Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Karl
Hi, I got one of these last summer, and never installed the software, so I don't have the profiler or the force feedback drivers. Is there a place where I can download them? Karl Original message: lol, I hadn't come across this email yet. Sorry for taking up your inbox contact info: Msn: ckad.

Re: [Audyssey] commenting on the phillips game controler.

2009-01-21 Thread Constantine
Wow, I had no idea iether. I still have ps2 and gamecube controllers lieing around somewhere. I actually have a pc controller, but never have got it to work. I love the idea of the retractible USB cable, so I think I'll just go snatch one of these suckers up and carry it with me and my netbook

Re: [Audyssey] Calling all truck game players.

2009-01-21 Thread Constantine
...wow. Relax... Thought maybe he was talking about Jims website, and, reading it a bit more, shrug, it could've been a beta, who would've known? Maybe he changed the layout and I wasn't aware of it. Not to mention his game could sort of seem like an RPG. contact details: email: tcwoo...@sh

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Cory
lol, I hadn't come across this email yet. Sorry for taking up your inbox contact info: Msn: ckad...@gmail.com skype: corykad111 aim: corykadlik111 emails: ckadl...@verizon.net, ckad...@gmail.com Have an awesome day, Cory - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, J

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Cory
how much do these things run? Thanks contact info: Msn: ckad...@gmail.com skype: corykad111 aim: corykadlik111 emails: ckadl...@verizon.net, ckad...@gmail.com Have an awesome day, Cory - Original Message - From: "Bryan Mckinnish" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: [Audyssey] commenting on the phillips game controler.

2009-01-21 Thread Yohandy
that's exactly what it is. A device with two controller ports, and a USB cable attached to it. It's awesome. - Original Message - From: "Lukás Hosnedl" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] commenting on the phillips game contr

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I know. The profiler is nicer than the one that comes with the Logitec game pads. Though, I generally don't recommend messing with the profiles. If I tell you an action for MOTA is on button 6 and you mapped something else to that button, oops, you have to figure out which button now

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Trenton, True, but I always felt the Tomb Raider side-scrollers were nowhere as good as the FPS games. I've played Tomb Raider Prophecy which is a decent side-scroller, as far as side-scrollers goes, but some of the full FPS games are so much more indepth. Trenton Matthews wrote: And to cl

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I definitely recommend holding the chord when winding it back up. If you let it wind too fast there is a chanse you can accidently break the cable. Fortunately, I read some online reviews about this device before purchasing it, and I read someone stating basically the same thing you a

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Bryan Mckinnish
Another cool thing is you can assign any keyboard button to one of the joystick buttons, and make your own profiles. That's another feature I like. --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Thanks for the correction. I didn' try the game controller with Topspeed so obviously I wasn't aware of its force feedback abilities. I'm glad it does have it though. Sheepish grin. Bryan Mckinnish wrote: Hi. If you install the software that is on the minidisk supplyed with the con

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread djc
This game controler actually does have force feedback in it Tom. The only game I have that uses it is top speed but it works great. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/21/2009 at 7:27 PM Thomas Ward wrote: >Phillips SGC-2909 Review > >by Thomas Ward > >Jan. 21, 2009 > > >Recently ther

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Trenton Matthews
And to clarify, there are currently 3 games in the TR series that are sidescrollers on the "gameboy" platform. On 1/21/2009 10:29 AM, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi Lukas, > Yeah. Though, adding that cross platform support isn't the easiest or > funnest thing I've done in a while. The Alpha 0.4 engin

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Che
I bought one of these last year, and it works great, only problem is it has a bad connnection where the extendable cable meets the body. This is probably due to me letting it snap back in place when I wound it up, so I would recommend holding one end while you press the wind button to avoid a

Re: [Audyssey] Calling all truck game players.

2009-01-21 Thread Lukás Hosnedl
Reading the original e-mail itself should give you a very clear answer to this question, as Jim's Trucker is definitely not a browser-based RPG like game, and more. People, please, pay more attention to the stuff you come across. *sigh* Lukas - Original Message - From: "Constantine" T

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Trenton Matthews
*giggles, grins bright* Now that, cracks, me, up! Trenton, the T Man! On 1/21/2009 8:57 AM, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi Trenton, > Big grin. I guess if you did the voice overs I'd have to change > Angela's profile to a guy dressed up in women's cloathing. Now, that > would be a unique character pr

[Audyssey] Counterstrike mud

2009-01-21 Thread Che
Shadow dragon mentioned a mud that played like counter strike, and I was wondering if there are any good muds out there that actually do this. I used to be a counter strike addict when I could see, and other than racing Formula one online against 20 other racers, it remains the most fun I eve

Re: [Audyssey] commenting on the phillips game controler.

2009-01-21 Thread Lukás Hosnedl
If only I had known there were converters like this around. Thanks so much for the advice. Just for clarification, how do these things actually work? Are they another small device that you just plug the controller into and it can then be connected to a USB port or so? This would be the very cool

Re: [Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Bryan Mckinnish
Hi. If you install the software that is on the minidisk supplyed with the controler, you get a profiler program, and the force feedback drivers. I love how topspeed handles that. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@aud

[Audyssey] Philips SGC-2909 Review.

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Phillips SGC-2909 Review by Thomas Ward Jan. 21, 2009 Recently there has been a lot of talk about the new Phillips SGC-2909 game pad sold in many retail stores across the U.S.A. It sells on average for approximately $15.00 USD. As an owner of an SGC-2909 game pad myself I can say it is a f

Re: [Audyssey] Calling all truck game players.

2009-01-21 Thread Constantine
Wow. I'm checking this out, and the site is back up. This is..interesting, to say the least. Its a good thing, in a way, the site went down, haha. contact details: email: tcwoo...@shaw.ca and others msn: the_conman...@hotmail.com skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA n

Re: [Audyssey] Calling all truck game players.

2009-01-21 Thread Shadow Dragon
Trucker isn't an RPG. This would be that weird trukz game. I think its at www.trukz.com. but don't quote me on that. -- From: "Constantine" Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:06 PM To: "The Kolesar Brothers" ; "Gamers Discussion list" Subject:

Re: [Audyssey] Calling all truck game players.

2009-01-21 Thread Constantine
Is this Jim Kitchens 'Trucker'? contact details: email: tcwoo...@shaw.ca and others msn: the_conman...@hotmail.com skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, c

Re: [Audyssey] Calling all truck game players.

2009-01-21 Thread Cory
what's the address so if I wanna try it? Thanks contact info: Msn: ckad...@gmail.com skype: corykad111 aim: corykadlik111 emails: ckadl...@verizon.net, ckad...@gmail.com Have an awesome day, Cory - Original Message - From: "The Kolesar Brothers" To: "Audyssey Mailing list" Sent: W

Re: [Audyssey] [Spam] ShadowMere

2009-01-21 Thread dark
Hi. I'll have a look, but I'm afraid I can't be too enthusiastic about yet another text fantasy empire management and competition game. The introduction looked more nicely written than most, and it did mention quests though once again all the standard things "compete against thousands of play

[Audyssey] ShadowMere

2009-01-21 Thread Parham Doustdar
Hi there, I just found this strategy turn-based, browser-based, text-based game that I thought I'd share with you. It's called ShadowMere and it's located at http://www.shadowmere.de Good luck! --- Contact info: Skype: parham-d MSN: fire_lizard16 at hotmail dot com email: parham90 at GMail dot co

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lukas, Yeah. Though, adding that cross platform support isn't the easiest or funnest thing I've done in a while. The Alpha 0.4 engine for MOTA was really stable on Windows, but now that I have switched the code over to the cross platform Genesis engine I'm experiencing a lot of updates and

Re: [Audyssey] Sryth-The Demonscourge

2009-01-21 Thread Bryan Peterson
D'oh... - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sryth-The Demonscourge Hi Bryan, Lol! Um... Did you intentionally forget to put the e in one? I am not making fun of you, but i found it e

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Lukás Hosnedl
Yeah, thanks for the explanations, this makes perfect sense, and you are the very right person in the very right place to do this. May your desire have enough fuel to bring many true gaming gems to life. :-) Lukas - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list"

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Lukás Hosnedl
Just great! This should also make the development a bit faster and much less exhausting for you, I think. I just can't wait to see the results and to give you constructive feedback as one who has also seen and played a few of the Tomb Raider games with sighted assistance when the right time and

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread william lomas
well i know we are off topic but firefox does not work for the blind mac user at all On 21 Jan 2009, at 15:39, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Lukas, Smile. Well, with Mac OS X sudden growth in popularity, Ubuntu Linux now firmly rated the third desktop PC operating system world wide, etc it only m

Re: [Audyssey] Sryth-The Demonscourge

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Lol! Um... Did you intentionally forget to put the e in one? I am not making fun of you, but i found it extremely funny when you said, "that's a hard on," when you probably meant, "that's a hard one." Grin. Bryan Peterson wrote: That's a hard on. I'm debating it myself. I like the To

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Trenton, Big grin. I guess if you did the voice overs I'd have to change Angela's profile to a guy dressed up in women's cloathing. Now, that would be a unique character profile wouldn't it? Lol! Trenton Matthews wrote: Um, ... um, ... I was going to only do a voice for the menus, not for

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Lol! Good one Willem. I don't quite think that is what Trenton had in mind. Willem wrote: *Smile* I hope you have a high voice, as you'll be pretending to be Angela. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.or

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Trenton, Smile. I appreciate the offer, but I was hoping to find a female vocalist for the game's menus as well as for doing Angela's voice in the game. Smile.. Trenton Matthews wrote: Hi Tom! For a sapi option, I'd use scansoft Samantha. For a human voicing option, I'd be happy to help ou

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lukas, Yeah, I have heard some text to speech systems worse than Eloquence. The FreeTTS text to speech system for Java that 7-128 uses in their gamebook drives me up the wall. The E-Speak text to speech system isn't much better. Although since Orca, that's the Linux screen reader, uses E-Sp

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lukas, Smile. Well, with Mac OS X sudden growth in popularity, Ubuntu Linux now firmly rated the third desktop PC operating system world wide, etc it only makes sense that software companies are migrating to cross platform software design. One reason Mozilla's Firefox web browser has taken t

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lukas, Correct. Besides a desire to do the game my own way, with my own imagination, etc I've been writing a story that goes along with the game. In fact, I have a couple of different Tomb Hunter game stories in the works. This time I really want to do something that is based on my own meri

Re: [Audyssey] commenting on the phillips game controler.

2009-01-21 Thread Yohandy
You know, you could always use an actual ps2 controller. I got this converter from ebay a while back for around $3 that allows me to do this. so now I play killer instinct on snes emulaters using my ps2 controller. pretty cool actually. Original Message - From: "Lukás Hosnedl" To: "The K

[Audyssey] Calling all truck game players.

2009-01-21 Thread The Kolesar Brothers
Hello to those playing the truck dirving rpg game. I just wanted to let you know that for some unknown reason the web page is down. Maybe thy're up grading the web page from a beta to the full web page. But for now you can't get into the game. Just thought you all would want to know about this. Ro

Re: [Audyssey] commenting on the phillips game controler.

2009-01-21 Thread Lukás Hosnedl
Hi,wow, this sounds just cool! Looks like this controller would be perfectly usable with a Play STation console emulator on the PC, as it has all the necesary buttons and even in similar shapes and places, and 4 more in addition. I would definitely buy it but maybe would prefer to have a look at

Re: [Audyssey] commenting on the phillips game controler.

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ron, Cool! I'm glad to hear that you got your game controller. 67 kills in Puppy 1 eh? Not bad! Playing with a joystick is a bit different and takes a bit of practice doesn't it? I think that it is more fun than with the keyboard though. However I still score better with the keyboard in

Re: [Audyssey] Sryth-The Demonscourge

2009-01-21 Thread Bryan Peterson
He'll probably just tell you it's your own choice. As for the Dreadstones, the other two apparently aren't live yet. - Original Message - From: "Jimmy Odin Kristoffersen" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:34 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sryth-The Demonscour

Re: [Audyssey] Sryth-The Demonscourge

2009-01-21 Thread Shadow Dragon
One thing you have to realize about sryth is that the game master does everything in parts, generally everything doesn't go in at once. The other two stones, for example, haven't been put in yet (see latest update.) There're a lot of loose ends floating around sryth that could use tying up. The

Re: [Audyssey] Sryth-The Demonscourge

2009-01-21 Thread Jimmy Odin Kristoffersen
Ok, what about the stones of dred? Where can i find the last two stones? I think i'll wright to the gamemaster and ask about the hammer. - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:02 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sryth-The

Re: [Audyssey] Alien verses predator mud

2009-01-21 Thread Shadow Dragon
I agree, the regular AVP mud is total crap. It's a shame AVP legend died, that was a much better game. It was almost like the regular AVP codebase wise, but it was more like counterstrike rather than exploration. You had a home base and you grabbed some equipment based on your character build an