Re: [Audyssey] castaways, women of loose morals?

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
The game cycles through all peasants, giving a random chance for one to become pregnant if they are not ill, injured, or currently in the middle of a task. If no one ended up getting pregnant, the process is repeated for everyone else that is not a peasant. How busy a person is, and their

Re: [Audyssey] Castaways: primary character dies, what happens?

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
To keep things fair, other people in co-op do not lose their Christopher person. So my Christopher character died during a game.  I wondered what effect this has on any co-op partners?  Do they get to share a new person, or am I just gone to them? --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] suggestion for building constructions in castaways.

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
I've put this on my list of things to do. Hi Jeremy, two more suggestions I like to be able to open, close and destroy my buildings when my cursor is focussed there. And I think it will be helpful if i know that  the building is closed. This way, the only time i need to enter is to check how

Re: [Audyssey] Awesome homer: How do you know if you are near a pit?

2011-08-11 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Alfredo, The only pit that does not make a sound is the one on the first level. And if you are running in the direction of that pit, you are running in the wrong direction. You need to run to the left, the direction that Gonk the ape carried Marge off to. HTH BFN Jim I started

Re: [Audyssey] Is this thing on?

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello Sylvester, There has been no disruption of service regarding the Audyssey list. There has been mail going through without disruption for a long time now. So whatever seems to be the problem with you recieveing mail from the list is most likely on your end of things. In the future if you

Re: [Audyssey] getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Sure. There isn't anything on the GMA website about the GMA engine, because David Greenwood won't share any information about it unless you purchase a demo/evaluation version of the software. Which as I recall was something like $50 just for the evaluation version or something like

Re: [Audyssey] getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Oh, I see. Well, I really haven't any idea why developers do that other than perhaps some marketing strategy. They probably feel by offering different content for one version and not making it available to the other will interest you in buying both versions to get the extra features

[Audyssey] Castaways, finished mission 2 on normal

2011-08-11 Thread Christopher Bartlett
Ok, some thoughts after finally massacring those bloody yeti. I never built a monastery. Tome production has become really hard to manage, and I just never found it a sufficient priority. I did build a tannery, but never got around to assigning a leatherworker. Three leather is probably a

[Audyssey] Free Chess Program for the Blind - Winboard 4.5 for JAWS

2011-08-11 Thread David D. Acevedo
Hello Friends, I am pleased to announce the release of the first state of the art Chess program for the blind called Winboard 4.5 for JAWS. This is a modification of the popular WinBoard/Xboard program. This program is for the blind, low visioned and persons who can not use a mouse and is free

Re: [Audyssey] Free Chess Program for the Blind - Winboard 4.5 for JAWS

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dave, What about those of us who don't use Jaws? Is there any plans in the works to support other screen readers like NVDA, Window-/Eyes, System Access, or perhaps add generic Sapi 5 support? The reason I ask is while I truly appreciate what you are doing I'm not going to download a demo of

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA running jump keys

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Phil, No problem. I'll modify the keyboard commands in the appendix. I just thot that control+arrow was specific enough, but I guess not. On 8/7/11, Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net wrote: Hi Thomas, It's good that the alternative keys work. The Apendix does need a little revising though.

Re: [Audyssey] getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Gauler
Hi Thomas, why did you post the E-Mail about your thoughts on the GMA engine twice? I really did get it twice... Butlet's think for a moment I was interested in the GMA engine. How was I supposed to get such info like you told me here when David doesn't say anything about his site. I mean, to

Re: [Audyssey] Arachne

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Greg, No. Arachne was a peasant girl who challenged Athena to a weaving contest. When Arachne lost she then tried to hang herself. Athena took pitty on the girl and changed her into the queen of spiders. Arachne is a half-woman half-spider creature of Greek mythology. In the game Arachne is in

Re: [Audyssey] getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Well, sorry but I certainly didn't intend to send the same message twice. It was an accident. Anyway, I think one reason David Greenwood doesn't publish much about his engine is he took it off the market while he upgrades it. I'm not even sure David Greenwood is still offering

Re: [Audyssey] getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Bryan Peterson
Exactly. I discuss a lot of the games I would want to create or see created in audio form. I just had a rather wicked thought about that not too long ago, brought on by aving heard some blind gamers complain anytime some new developer tries to introduce a little real challenge to the market. I

Re: [Audyssey] Castaways, finished mission 2 on normal

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
Congratulations on beating mission 2 on normal. :D I can see that I have a lot to respond to in this post, so I might as well take it as an opportunity to update people on what I've been doing for the past week and a half. Real life has been doing a great job at keeping me off of the

Re: [Audyssey] getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Gauler
Hi Thomas, since we are talking about engines, what about your Genesis engine? Will it be your own closed thing, or will you someday offer it as a commercial product and if so, will it be a pure scripting solution like BGT or will it contain tools like the failed audio game maker or any similar

Re: [Audyssey] Free Chess Program for the Blind - Winboard 4.5 for JAWS

2011-08-11 Thread Willem
Hi. I understand the project is open source? This means that if you think your screen reader needs to be supported, add the support yourself or ask someone nicely to add it if you don't have time or expertise in the API. This is one of the great things of open source. On 8/11/2011 3:55 PM,

Re: [Audyssey] Free Chess Program for the Blind - Winboard 4.5 for JAWS

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Willem, Sorry, I wasn't aware it was open source. That wasn't made clear in Dave's message.If so then I will check it out, and will look at adding Sapi or additional screen reader support when my current schedule lightens up. Cheers! On 8/11/11, Willem dwill...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I

Re: [Audyssey] getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Yikes! Battle Toads was one very very hard game. I never got the hang of playing that game when I could see let alone play it blind. However, you are right. The standards in difficulty for mainstream games are often far higher than any accessible game. The people who make an issue

Re: [Audyssey] getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Bryan Peterson
Yeah, but it'd probably make MOTA, Shades and Q9 seem simple by comparison LOL. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:15 PM Subject: Re:

[Audyssey] Engines was getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, As far as the Genesis 3D Engine goes I'm still undecided about weather or not to market it, and if so what features I should add to market it. However, I suspect if I release it to the general public I'll add some sort of scripting engine like Angelscript to the engine so that it

Re: [Audyssey] Engines was getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Philip Bennefall
Hi Thomas, Just a small correction here for good measure. Smile. BGT can, if the end user so wishes, be fully object oriented. While it does have a lot of functions that are done in a procedural style such as alert, input_box and the like for very low level/trivial tasks, the majority of the

[Audyssey] Winboard 4.5 for JAWS - Other Reader Support

2011-08-11 Thread David D. Acevedo
Hello Thomas, The subject of other readers of course came up immediately. The programmer H.G. Muller, ever up for a challenge, dove into the issues and made progress. He is a very busy guy this is for sure and even though the Winboard for JAWS source sort of fell, well it did fall into our

Re: [Audyssey] Engines was getting a emulator for the blind.

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi philip, Ah, I stand corrected. Well, I will confess the majority of my knowhow about BGT came from one of the earlier manuals released when BGT was in beta testing, and I have as yet not gotten around to reading the 1.0 documentation. It might be a good idea if I take the time one of these

Re: [Audyssey] Castaways, finished mission 2 on normal

2011-08-11 Thread Steady Goh
For mission 2 on easy, I just create hunters and butchers and they can supply sufficient food. At the same time cloth come in faster. There's a problem of cloak disappearing. Not sure if this has been reported. Those created before barracks is done are not carried there when barracks is up.

Re: [Audyssey] Free Chess Program for the Blind - Winboard 4.5 for JAWS

2011-08-11 Thread Charles Rivard
I'm not sure if this version is open source or not. --- Security is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of the Lord. - Original Message - From: Willem dwill...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:02 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Free Chess Program for the Blind - Winboard 4.5 for JAWS

2011-08-11 Thread Willem
The previous version was under the gpl, which enforces open source, and as far as I know this one is too. On 8/12/2011 1:59 AM, Charles Rivard wrote: I'm not sure if this version is open source or not. --- Security is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of the Lord. - Original