This is where we as a community should put our foot down against such things
as charge backs, pirates, etc. We are really a small market that noone will
program if their stuff is being pirated. The person can be happy the
programmer isn't naming him as I'm sure we as the community wouldn't have
that is an extremely sad story, especially the business with the charges
filed, the hole suing culture has gone quite out of hand in many respects,
and it's sad that this has had such an effect on the audio game's markit, I
do agree that the audio gamers community needs to support our
The site is gone
At 06:44 PM 4/12/2006, you wrote:
its a pitty this has to happen.
I just hope the site does not die with the company so those that
wish to can download the games.
Still I am not complaining, I have all the games,both free and
registered, and I was never able to beat treasure
the site already has died, sadly.
regards,
damien
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] ATTN!! message from Munawar bijani about
Hello there. Hope this helps. Anyone want to play funny bowling later on
today?
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Well I doubt a dev here would use someone's account without authorisation,
saying that, I wander if someone mannaged to get the number, highly unlikely
but spammers seem to get numbers and peoples email address etc and well use
them, could paypall have given out info without someone knowing its
What is 'stfc'?
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To: gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 4:19 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] STFC Countdown.
Hi all,
Just a quick note to say that we are in the final ours of the launch of
STFC version 1.0. The setup
Er, forgive me for saying this, but in business you'll aways find some
difficult customers. You shouldn't have to close your business because of
one bad experience, or let one bad experience affect you to this extent.
Live and learn from the experience.
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Strange, because Solitaire is a one-person card game.
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blank block from lite tech interactive
I have played a version of
I've also played the board game before under the name of solitare. According
to this Wikipedia entry on the subject,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_solitaire) the board game is known as
solitare mainly here in England, and the solitare card games were
traditionally called patience. my
So you could get it released before December 25th?
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Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sarah and the castle of witchcraft and wizzardry
Hi Sky,
The party
What does the Bloody Baran do at the party in Sarah.
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sarah and the castle of witchcraft and wizzardry
Hi Sky,
The
That's some interesting info. Thanks for posting it. By the way, I have
just tried blank block, and am addicted. It's played like the game Hi Q,
only it's better. The only suggestion I have so far would be to have the
game say blank if a row or column is cleared. This would save time and
Hi Tom,
Yeah, allot of work is going in to Monty Alpha 2. It won't be ready for
a while though. I am writing a new core dll which will power all my
games. One of the issues I have had, and am going to attempt to address
is the bug which crashes the score after 10 points are reached.
Hi,
As much as I hate making comments like the one I am about to say I will
only say for instruction purposes Self Destruct isn't all that great an
example. I would not recommend it for amature programmers as it is not,
well, as Liam said not that good an example of good programming. Smile.
USA Games News
Dec. 4, 2006
Hello gamers,
After two years of development, many unfortunate setbacks, and several
hours of testing Star Trek Final Conflict version 1.0 is now ready for
immediate download. Join in the action as you lead the Federation's most
powerful fleet of starships and
Hi Sky,
That is my plan.
I can not guarantee when the game will be released because bugs have a
tendency to be difficult to crush some times.
As for the Baron, he doesn't speak much since he does not talk in the books
at all.
He groans, and coughs, and groans.
And he especially does not like you
The game that I have played is exactly as you have said. a board with 33
holes and you have 32 pegs. You jump over pegs and remove the one being
jumped over. Eventually, hopefully, leaving one in the middle.
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The part walking through a door where a wall once was isn't a bug. It's a
feature in the game. In level 10 whether you manage to complete the upper
floor with the holes in it or you try to teleport you have to find room 70
and then walk to your right. I find holding down the right arrow while
Hi All
I enjoy christmass woop ass. This is something I have noticed which is not
written in the manual. If you press your left right or up arrow you will hit
old man Stanley either, left right or middle. The manual doesn't sayh this,
the manual only sayh that you hit old man stanly with either
I'm afraid I'm also having difficulty getting tthe game working, but in my
case windows just says Stfc.exe has encountered a problem and needs to
close, we are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of
something, the information you were working on may be lost
And then giving
It was meant as a teaser, not to be hurtful. Sorry if there was
misunderstanding. I think that what I meant to convey was something like,
You'll find out when the game comes out. he he he he he.
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While I myself didn't buy treasure hunt I appreciated his free offerings
and I still have them. I'm always sorry to read this kind of a situation
because there are some damn fine programmers in the blind community. So the
person who did this to him stole the game pure and simple. That's Ok Steve
He said that if he were to push on he'd be hit with a lawsuit, also,
the experience caused him to lose his motivation to program any more games.
At 07:36 AM 5/12/2006, you wrote:
I was going to write a message saying the same thing.
I've had some experiences with bugs poppin gup, losing source
I used to have HiQ and loved it. when my grandmother passed away I got an
antique version of the game in the original box but with one piece replaces
by a piece of wood whittles that would work. I don't know what this version
was called.
Dean
I personally know someone who literally is older than
Hi Raul and all.
Thank you for getting back to me, but just as I was about to give you the
web address and the name of the game I tried the address again and have
managed to get the game, it must have been my internet playing up yesterday.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Many thanks once
Hi. I downloaded the new dotnet installer on 28th november, so I dont
know if there is a better version available yet.
All I get when I run final conflict is a message that says stfc.exe
has encountered a problem and needs to close, there is no details
button one can click on or anything.
I'm
well the strange thing is I get the same error when starting rail racer. I
sometimes get it, and sometimes not. it's totally weird, and noone can
figure it out.
-
For an amazing video gaming site containing original soundtracks, game art,
etc, go here.
to all those that uninstall the game, check your program files folder, there is
still a folder there, I didn't kill it but you may want to try it.
Tom when was the game uploaded, I got my coppy from the downloads folder last
night only because I know where it is.
At 06:51 AM 12/5/2006, Robin
weird, stfc1.0 ran fine on my system
At 06:17 AM 12/5/2006, Bryan Peterson wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I just downloaded FC1.0. I have boh .net framework 2.0 and DirectX 9.0C o
n my machine. However after I installed the game I found it wouldn't run.
It's bizarre, since the test version ran just fine on
Yeah tourniment for all its crappy non sfx and old style music and sapi voice
is actually quite good, I would have liked it to be non crap and I think
munawar was going to make it so and do it properly.
I wanter if munawar's personal pages are still up, hmmm.
At 10:29 AM 12/5/2006, djc wrote:
thats a handy thing, may be an easteregg.
At 07:09 AM 12/5/2006, nicol wrote:
Hi All
I enjoy christmass woop ass. This is something I have noticed which is not
written in the manual. If you press your left right or up arrow you will hit
old man Stanley either, left right or middle. The manual
This is very sad to see that BPC programs went down and I regret it won't be
back up again?
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey]
I'd be willing to bet I know who it was that filed the false charge against
Munawar, but like Munawar I won't name my suspect. I would be willing to
bet, however, that it was one of those thirteen-year-olds who claim to make
games and then never put anything out, all the while accusing everyone
Darn that was going to be my next suggestion. did you try instlaling the
dot net 2 fraimwork from the windows update site?
Poor Thomas. He no sooner releases the game after two years of work
and we're all having practically the same problem. About the only
comfort I find in this situation is
So what will happen upon exploreing the slytheren commonroom?
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sarah and the castle of witchcraft and wizzardry
Hi Sky,
not sure how old this is but the site I listed for you does not look like its
been updated.
Bpc is at this address.
http://munawar.port5.com/bpcprograms/
not sure if it exists or what.
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The game runs fine here so I suggest that people make sure they have the
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On 12/5/2006 at 11:54 AM shaun everiss wrote:
weird, stfc1.0 ran fine on my system
At 06:17 AM 12/5/2006, Bryan
Yep, still no.
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you with no place to go.
J.D. Fortune, Pretty Vegas
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To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] STFC error
Darn
Hi.
I know I have the latest version of net framework because I downloaded it
very recently.
Just in case it was Direct X (I have no idea what version of Direct X I have
on here), I downloaded the Direct X 9 files from Usa games, the minor
problem was that direct X didn't check for my
We do have the latest Directx and dotnet framework. We still get the error.
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you with no place to go.
J.D. Fortune, Pretty Vegas
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From: djc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 6:13 PM
Subject:
Memo to self, use noggin!
I noticed that the folder where i extracted all the direct x files had
vanished, so I did a search.
I found a very handy file (in windowszdirect X), called direct X set up.
I! am! A fool!
Well, at least for a bonus the game is now working.
I'm extremely sorry to
Hi Bryan!
I don't remember where I read this, but they did a test with teenagers
and their computers. When the teenagers were happy with their computer in
the games they played there computer seemed to perform better than the
teenagers that were always upset with their computer and the
My experience has usually been quite the opposite. It seems the happier i am
with my computer, the higher the likelyhood of it copping out. I mean think
about it. I was so excited to play the full version of STFC and guess what?
It doesn't work? I tried installing DirectX in both a folder in
Well brian, methinks a chip debugger sounds like what you would get if you
removed the chip and the de smile!
seriously, sinse you had a different error message inflicted upon you, I
suspect it is a different problem, and I hope you can get it fixed.
Reguarding computer's personalities
Thanks to dark, the STFC error problem now has a solution, and what a simple
one it is. If Thomas or anyone had any of Bill Engvall's famous signs to hand
out, I'm sure a lot of us would be wearing them. It seems that when you
download the DirectX file and run it, you aren't exactly installing
Hi,
Hmm... I think the bugs were fixable, but more and like Jason was unable
to figure out how to solve them or XL Studios went out of business
before he had the time to solve them.
Yvonne Alaniz wrote:
I was doing some research on the game Self Destruct. Is everyone aware that
it is
Hi Chris,
What game is it you are looking for and who is it made by. That will
help us direct you to the right spot.
In addition, you might want to look at
http://www.audiogames.net
which is the authority on finding audio games, who they are made by, and
is one of the central hubs in the audio
Hi Bryan,
I have tested the 1.0 install on two different machines locally and have
not ben able to replicate your error locally.
One test system had 1.1.43 and 2.0 frameworks on it and it used the 2.0
libs. The second only has net framework 2, and it ran fine.
However, since you mentioned you
Hi Robin and all,
Be assured I will do all I can to figure out what is the matter, but
honestly at this point I haven't a clue what the issue is. This error is
new, and 1.0 hasn't been fully tested out in the wild with framework
1.1. This was one of the final builds before the accident of
Well my computer behaves itself for the most part.
If it doesn't I reformat.
It obviously does not like it either that or the systems I have got lately like
me.
I have had systems that did not like me, i accidently dropped one.
At 03:15 PM 12/5/2006, Bryan Peterson wrote:
My experience has
H weird.
At 02:42 PM 12/5/2006, Bryan Peterson wrote:
We do have the latest Directx and dotnet framework. We still get the error.
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you with no place to go.
J.D. Fortune, Pretty Vegas
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To:
Hi,
Yeah, thanks for the tip. Now that you mention it the arrows are quite a
bit easier to use.
nicol wrote:
Hi All
I enjoy christmass woop ass. This is something I have noticed which is not
written in the manual. If you press your left right or up arrow you will hit
old man Stanley
Hi Dark,
No need to be sorry for announcing a problem. That is what I am here
for is solving and squashing the bugs.
Although, I do have to ask if your system meets the system specs, and if
you have followed the suggestions I have given to Bryan earlier in the
thread.
Dark wrote:
I'm afraid
Hi Bryan,
Those are a couple of good questions, and ones I am asking myself at
this very moment. However, there is two major changes between the
version you are trying to get working and the test releases.
The first is .NET 2.0 support. The original game was designed around a
1.1.43 platform.
You might find something good, or you might find something terruible. The
fun is in the exploration. he he he he he.
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey]
Nope, rebooting didn't work, next I'll download and install some
windows updates.
Someone said they managed to get it to work?
Can I ask this person, what windows version are they running xpsp2
pro or home?? also, do they have internet explorer 6 or 7 installed?
At 08:50 AM 5/12/2006, you wrote:
Hi Holden,
I certainly don't have a solution for that error message, but at least
the error reports coming in tonight are all saying about the same thing.
Whatever, broke tends to be something you all have in common.What that
might be I am not sure
On the bright side if I find out the cause and
I did. I went on to the microsoft update site and updated everything,
still won't work
At 12:13 PM 5/12/2006, you wrote:
The game runs fine here so I suggest that people make sure they have the
latest direcx and also I'd make sure you have the latest net2.0
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Hi,
The framework from Nov 28 should be fine. I'm going to try a couple of
experiments here, and hopefully figure out why the error message is
coming up, but it could frankly be anything.
One thing I'll have to try is select a select group of testers, send
them a different exe file, and see if
Hi Yohandy,
That is interesting. I have never gotten that error with either STFC or
Rail Racer. This seams to be a .NET thing, and likely do to something
out of sink.
Interesting thing is that I wasn't having this error at all until I
switched to InnoSetup which is the same setup/installer Che
Hi Shaun,
Great you are the only person besides myself that had no issues. That
means our computers have something in common that the others do not
which is breaking the game.
It would be helpful to find out what exactly that something is.
shaun everiss wrote:
weird, stfc1.0 ran fine on my
As far as I have gotten in to my email Shaun is the only one out in the
wild who has it working. Although, he was on the beta team who initially
tested the game and I figure what ever bugs there were worked themselves
out over the course of the testing cycle. Last I recalled he was using
XP
Wonderful! I am glad to know the game isn't completely insane. Grin...
djc wrote:
The game runs fine here so I suggest that people make sure they have the
latest direcx and also I'd make sure you have the latest net2.0
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Hi,
yeah, must be some computer conspiracy against me. Everything seamed
ready to go I was glad to be done with the game only to find out it
blows up on half a dozen systems for some inexplicable reason which I
don't have a hope in solving immediately.
Bryan Peterson wrote:
Poor Thomas. He
Hi Dark,
Thanks so much for this solution. This is something I will put up on the
FAQ page asap.
Dark wrote:
Memo to self, use noggin!
I noticed that the folder where i extracted all the direct x files had
vanished, so I did a search.
I found a very handy file (in windowszdirect X),
Hi,
I have successfully beaten the borg with a single star base. Can anyone
else do this?
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] final conflict error
As far as I have gotten in to my email Shaun is the only
Hi Stephen,
Excelant. I'll grab that file myself, and place it on the requirements
page so that they will keep in touch with the latest DX updates.
Stephen wrote:
go to:
www.microsoft.com/directx
then download the file dxwebsetup.exe, then run it. DirectX has been
updated since xpsp2 was
Hi Bryan,
A JIT Debugger stands for, Just In Time debugger, which is techno lingo
for a debugger that debugs the application as it is actively running.
Most modern languages like C#.NET and Java use JIT debuggers which will
break at some error, and allow you to debug and even compile and
I sure can. Depending on some factors I usually end up with the starbase
and one or two ships, but usually no better than that.
--
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins
of the workers of iniquity.
-- Psalms 141:9
Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc
Hi All,
Not allot of non-developers is aware of this, but Microsoft DirectX is
constantly being updated every two to three months. For example 9.0C was
released to the public roughly in the summer of 2004 and at that rate of
updates that means there are no less than eight to twelve different
I do not remember if this error was mentioned yet, butI am getting the
following error as soon as I click on the icon.
stfc.exe - Common Language Runtime Debugging Services
Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.
Process id=0x9e8 (2536), Thread id=0x9d8 (2520).
Click OK
Hi Bryan!
Well, like I said it was an interesting article whatever is involved.
Later!
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To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] STFC error
My
Hi Casey,
The error you described is likely do to an incompatible version of
Microsoft DirectX as was discovered already on list. Steven's suggestion
below seams to work everytime so far.
Stephen wrote:
go to:
www.microsoft.com/directx
then download the file dxwebsetup.exe, then run it.
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Yes! If you put the word heh heh heh then everybody knows you are
teezing and that you are not thinking that people are impatient.
Just a thought for the
I mean defeating it with one station and one station only. No other
ships entering the fight.
Karl
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I sure can. Depending on some factors I usually end up with the starbase
and one or two ships, but usually no better than that.
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Keep me from the snares which they have laid
Yeah. Go to where you extracted your DirectX files to and run dxsetup.exe.
That should clear it up. At least, it did for me, Dark and who knows how
many others.
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you with no place to go.
J.D. Fortune, Pretty Vegas
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From: Casey
Hi all,
After finally getting STFC to work on my machine thanks to Dark's suggestion,
I decided to celebrate by doing a podcast on it. I'd say look for it on Blind
Cool Tech sometime over the next few days. I just sent it off to them tonight
so it'll be at least two days I would think.
It
erm? i thought tournament's music was very effective!
regards,
damien
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From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org; gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] ATTN!! message from
the directx version avaible to ms updating software is 2004 or there abouts,
you need to go to something like www.softwarepatch.com, click windows link, and
you are away, the site is loaded with adds, popups and things, and they have
been slack with update descriptions, however I am prepaired
hmm.
Well it doesn't help that I have everything really, I have all dotnet from 1.1
sp1 to 3.0.
I have directx 9c latest, I have xp and vista sdks, speech sapi.
In short I have almost everything any game would could, or would ever need.
I'm not sure if our systems could be graded as being able to
sigh maybe the ai is getting to advanced grin
Reminds me of when machines went mad, this was an old 2000+ radio program I
have here.
At 04:56 PM 12/5/2006, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi,
yeah, must be some computer conspiracy against me. Everything seamed
ready to go I was glad to be done with the game
hmmm sounds like a challenge I'm going to try.
Saying that there are sertain things on stfc I don't like, while testing
phasers were really powerfull and on beginner level torps were to.
I need to use photons and quontoms to destroy a romulan and phasers.
On cardations I need to use phasers and
I wrote as well tom to report the game came up running fine here but I had
a friend install it on his laptop and it won't run their either.
djc's Jukebox: http://paulmerrell.net:9212 Saturday Evenings 9 to
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Well guys a borg can be killed by a starbase, as long as the borg do not bother
with the starbase.
The borg attacked 2 of my ships, damaging them.
I fired out half my amo and almost all my power, I then had another chance and
fired out the rest and the borg went boom.
Its Possible to do in
it is, I just wish we had sfx and comentry not sapi speech to go with it all.
At 06:42 PM 12/5/2006, x-sight interactive wrote:
erm? i thought tournament's music was very effective!
regards,
damien
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To: Gamers Discussion list
It also sounds like its time for folks to look into a better credit card
company--any company that does what Paypal did because of just one complaint
shouldn't be used. That's just sick.
Ken Downey
President
DreamTechInteractive!
And,
Coming soon,
Blind Comfort!
The pleasant way to get a
Oh great. wonder if this is why I've been having problems with some other
games?
Ok. does anyone know where I can obtain the latest version of direct X? Also
what happens if I have already installed direct X, and try installing over
it? I'm not even sure if I have it installed correctly.
No no. the game's running fine for me, I was just telling folks on here that
I've had that problem with rail racer. It seems to happen randomly though,
and only when I run the game from the shortcuts. it happens more often from
the start menu shortcut than the desktop, which does not make any
Like the helpful chap he is, thom Ward has the direct X 9.0C for you to
download on Usa games. i'm not sure if this is the latest version or not,
but this is certainly the version that got Stfc running for me.
Beware the greu!
Dark.
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From: Yohandy
Aaaah Brian, you've pre-empted me on this on (and I was looking forward to
doing my next gen impressions ;D).
Seriously, I'm looking forward to the pod cast, particularly because I
probably need some stratogy tips, sinse I'm rather bad (and this goes for
Trek 2000 as well), at attacking the
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