Hi. I just needed your opinion on something. C++ is the best language to
develop games in as far as I'm concerned now that I understand fluently how to
develop in it, at least audio games. Does it make sense to use C++ for only
fast audio games and stick with .NET or some other high-level
Please give me your opinion once again.
I am working on 2 products, however they won't be available anytime this year
because I want to make sure they are fun, stable, ETC. and I want to sell them
for an affordable price of course. My question is, should customers, which will
be you, be
Hi. I'm still around, however I've been quite busy finding full-time work,
raising two children under the age of two, college for my Bachelors in Software
Development and Game Design, and helping both Ken Downey and Travis with PAC
Mate development. I've turned away from the PAC Mate a bit to
Hi everyone. Travis and myself would love feedback regarding Travis's Maze
Beta 1 available from BrailleSoft.net under the Windows Programs link.
Click the link and look for the Maze Game. You can email your suggestions to
tra...@braillesoft.net since this is his game. We're still coming up with
Hi there, I had more shooting games in mind but am afraid they'd be classified
as Space Invader clones and hardly anyone would play it. What do you consider
to be a Space Invader clone and what suggestions do you have to separate new
shooting games from this crowd? I am listening! Thanks.
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Hi all. Thank you for your feedback. I wrote a game back in 2003 that was never
finished that is exactly a Space Invader clone, and now that I look back at it,
it may have been quite a failure to release it now. I am thinking of more ideas
that haven't been attempted and will let you all know
Hi. Just excited to say that BrailleSoft, this time for sure will have working
software for all of our Icon and BraillePlus fans. In the plans is our nice Uno
title starting both at version 3.0 on PAC Mate Omni which is a huge upgrade
from its predicessor, and Icon and BraillePlus will get the
Hi all Apple II fans! We are moving, and I am finding that I am less interested
in my Apple IIGS and disks. I would like to sell it, accessories included for
about $300. Included is a color monitor, Echo II Speech, the main GS itself,
over 200 disks most with Textalker for DOS installed and
Hi. I have a few more items I want to sell. Rather than clog these lists, where
is an appropriate list to advertise items for sale? Thanks.
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Hi everyone. BrailleSoft.net and all emails registered there will be taken
down today until further notice. We're changing servers! The domain
BrailleSoft.DYNdns.org will be our backup site starting tomorrow, and once
BrailleSoft.net becomes available we will let you all know.
Katie, Simon, and
Hi all. BrailleSoft.DynDns.org is now up! We are still working on getting
the BrailleSoft.net domain so please bear with us. Thanks.
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Hi all, BrailleSoft.net is back in business and restored. And, we have
exciting news for the months ahead, as well as software. Stay tuned all you
gamers out there, 2010 will be a nice year! Also, you can continue using the
IRC client as usual. Katie, Ken, and Simon if you could email me offlist
Hi all, Just letting you all know the site BrailleSoft.net is now back in
business, and we're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Thanks,
and happy new year!
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Hi all gamers, I am pleased to bring to you all my BASIC programs I've had for
some years on my Apple II Computer. I've also brought to you demos of programs
that ran showing off the Echo II Speech synthesizer and the voices it allows.
There's also a collection of music using various sound
Hi there, 25 more programs have been added, and I just might toy around with
some Integer Basic programs and see how well they transfer, and if successful
the number of available apps will increase. Most useful places to help when
looking at the Apple II source codes are to visit the first link
Hello fellow fun audio gamers,,
We are very sorry that it has taken so long, but we finally have a new game on
the site.
BrailleSoft.net is proud to release Wack-a-mole. This is a fun twist on the
carnivel game. It is a challenging typing game with five different levels.
We hope that you
Hi all, we have made, and are making several changes to our PAC Mate and
Smartphone games to support Windows. One such program is the Madlib Story
Writer. It is now available for Windows as a self-voicing program. Unlike The
Great Escape, which is getting a major overhall, you can adjust what
Hi all, An update to the Madlib Story Writer has been posted. An
IndexOutOfRange error occurred everytime you wanted to read a story about the
Army. Get your copy from http://www.BrailleSoft.net for all platforms, PAC Mate
4.1 and earlier, PAC Mate Omni, Smartphones running Windows Mobile 5.0
Hello Everyone,
Braillesoft.net has added a new game to our site. Crocadile Dentist. This
is another free download from Braillesoft that works on the Pac mate omni,
windows desktops, and windows smart phones. This is an exciting game in which
the object is to remove 14 of the crocadile's
Hi. Do you have .NET 2.0 installed? If you have .NET 3.5 please let me know
and I will send a configuration file to the site. Sorry for any
inconveniences.
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Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Crocodile dentist
Hi. Do you
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From: Louis Bryant lo...@braillesoft.net
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Crocodile dentist
Hi. Do you have .NET 2.0 installed? If you have .NET 3.5 please let me
know and I will send a configuration file to the site. Sorry
Blame that development feature on Travis, I asked him about this, but he
insisted! LOL. HTH.
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hi.
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knwo I have
framework 2 installed as well.
On 7/5/09, Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com wrote:
neat! I remember there used to be a plastic toy that worked like this. If
you pressed the wrong tooth you were bitten. anyone know what I'm
referring
to?
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, and as far as I knwo I have
framework 2 installed as well.
On 7/5/09, Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com wrote:
neat! I remember there used to be a plastic toy that worked like this. If
you pressed the wrong tooth you were bitten. anyone know what I'm
referring
to?
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Hi. Yes, if you don't have .NET service packs, please download those as well
from the Microsoft Web Site. I thought the .NET 2.0 setup package I had on
my site had the latest service packs as well.
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To: Charles Rivard
to aggressively,
either way, about the windows version. arrow keys don't work. what
they do is navigate around the edit box with the cursor, rather than
move you around.
On 7/5/09, Louis Bryant lo...@braillesoft.net wrote:
Hi. We used features that are not present in Windows Mobile 2003 and
earlier
Hi. The game is surely just luck, you need to pick all the croc's teeth, but
watch out and try not to pick the sore tooth.
HTH.
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To: audyssey gamers group Gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:06 PM
Subject:
Hi all. As many of you know FS has gone lawsuit crazy this past year. There was
an unsettling case in which FS filed suit against the Foundation for blind
children in Arizona, as sighted by BLindBargains.com. To see it, either Google
Freedom Scientific Lawsuits or go to BlindBargains.com, look
Hi. Recently I've switched to SAToGo and absolutely love it! Regarding Uno 3.0,
I am not sure if I will even develop anymore for Pocket PC since there is only
PAC Mate Omni that is fully supported. If there are any blind people out there
who use a different Pocket PC then 3.0 may be considered,
Hi Josh, I also have a BraillePlus here, and absolutely love it! I don't
understand anymore the peop[le who just adore their Crap Mate Omlettes. Come on
now, on the BraillePlus we have access to an 80 GB builtin HD, builtin Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth and a whole range of Braille Displays. If you are a
Hi Thomas, after this I will drop the FS subject and the BP topic; Actually the
BraillePlus uses a similar system to GTK for it's main interface, but for
standard software only the console is available unless you modify the source to
obey BraillePlus standards. If you want to see how a typical
Hi Thomas, unfortunately not, however with Python and to produce sound they use
GStreamer. From the looks of this library it provides fantastic capabilities
for adjusting sounds in code during playback, such as panning, speed, multiple
sounds at once on demand, ETC., sort of like SDL. It
Hi all PDA lovers out there. BrailleSoft and RSGames have teamed up to bring
you the RSGames Client Mobile version! The client is NOT yet available.
With this version, users can play RSGames titles like Monopoly and Uno for
free, chat, and have quite a wonderful time right from the following
Hi. Unfortunately right now I don't have the money to purchase an IPhone or a
Nokia, though I hear there are some good deals on those phones on EBay but I
doubt they'll work without a plan from a carrier to use. Also, the Braille
Wizard version won't be available until January of 2011, and may
Hi there, we will gladly accept testers for these devices upon release of the
RSGames Mobile Client:
Android OS and Symbian Operating Systems from Nokia.
I am writing the client and future programs in the following languages for
easier portability:
C# for Windows Mobile, Python for BraillePlus
Hi. Portable Apple products won't be supported anytime soon. Right now they are
out of my budget. In order to build for such a device you must own one, and
languages such as Python and Java either are quite difficult to get up and
running to develop for those devices, or they are unsupported.
Hi all. Unfortunately, I am running into several issues when it comes to
developing for the Symbian platforms I thought was worth mentioning here:
1. The SDK docs aren't accessible, or they aren't complete.
2. You must own a device to test on. This is probably cheaper than a Mac.
Until I can
Hi. I must agree. Eloquence actually is the best voice I've heard so far.
RealSpeak voices have weigh too much inflection for my tastes. I haven't
heard any ATNT voices, and diddo to DeckTalk. However for a game like this I
can see why no one would choose Eloquence. HTH.
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Hi all, for those of you who use Linux and the Mac, how good is Mono in terms
of accessibility? I'm interested in it, because I have switched to C# and
Visual Basic.NET and since Mono supports those languages it may be easy to
start cross-platform support this year. HTH.
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Hey Damien, is the site pacmate.x-sight-interactive.net up? It makes it
easier for me to keep the X-Sight games running on PM'S updated, as well as
to continue releasing other ported games from X-sight. Also, Acefire will be
done this year. Sorry I am so far behind. HTH.
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Ken, I am more than happy to host the games. You should be able to attach it
to an email and send it to lo...@braillesoft.net and I'll will post them at
ken.BrailleSoft.net with any instructions in the email you give me. Thanks.
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Hi. The link is ken.braillesoft.net. Infectious code? Are you positively
sure you went to the correct site? Thanks.
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To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:18 PM
Subject:
Whoa! I'll look into it, I see it now.
Thanks, and sorry for any inconveniences.
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From: piotr machacz piterm...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Games for Pacmate and smartphone
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From: Louis Bryant lo...@braillesoft.net
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Games for Pacmate and smartphone
Hi. The link is ken.braillesoft.net. Infectious code? Are you positively
sure you went
The answer to that question is NO. I really wish Humanware would release a
BrailleNote SDK. HTH.
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From: Nick Helms nick.he...@gmail.com
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:40 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] tellnet client for braillenote
Hi,
I was
Hi all, Apparently, there was some JavaScript that needed to be removed. Thanks
to the support team from Ultrahost.us, there are no viruses and BrailleSoft is
ready to roll again! Thanks.
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Hi. Why not Linux? If it's audio games all of you are struggling with, check
out this awesome library I use and love, for now at least, wish it had MP3
support. It is called Hekkus Sound System for Developers of various
languages, it let's you use .wav and .ogg which actually seems to be 3
Claudio, have you thought about Visual Basic.net or C#? They are free. There
is also C/C++ and many others, like Power BASIC, or Euphoria. HTH.
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Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008
Hi all, BrailleSoft has released a new game called Bomb!
This is a mine-sweeper-like type game. How many squares can you uncover without
uncovering a square with a bomb? Originally written by Dan Zingaro for the
Freedom Scientific classic notetakers, it is now available for your Windows
Mobile
Hi all, Bomb version 1.0.1 has been released for the following platforms,
Pocket PC, PAC Mate and PAC Mate Omni. You can now load any game last saved to
a file, and save the game you quit if you haven't won or lost. Smartphones do
not have this option. For more information on Bomb, go to
Man, Eamon is quite a game! I have an Apple IIGS and play it often. Can't
wait to see what Draconous Entertainment has in store, I did too think about
porting such a game over to the FS Classic Notetakers, PM, and Smartphone
but I am not sure, especially if Draconous is COPYRIGHTING it. HTH.
Aren't legal? Are you sure about that? Check out A2Central.com, they have
lots there, and encourage use of them. HTH.
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I got those too! And am working on those as well. HTH.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:09 PM
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Hi.
There's a windows version of the
Hi. The Basic4ppc error you got was probably my fault. I am looking into
rebuilding the game, as I have new ideas about how the screen readers and
PAC Mate should read it. HTH.
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Wow! Loved the sounds used in this game! I listened to the introduction and
man, does it sound fantastic! Can't wait to play it. Is this a free game? If
not, how much is it? I may buy it. I haven't baught an audio game in so
long. Good work!
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Hi all, Another small program, the Madlib Story Writer from BrailleSoft is now
available.
Welcome to the Madlib Story Writer for the PAC Mate 4.1 and earlier, PAC Mate
Omni, Pocket PC without JAWS and Windows Mobile Smartphone
Write humorous stories by answering the questions the program prompts
As far as I know, you must play the game for more than 5 minutes and have at
least 230 points or higher, at least on the PAC Mate version. Try it anyway
on the desktop version. HTH.
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Sent: Friday,
Hi all, BrailleSoft is moving! Due to unfortunate circumstances, we can no
longer afford the web plan we have had for the last 2 years. Because of this,
we are moving! We will try to minimize the downtime that our domain
BrailleSoft.net is out-of-service, but until then we do have a temporary
Hi all, You will be happy to know that BrailleSoft isn't going anywhere after
all. We are able to continue with our hosting company and bring you even more
advanced games and fewer bugged updates! I am sorry about the previous
announcement -- disregard it. Thanks to everyone who wanted to come
Hi all.
Just letting you all know that our site BrailleSoft.net is back up. All email
addresses listed on the URLS available on the site are also back up so you can
now contact us there. The backup site, BrailleSoft.dyndns.org is down for a
bit. Have a happy new year, and continue enjoying
To better help BrailleSoft manage time and resources, I need everyone who can
to please vote on the BrailleSoft poll! The poll basically asks you to check
the equipment you are using. Whatever devices are high on this list, at least
100 people or more, will be supported for a good while. The
Hi all, For users who want software from BrailleSoft on their iMac, iPod,
iPhone, and iPad, I need help from you as well. If you donate $5.00 or more to
me I will place you on a list to receive future titles from BrailleSoft, big
and small, free of charge! All the donations will only be used to
Hi. For users who use the App Store and/or iTunes to buy their Apple software,
especially for iOS devices, you are required to pay the price if there is one
for the product you want to buy. If you have donated $5.00 or more, purchase
the BrailleSoft app and your money will be refunded back to
Why not make the switch? People should upgrade anyway, make a habit of it.
Maybe you could even incorporate XAudio2 within your installation so the
process is easier to upgrade. Just my 2 cents.
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mentioned and spread the word.
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Hi everyone, Based off of what I have so far, I'm deciding to go Mono, the
Open-Source .NET for all the platforms. What does this mean for Windows and PAC
Mate users? Nothing, as the software is .NET-based by default! However, Mono
has support for Linux, Mac OS X, a pre-release for Android, iOS
Hi Brandon, this is why I am going Mono, so Android devices can be released
quickly along with Windows Mobile devices and iOS devices with little
modifications to the Windows Mobile port. This is also why I placed the poll on
my site to ultimately come to this decision. HTH.
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Hi Ken. If you are struggling with getting into your router and forwarding
ports, if you know what kind of router you have you can check out the guides
from portforward.com. That site helped me out quite a bit setting up home
servers and making them public. HTH.
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Hi Shawn, if you just have .NET 2.0 or later you'll be fine. It's the other
platforms that will need Mono. This excludes Windows Mobile, .NET CF is fine
for those platforms.
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Going old school, well ... sort of. I have been working on a multi-language
translator for quite sometime to help me easily support multiple devices, old
and future without much code modifications. It basically takes any PAC Mate
program I've written in Basic4ppc and translates it into
Hi Shawn, It will send all text output to whatever screen reader you have
running, JAWS, Window-Eyes, NVDA, or SAPI. The text will be presented to you as
if you were playing on a machine that only understood text-based programs. As
for something that translates into C++ you may want to consider
Hi Shawn, Everything will be included because I believe things should be easy
to get up and running as possible, however nothing on your environment will
have to be changed, as each version of the specific language the Translator is
compatible with will have private locations so you can install
Hello all fellow game players,
The multi-platform translator is pretty much complete! This means BrailleSoft
can continue creating software for 3 platforms now, and can add more in the
future very easily and all programs we write will run on them upon simply
re-compilation! The platforms we can
Hi. Is there anyone who'd like to see audio games for Microsoft's XBOX? Reply
to me to cast your vote! Games would be shipped on a CD so it's easy for a
visually impaired person to get playing! Let me know your thoughts and
criticisms. Your response would let me know if I should take time to do
Hi Everyone,
I am proud to release two games for the Braille Sense. Of course, more are to
come!
To see what's available, check them out at http://www.BrailleSoft.net under the
Braille Sense Notetaker link! Enjoy, and let me know your thaughts, bug
reports, ETC. More games are coming, and
Hello all. There's a Facebook group to discuss everything regarding BrailleSoft
and the site BrailleSoft.net. You can talk about current BrailleSoft software,
and the platforms we support as long as it's about specific products on those
platforms. Any suggestions for future products or future
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