Re: [Audyssey] Quality verses quantity of games.

2013-04-14 Thread Allan Thompson
I think I agree with the general consensus here, but I think Charles has an excellent point. If a developer pumps out dozens of small games, I would still want quality, so quantity is really kind of useless if the developer is unwilling to spend the time to make it good. As for time in

[Audyssey] Can a sighted person play swamp?

2013-04-14 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi guys, I have a friend I was talking to about audio games, and I did notice ont he swamp menu that there is an option for graphics and no graphics. Is this like full fledged sighted graphics, or are these just blocks and colors. I was kind of wanting him to check it out, but he doesn't have

Re: [Audyssey] Can a sighted person play swamp?

2013-04-14 Thread Allan Thompson
Thank you for your help! al The truth will set you free Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Kaldobsky To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Can a sighted person play swamp? The graphics are

Re: [Audyssey] A Possible Offer To Consider

2013-04-21 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom, For my two cents... I would say that many of the old games would not be worth a remake. However, why not get a more detailed opinion from the list. I am sure when people talk about wanting an old game remake, that they are thinking of maybe two or three games on average. So maybe it

Re: [Audyssey] a bit on and a bit off topic questions

2013-04-23 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi, I recommend Gold wave, but to be fair it is the only one I have used so I am biased. It is pretty easy though to do some of the cooler things. Below is a list of sites that I use for making tactical battles map pack sounds. Most have free sounds. The Recordist:

Re: [Audyssey] a bit on and a bit off topic questions

2013-04-23 Thread Allan Thompson
No problem , Brother. I do my best. I am certainly not perfect, but I try to help anyone if I can. When I started making TB maps, I had absolutely no idea where to get sounds from and how to edit them, and this list helped, so it is a little pay back to the list I guess as well, grin. Email me

Re: [Audyssey] genesis 3d?

2013-04-25 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom, Didn't the WWF have a similar problem, and lost the case, forcing them to change their name to WWE? I don't recall all the details but some unknown wildlife preservation group had the same initials for hteir group and so sued. Apparently, they also won. al The truth will set you free

Re: [Audyssey] Piracy rate?

2013-04-30 Thread Allan Thompson
: Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.net To: gamers discussion list Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:10 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Piracy rate? Hi guys, I am incredibly curious. JHow does an audio game developer discover how many people have pirated their game? I

Re: [Audyssey] Piracy rate?

2013-04-30 Thread Allan Thompson
Thank you for answering. I appreciate the sensetivity of the subject, so thanks. I was just shocked to hear such a high percentage. al The truth will set you free Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D. - Original Message - From: Draconis To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Audyssey] Piracy rate?

2013-04-30 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Dennis, I never thought of that, and that makes sense a bit more. Still, it is disappointing. Then again, your right. Everything is pirated now , music, books, movies, whatever it is, everyone sighted or not seems to have their hand in it in some fashion. It is almost like you would have to

[Audyssey] win7/win8 looking for help resources

2013-05-01 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Gang, After reading thrut he emails, I think that in the end, Tom is correct. As much as I like XP, and enjoy my desktop and all the things I know how to do with it, I fear there is no real choice. Eventually, sooner rather then later, audio Game developers need to advance their technology,

Re: [Audyssey] Newly released, reacting change!

2013-05-01 Thread Allan Thompson
Dark, Apparently, you should have bewared the Groo. Aside from hanging out in the dark where they lament the accesibility of mirrors, which, by the way, they have attempted to upgrade to mirrors 7 to no avail, they also create incredibly sarcastic things which they plant into peoples heads

Re: [Audyssey] Newly Released Reacting Change

2013-05-02 Thread Allan Thompson
It sounded like sarcasm to me. shrug. al The truth will set you free Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D. - Original Message - From: Chris H To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Newly Released Reacting Change Wow, this girl

Re: [Audyssey] Mysteries of the Ancients Considerations

2013-05-02 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom, I aam a fan of both games. I layed Monty on the atari computers they came out with in the early eighties and Tomb Raider was still one of my all time favorite sighted games for the PS1. So I would just say Both, lol. Both sound intrigueing. I guess which ever one you do it will be

Re: [Audyssey] Some updates on what I'm up to, since I forget to keep audyssey in the loop.

2013-05-04 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi, My mouth literally dropped open in shock when reading this. This is such a brilliant idea words can't cover it. Thank you for sharing this information. I will definetley buy one of these when it becomes available. My question is, will this work on any pc and OS? al The truth will

Re: [Audyssey] Some updates on what I'm up to, since I forget to keep audyssey in the loop.

2013-05-04 Thread Allan Thompson
Very cool! Thanks for ansewring my question. al The truth will set you free Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Kaldobsky To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Some updates on what I'm up

Re: [Audyssey] looking for strategy type game...

2013-08-19 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi, Actually that game came out on the amiga back in the nineties, and also on the PC. I thinkt he port to the snes was later. There came out a second one called civilization 2 which was the best one out of the first three civ versions I played. I think it is up to civ 5 or higher. This game is

Re: [Audyssey] Great Wrestling Match in WLS

2013-08-20 Thread Allan Thompson
That was amazing! Is that that DOS game you were going to update for windows? al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 12:47 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Great Wrestling Match in

[Audyssey] wrestling games

2013-08-20 Thread Allan Thompson
Hey, I was also hopeing to see if anyone had any links. I had found piledriver and that wrestling leage mentioned in audio games forum, at least I think it was that. The links provided for it where no good. Audio games.net also did not have the two games I read were accessible, being something

Re: [Audyssey] wrestling games

2013-08-20 Thread Allan Thompson
Thanks! I will check it out. al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Hunter Jozwiak Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:45 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] wrestling games There is a wrestling online game at

Re: [Audyssey] Great Wrestling Match in WLS

2013-08-20 Thread Allan Thompson
the source and needed to rewrite it from scratch. Since my health has not been all that great lately I haven't gotten very far on the rewrite. So my wrestling game, the one for Windows, isn't even a real option at this point. HTH On 8/20/13, Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.net wrote

Re: [Audyssey] wrestling games

2013-08-21 Thread Allan Thompson
Thank you! al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:24 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] wrestling games Hi Al and everyone, Here you go. Here is a couple of Sendspace links for

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Details of your favourite games.

2013-08-21 Thread Allan Thompson
Ok, you asked for it, grin. My favorite at the moment is tactical battles. It is both a wargame and highly customizable, so that it covers any genre you want to create with it. Also, entombed is a very close second. I suspect any rpg game would be an instant favorite for me. The customization

Re: [Audyssey] FW: Details of your favourite games.

2013-08-21 Thread Allan Thompson
Oh, interesting! Thanks for the link! al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Paul Lemm Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:32 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] FW: Details of your favourite games. Hi, Sorry forgot the

[Audyssey] DosBox questions

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi gang, I am trying to get DOSBox to work on my win7 machine. I started it, but what I got when it ran was two separate windows, one was called DOSBox and the other a DOSBox status screen. I couldn't seem to type into either of those. I am using jaws 14. The guy who set up the computer has a

Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
Huh...I could have sworn Tom Ward uses it. Or does he play it on a different OS like Linux? Thanks, al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Zachary Kline Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 7:38 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
Oh, great, that is good news then! Thank you! al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Josh Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 8:29 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions no they are not. just use windows xp and you

Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
. not sure why that is. also since Linux is my primary OS I found my internet speed is so much faster than it was on windows. sent from my vinux4 Linux laptop On 08/25/2013 08:49 PM, Allan Thompson wrote: Oh, great, that is good news then! Thank you! al -Original Message- From: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom, I guess I trusted the wrong source ont hat. I thought that was what I needed to run dos games. So I am on this command prompt on xp. I am reading up on trying to start the games, but I am hitting a brick wall. I know I use the word start and then the file .exe, but that doesn't seem

Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
Sorry, my mistake. I know it was some kind of linux. Maybe it was something else. It was, geez, a couple of decades ago, lol. al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 10:36 PM To: Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] command prompt and wrestling

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
have decided to start over in Python 2.7, and Pygame 1.9. So far the game runs pretty well on Linux, Windows, and I imagine will work fine on Mac OS as well if someone gets the source and compiles it. Cheers! On 8/25/13, Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.net wrote: Hi Tom, I guess I trusted

[Audyssey] wrestling game weirdness

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom, I have a win7 32 bit. So I gave it another shot with WLS. What I get is a continual run thru of the options. They are like 1 thru 11, and it just keeps repeating over and over again. Is that normal? Do I need to do something else to make it stop it? I have pressed the numbers, hit

Re: [Audyssey] command prompt and wrestling

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
This email just popped up, so please ignore my previous one. My email seems to be kind of sluggish it seems, so sorry about that. So maybe hitting the arrow keys are a problem? I will try to not use them and see how that goes, grin. Thanks, al -Original Message- From: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] command prompt and wrestling

2013-08-25 Thread Allan Thompson
with the menu choice followed by enter rather than arrowing to it as in modern Windows programs. If that isn't your problem give me more details and I'll help you resolve it because WLS is a great game. HTH On 8/25/13, Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.net wrote: Hey, Well, I usually try to find

Re: [Audyssey] command prompt and wrestling

2013-08-26 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom, Thanks for that. I guess I am so used to arrow keys and the like that it never even occurred to me not to use them. So far, it has been going well...although now my problem is that the options, you know, to press 1 for this and 2 for that, sometimes doesn't show up or doesn't get read by

Re: [Audyssey] command prompt and wrestling

2013-08-26 Thread Allan Thompson
I do have NVDA and it seemed to skip menu choices sometimes, but maybe that was before my arrow key fiasco, grin. I will give it another shot, thanks! al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of john Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:11 PM To:

Re: [Audyssey] command prompt and wrestling

2013-08-26 Thread Allan Thompson
confused looking at an out dated interface. Cheers! On 8/26/13, Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.net wrote: Hi Tom, Thanks for that. I guess I am so used to arrow keys and the like that it never even occurred to me not to use them. So far, it has been going well...although now my problem

Re: [Audyssey] A Question About the Best user Interface

2013-08-29 Thread Allan Thompson
I guess it all depends. One of my biggest issues is not being able to reread choices, especially in long lists and/or tables. Is there a way to review the choices the game gives ? I assume no arrow keys since you said it would be text. If it is possible to review these wrestler choices over

Re: [Audyssey] A Question About the Best user Interface

2013-08-29 Thread Allan Thompson
program. Hope this makes sense. Cheers! On 8/29/13, Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.net wrote: I guess it all depends. One of my biggest issues is not being able to reread choices, especially in long lists and/or tables. Is there a way to review the choices the game gives ? I assume no arrow

Re: [Audyssey] A Question About the Best user Interface

2013-08-29 Thread Allan Thompson
as a lot of people have never used console programs, or have forgotten how to use them since Windows has spoiled everyone with graphical point and click user interfaces and truly accessible text based programs have gone the way of the dinosaur. :D Cheers! On 8/29/13, Allan Thompson allan1.thomp

Re: [Audyssey] Is this still up?

2013-08-31 Thread Allan Thompson
I would imagine so, since your email came thru and I can read it, grin. Just a slow night, I guess. al -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of michael maslo Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 9:36 PM To: Gamers Audyssey list Subject: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] Help with The Inheritance.

2013-09-05 Thread Allan Thompson
POSSIBLE SPOILERS According to the bible, Noah took 7 each of the clean animals according to the dietary law, but all other animals were taken onboard in pairs. So if the question is how many giraffes are on the ark, that would mean only two. I wasn't sure of the word after giraffes. Did you

Re: [Audyssey] Help with The Inheritance.

2013-09-05 Thread Allan Thompson
: [Audyssey] Help with The Inheritance. Hi, As there were 2 giraffes And they has the same number of vertebrae in its neck as humans do. Giraffe have seven cervical vertebrae Then the answer is 14. - Original Message - From: Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.net To: 'Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games News 9/7/2013

2013-09-07 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom, I am glad your starting to feel better! Bathrooms I think were supposed to be one of the most dangerous rooms in the house, next to the kitchen. I am shocked, but pleased you decided to flaunt your evolution thing with the new and improved wrestling game! I would have played the other

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