[Audyssey] lone wolf mission 7 - Re: games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
Yes, the deck gun is your ship sinker in mission 7. I always seem to torpedo hospital ships that I would usually shoot beyond. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: "john" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012

Re: [Audyssey] storm eight games.

2012-06-09 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi, how do you invest income if you've got all the land you can unlock for a certain level? Just buy more of it. In world war at level seven or eight i'm making about 10500 per hour from buildings at the moment. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the

Re: [Audyssey] OT: Quick help with JAWS.

2012-06-09 Thread QuentinC
Insert+2 for a temporary change, or : * Look in user settings in configurator for jaws 11 and before * Look in user settings subtree in the settings center for jaws 12 and after In both case, the setting you are looking for is typing echo. You can search directly for it in the search field if you

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Lisa Hayes
and sod, shades of doom is a goodie i like too. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "Darren Harris" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too? speaking of lw, that's

Re: [Audyssey] change reaction - Re: games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Lisa Hayes
Change reaction isnt one i've played a lot of, don't know why, but JIm Kitchen';s battleship game i've never won, but play it loads along with his other games. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "Charles Rivard" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Se

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Darren Harris
speaking of lw, that's my favourite game i think from david greenwood. i prefer it to gtc or even toc and i like both of those games. apart from the actual gameplay, i thought the sound affects of lw were brilliant. i would love to see lw on a multiplayer platform. that would bring so much t

Re: [Audyssey] storm eight games.

2012-06-09 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, that depends on who you ask. I personally start building income at level 7 and 8 for most games. For example, I've been camping in World War at level 10 for a few months now. Before level 10, I stayed at level 8 for 3 months. My goal is to reach 20 or 25 million per hour and then race up to

[Audyssey] OT: Quick help with JAWS.

2012-06-09 Thread michael barnes
Hey, I know this is off topic, but I just need help with one thing concerning JAWS. Can someone please tell me how to turn on word and character eccho? I am not sure where to go to do this. Thanks! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamer

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread john
Dark, if your stuck on a mission just skip it. You've got plenty others to play. - Original Message - From: "dark" I agree on the speakers, however my problem with lone wolf is I found it hard to begin with, now I pick it up and can barely complete mission one, let alone more, so getti

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread john
Your thinking of mission seven. Mission five is the one where you have a group of cargo ships guarded by destroyers passing between two islands. My personal way to finish that one is to set myself up in the middle of their root and just chip down the numbers. As far as mission seven goes, I thi

[Audyssey] change reaction - Re: games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
Adding the left or right shift to the arrow keys tells you the coin to your left or right respectively. Down arrowing tells you what is down the stack. The object is to find 3 coins vertically or horizontally and exploding them by dropping the coin you are given onto the correct stack. You sho

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
I'll bet that's the reason, although I hadn't thought about it from that angle. It is a great game, but how the heck to you conquer those ships of level 3? That's one level that I've never gotten through without really blowing it. It's the level in which the ships head for the edge and then

Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers

2012-06-09 Thread bpeterson2000
Oh they've been in the states since at least the nineties. I remember my sister babysat a kid who was obsessed with those cartoons. Life, don't talk to me about life. -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 7:24 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [A

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
The hospital ship mission is 7. Mission 5, I think?, is the one in which cargo ships and destroyers are moving between 2 islands, and you must destroy them. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussio

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
It's one of those strategic action games that is well worth the time to get used to playing again. I like it even better than GMA Tank Commander, another great game. Also, FYI, these is no e at the end of my first name. I've noticed you spelling it Charlese, and it should be Charles. (May y

Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Interesting. I didn't even know Thomas was that old. Perhaps it hadn't been imported to the States until later, but the first I heard of the Thomas cartoons and toys was in 2004 when my son Sean was born. Before that I had never heard of it. In any case the game my son Sean has is like S

Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, I think we all know by now that RNIB are run by bureaucrats who do nothing else but push their own limited view of blindness on everyone else, and because the younger generation such as yourself are out numbered by elderly members you'll have to wait until your generation is old eno

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread shaun everiss
Mine are shades of doom, and last crusade funnily enough. Then there are the games by jim kitchen all of them, gtc and then lonewolf they are timeless. The bsc stuff is good, though I have was able to beat hunter. lworks is good but never managed to get all trophies in judgement day or in act b

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Same here. I don't consider myself ignorant or lazy, but have slipped up and said Aliens in the Outback a number of times myself. I believe the reason is that Aliens in the Outback sounds grammatically correct while Alien Outback sounds grammatically wrong. Even though Alien Outback i

Re: [Audyssey] Change Reaction

2012-06-09 Thread John Snowling
Hi. What is change reaction? I can't remember hearing about that game sounds interesting. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 1:36 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too? Hi Dark, I definitely think

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
Well, speaking for myself, I'm certainly not a lazy person, and I have used "Aliens in the Outback" as the game's name quite often, probably because of having seen that acronym for a number of years. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - F

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread bpeterson2000
There's also the fact that if you select the credits option from the main menu one of the Australian fellows who helped with the game calls it Aliens in the Outback. Life, don't talk to me about life. -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:28 PM To: Gam

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I definitely think you should. I love Lone Wolf, and it is by far and away one of my favorite games. Part of that is because it reminds me of games like Aces of the Deep and 688 which I played until I could no longer see them, and the other reason is once you get good at it the game is ha

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Lol! Interesting thoughts there, but I suppose you are right. Alien Outback does sound better than Aliens in the Outback. |Although I think one reason for the confusion between the two is subconsciously or consciously we try to make it grammatically correct. Cheers! On 6/9/12, dark wr

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread bpeterson2000
I definitely agree about Sryth. Life, don't talk to me about life. -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:18 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too? Hi, Well, I think for me the game I keep coming back to is

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Keith, Monkey Business is about this evil scientist, Dr. Wobble, who apparently tears Dr. Smegles teleporter apart and let Smegles monkies go. You, as Smith, must travel the world catching the lab monkies and finding and fixing the teleporters before putting Dr. Wobble out of business. Its a bi

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, I think for me the game I keep coming back to is Sryth. Although, I am a bit disappointed with the amount of adventures designed for those players who like to grind I still think there is quite a lot of content that keeps me continuing to play the game. So here is some of the reasons why

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Keith "Stormcloud" Steinbach
What is monkey business about, or what is it like? I isntalled what I thought was a demo, but it won't let me play. Keith Proud user of Window Eyes 7.5.4.1 Reach me at: hea...@mchsi.com and on skype at: keith.steinbach1 - Original Message - From: "Lisa Hayes" To: "Gamers Discussio

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Lisa Hayes
I find the games that keep bringing me back are, pinball, monkey business and some of my old dos favoutires huge cave and any varients of that one and sos thati can't play now and any god text adventure like lgop wishbring or moonmist. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Orig

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread dark
Hmm, the only use of the acronym I see is in the name of the desktop icon, the file for launching the game is ao.exe, and the setup file is aosetup. In the manual, the program group, on Draconis' own site and on audiogames.net and pcsgames.net the game is just called alien outback, --- so goo

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread dark
Hi Charlese. I agree on the speakers, however my problem with lone wolf is I found it hard to begin with, now I pick it up and can barely complete mission one, let alone more, so getting back into stride with all those many controls and calculating angles just seems too much of a chaw for me,

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread dark
i should probably try change reaction again, sinse I could never get into the game when i first tried the demo, though I admit that partly this might be a country thing, sinse some of the coins were American ones which were unfamiliar and which i'd not really heard of before. I think for

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Ron Kolesar
Hey Charles, you ask a great question. Because you're not the only one who'd like to know the answer to this curious question. I've always known it asAliens In The Outback. So maybe someone can educate us all. Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states "that a service dog beats a cane paws dow

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread dark
Interesting Darren, though in fairness it's a little hard for me to choose sinse I rarely give a game drive or favourites space if I don't think it'll be replayable at least some! time in the future, even if just for repeating the experience at some stage, like watching a filnm again. i've thus

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Ben
Most likely a mistake by users in certain countries or lazy people :d -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: 09 June 2012 21:42 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back

Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers

2012-06-09 Thread dark
Funny you should mention thomas the tank engine board games Tom, sinse one of my earlier childhood memories when I was learning braille was my mum labeling a Thomas board game for me, basically a roll the dice to reach the end type of game with a few special squares. I must have been abou

Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers

2012-06-09 Thread dark
Hi Tom. what frustrates me is when I discussed with the rnib some other leasure activities, i was stone walled. I suggested that they create tactile rp dice for instance, as well as accessible versions of tabletop rp manuals because rp is such an accessible activity that blind people could par

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread dark
Hi That sounds great Ian, that your trying new things, it's just a shame your in a minority. While I know cleaquey behaviour isn't limited to the blind at all Tom, I tend to find blind people are especially bad about it. In one sense i can understand the reason why, sinse if you've always be

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
The acronym is AITO, which stands for Aliens In The Outback. However, the desktop icon and the user's guide refer to, as you say, Alien Outback. So, with this in mind, does anyone on the list recall where Aliens in the Outback came from, as well as the acronym, AITO? Just curious. --- Sheph

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
From www.gmagames.com Lone Wolf. It takes planning and strategy, there are many different types of missions thanks to mission creators, there are more than one way to skin the proverbial cat, or to complete missions. Thomas Ward added some very good sounds to the game. And a headset is not

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread joseph weakland
for me it was esp pinball extreme and change reaction playing again after a while of non playing - Original Message - From: "Keith "Stormcloud" Steinbach" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too? Entom

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Ben
Ron, As I have and probably end up correcting everyone on this list in the future, its not "aliens in the outback" its "alien outback" -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Ron Kolesar Sent: 09 June 2012 19:59 To: Gamers Disc

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Keith "Stormcloud" Steinbach
Entombed for me. Nothing like starting a game, finding out a character lost a limb, you forgot to pick it up, or don't have a healer, and have to reattach a spider's foot to your halfling theif. What a pain. Plus, the mix of jobs and skills is a nice thing. Keith Proud user of Window Eyes 7

[Audyssey] Game controller emulator.

2012-06-09 Thread michael barnes
Hey, I have been using a program on my computer for a little while, and the name of the program is Joytokey. And what it does is allow you to assign keyboard keys to buttons on the controller. For exsample I have been playing Super Liam, and so I have assign the jump and run and fire keys to the

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Ron Kolesar
Hi Darren, from Ron and Leader dog now white to gray haired lab Leader dog Boz. I'll test pretty much anything I see that's new and interests me as a blind gammer and simmer. I have and enjoy Blast Chamber since I was a beta tester for it. then hunter and Troopanum from now known Blind software.

Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread john
It's alter aeon for me. I'm not sure what would happen if that went down. I'm very very addicted to it. - Original Message - From: Darren Harris well i don't know if this type of thread will generate any interest but i thought that i would throw this out there. there are games out there

[Audyssey] games we always come back too?

2012-06-09 Thread Darren Harris
hi all, well i don't know if this type of thread will generate any interest but i thought that i would throw this out there. there are games out there, either online or stand alone that keep us coming back whether it be on a constant basis or whether we play them for a while, put them down, th

[Audyssey] Thanks Tom.

2012-06-09 Thread Ron Kolesar
Hey Tom. I've submitedthe text of your two letters to Munawar at BPC programs for the TDV beta team to look over. I thank you for giving us some more data via your two letters to look at for we who enjoy flying via a USB handhled controller of some type. I have a friend down in Sacramento Califo

Re: [Audyssey] What other gamepads are there that will work for us?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ron, He is using SlimDX. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft DirectX for .NET developers.Generally speaking it is pretty good, but as I said in my prior post its always possible there is some bugs or problems with input controllers in its DirectInput implementation, and if so it w

Re: [Audyssey] What other gamepads are there that will work for us?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Well, unfortunately we don't know exactly what the problem is with 3D Velocity. What i don't understand is I'm a game developer and I know the entire purpose behind DirectInput was to create a universal API or programming interface for various game input devices like joysticks, gamepad

Re: [Audyssey] What other gamepads are there that will work for us?

2012-06-09 Thread Ron Kolesar
Well Charles. I think munawar is a member of this list. TDV has USB support written for it. But I don't know what he's using though. Thanks. Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states "that a service dog beats a cane paws down any day of the week." -Original Message- From: Charles Rivar

Re: [Audyssey] What other gamepads are there that will work for us?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
For what it's worth, here's my thought: It seems like no, or very few, game controllers work with the games that Ron wants to play. Rather than continuously searching for one that will work, how about approaching the game's developer with the suggestion of making the games compatible with mos

Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, That would be a good question for the rehab centers that sell the games. Perhaps contacting someone like the Cleveland Sight Center since they have a lot of those games in their Ideas Shop. I never really thought about that question much until this subject came up, and now I'd really like

Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, unfortunately the situation with accessible card and board games isn't that much different here in the United States. I haven't checked a catalog in a while but it is generally the basics like Monopoly Chess, Uno, Scrabble, Bingo, and your all purpose standarddeck of playing cards.

Re: [Audyssey] What other gamepads are there that will work for us?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ron, I'm afraid you are on your own when it comes to this question. While I have joysticks, gamepads, etc apparently they don't work with TDV for some reason. All I can suggest is going to something like Amazon, look at what is available, and perhaps try a different brand. Either that or purcha

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
I'll give any group of, or for, the blind a chance. If they try excluding me, I'll point out what they're doing, and see what happens. Then, if they're still not interested in increasing their membership, the heck with them, after I let them know that they're doing one of the very things they

[Audyssey] Saturday's out of sight events

2012-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
Here are the events scheduled for Saturday, June 9th: The Conversation Piece 12:00 PM eastern Hosted by Paul Location: The Doughnut Shop Hello and good day to you all. This is Paul from Baltimore wishing to host a general chat scheduled for today, Saturday from noon to 1:00 PM eastern. I would

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread Ian McNamara
Yep, even though I went to a special school for the blind, I Like to try and get involved with the main stream world. I admit when I first left blind school and college I did not know how to function in the wider community but now i'm improving and getting a lot better. Ian McNamara --- Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Most of the time no. Of course, there are times where you are playing in a large game hall where its hard to hear because of all the talking, people yelling, and people playing a game at the next table, and that sort of thing. However, if you are in a room with one other person playing

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ian, That is the way it seems here in the United States as well. Generally speaking I've found some of the people who attended the state schools for the blind are very blind click oriented where those of us who went blind later or went to mainstream schools aren't so click oriented. I suppose i

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I think the "only in our blind club" type mentality is pretty much something that happens all over the world. I've encountered cases here in the states were some, certainly not all, blind players tend to form clicks of just blind players. Its not just blind people who do this, but when I

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread dark
Hi Ben. I'm afraid i don't have a usb mike anymore, and didn't really use skype that much even when I had one. I generally just use E-mails, or the good old teliphone. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to game

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread Ben
I@m in complete agreement with you about all of that dark, and i understand your reasoning. and you are some kind of monster aren't you? :d i'd love to have a skype conversation with you sometime to discuss this and a few other matters that i want to puy to you, if you could email me offlist then

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread Ian McNamara
I agree, in the u k most people I find who take part in the sports went to blind schools such as myself. I am looking to get involved in more active things. When I do sports I go for the enjoyment and try not to get involved with one group of people to much. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-09 Thread dark
Hi Ian. I think this might be worse in Britain than the states, though obviously it exists there in some form too. It's not just with sports either, as I said the drama group were exactly the same, which is now why I have very little to do with groups for the blind myself. Beware the grue!