probably true kay, I've actually never invested or needed high
performance tools.
What I have is quite poor but it does what I need which is not that much.
My brother has a 64 bit system but 32 bit software.
he plans to get 64 bit software, stuff runs quite fast on it, though
I am not sure what
ok probably true tom.
But blueray costs loads, no one has it on their systems yet as far as
I know and I wouldn't even bother getting the disks, dvd quality is
good enough for me.
I only use mp3 and wav with some oggs as it is.
At 03:09 p.m. 13/01/2011, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
That's actually an
Hi Kai,
Yes, I do. My first computer was an Apple A2-E, and as funny as it
sounds now the entire OS, Apple Works, was run from a 720 KB floppy.
As I recall you stuck the floppy in, booted up, entered the date,
pressed enter, flipped the floppy over, hit enter and the Apple Works
command prompt sta
Hi Charles,
Well, that’s certainly one way of looking at it. There is even a term
for it. It is called "perceived obsolescence." The basic idea of this
marketing strategy is to take a product you have, repackage it, change
the look or feel a little bit, and attempt to market it as a new
product ev
Greetings Thomas.
Remember the days when a 1 KB file was a large file, and 128 KB of RAM was
standard, and 1 MB was an expensive luxury akin to today's 3-terrabyte
devices?
Those were definitely the days.
brun textalker.obj
Kai
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Hi Kai,
Definitely. Not only that as I said earlier the issue just isn't
related to memory as some people believe. There is a serious issue for
programmers when we have to support/map extremely large files to the
file system. Now days with blue ray, high definition digital camras,
etc it is becomi
I'd be glad to host previously menchened wiki if there is enough
interest, and the gods don't mind. It could be helpful, yet again, it
could be anoying to those that have put forth time and effort to find
their itmes, quests, and such themselves.
On 1/12/2011 11:35 AM, Orin wrote:
Agreed. Th
Unfortunately, you're right, and the cost of such so-called innovations is
borne by the customers who probably didn't want those improvements or the
headaches they cause, anyway.
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So they're ripping you off while making you think they're not. In the case
of trying to find moved settings, though, it seems to me like it's less
functional or, at best, no better than the predecessor, more confusing, and
more expensive. I still agree with my subject line in this case.
In t
Hi Thomas,
I notice that switching to Neospeech from other voices does take quite a
while in Windows.
I think about 30 seconds so if you put a wait statement in for that long,
maybe that will clear up the switch.
Phil
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I couldn't agree more.
We are the Knights who say...Ni!
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From: "Charles Rivard"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:11 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] if it ain't broke,don't fix it - Re: Sticks version game
pads.
As for finding settings,
Hey when will they put the update on their site for this game? I still
can't configure all of the buttons for the game what do I do?
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Blinks? ...
Blind individuals may also be involved in creative projects which require
resource-intensive programs, such as Sonar which may load soft synths, sound
fonts, and a multitude of other memory-consuming components.
There definitely is a good reason to have the high memory, assuming y
Hi Shaun,
That's actually an over simplification of the facts. Most people
assume it has to do with 4 gb of ram, but that isn't the problem at
all.
With a 32-bit file system you can not easily create or map a file that
is larger than 4 GB of size. This includes a wav file, avi file, mpg
vidio cli
Hi Charles,
I don't know. Maybe the Microsoft developers are mad as a hatter,
crazier than a bed bug, or outright loons. Grin.
Actually, there is a reason but it doesn't make sense to the common
user from a practical standpoint. Essentially, from a business
perspective one way to resell a softwa
well you can find interesting things in weird places in the market charles.
At 02:16 p.m. 13/01/2011, you wrote:
I would think that it should logically be under game
controllers. Why the heck would it be elsewhere? Like not finding
Pringles potato chips in the potato chip isle of a grocery
st
well I don't see any reason why us blinks need 64 bit.
what I understand is that programs can only use the first gb of ram,
so 1 gb per program.
in 64bit, you can use 4gb per program. or more.
Unless you do image design or something you don't need that much.
Sertainly for us blinks we don't even
Hi Charles,
Because this is Microsoft we are talking about. Changing the user
interface every version or two for the sake of changing it seams to be
Microsoft's reason for everything. Why there isn't a "Game
Controllers" option under Windows 7 when there clearly was one under
Vista is probably jus
I would think that it should logically be under game controllers. Why the
heck would it be elsewhere? Like not finding Pringles potato chips in the
potato chip isle of a grocery store. They're with canned snacks instead,
because the package is a can instead of a bag. They are, after all, pot
As for finding settings, why do they keep getting moved into different
locations? Why can't they just leave well enough alone? If they were
logically located in previous versions of Windows, leave them there. The
same goes for the desktop and the menu system. In Microsoft Office, the
pulldo
Hi Ron,
That is always possible. I've also thought of something else that
might be to blame too. If I remember correctly I installed and
configured the Philips 2909 back when I was running Vista so when I
updated to Windows 7 all of my settings, drivers, etc were pretty much
kept in tact. That als
That might be the difference Tom.
You're running it in a 32 bit world and at least I'm trying to run it in a
64 bit world.
Maybe we just can't get the force feedback to work in a k64 bit world.
Ron
Ron Kolesar
kolesar16...@roadrunner.com
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With them fixing the problem is the game version going to be 3.1 or is
it still 3.0?
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yes, there is a fix for that now. they just need to update the main
installer. i have tested the new file myself, and it works well with a
gamepad and a wheel. so should be good now.
dallas
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Hi,
Both of those were released before Windows 7 came out. I happen to be
running Windows 7 32-bit and the drivers seam to work just peachy. So
it could be an issue of 32-bit vs 64-bit or you guys just aren't
looking in the right place.
On 1/12/11, Valiant8086 wrote:
> Hi.
> Um. the sgc2909 and
its on the forum, another stab at an accessible mario its called
On 1/12/11, Troy Sullivan wrote:
> I don't see it on there anymore.
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> From: "ryan chou"
> To: "Gamers Discussion list"
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] accessibl
Hi.
Um. the sgc2909 and sgc2910 apparently don't have correct drivers for
win7. My sgc2910 doesn't seem to work with force feedback either. You
say there's a checkbox to enable force feedback. my sgc2910 doesn't have
that. Weird.
I'll probably be getting a racing wheel at some point soon. May
I don't see it on there anymore.
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To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] accessible super mario game?
hi troy,
if you look on audiogames.net, there is another attempt at an accessible
smb
Hey, did they ever updated the top speed game that fix the problem we
all was having with the configure your controller?
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yeah add those to I guess.
though I am not sure how usefull these are.
At 10:28 a.m. 13/01/2011, you wrote:
There are 4 additional dtmf tones that are only used in certain things
like the military etc. I wonder if I should add these
On 1/12/11, peter Mahach wrote:
> hi nicol,
> dtmf stands for
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neat idea! I always wanted to learn how to decode those. you gotta have
extremely accurate pitch for that. my pitch is accurate, but I doubt to that
extreme lol. my friend's really good at figuring them out though
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To: "'Gamers Discussion list'"
Sen
Hi,
Well, Windows 7 no longer has the "Game Controllers" option in the
control panel. It is now located under "Devices and Printers." Strange
place for it, but I didn't have that much trouble finding it.
On 1/12/11, Shiny protector wrote:
> It should be game controlers.
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Hi Muhammed,
I explained it in an earlier post. Don't you read your e-mail?
Essentially, what I was refering to is some game consoles and PC games
have special game controllers in the form of a boxing glove used for
boxing games. I haven't seen them around for quite a while, but I do
know they d
Firstly, bread is 5 letters, not 4. That must be an error in the game.
There is a type of bread that is made with zucchini, although you cannot
taste the squash in the bread.
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Sent:
What do you mean, boxing gloves? I used them in the boxing club that I went
to. Is it boxing gloves like that?
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From: "Thomas Ward"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT future development
Hi,
FYI. Rac
Kay.
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From: "Thomas Ward"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!
Hi Muhammed,
No. I simply mean pressing the enter key to create a manual line break
when starting a new statement or if a statem
Maybe Bill hid it.
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From: "Ron Kolesar"
To: "Audyssey"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:46 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Some good news and some bad news.
First of all, I thank those who've been trying to help me out with my
problems configuring my Philips 2909 so th
It should be game controlers.
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From: "Ron Kolesar"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sticks version game pads.
Ok Tom.
Here's what's in the control panel.
action center, back up and restore, date and t
There are 4 additional dtmf tones that are only used in certain things
like the military etc. I wonder if I should add these
On 1/12/11, peter Mahach wrote:
> hi nicol,
> dtmf stands for something like dual tone modulating frequencies or something
> like that. Ok, ever dialed a phone? did you hea
Hi,
Yeah, I really like Ultraedit. One of its features I love is it can
read and save both Dos text and Unix formatted text files. This makes
porting code too and from Linux a snap.
On 1/12/11, Kai wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> It does work like that; In your text editor, you write a line of code, wri
Hi Muhammed,
No. I simply mean pressing the enter key to create a manual line break
when starting a new statement or if a statement is too long to fit on
a single line. For example, some compound if statements are way too
long to fit on a single line of code so I press the enter key to make
a manu
Hi all,
I contacted the developer of this game. The core of the game is accessible, the
story. However, the story requires you to hack into terminals, help people with
networking, etc, as the main character you're Well rounded with combat but you
primarily perform hacking operations.
The hacki
hi nicol,
dtmf stands for something like dual tone modulating frequencies or something
like that. Ok, ever dialed a phone? did you hear those little beeps? Those
are dtmf's. That are used by switching Equipment to see what number you
dialed. They're also used by voicemale's to know what number
Hi Jim,
I know. I do the same thing to reset the Speech Engine before
switching to Neospeech, Natural Voices, whatever. Problem is though
the Neospeech voices continue to sound fuzzy, distorted, etc even
though I properly disposed of the old Sapi speech engine and
initialized the new one. I don't
Hi Nicol,
That one is easy. It is zucchini bread. I guess you don't know this
but people make bread out of zucchini here in the states.
Smile.
On 1/12/11, NIcol wrote:
> Hi all
> I find chane link a very interesting but challenging game.
> I often cannot complete a chane as quite a number of w
Sounds interesting!
What is dtmf tones?
I've never heard of it.
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Behalf Of Oriol Gómez
Sent: 12 January 2011 09:21 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] thinking of coding a game dtmf gu
How about throwing up the link to the site for down loading the updated
program.
Crash
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From: "Davy Kager"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Top Speed 3 now available
Top Speed 3 should now finally be a
Hi all
I find chane link a very interesting but challenging game.
I often cannot complete a chane as quite a number of words are unfamiliar to
me so I have to often ask all the letters of a word from the game so that
I only have to get the last letter in a word Probably because I do not live
in
Agreed. The newbie quest guides on the Islands would be good as well, for
example the Temple priestice quest, and all the other ones that aren't too
odvious.
Orin
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On Jan 12, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Tj Squires wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi,
I know this is completely irrelavent to the topic at hand a little
anyway, but, it would be nice if we had an AA wiki with area directions,
places for some good eq, and leveling guides. For those such ad lindzy
and myself who have toruble with that sort of thing.
Sorren a.k.a. Tj
On 1
well yes I have heard of perfect pitch in fact I have perfect pitch
myself that's why I thought of making this game. Because even though
you might have perfect pitch, itstill requries some people to think
for a whileuntil they get it right unless they're very very used to
it. Not with musical notes
Sounds a cool idea.
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Sent: 12 January 2011 07:21
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] thinking of coding a game dtmf guess
Hi,
I'm thinking of coding a simple game,
Lori,
There's a bunch of different sound packs for different clients - if
you can tell me which one you're using, I can try to find the person
who maintains the soundpack for you. If it's the Mush client, you can
probably get help using the 'zt' channel in-game.
There are quest walkthroughs for
Hi I'm new to Alter Eaon playing as Lucie a Cleric. I'm having a problem with
my soundpack, when I try to walk I get an arror message saying the sounds for
footsteps won't work properly. Also I'm finding navigating the game hard, I
keep running up against imps and losing my way in fields. I'm
Ever heard of perfect pitch? It's going to make for some interestingly
high scores methinks.
Scott
On 1/12/11, shaun everiss wrote:
> I think this a fantastic idea.
>
> At 08:21 p.m. 12/01/2011, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I'm thinking of coding a simple game, called dtmf guess. Basically,
>>you have 60
Marina,
Can you tell us the highest level areas you're able to go to safely?
I see that you're a fighter, so if you're having a lot of trouble with
lower level areas it's probably that your equipment is mismatched for
your character. For a fighter, the most important types of equipment
are those
Top Speed 3 should now finally be able to properly handle 12 buttons, two
sliders, and a wheel.
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From: "Jim Kitchen"
To: "Davy Kager"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Top Speed 3 now available
Hi Davy,
Yeah, you know, I was think
Hi Davy,
Yeah, you know, I was thinking that the 10 buttons may just have been the
number of buttons that the code found on the joystick (steering wheel) that I
had plugged in at the time. It may find more or less depending on what stick
or pad I plug in.
BFN
Jim
Just one little typo a
Top Speed can do that with joystick buttons, and possibly more, as well.
But it would appear that the input manager had some issues (we don't touch
that code too often). Also I meant to send the full changelog to Audyssey,
thinking that the list wouldn't mind a 25 KB file. But I think it didn'
Hi Thomas,
I know that in my games I need to reset the sapi5 voice engine before changing
engines. That is going from an AT&T voice to a Neo Speech, Microsoft or
Cepstral. Otherwise the voice is all very distorted and fuzzy.
So I do the below code whenever changing to a new voice. nov being
Hi Kai,
In VB6 and DirectX 8.1 I can look for up to 10 buttons. That is button 0
through 9.
For n = 0 To joyCaps.lButtons - 1
If js.Buttons(n) <> 0 Then
So this looks for which of the 10 buttons has been pressed.
I do have some trouble in using the second stick on a game pad. Don't know
I think this a fantastic idea.
At 08:21 p.m. 12/01/2011, you wrote:
Hi,
I'm thinking of coding a simple game, called dtmf guess. Basically,
you have 60 seconds to guess as many dtmf tones as you can, and then
there will be score boards and stats.
I might possily include other modes, for example
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