Re: [Audyssey] Mach1 problems and bugs.

2006-10-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, It was way back on like version 1 of Mach 1, A gentleman changed all of my sound files in Mach 1 using his voice for the game and distributed them via the gamers list etc. I did not like the fact that the game was no longer the way that I designed and produced it. Mach 1 uses

Re: [Audyssey] Mach1 problems and bugs.

2006-10-10 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, We had a discussion on the list about artistic copy write etc as with regards to modifying all of the sounds of Mach 1. Not to mention that the sound file that says By Jim Kitchen could have been changed. It was not, but could have been. I just feel that my games should be played

Re: [Audyssey] Mach1 problems and bugs.

2006-10-11 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaun, A problem with having a mod, mods or just allowing sound files to be changed in Mach 1 is that the game code was written to work with the sound files that it comes with. Other sound files may cause the game to not work correctly, crash or work differently on different computers and

Re: [Audyssey] problem with jim kitchen's website

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, I have no idea why my site was down for a while saturday morning. The web hosting company must have had something going on or something like that. I have no control over the web hosting company. Glad to see that it is back up though. BFN Jim Sign on my door: Go ahead and

Re: [Audyssey] problem with jim kitchen's website

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Lisa, I don't believe that I actually have an EMail link on my site. You know because of spam harvesters. Maybe I will have to work on a link to speak my EMail address. If I up date the Harry Potter trivia file, I might just wait until after 7 7 7. It will be weird though to read book 7

Re: [Audyssey] problem with jim kitchen's website

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaun, No I have never heard of email encoder. Do you know, is it free or what? I have put a link on my home page to listen to my EMail address. The only thing is that it brings up a plugin window. I dislike plugin windows, but I guess for now that it is better than nothing. BFN

Re: [Audyssey] problem with jim kitchen's website

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Yohandy, Could you please tell me a bit about Comodo Anti-spam. Maybe off list would be better. Thanks. Jim Spam Spam Spam Spam, Spammity Spa, Spam, Spam, Spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible online poker?

2006-10-19 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ron, Just don't tell everyone how quickly you can get to the maximum cash amount on the five card draw poker machine. No one would ever play poker with you. grin BFN Jim Full house bar and grille Liquor in the front Poker in the rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440)

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible online poker?

2006-10-19 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Simon, First I would say that All In Play charges to play so as to recoup the money spent creating the games. Secondly it costs money to run the server to run the games. And maybe they might even turn a profit eventually. I don't know how I would set up my casino games for all of us to

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible online poker?

2006-10-20 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Brandon, I guess you mean about stopping the on line off shore gambling? I personally have not hit a big jackpot for quite some time. Too bad it's not real money eh? But then again I never lose real money either. grin - Original Message - well jim that is not good. I love the slot

Re: [Audyssey] scary sound in monopoly

2006-10-23 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, Yeah, if it scares you turning off the background music is a good thing. Or you could replace the file with a file of your own. The file name is monopoly11.wav One person told me that it does sound like a Halloween sounding file and they plan to replace it with other seasonal

Re: [Audyssey] scary sound in monopoly

2006-10-24 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dave, Thank you very much for saying that you like my Monopoly game. I do appreciate hearing it. I am not sure about making the speech of the computer player's turn interruptible. I know that some times it takes a while like if the computer is buying houses or has to mortgage allot etc,

Re: [Audyssey] scary sound in monopoly

2006-10-25 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Don, The monopoly11.wav file that we are talking about is just a background music file that is new in version 7 of my Monopoly game. So since you have down loaded winpoly7.exe you do have the monopoly11.wav file. HTH BFN - Original Message - Hi Jim! `Do you have monopoly 11?

Re: [Audyssey] Learning VisualBasic

2006-10-25 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Liam, I'm with you. Visual Basic, DirectX and the sapi5 TTS is what works for me as well. BFN Jim I am using BASIC, because I don't want to be C-sick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA ___ Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Learning VisualBasic

2006-10-26 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Are you sure that one can not program in Visual Basic 2003, 2004, 2005 etc the same way as one does in Visual Basic 6? I mean I have always been told that one can not program in Visual Basic 6 as one did in GW Basic, Quick Basic etc, but it sure works for me. grin BFN Jim I

Re: [Audyssey] Learning VisualBasic

2006-10-30 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Damien In DirectX there is a function to have it wait for the wave file to finish playing. It looks something like wave1.Play DSBPLAY_DEFAULT Do DoEvents Loop While wave1.GetStatus = DSBSTATUS_PLAYING There is also a function just to check to see if it is still playing so that your game

[Audyssey] Golf courses

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, I have put a new file up on my web site. File name wingcfs2.exe file size 86k bytes 70 new golf courses The file can be found on the free windows text to speech games page. BFN Jim Beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440)

Re: [Audyssey] Baseball game

2006-11-17 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Stancil, I hope that you might check out my baseball game. It can be found on my free Windows sapi5 text to speech games page. If you have not played any of my free windows sapi5 text to speech games before you will first want to down load and install the winkit.zip file which is on the

Re: [Audyssey] Audio Game Maker - Sneak Peek

2006-12-08 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, I have been collecting sound files for years, have bought some sound effect CDs and get files from the News Groups, but sometimes you just need to make them yourself. Like one day I was just playing around with the way that a sound file was being played and I was like hey I could use

Re: [Audyssey] Audio Game Maker - Sneak Peek

2006-12-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, Thanks. Yeah Homer Simpson is in many of my games. Mostly he says Doh or Woo Hoo, but he says other things and other Simpsons are in them as well. BFN Jim Forget the Joneses I can't keep up with The Simpsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920

[Audyssey] Collecting sound files for games

2006-12-30 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, I was running out of space for collecting sound files for games, so I had to buy more. I think that I have enough now for a little while. Directory of E:\ brandnew txt 0 12/29/2006 06:59 PM 1 File(s) 0 bytes 0 Dir(s)

Re: [Audyssey] Collecting sound files for games

2006-12-31 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Phil, Isn't 1,000 gigabytes the same as 1 terrabyte and the same as one trillion bytes? So how long do you think that it would take to read the entire three terrabytes of the library of congress? grin The News Groups robot that a friend set me up with has sure snarfed me many many

Re: [Audyssey] Collecting sound files for games

2006-12-31 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Yeah, I'm hoping that it will take me at least a month to fill up the new hard drive. grin It's a good thing that I'm only collecting sound files and not video ones as well eh? Happy New Year BFN Jim Until next year then [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440)

Re: [Audyssey] Collecting sound files for games

2006-12-31 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ken, My new hard drive is a Western Digital external USB drive. It may have a couple of five hundred gig drives in combination or something like that, but Windows XP seems to be able to handle the terrabyte drive just fine. Happy New Year and BFN Jim Until next year then [EMAIL

Re: [Audyssey] Happy new year from the moderators.

2007-01-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Don't know, but at least in this part of Ohio there is no longer a Sunday liquor ban. grin - Original Message - Oh, yeah. Sounds great, but we ain't exactly neighbors.Grin. Would be little expensive going for a cross country trip to get a six pack of beer and maybe a pizza

[Audyssey] Simon

2007-01-04 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, I have put a new file up on my web site. File name winsim.exe file size 4.2 meg The game of Simon with 26 sets of sound files and much more. The file can be found on my free windows sapi5 text to speech games page. Hope you like it. BFN Jim As I said before, I NEVER repeat myself!

[Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-12 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, I have put 2 new files up on my site. File name wingolf9.exe File size 1.5 meg In version 9 I fixed a few little bugs / cheats and there are now 198 courses included. File name winsim2.exe File size 3.8 meg Version 2 uses wav files instead of the dat files that some people were having

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-12 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Mark, Thank you. So glad to hear that you are enjoying the golf game so much and enjoying besting your friend at it. I really need to get on line and play against others. Just hate when I get beaten so badly at my own game. grin Thanks again and BFN Jim If you can't beat them,

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-12 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, I'm not sure. I did spend allot of time coming up with the 26 sets of sound files for the Simon game. Not sure when I might be up to doing more for it. Adult files seem to be a theme for the requests. Just need some female volunteers. grin Truthfully I haven't changed the golf

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-12 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Josh, Mostly the cheats were being able to use your driver to hit your ball out of a sand trap. That and being able to use your other woods in the sand trap or after you put your ball into the water and stuff like that. I am pretty sure that no one can now use their driver or wood club

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-13 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Cara, Yeah multiple players that's it. Everyone is always looking for multiple player game. grin That was good Cara. I don't know what else to say. grin BFN - Original Message - Ah, looking for multiple -uh, well, never mind! lol! Ya know, I was gonna come up with something

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-13 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Yohandy, The sapi5 version of Trucker is on my free windows sapi5 text to speech games page, but no the windows version that put text on the screen is no longer on my site. I do still have the wintruck.zip file and can send it to you in an Email if you like, but it is 4.4 meg in size.

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-13 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Damien, The thing is that the windows Trucker version that puts text on the screen only works with Jaws, so it isn't something that I want to promote. BFN Jim Access denied--nah nah na nah nah! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-14 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Damien, Actually I have used Jaws and nothing but Jaws since Jaws for dos version 1. I probably should have said that I do not want to support instead of saying promote the windows text version of Trucker. Putting text on the screen just didn't work out so good for me and windows games.

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-14 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Aaron, I'm sorry, but those are two different games with different concepts. The Trivia game engine was written with the idea that people would create files for the engine thus the game is looking for all files in that folder with the file extension tgf and then lists as it's name each of

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-15 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Aaron, I will think about it. Like for Monopoly where you name the files MonopolyBoardDoctorWho.txt you will need to name the files SimonCustomDoctorWho1.wav SimonCustomDoctorWho2.wav, SimonCustomDoctorWho3.wav etc. However since the 26 sets of (234) sound files that I recorded / cut /

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-15 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Damien, Thanks. BFN - Original Message - i do think that's cool. i do have a suggestion for that though. how about you can have a set of files in directories? so you could have a directory called presets and custom and in custom you check for the files in there? yes i would agree

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-15 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ken, Thank you very much. I appreciate it. - Original Message - They would be good even if they weren't free. Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Coming soon, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. Jim Deep shoulder massages

Re: [Audyssey] Golf and Simon

2007-01-15 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ken, The cartoon sounds in Simon started out as large mp3 files that I got from the NewsGroup alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.sound-effects Most if not all of them are also on the Hanna Barbera cd that I purchased which I'm sure is where the person got them from that sent them to the NewsGroup. HTH

Re: [Audyssey] topspeed 2 - I'm confused

2007-01-17 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Rachel, I don't know if this will help, but the perspective of Top Speed is that of being above and behind your car rather than inside your car as is the perspective in Mach 1. So the sound panning does end up being backward to that of Mach 1. HTH BFN Jim So what if I'm a bit

Re: [Audyssey] technoshock

2007-01-30 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Janet, Just writing to welcome you to the list. Glad to see that you got subscribed ok. Talk to you later. BFN Jim My wife and I had words, But I didn't get to use mine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA

Re: [Audyssey] jim's golf game

2007-02-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dean and Charles, Thank you very much for answering Nicols questions about the descriptions and clubs in my golf game. Much appreciated. BFN Jim The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon

Re: [Audyssey] jim's golf game

2007-02-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, When the golf game says, shot went 300 yards. It's 200 yards from the green and is 24 yards off line in the fairway. Off line means that it is 24 yards left or right from center. So that would be slightly further from the green than if you were 200 yards from the green and your

[Audyssey] Snakes and Ladders

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, I have put a new file up on my site. File name winlad2.exe File size 569k bytes In version 2 I fixed the midi file player and added features such as a save game feature, a selection of sounds for when you move etc. The file can be found on my free windows text to speech games page. The

Re: [Audyssey] jim's golf game

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, Out of bounds means that you hit the ball clear off of the golf course. So actually many if not all of the descriptions that I added would actually be considered out of bounds. HTH BFN Jim Features should be discovered, not documented! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Damien, Yes in some of my games pressing the alt key is sort of an Easter egg. It is also meant to keep one from using alt f4 to close the program as my games were not designed to be closed that way. I have now learned how to manage what happens when one presses alt f4. So far that is

Re: [Audyssey] JIM KITCHENS GOLF

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Mark, Different golf courses have different pars and difficulty factors etc. Like my record on the Vinks Chip and Putt course is 38. But par for that course is only 54. Where as I believe that it is 72 for the Willoughby Lost Nation Municipal course. But anyway your score of 52 on that

Re: [Audyssey] Creating trivia files in Jim Kitchen's game

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Bryan, I would also like a copy of your Jedi Order trivia file when it is finished please. And if you like I would put it up on my web site to share with others. BFN Jim Duct tape is like The Force-it holds the universe together. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440)

Re: [Audyssey] jim's concentration game

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, The only prize in my concentration game that has a price of $75 is Braille monopoly game. There is also a watermelon for $3.75 and a brand new brick home for $755999.95. But they all have always worked for me. There is also several prizes in the adult version with a price of $75

Re: [Audyssey] jim's baseball game

2007-02-07 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Willem, A pitcher does not throw a foul ball. It is either hit by the batter, hits the batter or is called by the umpire as either a ball or a strike. It is a strike if it goes over the plate and is not lower then the batters knees or higher than the letters on his jersey. Oh yeah there

Re: [Audyssey] jim's baseball game

2007-02-07 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, Personally I don't think that it would help in batting practice to know which pitch is coming. My reason is that you will not know in the game, so it is better practice to be more like in the game. I also do not at this point have any plans for a new version, but if I do I will

Re: [Audyssey] jim's baseball game

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Aaron, Charles said it, practice, practice, practice. In the batting practice it will tell you if you swung too early, too late or just right. HTH BFN Jim Some people practice what they preach, others just practice preaching. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440)

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Damien, I don't plan to up grade to Vista either. Well until I need to buy a new computer and can get it only with Vista. Guess one reason is that the version of JFW (4.02) that I am running probably won't work on Vista. grin BFN - Original Message - i'm not planning to upgrade

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, My game development computer is a Dell Pentium 4 2.0 ghz. My Internet computer is a Dell Celeron 2.4 ghz. Both have 512 meg of ram. So if I were to add memory I am sure that they could run Vista. But I am very happy with XP and the way that they run now. Plus most of what Vista

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's golf game

2007-02-25 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Josh, No, there is no walk through for my golf game. I think that the best thing that you could do is to practice on the putting practice green. Putting is one of the more difficult aspects of the game of golf, but with practice you can get pretty good at it in my game. No, sorry no mod

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's golf game

2007-02-26 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, Cool! very happy to hear that you like my golf game. Thank you very much for saying so. I find that my golf, baseball, pong and Mach 1 all take practice and that if I don't play them for awhile I do not do well until I get practiced up on them again. I hope that the baseball rules

Re: [Audyssey] New programming language. sounds promising.

2007-02-26 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, In VB6 a variable is not public unless you name or dimension it a public variable. I use the same variable in all of the different subs without fear of it being seen in other subs or form load etc. Of course it is also cool in VB6 to be able to name and use public variables when

Re: [Audyssey] BASEBALL RULES

2007-02-26 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Phil, Thank you very much for posting the baseball rules to the list. I'm keeping a copy of them in case others ask. Thanks again. BFN Jim If you play by the rules, you're gonna miss all the fun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA

Re: [Audyssey] Building gaming pcs

2007-02-27 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaun, Yes, there is a bunch of software on both of my Dell computers that I will never use. Don't know about removing it without having to reformatting the drive though. I just have left it all alone. I do not however find either of my Dell computers to be noisy and neither of them has

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's golf game

2007-02-27 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, I don't always find golf relaxing. grin But that is just when I am having like the worst game of my life. It sure is great though that so many people have made so many cool courses for the game. I don't know that I have played even half of them yet. BFN Jim The professor

[Audyssey] One Year Ago

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, A year ago today Marcie did not answer her morning phone call from me. Like so many times in the past I thought that it was a low blood sugar, so I ran across the hall to give her an injection of Glucogon. This time however it was not her blood sugar. She had passed away sometime during

Re: [Audyssey] Building gaming pcs

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, The thing is, if I were to try to build a computer, for one thing it would never ever get all put together. And if somehow it did, I'm sure that it would go up in smoke the first time that I plugged it in. And if the smoke thing didn't happen I am sure that it would never run

Re: [Audyssey] New programming language. sounds promising.

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, I have never created a dll file. Honestly I don't know how to. But so what I do is, I have a starter.frm that contains all of the routines that I use in my games and when I go to start work on a new game I just make a copy of the starter.frm with the name of the new game. I can

Re: [Audyssey] Vista Game Compatibility Chart

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, You know the games of mine that you listed Baseball, Battleship, Golf, Life, Monopoly, NFL and Spanker are all just self extracting WinZip files. So when they reported Failed Had errors Unable to unpack and install I wonder if you first ran the setup.exe file in the winkit.zip file

Re: [Audyssey] One Year Ago

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Don, Thank you and I'm sure that Marcie would thank you as well. I never said much about Marcie's passing last year, but thought that it would be nice to remember her by playing some of the games that she helped me make etc. - Original Message - Goodness Jim I didn't know that.

Re: [Audyssey] One Year Ago

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, Thank you very much. Marcie was a great support and help with all of my games while we were together. I appreciate you writing. BFN - Original Message - Hi Jim. I'm sorry to here what happened. I'll be thinking of you today, and playing some of the games you and Marcie

Re: [Audyssey] One Year Ago

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, When I met Marcie in 1990 she was fully sighted. Within two years diabetes took her sight completely. We did not become a couple until 2000. I'm sure she would thank you for saying that she has a sweet voice. I'm glad that I have some recordings of it. She was very sweet in so

Re: [Audyssey] Sapi problems

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Bryan, When my Microsoft sapi5 voices stopped working I did a search on google for sapi5 repair and the first match was a file on the GW Micro site. The file name is deluserlex.exe. When I ran it, it seemed to do nothing. It didn't say or do anything that I was aware of, but it did fix

Re: [Audyssey] Vista Game Compatibility Chart

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Thank you very much for the offer to write an installer for me, however I am not ready to change every one of my files on my site just for Vista. I would very much appreciate it if you could tell me how you got my games into the kitchensinc folder so that I could pass that

Re: [Audyssey] One Year Ago

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Sky, Thank you. Yes, I am so happy that Marcie did the recordings for the games and left messages on my answering machine that I had recorded off on to my computer. I do have a few pictures of Marcie, but other than to show to others, they don't do me any good. Thanks again and BFN

Re: [Audyssey] Sapi problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Bryan, Cool! glad to hear that you've got your sapi voices back. BFN Jim No I am not talking to myself again, I am talking to the voices. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA ___ Gamers mailing list ..

[Audyssey] Harry Potter etc

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, I have put a new file up on my site. File name wintgf5.exe File size 78k bytes Three new trivia files, arthurian legends, Harry Potter 2 and macbeth The file can be found on my free windows text to speech games page. BFN Jim Check my web site for my free blind accessible pc dos and

Re: [Audyssey] sarah

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Yeah, and I was wondering where the Ton-tongue toffee was. grin - Original Message - No fudge flies or acid pops?? How terrible! Jim Open your mouth honey, it's just a tongue depressor... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA

Re: [Audyssey] Updated Vista compatibility chart

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Thank you very much for the up date on my games and Vista. And Thank you very much for the information on how to get them installed. I appreciate it very much. BFN Jim Why is there an expiration date on sour cream? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440)

Re: [Audyssey] Cricket was jim kitchen's golf game

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Jason, I was sent a text file explaining the game of cricket to me. Once I get caught up a bit I will try to hunt it down for you and send it to you privately. But in the mean time you might be able to find the same thing by doing a google search or something like that. BFN Jim

Re: [Audyssey] Harry Potter etc

2007-03-05 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Very nice! I think that you could teach divination. BTW Alan did say that he planned to up date the file after book 7. BFN - Original Message - I am better at predicting the future than Professor Trelawney. There will be a third Harry Potter trivia file because of book

Re: [Audyssey] jim's latest trivia file

2007-03-05 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, It sounds like you need to refresh the page. Press the f5 key. You just might want to check and see how long you are keeping web pages in history. HTH BFN Jim History does not repeat itself, historians merely repeat each other. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net

Re: [Audyssey] Cricket was jim kitchen's golf game

2007-03-05 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaun, Sorry, but as I said I never did understand the game of cricket even after reading the whole text file about it. I also do not know the game of rugby. And I would not be interested in a race team management game. I prefer driving the car such as in Mach 1. BFN Jim Software

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's Yahtzee game

2007-03-05 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Nice score! How many Yahtzees did you roll? BFN - Original Message - Because I hadn't played the game in a long time, just for some fun when I had a little time this afternoon, I played the single Yahtzee. I scored 350., -- Shepherds are the best beasts! Jim Do not

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's Yahtzee game

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Even one yahtzee is pretty nice. And it is always nice that you didn't already zero out the yahtzee score when you rolled it. Nice scores on the three and four of a kind as well as on your fives and sixes. BFN Jim Irish Coffee is the perfect breakfast because it contains

Re: [Audyssey] problem with one of the trivia sets and a question

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Nicol, I don't know, I just installed the trivia files from the wintgf5.exe file and played the Arthurian legends trivia file with no problems. I have no idea why it might have had trouble on your computer. Sorry about that. BFN Jim Who me! cause trouble? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Audyssey] sapi conked out on me!

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Liam, The one nice thing about using sapi for games is that you can get input from the player. You know like their name etc and the game can then say it. And of course with recorded speech that and things like the golf courses and trivia files that people have created would not be

Re: [Audyssey] jim's latest trivia file

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, Thank you for giving the direct link for the file. Yeah I would normally prefer people to visit my site, but that wasn't working and the direct link did. So thank you for helping. BFN Jim Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of

Re: [Audyssey] Cricket was jim kitchen's golf game

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Jason, I've still got a bit of work to do on version 10 of golf, so no real hurry with the golf courses that you have created, but it would be cool to be able to include them with the game. BFN Jim $1000 reward for finding this man: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440)

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's Yahtzee game

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Very nice! I don't think that I have ever gotten A yahtzee on my first turn let alone my first roll of the dice. BFN Jim Energize, said Kirk, and the pink bunny appeared. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's golf game

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, In version 9 I disallowed using the woods in the sand trap. In version 10 I have improved the way that the pitching wedge and irons work in the sand trap. Also it now announces the distance that your shot went even when it lands on the green. We have added 100 new descriptions

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaunm Sapi speech is definitely interruptible. Most of the speech in my sapi games is interruptible. Some is not such as when it says game title By Jim Kitchen. I want you to hear that so I made it not interruptible. But it is seriously much easier to interrupt sapi speech than

Re: [Audyssey] A problem with Jim Kitchens Football game.

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Richard, May I ask, do you get that error as soon as the game starts or right after the kickoff? If it is as soon as the game starts it might be that something is missing such as DirectX 8.1 or better. Or maybe the VB6 run time libraries that would get installed with the winkit.zip

Re: [Audyssey] A problem with Jim Kitchens Football game.

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Richard, That sounds like it might be a problem with a sapi voice. Like Microsoft Mary, Mike or Sam might have gone bad. You might want to try running the DelUserLex.exe file from my site, the GW Micro site or the Freedom Scientific site. It is a weird file in that it doesn't appear to

Re: [Audyssey] A problem with Jim Kitchens Football game.

2007-03-11 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Richard, Cool! I'm glad that the re install of text aloud fixed your sapi voices. BFN Jim If it's fixed, don't break it! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA ___ Gamers mailing list ..

Re: [Audyssey] Sapi5 voices was: USA Games News

2007-03-13 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, I have recently added a couple of files on my free windows text to speech games page. One is SpeechXP.exe. This will give you the free Microsoft Mary and Mike voices if you are running Windows XP. The other files are SpeechFull.exe. This will install the sapi5 text to speech

Re: [Audyssey] thanks to Jim Kichin

2007-03-16 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, Cool! you are welcome. I'm very glad to hear that those files fixed you up with sapi. It was actually Joshua Griffith that had those two speech files and he sent them to me to put up on my site. T G I F and BFN Jim It's nothing a warm-boot can't fix [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Audyssey] Golf version 10

2007-03-19 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, I have put a new file up on my site. File name wingolfx.exe File size 1.7m bytes In version 10 I have improved the way that the pitching wedge and irons work in the sand trap. Also it now announces the distance that your shot went even when it lands on the green. We have added 100 new

Re: [Audyssey] Golf version 10

2007-03-20 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Tobias, I am sorry, but I will not be adding a feature to the golf game where you correct for the wind. Thank you for the suggestion though. BFN - Original Message - Hi Jim and list, I have a feature suggestion for the Golf game. What about wind? Direction and force of the wind

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-27 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Crash, I've got a little challenge for you. It is Mach 1 on the Kirtland Dirt Mile Oval track. The challenge is to run the track in high gear and do not use the brakes. To me it becomes like a sprint car track. You slide in and out of the turns and it takes split second timing. My

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Crash, I look forward to hearing how you do on the Kirtland Dirt Mile Oval track. You are correct that the track does have 4 turns and four straightaways, two long and two very short ones. Don't forget that to make the kind of times that I mentioned you will need to run the track without

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Josh, Well I may convert Bop-it to a sapi5 version, but no I do not plan to convert Mach 1 or Pong to a sapi5 version. Pong of course will remain with Marcie's voice in memory of her and Mach 1 would need a total rewrite to convert it to sapi5 and I think that it is good as is. We all

Re: [Audyssey] Fantacy game?

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hey Thomas or anyone Do you happen to have the math formula to keep track of an object in motion in a 3d grid. In star mule I have the formula to calculate the distance between objects in a 3d grid, but I could really use the formula for an object in motion. Thank you to anyone that might be

[Audyssey] FWD: National Postal Museum seeks Blind and Visually Impaired volunteers.

2010-03-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Currently, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum is working on a flash-based project. The museum has a center called the Ford Education Center (FEC) which has 5 touch screen computers and they offer cool content such as games, maps, informative tidbits about stamps and the postal operations

Re: [Audyssey] Need some sapi 5 help.

2010-03-30 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ron, Here is the sapi5 sdk that I just up loaded to Send Space. I hope it helps. File Name: speech51.zip Size: 67MB | Download Link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/hgyo9d BFN Jim Kitchen's Inc, for games that are up to 110 percent funner to play. j...@kitchensinc.net

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