Re: [Audyssey] Information on the offer and game.

2012-05-25 Thread dark
Hi Tom. I have really fond memories of the gamecube and gba player. I'd used the super gameboy on the Snes to play a couple of original gb titles full screen, particularly Metroid Ii (yes, I love the metroid series). I'd heard about the new metroid and mega man games on the gba, and of course

[Audyssey] Entombed discussion list?

2012-05-25 Thread Keith Stormcloud Steinbach
Hi, does anyone have the subscription info for the entombed discussion list? I'd like to subscribe using Outlook eExpress if possible, as to nat have to mess with a google or yahoo email address. Thanks Keith Proud user of Window Eyes 7.5.4.1 Reach me at: hea...@mchsi.com and on skype at:

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed discussion list?

2012-05-25 Thread shaun everiss
entombedgame-subscr...@googlegroups.com or is it + I forget. If you have a google address at all the first time you do a google group your address and account updates to use that service without any capchas. I was pleasantly supprised when subscribing to groups with my gmail address. At

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed discussion list?

2012-05-25 Thread dark
Hi Keith. The address for the list is entombedg...@googlegroups.com if I remember rightly you just need to send an E-mail with subscribe in the subject. No need to muck about with web mail interfaces or the like, I use outlook express for it myself. hth. Beware the Grue! Dark. -

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed discussion list?

2012-05-25 Thread goshawk on horseback
to subscribe, you send an e-mail to: entombedgame+subscr...@googlegroups.com the plus before subscribe, rather than dash, which is more frequently used on most other list servers, tends to trip a lot of people up. Simon - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers

[Audyssey] thoughts on getting dos football game running under iOS

2012-05-25 Thread alex wallis
Hi list, on an old dos computer I still have from the early 90s, I still have an old football club management game, called soccer manager, made in about 1991 I believe, by new era software. The game is entirely text based, the idea is that you are the manager of a football club, you can't

[Audyssey] friday's out of sight events

2012-05-25 Thread Charles Rivard
Here are the events scheduled for Friday, May 25th: Zilch 1:00 PM eastern Hosted by Diane Location: Come Roll Them Dice Roll the dice and take your chances! Try to snag as many points as possible but you better know when to quit otherwise, you'll lose it all and Zilch out! Join us for this

[Audyssey] sound card or drivers needed

2012-05-25 Thread Charles Rivard
I would like to create some audio walk throughs to show others how I go through games, playing the game while describing what I am doing. I would also like to be able to go into a voice chat room and run David Greenwood's GMA dice program and talk to people at the same time, and have them hear

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Charles Rivard
I would say that an incorrect spelling would be an incorrect answer. On the TV show, a slip of the tongue is a wrong answer. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: birdlover2...@hotmail.com;

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread bpeterson2000
I actually did have a handheld Jeopardy game that used multiple choice. Life, don't talk to me about life. -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:34 PM To: birdlover2...@hotmail.com ; Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread bpeterson2000
Yeah. Not long back there was a guy who pronounced Wimbledon as Wimbleton and got penalized. My grandma just about had a stroke. Life, don't talk to me about life. -Original Message- From: Charles Rivard Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 6:57 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Charles Rivard
That would make the game much easier to play. Ever known an answer, almost? You know it, it is right there on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't get it! This would eliminate that problem. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message -

[Audyssey] Friday's out of sight events corrected

2012-05-25 Thread Charles Rivard
Here are the events scheduled for Friday, May 25th: Zilch 1:00 PM eastern Hosted by Diane Location: Come Roll Them Dice Roll the dice and take your chances! Try to snag as many points as possible but you better know when to quit otherwise, you'll lose it all and Zilch out! Join us for this

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread dark
I know jeopardy is a really popular us quiz show, but when they attempted to port a version to England it never caught on at all, and I couldn't to be perfectly honest see the attraction, sinse mostly it just seemed to me a case of a normal quiz where you just had to insert the words what is

[Audyssey] Mach 1 tts

2012-05-25 Thread Jim Kitchen
Mach 1 log for 5/24/2012 By Jim Kitchen Your time for 50 laps on the Maple Leaf Tri Oval Track is, 39 minutes 18 point 9 7 9 seconds. which is slower than the record, by, 4 point 1 4 5 seconds. The record is 39 minutes 14 point 8 3 4 seconds. By Jim on 5/22/2012. You finished the race

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, You make a very good point about spelling the answers in a Jeopardy game. And the multiple choice doesn't seem to be a real good solution either. My other problem with making a Jeopardy game is that I do not own a data base of questions and answers. That is what has been nice

Re: [Audyssey] Baseball

2012-05-25 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Well at least in real life the Tigers did not beat the Indians with a walk off homer. After the Tigers beating the Indians 10 straight games last year, the Indians just swept a 3 game series from the Tigers. And are now 8 games above 500. Woo Hoo! BFN Jim Any ship can be

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread bpeterson2000
Like I said, I had a handheld Jeopardy game that used multiple choice. It came with a book which is where the clues were. So the game would give ou the number of a clue to answer and you'd find that clue in the book. THen you'd push te little buttom that corresponded with te letter of your

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
I've got a version on cd, and while you do need to use the mouse in selecting the question, the answers are spoken by Johnny Gilbert and you just type in the answer. No need for a question form. It's probably about 15 years old now. On 25-May-2012 11:53 AM, bpeterson2...@cableone.net

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread bpeterson2000
What? It's not Alex? Life, don't talk to me about life. -Original Message- From: Ron Schamerhorn Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 10:12 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy? I've got a version on cd, and while you do need to use the mouse in selecting

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Alex does commentary on the answers but not the actual answers. Strange I know. On 25-May-2012 12:17 PM, bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: What? It's not Alex? Life, don't talk to me about life. -Original Message- From: Ron Schamerhorn Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 10:12 AM To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] new and wanting game suggestions, please!

2012-05-25 Thread Caitlyn and Nickels
where can I get swamp zombies from? I'll check out the second site, too, having a blast with the others people have suggested as well! Cait On 2012-05-14, at 2:06 PM, Ken wrote: Swamp Zombies--that's the best, most addictive game you will find. There are also my games at www.ThePionEar.net

Re: [Audyssey] thoughts on getting dos football game running under iOS

2012-05-25 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi Alex, I would be interested in this if you could get it going. I would also help in any way I could as this kind of game i'd love to play. I love football manager games. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] sound card or drivers needed

2012-05-25 Thread shaun everiss
Charles you ask quite a technical answer. Firstly teamtalk at www.bearware.dk is quite a good system to use. the servers onj2.andrelouis.com and onj3.andrelouis.com have good chanels. they are british hosted servers though. You may at times have delays but mostly they work in new zealand quite

Re: [Audyssey] Mach 1 tts

2012-05-25 Thread Jim Kitchen
Finally! no crashes and a decent pit stop. Mach 1 log for 5/25/2012 By Jim Kitchen Your time for 50 laps on the Maple Leaf Tri Oval Track is, 38 minutes 37 point 7 1 2 seconds. Which sets a new record! by, 37 point 1 2 2 seconds. The record was 39 minutes 14 point 8 3 4 seconds. By Jim

Re: [Audyssey] Mach 1 tts

2012-05-25 Thread lenron brown
how can i find this game and does it work with win 7 thanks On 5/25/12, Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net wrote: Finally! no crashes and a decent pit stop. Mach 1 log for 5/25/2012 By Jim Kitchen Your time for 50 laps on the Maple Leaf Tri Oval Track is, 38 minutes 37 point 7 1 2 seconds.

Re: [Audyssey] sound card or drivers needed

2012-05-25 Thread Trouble
Well you can google Diamond sound card and find the makers of that sound card. Also drivers won't do what you want either. Now with a computer that old your options are limited, because not sure if you have USB ports or even PCI ports. See most sound cards today are either USB or PCI. The old A

Re: [Audyssey] sound card or drivers needed

2012-05-25 Thread Trouble
And Shaun, Just what are you talking about? Did you even read the email? At 05:21 PM 5/25/2012, you wrote: Charles you ask quite a technical answer. Firstly teamtalk at www.bearware.dk is quite a good system to use. the servers onj2.andrelouis.com and onj3.andrelouis.com have good chanels. they

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, That may be, but the other problem I see hear is there are multiple ways to Fraze the same question and be correct. Using my example from before if you are given an answer like he was the first president of the United States there are a number of ways to state the correct

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Really? Did you find it too easy to play, or did you think it was challenging enough using multiple choice. Also did it ask you to press 1, 2, or 3 or A, B, C? Cheers! On 5/25/2012 9:00 AM, bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: I actually did have a handheld Jeopardy game that used

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Precisely my point. A lot of people often don't pronounce certain names or words correctly and end up spelling it wrong as a result. Confusing Wimbledon with Wimbleton is a easy mistake to make, and the game wouldn't be forgiving enough to take poor spelling into account. Cheers!

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Charles Rivard
How much of a problem would there be as far as a database large enough to prevent repeat questions that would decrease replay value? --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Sure. I think we've all been there one time or another. I can remember plenty of times listening to Jeopardy on TV, and I'll have the answer right on the tip of my tongue but can't recall it just at that second. Then, when someone gives the correct question its like why didn't I

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Charles Rivard
You would have to program the game so that it would check for George Washington is anywhere in the question. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread bpeterson2000
I'd say it was still challenging since you still had to guess the answer even though you had choices to pick from and it was A, B and C, plus a Pass option. Life, don't talk to me about life. -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 8:23 PM To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, I guess what sets Jeopardy apart from other quiz shows is that the rules are a bit different from your average quiz show. Instead of asking the contestants questions they are given an answer and they are suppose to supply the correct question. So its backwards from the normal

[Audyssey] A possibly playable game for Ios.

2012-05-25 Thread Tom Randall
Hi all. Well I’ve regretably not had a lot of time for gaming lately, will hopefully be able to find some time to fire up my ps3 and do some butt kicking on SC5 or Streetfighter over this long weekend. Anyhow I was doing some looking around the app store on my Ipad and found a game called

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Well, I don't own a database of questions either, but I'm pretty sure I could create one pretty easily. Thanks to my college education I often times can hold my own when listening to Jeopardy, and my extensive studying of history, geography, science, art, and music could probably be

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, I agree. Multiple choice is really the only way to do it. Basically, something like Jim Kitchen's trivia game accept with the Jeopardy music, Jeopardy rules, and so on as close as we could get. Cheers! On 5/25/2012 11:53 AM, bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Like I said, I had a

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, That would depend on how many categories and questions were added to the game's database. As with any other kind of game the more someone develops it, maintains it, the larger the database will grow. At first it may only have say 50 per category but that could easily grow to a

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Yes, but its a case of easier said than done. I've never been good with string comparisons and in a case like this the key word would have to be simply Washington since his titles such as General and President are irrelevant in this case, and his first name is simply optional.

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi ryan, Sounds good. I definitely think I'll give that a try. Cheers! On 5/25/2012 11:16 PM, bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: I'd say it was still challenging since you still had to guess the answer even though you had choices to pick from and it was A, B and C, plus a Pass option.

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Thomas. With having different catogories you would have to make them random. For exsample when you go to play the game you may have books games music, but the next time you play the game you may have different choices. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Of course. That was what I was planning on doing once there is enough categories to have a wide random selection. On 5/26/2012 1:13 AM, michael barnes wrote: Hey, Thomas. With having different catogories you would have to make them random. For exsample when you go to play the

Re: [Audyssey] new and wanting game suggestions, please!

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Cait, You can get the latest version of Swamp from http://www.kaldobsky.com/audiogames and you might want to check out some of his other games as well. Castaways remains one of my favorites and Towers of War is also a pretty interesting game too. Cheers! On 5/25/2012 3:04 PM, Caitlyn

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?

2012-05-25 Thread Alfredo Castaneda
Hello Thomas, I noticed that in some jeopardy programmed, there are teams, and categories for x points. You can choose your category, as well as how many points. If a player say, gets the question correct, they get those points, and the player who got the correct question gets to pick another