of them with labled stuff, and if we added Ce we'd have to add every game that had made access changes. Warriors 2, Sryth, KoL, chronicles of arborell and probably

[Audyssey] Alteraeon where's the music?

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Hi. i can't get the area music and ambience to work properly in mush client. It's been a while sinse I played I admit, but I updated to the latest version before I went back on, but now it seems very messed up. Both are enabled, but when i start hitting F11 to raise the volume it refuses to

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread BRYAN PETERSON
I agree. Granted there's not even a link to buy the game but that in itself means nothing. On 1/23/12, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi Michael. Actually the demo finished not after the training level, but when you collect the first computer part in the mining area. i'd stil check, and also I'd

Re: [Audyssey] game speech

2012-01-23 Thread BRYAN PETERSON
Interestingly enough I prefer the UK English version of the Elloquence synthesizer. I don't know, I just could never stand the American one. But as far as synthes in games go I'm pretty set in my ways. Sapi for status info is fine, but never, and I mean never, should synthes be used for actual

Re: [Audyssey] New game (only in portuguese yet)

2012-01-23 Thread Jorge Gonçalves
Hello everyone. Just wanted to let you know that today it was presented a new fresh game developped specially for the blind. It was developed by a brazilian developer who's name is Tiago Arthur Cunha. it's in portuguese only by he plans to make foreign translations. It is a football (soccer=

[Audyssey] Blast Buddy

2012-01-23 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
I know this isn't a game, per se, but I was messing around with a little BGT IDE. The program, affectionately named Blast Buddy, is meant to work a lot like notepad but have features that will help BGT developers code. I still have plenty of things I could add, but it's working well enough

Re: [Audyssey] Blast Buddy

2012-01-23 Thread Philip Bennefall
I think this is a fantastic initiative. Thanks, Jeremy! I've only looked at the program briefly but I like the navigational concepts. I seem to be able to navigate all over the code despite my having set it to level 2, but maybe I'm doing something incorrectly. I'll be continuing to mess with

[Audyssey] Monday's Out of Sight events

2012-01-23 Thread Charles Rivard
Here are the events scheduled for Monday, January 23rd: Ultimate Outburst 8:00 PM eastern Hosted by Suzy B. Location: Game Zone This game is made up of 2 opposing teams. There will b 6 rounds in which the team must guess the ten items in the Given Category, one point for each correct

Re: [Audyssey] Blast Buddy

2012-01-23 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
Thanks Philip! I wouldn't be surprised if it was some sort of bug, but it might also just be a misunderstanding about how those tiers work. When set to level 2 you should be able to see the main function calls such as void main since those are tier zero. Tier 1 would be the code within

[Audyssey] RIP lWorks

2012-01-23 Thread Pitermach
This was just posted: Really saddened about this, super egg hunt plus was turning out to be quite interesting. For over ten years I have been writing computer games for the visually impaired. during that time I have met a lot of great people who have enjoyed what I do. I'm proud to saythat I

Re: [Audyssey] RIP lWorks

2012-01-23 Thread Charles Rivard
Where was this posted? Thanks. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Pitermach piterm...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:18 PM Subject: [Audyssey] RIP lWorks This was just

Re: [Audyssey] RIP lWorks

2012-01-23 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Charles, On the l-works site at, \http://l-works.net/?subaction=showfullid=1327341087archive=utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 1:53 PM

Re: [Audyssey] Alteraeon where's the music?

2012-01-23 Thread john
I'm not sure exactly how this works, try reinstalling mushz, and make sure your modifying the correct volume settings. I had this same problem where I couldn't change the sound volume, and I don't have a reason for it. However, reinstalling a couple times seems to have randomly fixe it.

Re: [Audyssey] Blast Buddy

2012-01-23 Thread john
I really like this idea, a sort of compiler before the compiler thing. I think that it's got a lot of potential, particularly as it should (based on what you've said and what I know about code) work for multiple languages. If this got more suffisticated I could see it coming in very handy for

Re: [Audyssey] RIP lWorks

2012-01-23 Thread Darren Duff
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Re: [Audyssey] Blast Buddy

2012-01-23 Thread Christopher Bartlett
I too am excited about where this could go. If Jeremy and Philip were to work together, I could see this becoming the first programming IDE developed from the ground up with blind programmers in mind. Jeremy, did you ever figure out why my file was producing a runtime error on opening? As for

Re: [Audyssey] RIP lWorks

2012-01-23 Thread BRYAN PETERSON
I can't say I'm surprised. A job would certainly get in the way of game development. If I'm not mistaken that's why Justin from BSC has been so quiet. And on top of a job he's got a wife and kids. On 1/23/12, Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net wrote: Hi Charles, On the l-works site at,

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
What's Terraformers? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist - Original Message - From: michael barnes c...@samobile.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 6:09 AM Subject: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers! Hey. I just got done reading

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
I've heard of that gme and I think I tried to play it, but couldn't figure it out. Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 6:20 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Blast Buddy

2012-01-23 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
Well I discovered why Philip was able to see all of the lines even while filtering based on tiers. I had broken it while trying to rearrange a few lines of code. So the good news is that it should be fixed now. The current uploaded version is 0.4, and the one I just uploaded lets you use

[Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.

2012-01-23 Thread Christopher Bartlett
About half the time when I go to post something on the blast bay forum, my browser completely freezes. This is happening with NVDA and JFW, so it's not a screen reader issue. I've experienced similar behavior occasionally from the audiogames.net forum site. Anyone know what's going on?

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread shaun everiss
hmm no indication on the licence of tf, but if the company has closed, I guess its free. In a way I am happy it is. it never worked well on my high deff device. I have been playing it on a friend's system who has a key. Sounds never worked right, and in fact s p o i l e r in the long room

Re: [Audyssey] X Hour?

2012-01-23 Thread shaun everiss
: Milosh-hs __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6819 (20120123) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Alteraeon where's the music?

2012-01-23 Thread dark
the odd thing is I get the exact same problem on my laptop as well, which is why I'm less inclined to try a reinstall, though if nobody can come up with any more ideas I might try that. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: john jpcarnemo...@comcast.net To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] RIP lWorks

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Very sad news indeed. I'm particularly sorry that this puts an end to all hope of eventually having a superliam 2. Though creddit to Liam for stil selling and maintaining unlock codes for his games as in fact Justin of bsc is doing. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread shaun everiss
aah so its free now. I guess I should really update the installer I have now then. At 08:50 a.m. 23/01/2012 -0500, you wrote: Well, I just downloaded the Terraformers game and to my suprise it is free! Just download the game and install it. If you go into the chick license it will say demo,

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread shaun everiss
same here. I'd like it to made able to run with hd devices. Hi Michael. Actually the demo finished not after the training level, but when you collect the first computer part in the mining area. i'd stil check, and also I'd like some confirmation from the Pininteractive team if it is to be

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Hi. please note in future you can look up games on www.audiogames.net, just use the dropdown list at the bottom of the page. All have descriptions and links to more infor where appropriate. As to Terraformers, It's a first person scifi adventure game, rather more concerned with exploration

Re: [Audyssey] RIP lWorks

2012-01-23 Thread shaun everiss
yeah, but judging that after last years crash I havn't recieved my jd unlock code for ages I figured that liam was bussy. Its a pitty he had to go, but at least he honours his customers and will give out codes to them as well as allow us to buy his games. I have seen companies that go and

Re: [Audyssey] RIP lWorks

2012-01-23 Thread shaun everiss
it was on the lworks news list and google group At 12:53 p.m. 23/01/2012 -0600, you wrote: Where was this posted? Thanks. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Pitermach piterm...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
I just did. The website is still communicating as of very recently. Giving the game another go, especially if it's free. Love the concept. Right up my ally, now I'm wondering if my science fictional universe should have only terraformed planets. Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding

Re: [Audyssey] New information about Terraformers!

2012-01-23 Thread Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
Thanks, I thought it sounded familiar, but wasn't sure. Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New information

[Audyssey] Terraformers

2012-01-23 Thread Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
After you get done with the training, thren what? You walk around unti you have know energy? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.

2012-01-23 Thread Philip Bennefall
Hi Chris, It may be that the database is getting overloaded with unapproved spam bot registrations. I will have a look and see if I can clean that up during the day tomorrow. I've noticed it being a bit slow too, though never more than a couple of seconds on this end. Kind regards, Philip

Re: [Audyssey] Hi Dark

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Ward
That's definitely unusual. In my case listening to some of the synthetic voices for a long stretch drives me up the wall. The less human the voice like Eloquence or ESpeak the more irritating I find it. I guess I've adapted to Eloquence and ESpeak, as I use them all the time with NVDA, but the

Re: [Audyssey] game speech

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Yeah, that is a personal preference thing. I remember originally when I designed MOTA I used Real Speak Caren because I love her voice and Australian accent. However, you and a couple of others requested a strict American female which I did. Although, I like Heather I still think

Re: [Audyssey] game speech

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Oh, I like the U.K. version of Eloquence as well. I like to leave it set on Justin because I think he sounds better than Reed. I also agree I can put up with almost any SAPI voice for menus and things like that, but not for cutscenes and game commentary. One of the things that bothers

Re: [Audyssey] Blast Buddy

2012-01-23 Thread Oriol Gómez
Hey thanks for that, I'll probably be using this a lot. Though we really need to be able to select multiple lines. *grin* I've tried this with a few of my games and since I always comment esctions this works like a charm. thanks On 1/23/12, Jeremy Kaldobsky jer...@kaldobsky.com wrote: Well I

Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.

2012-01-23 Thread Philip Bennefall
Hi again, I have now cleaned out about 6000 spam bot accounts from my forum. And, wonder of wonders, the lag is gone. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January

Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers

2012-01-23 Thread dark
Hi nicole. once you get past the training level, the layout is fairly simple. you go through a streight passage to a place withe terminal, with exits right and left. Listen to the message in the terminal then choose a left or righth direction to go first. Both directions on the east or west