Re: [Audyssey] game environments was: More about Monte bosses.

2007-12-03 Thread Dark
Hi tom. Hmmm, well Jim I remember mentioned something about sounds being quite hard to obtain or synthesize, so I do see the problem. One thought that occurs to me with enemies like Skeletons, and perhaps other relatively variated enemies such as roaring beasts, might be slightly shifting

Re: [Audyssey] News for STFC Fans.

2007-12-03 Thread Dark
Ah Tom that makes sense. well I'm glad that 1.5 will be less buggulous, and I'll look forward to 2.0 when ever it impulses it's way out of the phobos shipyards and engages it's warp engines , ;D. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "

Re: [Audyssey] Getting my stuff from Peves?

2007-12-03 Thread Karl
GHi, What I think he's referring to is that while the Headmaster's office is loading, Peves comes and attacks while I'm completely helpless, and steals your stuff. When the level starts, your items are nowhere to be found. Original message: > Hi Tom, > You can stop Peeves by, > 1. using the stun

Re: [Audyssey] beta six of monty

2007-12-03 Thread william lomas
hi i re-installed riectx off the usa games site and all isf ine now On 4 Dec 2007, at 01:25, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi William, > That is strange. Was it working fine with .Net Framework 2.0? > > > william lomas wrote: >> hi tom and all >> >> i isntalled directx 9.0C fromt he usa games site o

Re: [Audyssey] Sarah locking up.

2007-12-03 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Tom, I have a feeling the lock ups are caused by the game written in vb 6. And some of the level files are so large that I put Sarah saying what the floor is to speak once the level is fully loaded. Going to the Headmaster's office is a special case since I park Sarah inside a walled in cell w

Re: [Audyssey] Getting my stuff from Peves?

2007-12-03 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Tom, You can stop Peeves by, 1. using the stun spell. 2. using the disillusicorpus spell. 3. using the Patronis charm. 4. using an invisibility cloak. 5. using a headless hat. 6. becoming the Headmaster. 7. leaving your stuff in the broom cupboard. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Wa

Re: [Audyssey] Sarah And The Castle Of Mischief and Madness.

2007-12-03 Thread Charles Rivard
'twas a joke. - Original Message - From: "nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sarah And The Castle Of Mischief and Madness. > Good idea! > Btw what happened to the title: shades of the shepherd? > Was i

[Audyssey] Shades of the Shepherd was Sarah And The Castle Of Mischief and Madness.

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Nicol, Shades Of the Shepherd was just a joke. You should know Phil by now. he loves to come up with his jokes and spoofs. Someday I should go through the archives and put together a list of the really funny ones. His Peed Off Moms and I Hate SOD jokes are still at the top of that list of fav

Re: [Audyssey] Action War games

2007-12-03 Thread Tom Randall
Hi Jose. As the other Tom has already mentioned, no most of the higher end games are not free. It takes way too much time and energy and money to produce something like a GMA Tank Commander or LoneWolf to normally just give it away. As he says Judgment Day looks real interesting, I have not quit

Re: [Audyssey] Question about sound rts

2007-12-03 Thread Tom Randall
Hi Jean-Luc and all. Ok I will check through the single player menu more carefully to see if the maps are there. Perhaps I just missed them. As to the soundpack, I am talking about the better one that a couple of users had put together for the older version of soundrts mainly enhancing some of t

[Audyssey] Sarah locking up.

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Phil and all, I was wondering if anyone can help me with a technical problem I am experiencing with Sarah. on the second floor every time I attempt to enter the Head masters Office Sarah crashes. I've gone into the sounds.ini file and set everything for minimum sounds and gave the sound buff

[Audyssey] Getting my stuff from Peves?

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, While exploring the head masters chamber peves ambushed me and stoll everything i had. My wands, crates, potions, etc. how in the world do i go after him and get all that stuff back. I can't do much without my wand and I am pretty much screwed without being able to cast spells. Grr..

Re: [Audyssey] Harry Potter Game For The Blind

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jose, Try Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry from www.pcsgames.net which takes place in Hogwarts and includes several Harry Potter characters such as Mr. Filtch, Mrs. Norris, Nearly Headless Nick, Peves, trols, and other ghosts. Jose Lomeli wrote: > Hello; Listers, I was wonderi

Re: [Audyssey] Monte: speed/chalenge game

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Dude, that would be extremely hard to beat. You better hope no monsters get near you or you are dead meet with no magic potions to restore your health. Though, I admit that is an interesting challenge. Yohandy wrote: > Why pick up potions? keys only would make it more interesting! hehe >

Re: [Audyssey] Railracer

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Great job. Wait until you beat Art on the Rail Racer Pro level. He is darn tough to beat and even now i win perhaps 50 percent of the time on that level. It usually depends on track and game controller. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. This is Ron Hopkins. I finally beat Art on the demo

Re: [Audyssey] audio games lending library

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, As it stands about the only way such a lending library would work for the blind is free games and game demos. Commercial blind games would be pirated if they could be loned out to just anyone in a restricted state. Bryan wrote: > No, I don't think so. To be quite honest it would make little

Re: [Audyssey] audio games lending library

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi John, No, currently there is no lending library for accessible games. There are many reasons why not, but the big one is it isn't fesable. Games like Tank Commander, Shades of Doom, and Sarah have hardware specific product keys. Second, even games that don't have hardware specific keys would

Re: [Audyssey] first floor question in scw

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Nicol, I didn't see that book either. I'd be interested to figure out where it is as well. nicol wrote: > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > I'm quoting from the sara walk through. > quote > You'll find a book, Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard. > If you try to read it, you may find you

[Audyssey] Railracer

2007-12-03 Thread rrhopkins
Hello. This is Ron Hopkins. I finally beat Art on the demo of railracer. It was sweet. I can't wait until I get the full game. Well, will see you on the track soon. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make ch

Re: [Audyssey] beta six of monty

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi William, That is strange. Was it working fine with .Net Framework 2.0? william lomas wrote: > hi tom and all > > i isntalled directx 9.0C fromt he usa games site on my windows xp > virtual machine here, and dot net 3 and when i run monty it just > brings up an error reportany idea

Re: [Audyssey] News for STFC Fans.

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, No, on both accounts. As I mentioned to Dark without the source code I am unable to correct any internal errors with the game. Version 2.0 is a totally new rewrite of the game and will have its own features and issues to work out. Unlike version 1 version 2 will have sapi support, use

Re: [Audyssey] News for STFC Fans.

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi everyone, Before everyone runs away with this like a runaway train I feel it necessary to explain what STFC is and is not. Do to loosing the source code back in 2006 I can only make external changes to the game. No internal upgrades to the executible is being made. In 1.2 I had mistakenly pl

Re: [Audyssey] game environments was: More about Monte bosses.

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yes, the environment was the only change in beat-m-up games like Double Dragon. You started out on the \streets of New Yourk, fought your way through a wharehouse, through the woods, fight on the cliffs, and finally the final show down in the enemies hide out. As for the character chang

Re: [Audyssey] call for magazine html editors

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jose, Yes, that is exactly what Raul is asking. We are looking for someone with html coding experience to tag all the magazines, especially the latest ones, in html so everyone can read them off the Audyssey main site. Jose Lomeli wrote: > Raul are you saying to convert them in to html file

Re: [Audyssey] Action War games

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, No, Lonewolf and Tank Commander are not free, but they do have demos you can play to get a feel for the games in case you want to buy them when you have the money to purchase them. Jose Lomeli wrote: > Hello; Tom, But are they free? I am looking for free > ones. I am short on > cash. Pleas

Re: [Audyssey] Monte: speed/chalenge game

2007-12-03 Thread Yohandy
Why pick up potions? keys only would make it more interesting! hehe - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Monte: speed/chalenge game > Hi Karl, > Interesting. Once I rele

[Audyssey] Harry Potter Game For The Blind

2007-12-03 Thread Jose Lomeli
Hello; Listers, I was wondering. Is there a Harry Potter game for the blind? Where can I download it if there is. Please write back. This is the email address of Jose Lomeli. This email may not be reproduced in any format unless with the written consent of Jose Lomeli. This email does not contai

[Audyssey] A Friendly Reminder from Draconis

2007-12-03 Thread Draconis Entertainment
Greetings gamers, Every year or so we post a similar message as this one. We hope you won't mind indulging us once more, as the need seems to have arisen once again to remind you of something that will help all game developers who offer accessible games for the blind and visually impaired

Re: [Audyssey] Sryth- longHidden cave adventure from VillageofGreenMarsh

2007-12-03 Thread Shadow Dragon
Actually all you have to do is go to Greenmarsh, talk to the village leaders there and they tell you where it is. It then becomes a special location just outside of greenmarsh. - Original Message - From: "Ron Schamerhorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, De

Re: [Audyssey] LW preview?

2007-12-03 Thread Charles Rivard
I recorded the first 4, or maybe 5, and can send them to anyone who asks off list. I can send them through www.yousendit.com - Original Message - From: "Ryan Conroy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:00 PM Subject: [Audyssey] LW preview? > Hello, > > Does an

Re: [Audyssey] lone wolf challenge

2007-12-03 Thread Charles Rivard
I don't know how many were available when you last visited. Check again and see, download and install the ones you don't have, and happy subbing. - Original Message - From: "Scott Shade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:28 AM Subject: Re

Re: [Audyssey] The latest issue

2007-12-03 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi Jim I think that having the link with the developer and date is about the best solution. Thanks for saying about the interview. I'm a regular player and get alot of enjoyment out of the game. I'm enjoying the section of the mag. Now to figure the next person for the hot-seat next iss

Re: [Audyssey] Sryth- longHidden cave adventure from Village ofGreenMarsh

2007-12-03 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi AC Okay so this is the quest you got from griphook. As I recall the map area isn't all that big. I'm not sure if you ever map when playing but that might help. It's not a difficult location to find, I believe. It's sort of like the haunting, suddenly you find where it is. Sorry to not

Re: [Audyssey] The latest issue

2007-12-03 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi Tom I do think it is the simplest way to solve things. I know it's typically used when it comes to reviews, but after having it pointed out, it's a good addition to the devs info as well. Ron - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion lis

Re: [Audyssey] The latest issue

2007-12-03 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi Darren I'm guessing you've been following the discussion about this point, and thanks for bringing it up! Reader feedback! Yippie! *JK* I intend to include as I said earlier the address under the news from developer X, and will be putting together a resource gaming section to be includ

[Audyssey] LW preview?

2007-12-03 Thread Ryan Conroy
Hello, Does anyone know where I can have a preview of lone Wolf? Like are there any audio files of people doing the missions? Thanks, Ryan _ Click for top financial advice. Reduce debt & save for retirement. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.

Re: [Audyssey] first floor question in scw

2007-12-03 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Nicol, I was planning to add that book when I wrote the document but forgot. I will be able to put it in the next patch. Thanks for the check, but in a list of hundreds of things to do I may have missed a few. - Original Message - From: "nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gamers" Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] Sarah And The Castle Of Mischief and Madness.

2007-12-03 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Nicol, shades of the shepherd was a joke game, but any joke game could be developed if there was enough interest in it. - Original Message - From: "nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sarah And The Ca

Re: [Audyssey] HEADLESS HATS IN SCW

2007-12-03 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Nicol, What I meant to say was that even though I thought I fixed the hats some of them are still buggy. I fixed one and then copied the fixed hat to fix the others but it seams I need to go in and test each out. - Original Message - From: "nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gamers" Se

Re: [Audyssey] the vanishing cupboard in scw

2007-12-03 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Nicol, That is exactly what happened in the Harry Potter book. spoiler space In the second HP book the cabinet was broken so it was unreliable as a teleport device. What you found out should not happen all the time. - Original Message - From: "nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gamers"

Re: [Audyssey] audio games lending library

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Feir
Given the current conditions in the accessible games industry, I can't imagine such a thing being very feasible. Most games have a system which only lets them unlock fully once they've been activated and registered. I don't see how developers could give copies of their games to such a lending s

Re: [Audyssey] lone wolf challenge

2007-12-03 Thread Charles Rivard
I've got missions 99A through 99K. I'll send you the Clinton mission once I find out which one it is. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] lone wolf challenge > Hi Cha

[Audyssey] HEADLESS HATS IN SCW

2007-12-03 Thread nicol
I know phil have answered the question already, phil if I understood your question correctly you say that sarah is only suppose to use the first headless hat she picks up, the rest is just there for ornaments. But I would like to use each hat I pick up. It's a nice way of scaring ghosts. --- Gam

[Audyssey] the vanishing cupboard in scw

2007-12-03 Thread nicol
I don't know if my question will give something away so here goes. S P O I L E R I'm quoting from the sarah walk through. quote When you get near it you just hit enter and you will be teleported to a random spot on the floor. End quote Yes, it teleports me to somewhere else but I'm unable to walk

[Audyssey] first floor question in scw

2007-12-03 Thread nicol
S P O I L E R I'm quoting from the sara walk through. quote You'll find a book, Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard. If you try to read it, you may find yourself sleeping! End quote I couldn't find any book in the defense classroom. I walked around in the classroom a few times but the b

Re: [Audyssey] Sarah And The Castle Of Mischief and Madness.

2007-12-03 Thread nicol
Good idea! Btw what happened to the title: shades of the shepherd? Was it only a joke like Thomas' or is it a real game being developed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:31 AM To: gamers@audysse

Re: [Audyssey] audio games lending library

2007-12-03 Thread william lomas
hi, well no as we are a small market and people just purchase what they want On 3 Dec 2007, at 18:03, john snowling wrote: > Hi all. > > A friend on tafn the accessible friends network asked me about audio > games > and if there were such a thing as an audio games lending library or > servi

Re: [Audyssey] audio games lending library

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan
No, I don't think so. To be quite honest it would make little sense to have such a service since most audio games can already be evaluated as demos before you buy them. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Original Message - From: "john snowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers"

Re: [Audyssey] lone wolf challenge

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles and all, Does anyone have a copy of the Clinton mission? That is one of the missions I no longer have in my collection. Though it was a fun mission blasting up the Clinton administration. I wonder if some interested soul would come up with one for the Bush administration. Now, I'd lov

[Audyssey] audio games lending library

2007-12-03 Thread john snowling
Hi all. A friend on tafn the accessible friends network asked me about audio games and if there were such a thing as an audio games lending library or service. Does anyone know if such a service exists? To my knowledge the only game lending is in the sighted world where people can borrow computer

Re: [Audyssey] Action War games

2007-12-03 Thread Greg
Hello Jose, Try going to www.pcsgames.net They have a list of all kinds of games. Hope this helps Greg - Original Message - From: "Jose Lomeli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 10:36 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Action War games > Hello; Listers

Re: [Audyssey] Sryth- longHidden cave adventure from Village ofGreenMarsh

2007-12-03 Thread simon.dowling
hi you need to travel to tryndmoor, and speak to gryphook he will give you a task to undertake. hth http://www.secretsthatwekeep.com/003 Simon creator and owner of the winmx4theblind mailing list. to find out more visit http://groups.google.com/group/winmx4theblind Group email address [EMAIL PROTE

[Audyssey] beta six of monty

2007-12-03 Thread william lomas
hi tom and all i isntalled directx 9.0C fromt he usa games site on my windows xp virtual machine here, and dot net 3 and when i run monty it just brings up an error reportany idea why this may be if beta seven is out soon i'll hold off anyways but that's strange --- Gamers mailing li

[Audyssey] connecting problem

2007-12-03 Thread Claudio Zeni
Hello soundmut! I have a again a connecting problem: Now, i have open the port 2005 on my router but the oter people can't connecting to my server. What's the problem? Regards, Claudio. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Y

Re: [Audyssey] FWD: A web site Game that helps solve world hunger

2007-12-03 Thread Dark
Nice one Jim! the perfect way to get my brain in gear for todays whamming of the thesis of doom! For the record, the game also works incredibly nicely with Hal, I'm already on my 9th word in a row! I'm going to be interested to see if this one can catch me out! Beware the Grue! Dark. - O

Re: [Audyssey] Question about sound rts

2007-12-03 Thread SoundMUD
Greetings. The single player menu should contain the tutorial and the multiplayer maps against the computer. Can you say exactly about which voices you are talking? the units voices (ok, attack, retreat)? is the older version the beta 6? Jean-Luc 2007/12/3, Tom Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Gr

[Audyssey] FWD: A web site Game that helps solve world hunger

2007-12-03 Thread Jim Kitchen
Even though this is not something you would do at work, here is a web site game that works fine with JAWS. http://freerice.com/ The page lets you play a word game of guessing the meanings of various words. For example: food means: angry nourishment trade philosophy To play the game you wou

Re: [Audyssey] The latest issue

2007-12-03 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ron, Thank you. That sounds good. BTW I also very much enjoyed your interview with Mathew Yarrows. And I don't even play Sryth. BFN - Original Message - Hi Jim and others Okay What I think I will do from now on is to ensure the website is with the devs name. Basically have it

Re: [Audyssey] Ashes of angels

2007-12-03 Thread Darren Harris
http://www.ashesofangels.com I did put it in a previous mesage -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: 03 December 2007 04:45 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Ashes of angels ok, where do we go to play this g

[Audyssey] 7-128 Software Problem

2007-12-03 Thread John Bannick
Hi Steve, Sounds like you're running pretty much what I'm running here. Today I'm going to get download tests from other machines to try to figure this out. Will post as soon as I find out something useful. Sorry about the download problems. John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] News for STFC Fans.

2007-12-03 Thread shaun everiss
what about the impulse issue where you can only go to full impulse only and nothing else. Since we will get 1.5 soon does this mean we are half way to 2.0? At 07:56 p.m. 3/12/2007, you wrote: >Hello gamers, >I'm happy to report over the course of this weekend I have successfully >squashed two nag