[Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread Milos Przic
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[Audyssey] Train sims

2012-07-18 Thread Milos Przic
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Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread shaun everiss
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Re: [Audyssey] Train sims

2012-07-18 Thread shaun everiss
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Re: [Audyssey] Help finding a board game.

2012-07-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yes sir, I am always amazed when I look at code from others myself. Maybe even more so than you as I don't even know what it should look like. You know just being self taught. Just for example with VB6 all of my code is in the .frm file and there is also automatically a .vbp and

Re: [Audyssey] Ideas for Championship Baseball by Jim Kitchen.

2012-07-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaun, In winbase4.exe there is a baseballrules.txt file. So you can read up on the rules and play of baseball, even though you do not need to to be able to play and even win in my baseball game. BFN Jim Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Darren Duff
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Re: [Audyssey] Ideas for Championship Baseball by Jim Kitchen.

2012-07-18 Thread shaun everiss
yeah found the file after sending that message thanks At 06:41 a.m. 18/07/2012 -0400, you wrote: Hi Shaun, In winbase4.exe there is a baseballrules.txt file. So you can read up on the rules and play of baseball, even though you do not need to to be able to play and even win in my baseball

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread goshawk on horseback
would be very interested, especially as those Freedom Scientific rat bags have now tied the only available ones to there own software now, which is useless if using window-eyes, and if you want to use them with some games like entombed. would be super interested please! Simon - Original

Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread Tomasz Tworek
Huh crap, what a negative, absolutely it isn't I am a tester from the begnning of the project and right now is really playable. Bugs are there ofcourse, but these must be, it's a beta. I'm more like it from swamp, cause it's PVP and it's much detailed for me. Personal opinion ofcourse.

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ron, That's not what I said. What I said is that the older version of the Realspeak voices are full Sapi 5 voices that will work with Jaws, NVDA, Openbook,games, Textaloud, etc. The newer Realspeak voices available on the Freedom Scientific site only work with Jaws, Openbook, and Magic. That's

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Simon, I know, but I don't think Freedom Scientific had much choice in the matter. Nuance, the company that owns the Realspeak voices, has changed the end user license on those voices, and I believe Freedom Scientific had to tie it to their products per the new license agreement the same way

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jacob, Right, it should work with Jaws, but I haven't tried them with a 64-bit copy of Jaws. There may be some technical issues using a 64-bit program like Jaws with a 32-bit voice. So far I've tried them with NVDA, Jim Kitchen's games, and Textaloud and they work O.K. However, I have no way

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Ben
Hang on tom, where do I get the full sapi compatible ones? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 18 July 2012 13:44 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread mattias
and with nvda with a extension - Original Message - From: Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows Hang on tom, where do I get the full sapi

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Jacob Kruger
True, but, for example, have some other sapi 5.0 synths on this 64 bit machine that do seem to work alright, but, yes, suppose will still depend on synthesizer to synthesizer - I have tried out speech profiles with both eSpeak and another synths, like one from cereproc, and they seem alright,

Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread Dakotah Rickard
The only reason I think that the game has been quietly present on list is because of the way it was marketed. This does not reflect, in my oppinion, poorly on the creator of the product. The trouble is that the first we heard about the game was that he needed voice talent. At that point, we only

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread goshawk on horseback
can you use dropbox ok? I could send you a version of them that way, the file is about 690MB. Simon - Original Message - From: Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak

Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Milos, Well, I can't speak for everyone, but part of the problem could simply be timing. First, as far as I know Road to Rage has only been out a couple of days. At least I didn't hear of it until a couple of days ago so I haven't had any time to download the game and play it. Second, is that

Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dakotah, I agree with you. The way this game has been marketed definitely accounts for lack of popularity. The first I heard of this game was Saturday or Sunday. Although I vaguely recall a request for voice actors, but I took that to assume the game wasn't playable and didn't bother checking

Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread bpeterson2000
Sounds like me and my new GF. If we aren't house sitting for my folks we're either out camping, visiting an amusemet park or out doing Karaoke. But thou must! -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:17 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread Milos Przic
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Re: [Audyssey] Help finding a board game.

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, I bet. It sounds to me like you just put all your code directly into the main form, the frm file, instead of breaking your games up into reusable modules. Its actually quite easy to create reusable bas files. If memory serves me correctly all you have to do is create a new bas file in

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ben, As I have said before the only way to get the full Sapi 5 Realspeak voices is off the disc that shipped with Openbook 8, Jaws, 8 or, Jaws 9.If you do not have that disc I can't just give you the voices. All I'm going to be giving people is a patch to fix the installer so they can be

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Simon, AhemThat would be software piracy. Please take this discussion of sharing the files via Dropbox immediately off list. Thanks. On 7/18/12, goshawk on horseback goshawk_on_horseb...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: can you use dropbox ok? I could send you a version of them that way, the file

Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread Darren Duff
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Re: [Audyssey] Quest and Informer.

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Mike, Informer? What is Informer? Do you mean Inform 7? If you are talking about the Inform toolkit it is fairly straight forward to use. You can write your code in Notepad, and then paste it into the Inform 7 program to compile. Although, the Inform 7 program is fairly screen reader friendly

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. You should also be able to get the voices to install by running the installer in compatibility mode imitating windows xp. I know that's what makes the difference trying to install the ATT voices. Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.16 portable. On 7/17/2012 12:45 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Valiant, No. That won't work in the case of the Realspeak voices, because I've tried it. It gives you an error about this product is not compatible with 64-bit computers and bombs out of the install. I know exactly what the problem is, and have fixed it. Freedom Scientific created a special

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Simon, Yes, its absolutely software piracy. It makes no difference if Nuance, Freedom Scientific, etc makes it available or not. The law is the law. It amazes me how many people fail to understand copyright law. It is all rapped up in that end user license agreement you get with your software

Re: [Audyssey] Train sims

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, You are right to a point. Part of the attraction to train simulators like Microsoft Train Simulator is the visual graphics. As you drive your train you can get side views of houses, farms, forests, etc as you pass them. We can sort of get this feeling by having the sound of forests,

[Audyssey] Wednesday's games at www.Out-Of-Sight.net

2012-07-18 Thread Charles Rivard
Here are the games scheduled for Wednesday, July 18th: Chess Chat 1:00 PM eastern Hosted by Alan and Charles Location: Chess Castle Yes, Blind and Visually Impaired People, Can, and Do, Play Chess! We will tell you How You Can Learn to Play Chess Absolutely free of cost, including receiving a

Re: [Audyssey] Train sims

2012-07-18 Thread Charles Rivard
And you forgot to mention a possible holdup! Heh heh heh. Stick 'em up, and give me all your games! --- Real Presidents don't apologize for their Country, and Real First Ladies are ALWAYS Proud of their Country! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread goshawk on horseback
as far as I am concerned, STUFF! THE! STUPID! LAW! also, I didn't get that end user license agreement with my version of the realspeak voices anyway, so therefore, don't consider myself bound by it. Simon - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage

2012-07-18 Thread Johnny Tai
Swamp has much better handling for me- mouse and all, not to mention sounds. While it's not really fair to compare the two games...it's hard not to do. If you like PvP, I guess Road's okay since it's one of the few in that catagory, but if you like shooting games...it still needs lots of work to

Re: [Audyssey] Train sims

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Grin. Now, that would be an interesting addition. The Microsoft version didn't have hold ups, but I could imagine a Wild West version that did. Lol! On 7/18/12, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote: And you forgot to mention a possible holdup! Heh heh heh. Stick 'em up, and

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. In that case, I appreciate your efforts, and would definitely like to have that patch you mentioned. Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.20 portable. On 7/18/2012 12:01 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Valiant, No. That won't work in the case of the Realspeak voices, because I've tried it. It gives you

Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Simon, I understand your feelings, but I'm only the messenger here. I didn't make the laws. :D As far as the license agreement goes unless someone changed the installer you did get the end user license. When you run the Realspeak setup on the second screen you get a license agreement to

[Audyssey] Realspeak Patched Installation

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello everyone, I have just uploaded the new 64-bit patched installer for the Realspeak voices. The instructions for patching the install is located in the file Readme.txt inside the zip file. You can download the patch at

Re: [Audyssey] Realspeak Patched Installation

2012-07-18 Thread Jacob Kruger
Seens to have workjed perfectly and i would like to share that link on a couple (literally 2 other) mailing lists, where there might also be people who would really appreciate it, if that's alright with you? And, BTW, am currently typing this message with jaws 13 set to use scansoft daniel,

Re: [Audyssey] Realspeak Patched Installation

2012-07-18 Thread Ron Kolesar
Thank you Tom for this patch. Now all my brother and I have to do is to find our old dik with the voices on it. It will be nice to be able to use Samatha and I think the one male voice tht we liked to use was Mike. Many Many thanks once again. Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states that

Re: [Audyssey] Realspeak Patched Installation

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ron, There is no Realspeak voice named Mike. The disc that shipped with Jaws and Open book included Daniel, Emily, Lee, Caren, Samantha, Jill, Tom, and a couple Spanish voices. Perhaps you are thinking of Realspeak Tom? :D Cheers! On 7/18/12, Ron Kolesar kolesar16...@roadrunner.com wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] Realspeak Patched Installation

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jacob, Go ahead. That's basically why I created the patch. I want as many people as possible to be able to use it if they need it. I figured there were plenty of people like myself who wanted to use the older Realspeak Solo voices on a new Windows 7 machine, and were unable to because the

Re: [Audyssey] Realspeak Patched Installation

2012-07-18 Thread Scott Chesworth
Legend, cheers for upping this Tom! Working fine and dandy here. Karen is headed for the Swamp. Cheers Scott On 7/18/12, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jacob, Go ahead. That's basically why I created the patch. I want as many people as possible to be able to use it if they

Re: [Audyssey] Realspeak Patched Installation

2012-07-18 Thread Ron Kolesar
I might. It was the same voice tht Jim has for his golf course. I finally found our disk but haven't had the time to install it once again. Ron, Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states that a service dog beats a cane paws down any day of the week. -Original Message- From: Thomas

Re: [Audyssey] Realspeak Patched Installation

2012-07-18 Thread Jacob Kruger
LOL! Freedom Science Fiction..? Will do in any case. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] Train sims

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Amaro
I to like old steam trains and I like you think it would be cool if we could drive in the old west -- From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:34 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Train sims

2012-07-18 Thread shaun everiss
Well I think in that case our sims were just not developed enough then. I am still in the market for a sim, if its that envolved as you say it should, I'd like missions, races, other things like that the ability to fiddle with my controls and also freely go anywhere. have different views, etc.

Re: [Audyssey] Train sims

2012-07-18 Thread shaun everiss
That would rock if there was one. we don't actually have a full wild west game at least not a modern one. 3d fps with story, etc would cost but I'd gladly pay for that. At 01:31 p.m. 18/07/2012 -0400, you wrote: Hi Charles, Grin. Now, that would be an interesting addition. The Microsoft

[Audyssey] Problem with real speak install

2012-07-18 Thread Greg Wocher
Hello all, I tried using Thomas's real speak patch and I get this error: Installer Information The file 'rssolo_synth_112mrf16.hdr.A9FB9463_8A9B_49D2_82 A1_D0DEEE4056A1' cannot be installed because the file cannot be found in cabinet file 'RSSolo.cab'. This could indicate a network error, an