Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread MissWings
I tried going to the council after I finished the tutorial section and it says they don't have anything for me to do. Guess I'll have to wander around and see what happens! It's an interesting game though. MissWings At 08:52 PM 7/3/2008, Shadow Dragon wrote: There's a link on the site that

Re: [Audyssey] Puppy1 keyboard Issues

2008-07-04 Thread piotru[
well jim i experience those menues problems. that's not good. - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas Ward Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 1:23 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Puppy1 keyboard Issues Hi Thomas, Thank you for your programming

Re: [Audyssey] Puppy1 keyboard Issues

2008-07-04 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Lisa, Thank you very much for letting me know that the menus are working just fine for you. It seems bizarre to me that they work fine for some but not for others. I do also appreciate hearing that they are not working well for others. I will take a look at it for version 2. Thanks

Re: [Audyssey] Puppy1 keyboard Issues

2008-07-04 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Piotru and those having the keyboard menu problem with Puppy1, I found out what the problem is. The delay routine is slightly different from Homer on a Harley and Puppy1. One uses the timer function and one uses the get tick count function. So I will definitely change the Puppy1 one to be

Re: [Audyssey] Not to brag

2008-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Yes, that is one of the things I really like about Puppy1. it isn't a game where you play 10 rounds and it is over. It gets harder and harder until you either top your last score or get to a point where it is humanly impossible. that is the way many of the Atari 2600 games were

Re: [Audyssey] Not to brag

2008-07-04 Thread will lomas
can we remap the right control key though to something else as i dont have one thanks will On 4 Jul 2008, at 14:51, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Jim, Yes, that is one of the things I really like about Puppy1. it isn't a game where you play 10 rounds and it is over. It gets harder and harder

Re: [Audyssey] Puppy1 keyboard Issues

2008-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Hmmm... I'm not sure why that would make a difference, but we will see. Theoretically speaking, both are timers that refresh the state of the application x MS, and deciding on which to use is largely preference unless you are using a console appplication that requires GetTickCount instead

Re: [Audyssey] judgment day 1.2 is here

2008-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, It goes in c:\Windows\System32 Michael Maslo wrote: Where do I put that DX8VB.dllfile at? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at

[Audyssey] Running games on Vista

2008-07-04 Thread Che
Hi all, I finally bought a new computer last week, and it came with Vista premium, as expected, some good, some bad. I realize I need to install directX 9c for games written for that version of DX to work, does anyone have a reccomended way of going about this? I downloaded the DX 9c

Re: [Audyssey] Not to brag

2008-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Will, Jim has already stated he is going to fix that issue in the next release. He is going to use the space key to act as an alternative for the right control key. Just be patient... Also it might help if you actually read all the messages on a topic before repeating your request. As a

Re: [Audyssey] Running games on Vista

2008-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Che, Quote I realize I need to install directX 9c for games written for that version of DX to work, does anyone have a reccomended way of going about this? I downloaded the DX 9c from microsoft, and though I ran it instead of downloading, it asked me for a place to put the files, which I

Re: [Audyssey] Running games on Vista

2008-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Che, Quote If anyone knows of a site I can go to to learn more about using Vista with accessibility software, I'd appreciate it. End quote Not off the top of my head, but it sounds like me or someone else should run a series of podcasts on these sorts of issues. Vista in many respects is

Re: [Audyssey] Running games on Vista

2008-07-04 Thread piotru[
yo chee, tomas toled you about direcx. i will tell you about those 2 other questions. 1. hmmm. you activate it and it goes to demo? did it actovated successfully? i never activated jfw before. 2. the best site i can think of is http://www.blind-geek-zone.net there go to audio. rick harmon did a

[Audyssey] Judgment Day Announcement Question

2008-07-04 Thread Demetry
Hi, what does mean in one of the last levels the voice says A new command feature or so? What is it and maybe how I can use that? Demetry --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your

[Audyssey] question about consoles.

2008-07-04 Thread alex wallis
Hi. has anyone done a comprihensive podcast about consoles? as i've done some googling but can't find anything from an accessibility point of view. I listened to some recordings of people playing games, and they were entertaining yes, but not that informative as to what was happening. The game

Re: [Audyssey] question about consoles.

2008-07-04 Thread chou.clement
Hi Alex. Clement. here... Remember that just because a game is for a console that doesn't mean it'll be for the pc. Most accessible games aren't. There are games that are for both consoles in pcs, but there are some instances where the pc port is lacking compared to the console port, or the

Re: [Audyssey] Puppy 1

2008-07-04 Thread djc
That's terrific Jim. That gives me something to shoot for chuckle *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/3/2008 at 8:54 PM Jim Kitchen wrote: Hi DJC, Here is my puppyrec.txt file. I did just get it in the expert level. Puppy1 record file By Jim Kitchen Record number of enemy

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Yohandy
If you don't really like using mafia, or prefer playing KoL manually, you can log into KoL with mafia, then from mafia open the game in your browser. You get lots of useful features this way, like the ability to use items immediately after obtaining them without having to go to inventory, and

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Yohandy
Well there's always mmg... hahahaha. lots over 90 mill on it. almost cried lol. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Yohandy
btw here's another money making strategy. buy a bunch of items of the month, wait about a year, then sell them at a much higher price. playing the market is also a good way, but rather risky. not as much as mmg though. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Shadow Dragon
I had actually only read about Mafia before now, it sounded pretty neat. I can't figure out how to start it though, when I bring up the program it gives me a pretty much empty window. Do you use jaws with it? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Shadow Dragon
Yeah, I thought about doing the item of the month thing. Some of the items of the month get up to insanely high values. Usually I forget to do it though or don't have the cash that month. One of these days though ... *grin*. - Original Message - From: Yohandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Audyssey]   question about consoles.

2008-07-04 Thread alex wallis
Hi. the ps2 does sound a good option, so are there different games available for the ps2 and psp? and how many games would people estimate are accessible for the psp and ps2 respectively? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL

Re: [Audyssey] Puppy1 keyboard Issues

2008-07-04 Thread Cory
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Re: [Audyssey]   question about consoles.

2008-07-04 Thread chou.clement
There are more games accessible for the ps2 than psp. That's all I can guarantee. As for exact numbers... well, that's hard to say. - Original Message - From: alex wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question

[Audyssey] anyone remember the huuuuge database of topspeed cars?

2008-07-04 Thread Cory
Hi all, On the playing in the dark site, there was a huge list of cars and tracks. A bunch of them were Germin, and they were awesome! While DJC has a good amount of them, there were so so so many more. Does anyone have them and could they possibley zip them up and find me on msn so we can

Re: [Audyssey] anyone remember the huuuuge database of topspeed cars?

2008-07-04 Thread Cory
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Re: [Audyssey] puppy1

2008-07-04 Thread Valiant8086
78k for me, it said I shot 80 planes, I think - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: shaun everiss Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] puppy1 Hi shaun, Thank you very much. Very glad to hear that you like Puppy1 so

Re: [Audyssey] Puppy 1

2008-07-04 Thread Valiant8086
Puppy1 record file By Jim Kitchen Record number of enemy planes shot down 80 for a total score of 79,712 points. on 07-03-2008 By Aaron - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: djc Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:54 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Not to brag

2008-07-04 Thread Charles Rivard
We agree. Let's see who can stay alive the longest, racking up the most points. This is a fun challenge. Now, if we could watch others play and think, Hey, I can beat that. and then they watch you beat their score? This would be another fun aspect. While I don't expect Puppy1 to

Re: [Audyssey] anyone remember the huuuuge database of topspeed cars?

2008-07-04 Thread Demetry
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[Audyssey] Registering dx8b.dll with vista

2008-07-04 Thread Michael Maslo
Hi everyone: I Tried to register the dx8vb.dll file but when I did it and hit enter it just sat there. I turned off the user account controls in vista and it still would not register the file. I did not get a successful message but instead it just hung. I typed regsvr32.exe dx8vb.dll and again

Re: [Audyssey] anyone remember the huuuuge database oftopspeed cars?

2008-07-04 Thread piotru[
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Re: [Audyssey] smugglers 4

2008-07-04 Thread Shadow Dragon
Yeah, I was going to announce this, but I decided to wait till it was accessible. I emailed the author and he said he should be able to make it more accessible by the end of this weekend, he apparently didn't have time before the full release. Can't wait personally, the last smugglers was

Re: [Audyssey]   question about consoles.

2008-07-04 Thread constantine (on laptop)
The ps2, so I hear, is the king of accessible games. The psp is good though, too. Tekken, mortal combat, street fighter and darkstalker chronicles are all good games. There's also the show, I think. But I love tekken 4 for the ps2. I could nearly beat it all the time- I really regret selling it

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Yohandy
mafia is a java application, so you'll need to have the java access bridge installed else jaws won't read a thing. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Shadow Dragon
Huh, didn't know such a thing existed. I'll google it. Thanks man. - Original Message - From: Yohandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion. mafia is a java

Re: [Audyssey] Registering dx8b.dll with vista

2008-07-04 Thread Demetry
Hi Michael, please try this here when you are in the run dialog box: regsrv32 c:\windows\system32\dx8vb.dll That should be work. HTH, Demetry. On 7/4/2008 5:19 PM, Michael Maslo wrote: Hi everyone: I Tried to register the dx8vb.dll file but when I did it and hit enter it just sat there. I

Re: [Audyssey] Running games on Vista

2008-07-04 Thread shaun everiss
Once you have dx9c extracted you need to find the folder you extracted this to and then run dxsetup.exe At 02:41 p.m. 4/07/2008, you wrote: Hi all, I finally bought a new computer last week, and it came with Vista premium, as expected, some good, some bad. I realize I need to install

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Actually, you dont need to google for it. Just visit my developer site http://developers.usagames.us and the link to the Java Access Bridge for Java 6 is about half way down on the Developer Center home page. Cheers. Shadow Dragon wrote: Huh, didn't know such a thing existed. I'll google

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Yohandy
Thing about the dungeon is there are many things that allow a clan to take shortcuts. for instance the sewers are a major pain and annoyance if you don't have the required items and all glyphs. If you do then it'll probably take you a couple of turns. the clan I'm in completes hobopolis

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Shadow Dragon
Thanks. Pretty useful program. Just out of curiosity, does it work with only the JRE environment? Or can it be made to work with other java programs that don't use the JRE. Anyway yeah, played around with KoL Mafia a bit. Seems kind of touch and go in some places, but I'm definitely going to

[Audyssey] Games for the Blind on Nintendo's Wii

2008-07-04 Thread nicol
Hi All I found this article in the newsletter issued by the south African council for the blind. Those who play games on a console will find this interesting. Gamers with impaired vision usually have a hard time finding games they can play with their sighted friends. The researchers at MIT's

Re: [Audyssey]   question about consoles.

2008-07-04 Thread chou.clement
Now Tekken 4 was a good game. Kazuya had the best ending, in my opinion. Unfortunately, I think I lost my disc. - Original Message - From: constantine (on laptop) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] Registering dx8b.dll with vista

2008-07-04 Thread Michael Maslo
Hi: It Opens the dos box but then after that it does nothing else. It does not register the file. It just sits there and does nothing. I do not get a error or anything else. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Demetry Sent: Friday, July 04,

Re: [Audyssey] Kingdom of Loathing discussion.

2008-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, It works with all Java SE appplications that use the standard Sun JRE, and were built using the Swing user interface components. Since Swing is the standard Java user interface that makes most Java apps accessible with the Java Access Bridge at least as far as Jaws 9 is concerned. Other