Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight
Gah, after ten tries I managed to get my goblin thief and his two ogre mages to the granite guardian...and now I'm stuck there...seems no way to beat it when I can barely scratch it and it kills an ogre in a round rofl. God I miss my human warriors! And to top it up, I don't have any shrink/grow scrolls...they never dropped this trip. Even my goblin's sneak+critical+flery attack barely get the guardian to 'injured' lol This is baaad! No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't. Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling-also offering private, one on one self defense training- call or email to book your appointment today! johnnyti...@shaw.ca 1-604-275-2795 Listen to, or buy our music at: http://www.musicsubmit.com/thecat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat http://www.mynoisyplanet.com/TheCAT. http://www.rhythmqwest.com/TheCat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat2 The king who stands poised With claws and fangs, eyes ablaze... The hunt has begun. -Haiku by Johnny Tai - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight you need to make use of any offense scrolls you have, the defense stanse and indeed healing potions. Personally, I found a goblin thief to have better survival value than a goblin warrior, sinse obviously you've got hide and sneak attack to fall back on. My goblin thief was actually not doing too badly, - that was until he came up against my old zombified hard as nales Ogre! that ended the game in pretty short order. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight So I thought...it'd be kind of fun to make a goblin char. And I did...and it appears I can't be anything but warrior or thief. And that's fine, so I picked warrior...I mean, after all, it's always fun to play a warrior... And then the game started and, to my horror, I got me bow and arrows and no skill for them--so okay, lets set out and maybe we'll grab something useable when we kill something? Right out of the door, three goblins await...me dead... ROFL Anyone know of a goblin that's unluckier than mine? --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.9/2426 - Release Date: 10/09/09 18:43:00 --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight
Don't your mages have shrink? Usually I like to specialize my mages in one or two spell schools, - usually lighting or shrink (grow is fun, but imho not quite as useful). Hit the guardian with a high level shrink spell, you can also use your other mage as a second shrinker if necessary and then use a combination of either lightning, sneak attacks or harm scrolls to do it in. Personally, I think the guardian has actually got rather a lot easier this build. Hth. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight Gah, after ten tries I managed to get my goblin thief and his two ogre mages to the granite guardian...and now I'm stuck there...seems no way to beat it when I can barely scratch it and it kills an ogre in a round rofl. God I miss my human warriors! And to top it up, I don't have any shrink/grow scrolls...they never dropped this trip. Even my goblin's sneak+critical+flery attack barely get the guardian to 'injured' lol This is baaad! No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't. Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling-also offering private, one on one self defense training- call or email to book your appointment today! johnnyti...@shaw.ca 1-604-275-2795 Listen to, or buy our music at: http://www.musicsubmit.com/thecat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat http://www.mynoisyplanet.com/TheCAT. http://www.rhythmqwest.com/TheCat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat2 The king who stands poised With claws and fangs, eyes ablaze... The hunt has begun. -Haiku by Johnny Tai - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight you need to make use of any offense scrolls you have, the defense stanse and indeed healing potions. Personally, I found a goblin thief to have better survival value than a goblin warrior, sinse obviously you've got hide and sneak attack to fall back on. My goblin thief was actually not doing too badly, - that was until he came up against my old zombified hard as nales Ogre! that ended the game in pretty short order. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight So I thought...it'd be kind of fun to make a goblin char. And I did...and it appears I can't be anything but warrior or thief. And that's fine, so I picked warrior...I mean, after all, it's always fun to play a warrior... And then the game started and, to my horror, I got me bow and arrows and no skill for them--so okay, lets set out and maybe we'll grab something useable when we kill something? Right out of the door, three goblins await...me dead... ROFL Anyone know of a goblin that's unluckier than mine? --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.9/2426 - Release Date: 10/09/09 18:43:00 --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your
[Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
Hi. poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means no more stat and item keeping, looking up numbers on tables, rolling dice or long drawn out combats. In fact it would make the Lonewolf series function essentially like the fighting fantasy project stuff. For a long while there has been a java application called 7th sense which does this, however sinse I can't read anything with Hal above the title, it's a bit of a none starter, especially as while some Java applications can be incredibly screen reader friendly, when they're not, they're not! and nothing short of a complete rewrite will fix them. So, I was intreagued to here about this online version. The only trouble is it apparently uses the Ms silverlight web addon. I've heard a couple of bad things about silverlight, but is this dependent upon the webpage and design, or implicitely part of silverlight itself. Being as the Lw books are already html text, I'd theoretically assume all Silverlight would need to do is handle all the backgrounds stats etc, but is this wrong? have other silverlight driven projects proved utterly impossible? Any information would be appreciated. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
If this turns out to be accessible, I'll be a happy man indeed. On Oct 10, 2009, at 4:21 AM, dark wrote: Hi. poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means no more stat and item keeping, looking up numbers on tables, rolling dice or long drawn out combats. In fact it would make the Lonewolf series function essentially like the fighting fantasy project stuff. For a long while there has been a java application called 7th sense which does this, however sinse I can't read anything with Hal above the title, it's a bit of a none starter, especially as while some Java applications can be incredibly screen reader friendly, when they're not, they're not! and nothing short of a complete rewrite will fix them. So, I was intreagued to here about this online version. The only trouble is it apparently uses the Ms silverlight web addon. I've heard a couple of bad things about silverlight, but is this dependent upon the webpage and design, or implicitely part of silverlight itself. Being as the Lw books are already html text, I'd theoretically assume all Silverlight would need to do is handle all the backgrounds stats etc, but is this wrong? have other silverlight driven projects proved utterly impossible? Any information would be appreciated. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
I created a temporary website for www.blind-games.com in Silverlight and it didn't appear to be very accessible. It might be possible to make the site accessible with a different methodology. After all, the entire site doesn't have to be in Silverlight. Only the app. Jason --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight
I've tried to beat the granit guardian also, but failed misserable every time, even with an ogre or thief. - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight Gah, after ten tries I managed to get my goblin thief and his two ogre mages to the granite guardian...and now I'm stuck there...seems no way to beat it when I can barely scratch it and it kills an ogre in a round rofl. God I miss my human warriors! And to top it up, I don't have any shrink/grow scrolls...they never dropped this trip. Even my goblin's sneak+critical+flery attack barely get the guardian to 'injured' lol This is baaad! No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't. Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling-also offering private, one on one self defense training- call or email to book your appointment today! johnnyti...@shaw.ca 1-604-275-2795 Listen to, or buy our music at: http://www.musicsubmit.com/thecat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat http://www.mynoisyplanet.com/TheCAT. http://www.rhythmqwest.com/TheCat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat2 The king who stands poised With claws and fangs, eyes ablaze... The hunt has begun. -Haiku by Johnny Tai - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight you need to make use of any offense scrolls you have, the defense stanse and indeed healing potions. Personally, I found a goblin thief to have better survival value than a goblin warrior, sinse obviously you've got hide and sneak attack to fall back on. My goblin thief was actually not doing too badly, - that was until he came up against my old zombified hard as nales Ogre! that ended the game in pretty short order. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight So I thought...it'd be kind of fun to make a goblin char. And I did...and it appears I can't be anything but warrior or thief. And that's fine, so I picked warrior...I mean, after all, it's always fun to play a warrior... And then the game started and, to my horror, I got me bow and arrows and no skill for them--so okay, lets set out and maybe we'll grab something useable when we kill something? Right out of the door, three goblins await...me dead... ROFL Anyone know of a goblin that's unluckier than mine? --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.9/2426 - Release Date: 10/09/09 18:43:00 --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
Well, I'm incredibly sorry to report that the webpages which use the Ap are about as inaccessible as you could imagine! There is literally no text there Hal can read beyond the status bar at all, in fact I even tried saving the page as text and got nothing. I'm certain that Silverlight is installed and running correctly sinse it's there in the addon's section as an enabled Ie addon, however for all that Hal can make of it the page which starts the ap might as well be blank, though looking closely I believe I can see some writing there so I know it is not. I'm not sure what changes if any could be made to make the thing accessible, sinse i'm not even sure what silverlight practically does to make pages textless, but sinse as I said the 7th sense Java Lw program is equally inaccessible and quite probably impossible to make so, I'll contact Dolphin on Monday and ask about silverlight and Hal. There may be experimental maps for it which I don't know about, or something might be in the works on a Hal upgrade. Sinse I don't know how silverlight works I can't really say. It's a shame though that both of the methods of playing lw conveniently are so absolutely inaccessible, particularly as both have extra options such as a hard core mode and a scoring system which sound rather fun. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Orin orin8...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not? If this turns out to be accessible, I'll be a happy man indeed. On Oct 10, 2009, at 4:21 AM, dark wrote: Hi. poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means no more stat and item keeping, looking up numbers on tables, rolling dice or long drawn out combats. In fact it would make the Lonewolf series function essentially like the fighting fantasy project stuff. For a long while there has been a java application called 7th sense which does this, however sinse I can't read anything with Hal above the title, it's a bit of a none starter, especially as while some Java applications can be incredibly screen reader friendly, when they're not, they're not! and nothing short of a complete rewrite will fix them. So, I was intreagued to here about this online version. The only trouble is it apparently uses the Ms silverlight web addon. I've heard a couple of bad things about silverlight, but is this dependent upon the webpage and design, or implicitely part of silverlight itself. Being as the Lw books are already html text, I'd theoretically assume all Silverlight would need to do is handle all the backgrounds stats etc, but is this wrong? have other silverlight driven projects proved utterly impossible? Any information would be appreciated. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
Before I start talking nicely to the developer, I'd be interested to know precisely how much work it'd take to un-silverlight the pages but keep the ap running. Would that in fact be possible? or would it take just as much work and redesign of the entire program as rewriting the 7th sense Java ap would. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jason Allen evildi...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not? I created a temporary website for www.blind-games.com in Silverlight and it didn't appear to be very accessible. It might be possible to make the site accessible with a different methodology. After all, the entire site doesn't have to be in Silverlight. Only the app. Jason --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
Well, who uses hal anymore these days' Hal is inferior to any screen reader you can think of, even NVDA. So before giving up, I would try it with other readers. On 10/10/09, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Before I start talking nicely to the developer, I'd be interested to know precisely how much work it'd take to un-silverlight the pages but keep the ap running. Would that in fact be possible? or would it take just as much work and redesign of the entire program as rewriting the 7th sense Java ap would. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jason Allen evildi...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not? I created a temporary website for www.blind-games.com in Silverlight and it didn't appear to be very accessible. It might be possible to make the site accessible with a different methodology. After all, the entire site doesn't have to be in Silverlight. Only the app. Jason --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] seeking very basic chess instructions
Hey Bryan, that's not the case. I am for example a very stupid chess player, but still can play sound rts and other strategic game very well. I mean, it is not only the strategy that you need to play ches. It is more complicated that all the other strategic stuff. Best regards! Milos Przic msn: milos.pr...@gmail.com skype: Milosh-hs - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 3:00 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] seeking very basic chess instructions That's one thing I like about the set we get from Hadley. THe black pieces have a nailhead sticking out of the top of them so they can be easily distinguished from the white. Then of course they come in two separate little ziplock bags. I'm not a very skilled chess player yet though even after three years. Problem is I'm not a very strategic thinker. That's partly why I don't play games like World of Warcraft or even Sound RTS. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] seeking very basic chess instructions Wow! the Americans are once again proved much ahead of England in terms of Vi acdcess. I had to pay an exorbitant price for an adapted chess set which came with no materials at all. Also, while the pieces are very tactile, the contrast on them is horrible! It's more like slightly light brown vs rather darker brown than black and white, which is really annoying if I want to use my vision as well. I've certainly seen better adapted chess sets than this, but once again showing the Rnib's inherent stupidity, this is the only chess set they sell! Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] seeking very basic chess instructions Some questions for you in order to get you started playing again: What screen reader do you use? If it is JAWS, I can send you a free chess program that you can play against, as well as connect to the Internet to play against others, although I have not tried this feature out as of yet. Do you have an adapted chess set for blind people to use, rather than having to use speech to explore a chess board during the game? I can also help you, probably one on one, as to which pieces move where and the basic rules of the game. Or, there is a totally free correspondence course, either on audio cassettes or in braille, available from the Hadley School for the Blind. All course materials are yours to keep after you complete the course, including a very nice adapted chess set. --- Shepherds are the best beasts. - Original Message - From: Ann Tate tate...@gmail.com To: Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:33 AM Subject: [Audyssey] seeking very basic chess instructions Hi folks, I'm trying to get bakc in to playing chess after being away from it for quite some time. Is there somewhere I can download a very, very basic chess manual or instructions. I'm not looking for fancy strategies at this point, just something in plain English that I can quickly use to remind myself of basic chess moves, which pieces can move which ways, etc. Also, is there anywhere, and with any program preferably free or an extremly low cost, that a totally blind person can play chess online with others? Thanks. ~Ann --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All
[Audyssey] Crysis!
Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system restore However, that's when things went very! wrong. When windows xp restarted, a random window appeared, then it restarted with a default user profile. After several restarts, another go at a system restore and lots of swearing, I read the random window with ms narrator. Said random window says: windows cannot load the user's profile but logued you on with the default profile for the system. the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format Needless to say, this is a baad! state of affiars, and what's worse, outlook express is stil awol! Luckily I A, have this laptop to communicate etc with, and B, have backups of everything on my external harddrive. Stil, the idea of starting everything from scratch on the default profile is pretty hiddeus in terms of amount of work, pluss I'm not sure what I'd be unable to access from my old user profile. Normally, I'd phone dolphin tech support with this sort of issue, but they're not open at weakends, and I'd prefer this fixed Asap. while I know this isn't a tech support list, I'd really! appreciate some help from some of the cleverer people here so as to get this sorted out. If people would prefer to take this off list, just E-mail me on d...@xgam.org. Any help much and distinctly appreciated. Btw, as I said, I'm using windows xp. Luckily hal, though not my individual settings or installs of dolphin orphius, is accessible from the default profile, so poking around windows will at least be possible. sorry again for this, but I am rather stuck here. all the best, Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Bgt beta applications
Hello everyone, Beta application submissions for the Blastbay Gamer's Toolkit (bgt) are now closed. We will be contacting the people who made it into the team over the course of this weekend. I would like to say a very big thanks to all of you who took the time to submit your applications, and I'm only sorry I couldn't put more people into the team as there were many great submissions. I will post updates about the Bgt development every now and then, so that those who are interested but didn't make it into the beta team still have a general idea of what is going on. Again, thank you all very much. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Query
Hi Dark, No, jobs and game programming aren't mutually exclusive but it can be tiring to do both. If you spend 8 to 10 hours a day behind a computer programming for employer x and come home to do more of the same your hands will get tired, your mind begins to fuzz out, and at that point of the day all you want to do is open a Coke and sit back and relax in front of the television or listen to a good audio book. Who wants to program when you have done it for 8 or 10 hours already. Smile. dark wrote: Ooopse! forgot about jim there! Then again, when I started playing accessible games I had a narrower deffinition of what a computer game actually was, and it wouldn't have occurred to me to count something like computerized versions of board or card games for some very odd reason. I now of course know better, but I agree Tom. I'm not a huge fan of E-mail heckling or petitions, but maybe some sort of contact from the community to Justin would be vaguely in order, sinse we certainly miss the in put of new games, and even Liam, who has a coding job has proved that development and jobs aren't mutually exclusive, even if developement does have to slow down somewhat. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Query
Exactly. Aside from your wife and son I'm sure you've got an actual job that demands your attention, and if it involves using a computer I can totally understand why you'd be feeling burned out. I had a temporary job working at a radio station, and while It was cool to operate some of the equipment I would definitely not have wanted to come home to the same thing. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Query Hi Dark, No, jobs and game programming aren't mutually exclusive but it can be tiring to do both. If you spend 8 to 10 hours a day behind a computer programming for employer x and come home to do more of the same your hands will get tired, your mind begins to fuzz out, and at that point of the day all you want to do is open a Coke and sit back and relax in front of the television or listen to a good audio book. Who wants to program when you have done it for 8 or 10 hours already. Smile. dark wrote: Ooopse! forgot about jim there! Then again, when I started playing accessible games I had a narrower deffinition of what a computer game actually was, and it wouldn't have occurred to me to count something like computerized versions of board or card games for some very odd reason. I now of course know better, but I agree Tom. I'm not a huge fan of E-mail heckling or petitions, but maybe some sort of contact from the community to Justin would be vaguely in order, sinse we certainly miss the in put of new games, and even Liam, who has a coding job has proved that development and jobs aren't mutually exclusive, even if developement does have to slow down somewhat. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight
Gah, stupid here did not make them practice shrink since the three parties before never used it rofl. The groups that came before took out the guardian with force alone, so I never thought shrink be useful here... Heck, might have to redo this round. No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't. Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling-also offering private, one on one self defense training- call or email to book your appointment today! johnnyti...@shaw.ca 1-604-275-2795 Listen to, or buy our music at: http://www.musicsubmit.com/thecat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat http://www.mynoisyplanet.com/TheCAT. http://www.rhythmqwest.com/TheCat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat2 The king who stands poised With claws and fangs, eyes ablaze... The hunt has begun. -Haiku by Johnny Tai - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:32 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight Don't your mages have shrink? Usually I like to specialize my mages in one or two spell schools, - usually lighting or shrink (grow is fun, but imho not quite as useful). Hit the guardian with a high level shrink spell, you can also use your other mage as a second shrinker if necessary and then use a combination of either lightning, sneak attacks or harm scrolls to do it in. Personally, I think the guardian has actually got rather a lot easier this build. Hth. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight Gah, after ten tries I managed to get my goblin thief and his two ogre mages to the granite guardian...and now I'm stuck there...seems no way to beat it when I can barely scratch it and it kills an ogre in a round rofl. God I miss my human warriors! And to top it up, I don't have any shrink/grow scrolls...they never dropped this trip. Even my goblin's sneak+critical+flery attack barely get the guardian to 'injured' lol This is baaad! No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't. Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling-also offering private, one on one self defense training- call or email to book your appointment today! johnnyti...@shaw.ca 1-604-275-2795 Listen to, or buy our music at: http://www.musicsubmit.com/thecat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat http://www.mynoisyplanet.com/TheCAT. http://www.rhythmqwest.com/TheCat http://www.cdbaby.com/thecat2 The king who stands poised With claws and fangs, eyes ablaze... The hunt has begun. -Haiku by Johnny Tai - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight you need to make use of any offense scrolls you have, the defense stanse and indeed healing potions. Personally, I found a goblin thief to have better survival value than a goblin warrior, sinse obviously you've got hide and sneak attack to fall back on. My goblin thief was actually not doing too badly, - that was until he came up against my old zombified hard as nales Ogre! that ended the game in pretty short order. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight So I thought...it'd be kind of fun to make a goblin char. And I did...and it appears I can't be anything but warrior or thief. And that's fine, so I picked warrior...I mean, after all, it's always fun to play a warrior... And then the game started and, to my horror, I got me bow and arrows and no skill for them--so okay, lets set out and maybe we'll grab something useable when we kill something? Right out of the door, three goblins await...me dead... ROFL Anyone know of a goblin that's unluckier than mine? --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
[Audyssey] Technoshock Story 5
Hello List, I am still on level 5 of technoshock having restarted the game, and I just obtained the yellow and blue keys, but where might I find the red key? I went through the area where the fireballs were, and i'm now in a room with a door where if I walk too close it kills me do to a trap. any solutions? Sky. p.s. I have ran out of grenades do to the fact that I used them on level 4 to atempt to kill the grenader robot and I succeeded in killing him, however I still had a few grenades left. also, in the game, the robots seem to run twards you really quickly no matter which difficulty level you are on. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Query
Fair enough Tom, and that does make sense. Neverthelessit's quite a shame when something like that can completely force someone out of programming. there's afterall a big difference in stopping entirely and progressing at a slower pace which will actually leave time for your fingers to repair and your brain to cool down betwene code crunching sessions. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Query Hi Dark, No, jobs and game programming aren't mutually exclusive but it can be tiring to do both. If you spend 8 to 10 hours a day behind a computer programming for employer x and come home to do more of the same your hands will get tired, your mind begins to fuzz out, and at that point of the day all you want to do is open a Coke and sit back and relax in front of the television or listen to a good audio book. Who wants to program when you have done it for 8 or 10 hours already. Smile. dark wrote: Ooopse! forgot about jim there! Then again, when I started playing accessible games I had a narrower deffinition of what a computer game actually was, and it wouldn't have occurred to me to count something like computerized versions of board or card games for some very odd reason. I now of course know better, but I agree Tom. I'm not a huge fan of E-mail heckling or petitions, but maybe some sort of contact from the community to Justin would be vaguely in order, sinse we certainly miss the in put of new games, and even Liam, who has a coding job has proved that development and jobs aren't mutually exclusive, even if developement does have to slow down somewhat. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
Any way to restore the registry with a backup you previously made before making the last changes to the registry? Just a thought. --- Shepherds are the best beasts. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:58 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Crysis! Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system restore However, that's when things went very! wrong. When windows xp restarted, a random window appeared, then it restarted with a default user profile. After several restarts, another go at a system restore and lots of swearing, I read the random window with ms narrator. Said random window says: windows cannot load the user's profile but logued you on with the default profile for the system. the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format Needless to say, this is a baad! state of affiars, and what's worse, outlook express is stil awol! Luckily I A, have this laptop to communicate etc with, and B, have backups of everything on my external harddrive. Stil, the idea of starting everything from scratch on the default profile is pretty hiddeus in terms of amount of work, pluss I'm not sure what I'd be unable to access from my old user profile. Normally, I'd phone dolphin tech support with this sort of issue, but they're not open at weakends, and I'd prefer this fixed Asap. while I know this isn't a tech support list, I'd really! appreciate some help from some of the cleverer people here so as to get this sorted out. If people would prefer to take this off list, just E-mail me on d...@xgam.org. Any help much and distinctly appreciated. Btw, as I said, I'm using windows xp. Luckily hal, though not my individual settings or installs of dolphin orphius, is accessible from the default profile, so poking around windows will at least be possible. sorry again for this, but I am rather stuck here. all the best, Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] lw soundpack
Hi. tom can you send me the link to the new lw pack you made? I was doing some fidling but on trying to reinstall things and re do things I found I had the old pack. On that note I am working on a pack of lw using silent hunter 4. I have most of that ready but I need to check, I may try to doothers. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
hmmm silverlite has not always worked for us its not really accessible. However what are the lonewolf gamebooks I thought lonewolf was a gma game but I guess its many things. Also where do I play these lonewolf things with the online silverlite program, also how do you play with the java program, I have jaws 6.20 so I may try this. At 09:21 p.m. 10/10/2009, you wrote: Hi. poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means no more stat and item keeping, looking up numbers on tables, rolling dice or long drawn out combats. In fact it would make the Lonewolf series function essentially like the fighting fantasy project stuff. For a long while there has been a java application called 7th sense which does this, however sinse I can't read anything with Hal above the title, it's a bit of a none starter, especially as while some Java applications can be incredibly screen reader friendly, when they're not, they're not! and nothing short of a complete rewrite will fix them. So, I was intreagued to here about this online version. The only trouble is it apparently uses the Ms silverlight web addon. I've heard a couple of bad things about silverlight, but is this dependent upon the webpage and design, or implicitely part of silverlight itself. Being as the Lw books are already html text, I'd theoretically assume all Silverlight would need to do is handle all the backgrounds stats etc, but is this wrong? have other silverlight driven projects proved utterly impossible? Any information would be appreciated. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
hmmm hal is still good as long as you have the latest version. saying that I wouldn't use just one reader, I use nvda, hal and jaws, however thats my opinion. Hal is good in some things but really bad in others. The good things it does is not putting spurious info everywhere. when you brouse websites then its jaws and nvda, also if you use excell or advanced word functions, and maybe firefox its jaws or and nvda. However for things like eudora and winamp its good also you can turn the voice off on the fly and hotkeys which jaws has not done. It also hardly crashes. At 12:35 a.m. 11/10/2009, you wrote: Well, who uses hal anymore these days' Hal is inferior to any screen reader you can think of, even NVDA. So before giving up, I would try it with other readers. On 10/10/09, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Before I start talking nicely to the developer, I'd be interested to know precisely how much work it'd take to un-silverlight the pages but keep the ap running. Would that in fact be possible? or would it take just as much work and redesign of the entire program as rewriting the 7th sense Java ap would. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jason Allen evildi...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not? I created a temporary website for www.blind-games.com in Silverlight and it didn't appear to be very accessible. It might be possible to make the site accessible with a different methodology. After all, the entire site doesn't have to be in Silverlight. Only the app. Jason --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
Hi Dark, Before performing the system restore did you by chance make a restore point to go back to just in case the system restore failed? If so you should go in to system restore and select the latest restore point you have and try and undo some of the changes made by the system restore. As for fixing Outlook Express that is a fairly easy problem to resolve. All you needed to do was go to the Microsoft web site and download the Internet Explorer setup and reinstall Internet Explorer 7 or 8. After that it should install Outlook Express. P.S. Ever thought about using Mozilla Thunderbird? It is much safer and more secure than Outlook Express and works fairly well with Jaws 10 and Window Eyes 7.11. HTH dark wrote: Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system restore However, that's when things went very! wrong. When windows xp restarted, a random window appeared, then it restarted with a default user profile. After several restarts, another go at a system restore and lots of swearing, I read the random window with ms narrator. Said random window says: windows cannot load the user's profile but logued you on with the default profile for the system. the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format Needless to say, this is a baad! state of affiars, and what's worse, outlook express is stil awol! Luckily I A, have this laptop to communicate etc with, and B, have backups of everything on my external harddrive. Stil, the idea of starting everything from scratch on the default profile is pretty hiddeus in terms of amount of work, pluss I'm not sure what I'd be unable to access from my old user profile. Normally, I'd phone dolphin tech support with this sort of issue, but they're not open at weakends, and I'd prefer this fixed Asap. while I know this isn't a tech support list, I'd really! appreciate some help from some of the cleverer people here so as to get this sorted out. If people would prefer to take this off list, just E-mail me on d...@xgam.org. Any help much and distinctly appreciated. Btw, as I said, I'm using windows xp. Luckily hal, though not my individual settings or installs of dolphin orphius, is accessible from the default profile, so poking around windows will at least be possible. sorry again for this, but I am rather stuck here. all the best, Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
ok, wow you should never try to diddle with your system during an install. Found that the hard way myself and had to fiddle but got it mostly working. I suggest you reformat. Next time wait till java is installed all the way. you should be able to remove msn explorer from windows setup in add remove. you should be able to add outlook express in the same way. uninstall java and put it back in. make a new user for yourself find and delete the other user, better yet if you can get in user accounts and delete the other user then make it again. At 02:58 a.m. 11/10/2009, you wrote: Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system restore However, that's when things went very! wrong. When windows xp restarted, a random window appeared, then it restarted with a default user profile. After several restarts, another go at a system restore and lots of swearing, I read the random window with ms narrator. Said random window says: windows cannot load the user's profile but logued you on with the default profile for the system. the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format Needless to say, this is a baad! state of affiars, and what's worse, outlook express is stil awol! Luckily I A, have this laptop to communicate etc with, and B, have backups of everything on my external harddrive. Stil, the idea of starting everything from scratch on the default profile is pretty hiddeus in terms of amount of work, pluss I'm not sure what I'd be unable to access from my old user profile. Normally, I'd phone dolphin tech support with this sort of issue, but they're not open at weakends, and I'd prefer this fixed Asap. while I know this isn't a tech support list, I'd really! appreciate some help from some of the cleverer people here so as to get this sorted out. If people would prefer to take this off list, just E-mail me on d...@xgam.org. Any help much and distinctly appreciated. Btw, as I said, I'm using windows xp. Luckily hal, though not my individual settings or installs of dolphin orphius, is accessible from the default profile, so poking around windows will at least be possible. sorry again for this, but I am rather stuck here. all the best, Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
Hi Dark, I'm sorry to say this isn't your day old buddy. i've not had much success with Silverlight stuff. I tested the latest silverlight release and it gave Window Eyes 7.x some troubles. So I decided to forget it. Not sure what more I can say other than in myopinion Silverlight isn't very screen reader friendly. If you get it working let me know as I'd like to know if someone has success with Silverlight based content. dark wrote: Hi. poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means no more stat and item keeping, looking up numbers on tables, rolling dice or long drawn out combats. In fact it would make the Lonewolf series function essentially like the fighting fantasy project stuff. For a long while there has been a java application called 7th sense which does this, however sinse I can't read anything with Hal above the title, it's a bit of a none starter, especially as while some Java applications can be incredibly screen reader friendly, when they're not, they're not! and nothing short of a complete rewrite will fix them. So, I was intreagued to here about this online version. The only trouble is it apparently uses the Ms silverlight web addon. I've heard a couple of bad things about silverlight, but is this dependent upon the webpage and design, or implicitely part of silverlight itself. Being as the Lw books are already html text, I'd theoretically assume all Silverlight would need to do is handle all the backgrounds stats etc, but is this wrong? have other silverlight driven projects proved utterly impossible? Any information would be appreciated. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
Hi tom. I initially tried to restore things to a restore point created yesterday afternoon, that was what caused the problem. I've just tried to restore to a point created on the 28th of september, - and exactly the same thing has happened. as for backing up the registry, this is something I've actually never done, in fact I always assumed system restore would sort that type of thing out. I personally never muck about with the registry at all. anymore suggestions? Beware the grue! dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Crysis! Hi Dark, Before performing the system restore did you by chance make a restore point to go back to just in case the system restore failed? If so you should go in to system restore and select the latest restore point you have and try and undo some of the changes made by the system restore. As for fixing Outlook Express that is a fairly easy problem to resolve. All you needed to do was go to the Microsoft web site and download the Internet Explorer setup and reinstall Internet Explorer 7 or 8. After that it should install Outlook Express. P.S. Ever thought about using Mozilla Thunderbird? It is much safer and more secure than Outlook Express and works fairly well with Jaws 10 and Window Eyes 7.11. HTH dark wrote: Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system restore However, that's when things went very! wrong. When windows xp restarted, a random window appeared, then it restarted with a default user profile. After several restarts, another go at a system restore and lots of swearing, I read the random window with ms narrator. Said random window says: windows cannot load the user's profile but logued you on with the default profile for the system. the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format Needless to say, this is a baad! state of affiars, and what's worse, outlook express is stil awol! Luckily I A, have this laptop to communicate etc with, and B, have backups of everything on my external harddrive. Stil, the idea of starting everything from scratch on the default profile is pretty hiddeus in terms of amount of work, pluss I'm not sure what I'd be unable to access from my old user profile. Normally, I'd phone dolphin tech support with this sort of issue, but they're not open at weakends, and I'd prefer this fixed Asap. while I know this isn't a tech support list, I'd really! appreciate some help from some of the cleverer people here so as to get this sorted out. If people would prefer to take this off list, just E-mail me on d...@xgam.org. Any help much and distinctly appreciated. Btw, as I said, I'm using windows xp. Luckily hal, though not my individual settings or installs of dolphin orphius, is accessible from the default profile, so poking around windows will at least be possible. sorry again for this, but I am rather stuck here. all the best, Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
I'd really rather not reformat if I can avoid it, not the least because I don't have a windows xp disk and it'd mean taking my computer 100 miles back to Nottingham to get it done. as for user accounts, I hate! the things, sinse every single problem my pc has ever had has derived from them. I didn't actually remove outlook express while installing java, - I installed Java and the access bridge first, this just randomly happened when i attempted to fix that removal with a system restore unfortunately. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Crysis! ok, wow you should never try to diddle with your system during an install. Found that the hard way myself and had to fiddle but got it mostly working. I suggest you reformat. Next time wait till java is installed all the way. you should be able to remove msn explorer from windows setup in add remove. you should be able to add outlook express in the same way. uninstall java and put it back in. make a new user for yourself find and delete the other user, better yet if you can get in user accounts and delete the other user then make it again. At 02:58 a.m. 11/10/2009, you wrote: Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system restore However, that's when things went very! wrong. When windows xp restarted, a random window appeared, then it restarted with a default user profile. After several restarts, another go at a system restore and lots of swearing, I read the random window with ms narrator. Said random window says: windows cannot load the user's profile but logued you on with the default profile for the system. the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format Needless to say, this is a baad! state of affiars, and what's worse, outlook express is stil awol! Luckily I A, have this laptop to communicate etc with, and B, have backups of everything on my external harddrive. Stil, the idea of starting everything from scratch on the default profile is pretty hiddeus in terms of amount of work, pluss I'm not sure what I'd be unable to access from my old user profile. Normally, I'd phone dolphin tech support with this sort of issue, but they're not open at weakends, and I'd prefer this fixed Asap. while I know this isn't a tech support list, I'd really! appreciate some help from some of the cleverer people here so as to get this sorted out. If people would prefer to take this off list, just E-mail me on d...@xgam.org. Any help much and distinctly appreciated. Btw, as I said, I'm using windows xp. Luckily hal, though not my individual settings or installs of dolphin orphius, is accessible from the default profile, so poking around windows will at least be possible. sorry again for this, but I am rather stuck here. all the best, Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
I'm talking about the Lonewolf gamebook series from http://www.projectaon.org/new.htmm, a set of incredibly good gamebooks which tell a long ongoing story, have skills and other interesting mechanics, and were originally released in the 1980's but have sinse been made public domain. Usually, though the books are done as html with links betwene the various sections, it's necessary to roll all dice, and keep your own stats and items etc. The silverlight thing was an attempt to automate this process. Sadly though, it doesn't work at all! Beware the grue! dark. - Original Message - From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not? hmmm silverlite has not always worked for us its not really accessible. However what are the lonewolf gamebooks I thought lonewolf was a gma game but I guess its many things. Also where do I play these lonewolf things with the online silverlite program, also how do you play with the java program, I have jaws 6.20 so I may try this. At 09:21 p.m. 10/10/2009, you wrote: Hi. poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means no more stat and item keeping, looking up numbers on tables, rolling dice or long drawn out combats. In fact it would make the Lonewolf series function essentially like the fighting fantasy project stuff. For a long while there has been a java application called 7th sense which does this, however sinse I can't read anything with Hal above the title, it's a bit of a none starter, especially as while some Java applications can be incredibly screen reader friendly, when they're not, they're not! and nothing short of a complete rewrite will fix them. So, I was intreagued to here about this online version. The only trouble is it apparently uses the Ms silverlight web addon. I've heard a couple of bad things about silverlight, but is this dependent upon the webpage and design, or implicitely part of silverlight itself. Being as the Lw books are already html text, I'd theoretically assume all Silverlight would need to do is handle all the backgrounds stats etc, but is this wrong? have other silverlight driven projects proved utterly impossible? Any information would be appreciated. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
aah you don't need to fix that removal with a system restore, its in the add windows setup components I have seen it its like a seperate item. if its checked, uncheck and then recheck it gagain and it should work. At 10:18 a.m. 11/10/2009, you wrote: I'd really rather not reformat if I can avoid it, not the least because I don't have a windows xp disk and it'd mean taking my computer 100 miles back to Nottingham to get it done. as for user accounts, I hate! the things, sinse every single problem my pc has ever had has derived from them. I didn't actually remove outlook express while installing java, - I installed Java and the access bridge first, this just randomly happened when i attempted to fix that removal with a system restore unfortunately. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Crysis! ok, wow you should never try to diddle with your system during an install. Found that the hard way myself and had to fiddle but got it mostly working. I suggest you reformat. Next time wait till java is installed all the way. you should be able to remove msn explorer from windows setup in add remove. you should be able to add outlook express in the same way. uninstall java and put it back in. make a new user for yourself find and delete the other user, better yet if you can get in user accounts and delete the other user then make it again. At 02:58 a.m. 11/10/2009, you wrote: Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system restore However, that's when things went very! wrong. When windows xp restarted, a random window appeared, then it restarted with a default user profile. After several restarts, another go at a system restore and lots of swearing, I read the random window with ms narrator. Said random window says: windows cannot load the user's profile but logued you on with the default profile for the system. the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format Needless to say, this is a baad! state of affiars, and what's worse, outlook express is stil awol! Luckily I A, have this laptop to communicate etc with, and B, have backups of everything on my external harddrive. Stil, the idea of starting everything from scratch on the default profile is pretty hiddeus in terms of amount of work, pluss I'm not sure what I'd be unable to access from my old user profile. Normally, I'd phone dolphin tech support with this sort of issue, but they're not open at weakends, and I'd prefer this fixed Asap. while I know this isn't a tech support list, I'd really! appreciate some help from some of the cleverer people here so as to get this sorted out. If people would prefer to take this off list, just E-mail me on d...@xgam.org. Any help much and distinctly appreciated. Btw, as I said, I'm using windows xp. Luckily hal, though not my individual settings or installs of dolphin orphius, is accessible from the default profile, so poking around windows will at least be possible. sorry again for this, but I am rather stuck here. all the best, Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
Hi Dark, I will outline the steps you will need to take, if you can use that (secondary) user account to full capacity: 1. Since Outlook Express is part of the Internet Explorer 6 package, you will have to install Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, or in your case you may have to downgrade from IE 7 or 8. Here is the link to download Internet Explorer + Outlook Express 6.0 SP 1 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.mspx 2. SSave the download and try to run it on the secondary user account. Lets hope this works... (And do not, fiddle around with anything during the install/downgrade process :-p) Hope this helps. Tristan -- Tristan B TrekGames.net Cosmos - TrekGames.net, port 1234. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 9:58 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Crysis! Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system restore However, that's when things went very! wrong. When windows xp restarted, a random window appeared, then it restarted with a default user profile. After several restarts, another go at a system restore and lots of swearing, I read the random window with ms narrator. Said random window says: windows cannot load the user's profile but logued you on with the default profile for the system. the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format Needless to say, this is a baad! state of affiars, and what's worse, outlook express is stil awol! Luckily I A, have this laptop to communicate etc with, and B, have backups of everything on my external harddrive. Stil, the idea of starting everything from scratch on the default profile is pretty hiddeus in terms of amount of work, pluss I'm not sure what I'd be unable to access from my old user profile. Normally, I'd phone dolphin tech support with this sort of issue, but they're not open at weakends, and I'd prefer this fixed Asap. while I know this isn't a tech support list, I'd really! appreciate some help from some of the cleverer people here so as to get this sorted out. If people would prefer to take this off list, just E-mail me on d...@xgam.org. Any help much and distinctly appreciated. Btw, as I said, I'm using windows xp. Luckily hal, though not my individual settings or installs of dolphin orphius, is accessible from the default profile, so poking around windows will at least be possible. sorry again for this, but I am rather stuck here. all the best, Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
Hi Dark, Ouch! That really is a serious problem, and one kind of hard to fix via e-mail. Without actually standing there looking at your system it is pretty hard to say what is wrong, give advice and or solutions, when I can't eyeball the status of your system firsthand. I'm sure there is probably a solution here, but never the less it may be easier to reformat the system. A good product recovery doesn't hurt now and then anyway. It just means you are starting out with a fresh install, clean registry, and whatever is screwing up your system restores will be hopefully fixed. If you can't or don't want to do a product recovery you'll have to find someone over there to try and reverse the problem. HTH dark wrote: Hi tom. I initially tried to restore things to a restore point created yesterday afternoon, that was what caused the problem. I've just tried to restore to a point created on the 28th of september, - and exactly the same thing has happened. as for backing up the registry, this is something I've actually never done, in fact I always assumed system restore would sort that type of thing out. I personally never muck about with the registry at all. anymore suggestions? Beware the grue! dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
Hi Dark, Umm...If these Lonewolf game books are public domain perhaps I could convert them to an open source text adventure system like Sryth. I've been meaning to write an RPG or game book style game anyway and I'd have no problem converting an existing game to a more accessible format as soon as my schedule lightens up after MOTA. What do you think? dark wrote: I'm talking about the Lonewolf gamebook series from http://www.projectaon.org/new.htmm, a set of incredibly good gamebooks which tell a long ongoing story, have skills and other interesting mechanics, and were originally released in the 1980's but have sinse been made public domain. Usually, though the books are done as html with links betwene the various sections, it's necessary to roll all dice, and keep your own stats and items etc. The silverlight thing was an attempt to automate this process. Sadly though, it doesn't work at all! Beware the grue! dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!
Hi Dark, Okay...That's something of a big problem. I know you said you don't have an XP cd, but do you have a product recovery partition on your hard drive? I ask because most new computers don't come with installation disks any more. With my Compaq laptop I have to install Vista from a product recovery partition already present on the laptop's hard drive. There is an option to burn it to a cd or dvd, but by and large it is done by starting up the computer and running the install from a hard drive partition. If not it might be helpful to get a copy of XP for just these kinds of emergencies. dark wrote: I'd really rather not reformat if I can avoid it, not the least because I don't have a windows xp disk and it'd mean taking my computer 100 miles back to Nottingham to get it done. as for user accounts, I hate! the things, sinse every single problem my pc has ever had has derived from them. I didn't actually remove outlook express while installing java, - I installed Java and the access bridge first, this just randomly happened when i attempted to fix that removal with a system restore unfortunately. Beware the grue! Dark. --- 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 or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
