[Audyssey] Gaming on Windows Vista?
Hi guys, I don't know whether this has been discussed while I was away, but I'd like to tell you guys about this interesting article I read in a computer magazine about gaming on Windows Vista. First, DirectX 10 will only be made to support Vista. Another thing is that, not knowing if I understood the article properly, but some old games that work on XP won't work on Vista. I'd like to know has anyone else heard anything about gaming on Vista and are there positive/negative things for us? Ari ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
Re: [Audyssey] Gaming on Windows Vista?
I'd actually also heard something about many games that were made for XP will not work under Vista. The thing I'm trying to get at, is, if there is no support for older versions of DirectX, and if the new games will then not work under old windows versions, the message to us is clear? Adapt or die. I mean, old games like gma's games and others will not work under Vista, and, what's even worse is would those of us using XP and older versions of Windows then have to upgrade to Vista to play new games that come out? How are developers of accessible games going to adapt to Vista? By the way, from what you tell me about the whole thing being a sort of web interface, it sounds awful! At the university, some people use the Active Desktop in Windows, I can't stand it! I also don't like these web interfaces like the help system where you try and move round and round in a circle of links! Ari - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Gaming on Windows Vista? Hi Ari, Mind you not all of what I am about to say here I am totally sure about, but I've been looking over the beta sdks for Vista and it is going to prove to be quite a bit different from the 98/2000/XP era of Windows. First major change, from a programming standpoint, is that most of the sdks and apps will be gueard for Visual Studio .NET 2005 and later versions. Vista's Platform SDK will be shipping with .NET Framework 3 which has some drastic upgrades including a new version of MS SAPI which is fully managed. Meaning, that Sapi will be compatible with .NET Framework applications. Also the Vista Platform SDK contains a new approach to accessibility which is going to replace MSAA in the future, or probably will at any rate. The DirectX 10 SDK appears to be geared totally for the managed .NET Framework coder, and not giving much backward compatibility to older games using DirectX 7 and 8. The point here Microsoft is making a clear drive to get developers to comply with Visual Studio 2005, use one of the .NET languages, and stop monkeying around with VB 6 and other older languages, and get with the program. Grin. Of course, the core of Vista isn't the only consideration. The entire look and feel of Vista is, well, weird. I will say it is more designed around a web-centric roll with Internet Exploder 7 practically running the background, in your face, and waiting for you to jump on the web. For example XP has had this feature, but Vista has magnified it you can clear away all your icons on your desktop and make it one massive web page. In short if you are on cable your home page, www.someplace.com, can be your desktop, and the web is no further than your desktop. Of course, your desktop has the usual task bars etc but now you have this ugly media bar with stock tickers, weather reports, etc running in the background happily updating away. As I said Vista is very web-centric, and if you are not web connected Vista might break down, cry, and then crash. Ha, ha, just joking. Vista also has a more 3D look and feel than any other os to date. Probably, one of the major reasons it needs a very modern processor and lots of ram to run smoothly. I have heard that visually many apps such as office 2007 are suppose to look quite different. The menu bars are going to be replaced by a menu strip, some tool bars added, and I am sure that little twerp, my arch enemy, the enemy of my computer, the dread of dreads,, Mr. Office Assistant will have some new and stupid looking looks and animation. Lol! By the way, does anyone else hate that little goof ball? I mean ever since his intro in Office 97 I never got use to him. He pops up so much and is so annoying I named him Q after the Star Trek character. Instead of Captain Picard saying, Q, get off my bridge, my version kind of goes like, Q, get off my screen. Ah, but I digress. Anyway, I have heard there are visual differences in the ways apps look, buttons look, icons, etc, and most of that is of the real question about games. So I will summarize quickly what I think is going to be the case. However, this is a guess only not fact. Games written with .NET in mind STFC, Rail racer, Monty will certainly work well as they are employing early versions of the technologies that are a core of Vista. If problems are encountered they can be easily updated to meet the challenge. Games designed on an unmanaged version of DirectX such 7 and 8 may have a tougher time as I have heard, not prove, that Vista might be dropping 8 support. If true any games, engines, based in languages like VB 6 would be stuck where they are, and remain there until updated to VB.NET 2005 and DirectX 9/10. Point here is that Microsoft is moving on even if the agdev community is not and it is one reason I urge new developers not to try VB 6, and start out in the dark ages of programming, and start out fresh with what is current
Re: [Audyssey] Help with Soccer Boss
Hi Ian, If you want to be a manager in the Premiership or manage a top club, you have to pay. After 20 days if you still want to play, you can, but you will be put in charge of a club from a lower division. By the way, what's happened to you in Battrick! I've tried about three times to arrange a friendly with you, but am getting no response. Do you have a hattrick account? Have you got some tips about how to actually sort out the squad, it's hard playing! Ari Ari - Original Message - From: Ian McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:14 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Help with Soccer Boss ari it is only free for a certon amout of time mate - Original Message - From: Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 6:27 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Help with Soccer Boss Hi Guys, Could someone who loves soccer also look at http://www.tacticalmanager.co.uk/soccerboss/index.php and maybe give me some advice on how do I show more sessions? Never mind if you're not understanding what I'm talking about, when you register you'll see what I mean. Since I've never played it, I've got no clue really how accessible it is. The great thing is that it uses real players. What's also very fun about this game is that it's not really about your club, it's more about you as a manager in the real world, since one club can decide to sack you if you're not performing well, and then you have to look for another club to manage, so you really have to make tough decisions so that you don't lose your job! And what's embarrassing? When you get sacked, it's anounced on the News site! But, as I said, I still can't play because I can't get it to display more sessions from 7 upwards, I don't know if you need sighted help if it's some funny control you click on or what the trick is, since clicking next or index or even more free sessions isn't helping. I've emailed the webmaster, but have had no response. Ari ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
[Audyssey] Hattrick problem
Hi all, How do I set orders in Hattrick, as the combo boxes are not even like Battrick, you can hardly even use the alt up and down stuff with these ones. I really think, that if other people would help me, we should send a petition to Hattrick to see if they can't make their site a bit more accessible, as it refreshes so often, orders seem very hard to set, for me it is really quite difficult. Has anyone else got ideas of how to use the site and set orders? Ari ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
Re: [Audyssey] Gaming on Windows Vista?
I've eventually found some articles. Have selected some interesting parts below. However, one feature that hasn't racked up many column inches is the new version of Microsoft's graphics API (application program Interface), DirectX 10. All current games and hardware use DirectX 9c, but with Vista comes a whole new API. Unlike previous versions, DirectX 10 (or Windows Graphic Foundation as it was known at one point) will be totally new and therefore have limited - if any - backwards compatibility with the current crop of DirectX 9 cards. Microsoft has stated that DirectX 9 will be supported side-by-side to an extent with a new version 9L, but it won't have the same power as cards operating fully with DirectX 10. still look good, PC gaming can only compete if it has an overhaul, which DirectX 10 should provide. One of the biggest criticisms of PC gaming is that games can look so different depending on the hardware you have installed. By unifying some of the underlying technologies in the hardware and the software that the games are written on, this should change for the better. The audio stack in Vista is completely new. Microsoft moved sound card drivers out of the kernel, which means they can't crash the whole PC. This choice has improved performance enough that rewriting the stack - in 32-bit floating point operations rather than 16-bit integers - didn't slow it down. Gone are the incomprehensible sliders of the XP sound controls; these are replaced by volume controls for your speakers, phone line, microphone, line in and CD audio. And there's a huge improvement if you ever use headphones with your PC; the new OS lets you choose the volume level for each application separately, which means that you can turn your music up without being deafened by system sounds. Better for gaming? Windows XP is the gamer's OS. Forget consoles, forget pocket gaming systems: XP is where it's at. With XP's dominant position in the gaming world, Vista's going to have to go a long way to improve on XP. However, with the release of RC1 the signs are good. Starting with the basics, Vista comes with an expanded suite of built-in games. The familiar faces are all there, but they've been given a makeover and now use Vista's new graphics tools. New games include smoothly animated Mah Jong tiles and an educational game for children. There's nothing revolutionary, but the new look and feel and additional titles make Vista's out-of-the-box gaming experience more than equal to XP's. The new Games Explorer should show the majority of games you've installed, making them easier to find and launch. Ari - Original Message - From: Raul A. Gallegos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Gaming on Windows Vista? The answer is simple. MS is doing what it always has. Look at the current Windows. XP has been out for some time now, yet there were still service packs for Windows 2k which in many ways was even more stable than XP itself. Releasing Vista is no different. MS will support XP for a while yet and continue to improve upon it. Eventually Windows 2k support will drop and then XP. By then the next encarnation of Windows will be out I'm sure. * shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-28 22:21]: This ofcause puts the question why ms is releasing vista at all when there are 2 more or at least 1 definate service pack of xp coming. This should give everyone time to adapt to vista, who knows maybe we will be passed vista by then. Maybe someone will find ways to make the more anoying features of vista go away. I wander what powertoys will be for vista, since every os so far has powertoys and sometimes kernal toys. I know sink toy is going to vista, maybe tweakui I only use the old control panel ui as its all I need. Think I better stop straying. -- Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. -- Genesis 19:22 Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
Re: [Audyssey] Battrick
Hi Willem, I'm also having this problem, so it's probably their server. What's the name of your team? I'm very happy about the number of blind people playing this excellent game, my other friend has recently set up a team as well, just have to show him about the combo boxes. Ari - Original Message - From: Willem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:27 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Battrick I'm having problems logging into battric. It keeps on giving me an error 500 internal server message. Is anyone else having this problem? -- next part -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.0.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.2/560 - Release Date: 2006/11/30 ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
Re: [Audyssey] the bio grenades in sod
I think Nicol was talking about the ordering wizzard where you put in the credit card number. Ari - Original Message - From: Tom Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the bio grenades in sod hello Nicol, two things here. First, if you are speaking of the registration screen for SOD you do not put a credit card number in that screen. if you and your dad payed for the game already then you should have received an unlock code from GMA games, this is what you need to put into the registration screen. As for the biogrenades, Thomas has already handled that question well, I would only clarify by saying that when you first hit the spacebar you get a rising tone, this is a relative indication of how hard you are going to throw the grenade, the next press of the spacebar actually throws it. As he says they are a tricky weapon to learn to use but well worth it. Regards, Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nicol Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 6:41 AM To: blind gaming Subject: [Audyssey] the bio grenades in sod HI friends I'm still waiting for my dad to return to me with the correct credit card number because the game is asking for a 16-digit number and the one he gave me is 17 digits. Anyway I'm so long practicing throwing a grenade in the demo version. Here is something which is totally unclear to me. Please! I don't want any spoilers! If someone can just explain this to me a bit clearer. The manual says if you wait 1 second before pressing space the second time you throw the grenade it will travel 45 feet before landing. When the game started I decided to practice throwing a grenade without waiting for a monster to be present. So I was standing at the start of the maze. My back was facing the wall. A long passage stretched before me, definitely longer than 45 feet. I pressed, g, I pressed space, I waited one second and I pressed space again and I was killed. How is this possible? I wasn't 45 feet away from a wall. Is it possible that if a grenade hits a door I will also be killed? Because its possible that the first door in the maze is 45 feet away from the starting point. I tried again, this time also standing with my back against THE WALL AT THE STARTING POSITION OF THE MAZE, I waited 2 seconds before I pressed spacebar a second time and this time the grenade didn't kill me. I noticed that, whether the grenade kills me or not, it makes a clicking sound. If I press spaced a second time it will make the sound of a blast mine but then it makes a clicking sound. Does this clicking sound mean the grenade is landing on the floor, on a monster or against a wall? The manual didn't said that if the grenade hits a door it will kill me. It only said if it hits a wall it kill me so that's why I can't understand if I'm at the starting position of the maze and I press space again after 1 second the grenade kills me. I managed to kill a scientist though. Do you think its possible to throw a grenade at a monster within a room? The most rooms are about 30 by 40 feet. There is some rooms which are 50 by 30 feet or 50 by 70 feet. Thanks ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
Re: [Audyssey] Battrick
Hi Christine, Battrick is the best game ever. It's an online Cricket management game with many teams from all over the world. Willem, my team is Uninspiring Batting. Ari - Original Message - From: CHRISTINE SHADE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Battrick What exactly is battrick? I've never heard of this game. Thanks, Scott ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
Re: [Audyssey] ATTN!! message from Munawar bijani about bpcprograms
This is where we as a community should put our foot down against such things as charge backs, pirates, etc. We are really a small market that noone will program if their stuff is being pirated. The person can be happy the programmer isn't naming him as I'm sure we as the community wouldn't have let this go. Ari - Original Message - From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org; gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] ATTN!! message from Munawar bijani about bpcprograms its a pitty this has to happen. I just hope the site does not die with the company so those that wish to can download the games. Still I am not complaining, I have all the games,both free and registered, and I was never able to beat treasure hunt even on easy even with the modified sound packs. Oh well, this is a test for all and there are still a few around. Its a pitty bpc died though, they did play a major part in things, I was hoping to buy th1 and 2, Hmm wander if th2 will be released in whatever uncompleted state it is in. At 04:29 PM 12/4/2006, Stephen wrote: I am writing on behalf of Munawar, the brains behind bpc programs. Some of you have been asking why he is no longer in the business, Here's the full story in his words. Make sure to read the message thoroughly as we can all learn a thing or too from it. -- I started out around 2001 I think. my goal was to create games for blind people. at first they were free, and then suddenly I started charging, because Treasure Hunt had become a real first person shooter complete with an overall objective. That was when I had lots of time, and, most importantly, motivation. I wanted to leave a mark in the so-called blind gaming community, because I realized something quite quickly. We had too many rated E games, games for kids rather than adults. So began my major upgrade to Treasure Hunt. There's a common misconception that I just wanted to expand the game and put more features in it, bringing it up from version three to four. The real reason was that we needed more serious action games; games which run around a storyline. So now we were in the four year round about of BPC's life. Treasure Hunt was released six months later, I believe February of 2005. Now, everyone who followed the evolution of Treasure Hunt remembers the major patch upgrades. The game was quite bug-filled, which showed me that my skills in programming actually weren't as well-planted as I had thought they were. And, of course, my beta testers were jokes, save a select few (you know who you are) So from Feburary 2005 to early 2006, I was releasing patch after patch. That was my job; it wasn't a good experience for me at all, and I quickly realized Treasure Hunt was, in itself, a failure. The game turned out to be rated E although I had hoped it wouldn't be, and some things did not work for no apparent reason. After this period of patch releasing, I arived at the first really stable version of Treasure Hunt, 4.25, and that's when I was able to turn my attention to the finances of the organization. Payments were coming in nicely the first couple months, then declined. They went back up in December of 2005, thanks to Christmas shoppers. Developers love Christmas. Finally, I saw a steady drop of purchases, In March, I made one sale, April was zero, and May was around that number. But then came a further change, and it was not a pleasant one. someone actually filed a charge back against me. Can you believe the morality of this person? I won't name them, but they will know who they are when they read this. This individual had bought a copy of the game from me, and then turned around and claimed that I made an unauthorized purchase to their credit card. Not only did Pay Pal refund their money, they also gave them $10.00 extra. This leech was paid $10.00 for buying my game! I had given them the registration key and everything, I saw no fault with the order. They got what they paid for. Now, Consider all of what I have said. I did consider everything, and I'll briefly recap. Treasure Hunt was a rated E game when it wasn't supposed to be; someone accused me of credit card fraud, something which degraded my reputation greatly; there was no more money being made; I lost my motivation; and, finally, I hated all those 13-year-olds trying to make games. Unfortunately, people seem to trust any word of mouth they get, even if it's from one person only, My sales went down dramatically after the chargeback. So, now it was June. One fine day, I decided to just throw it all away. I will admit it can be called cowardly for me to do so, but I did not really have a choice. Pressing on would have resulted in a lawsuit, which I do not have the money to fund, A plane which started off quickly and then crash landed, that's what happened with BPCPrograms, SD, And that, my fellow gamers, was the story of the BPCPrograms Software Division
[Audyssey] Game suggestion
Hi all One game I'd love to see ported, and I know there could be copyright issues, but you could change the idea of the game to delivering braille magazines or something, is Paperboy, I'd love an accessible Paperboy game. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Out of the games dimension
I played Double Dragon, but, Thomas, what was Legend Of Cage about? I still have iton my 24-in-one, but am still not really sure what it's about! Did you ever play Track And Field, Milk And Nuts, Spartan X, or that other game where you're a mother pig and you have to shoot all those wolves? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Out of the games dimension
Hi Jeremy, The article was called Out Of The Games Dimension, that's why the subject's weird. We're not going to have ot posts on this list, that's why we're having the whole discussion about the new list which Cara has set up for us. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Adult maths games?
Hi all, Are there any accessible maths games for adults? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] muds for beginners?
Hi all, The library for the blind here in SA got hold of a braille book from the library in the US, called Bots by Andrew Leonard. This book is very interesting, examining computers and Artificial Intellegence, and discussing things such as chat bots, etc. This book talks about an online mud game in the early 90's from the university of Texas, which is text-based, and called Point Moo-t. Does this still exist, and how do I get started with muds. I've often thought of trying a mud, but I don't want fantasy stuff, are there more realistic muds? What's a good, text-only mud for beginners? I've also heard that I need a thing called a mud client, what is this, and from where do I get it? I'm using JAWS 8.0. Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] braintraining games
Hi all, Here's a site which us braintraining enthusiasts can investigate, it gives links to braintraining games, some free, some paid-for, maybe some of you guys together with me can investigate if any of these are accessible, as there are quite a lot. http://longevity.about.com/od/mentalfitness/tp/braintrain.htm Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] dr. Kawashima
Hi all, Reading about Dr. Kawashima's brain training, I can't see why it couldn't be made accessible, as it is based very much on numbers. Does anyone have any suggestion as to how I may be able to find an email address or contact details for someone whose involved with dr. Kawashima in order to suggest developing or modifying his brain training program so that blind people can use it? I'm going to find the add and write so long to a society for the blind in Japan, as I'm sure that if they're interested, they would at least be able to get in touch with him, or I'd love to know what is done for Japanese blind people who are into gaming, as Nintendo and many of these companies are based in Japan, maybe there are games for the blind in Japan, but we haven't really heard of them because they're not in English? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] weird psp blind product!
Hi all! Look at this absolutely weird link, it's written very badly, but as far as I can make out, it seems like someone's developing a program to work with the psp which eventually plans to alert blind people whose in rooms with them, and other weird stuff, this project seems absolutely nuts! http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=535163 Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] weird psp blind product!
Interesting though that it uses the psp, not a device most blind people have, grin. But what I was actually also wondering, how do you even put a program on a psp, it just uses cartriges doesn't it? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] muds for beginners?
Has anyone got a copy of monkeyterm for me, or knows where I can get the file, because every site I've tried the links to download don't work and the publisher has abandoned it. Is MonkeyTerm accessible with JAWS 8? I looked at the Z mud site, but it seems that I'd have to buy it, so no chance. One question that I still want to know is when I get a client, are there any muds that aren't fantasy? Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Inform Problem
Hi all, I can't use the inform interpreter that comes with Time's Ashes to play inform games, as it won't read the whole screen when I'm reading with the jaws cursor routed, I'm using JAWS 8. I've been using Winfrotz TTS, but I don't like using it at all, as I prefer reading my games with jaws, because I can get things to be spelled, I also like reviewing the screen in bits, not just having the whole thing rush-read to me. This problem is weird, because I never had this problem on the old pc, I'm not sure what's wrong, the longer I play, the text in my inform window becomes confused, example, when I type in a command, the text at the bottom will be text I'd received from a command I'd used ages ago! What's wrong? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] copyrights
And Tom, if you're ever somehow manage to become a millionaire, I'm sure you'd rather use the money for better things than a starwars license! Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] 7-128 computer games for every one.
Wow Thomas, this Free TTS, can I use it with JAWS and other games, is it a Sappi synth that I can download? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] joining the Interactive Fiction Group
Hi all, This might be considered ot, so replies please offlist, however, there might be people on here who would want to know the answer to this, and I also don't know where to ask. Apparrently there is an interactive fiction group, actually the official one called rec.arts.interactivefiction. My problem is that I want to join, but the site says this is a Usenet group. My question is, I've heard this term, what is, how do I use, subscribe to, and post to this group and usenet? Is this accessible? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] joining the Interactive Fiction Group
Thanks very much Dark, how heavy is the traffic, I might join, but like you I don't like technical stuff, I just want to keep up with what is released and chat to people about if. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] hunting for the audyssey zip file.
Hi Thomas, It's very hard to get individual, or multiple zipped files of Audyssey up to the latest one anymore. I looked for it last time, and every site I looked at stopped at 50. Also, why did Paul Henrichsen site stop, that was a great resource for games and audyssey. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year
Yeah Dark, I agree, I think it's also like the Draughts Checkers thing, we also call it Patience here, and I know the RNIB and the SANCB here sells accessible versions of Solitaire, although I'm still not sure why the RNIB call it something weird like Fox and Geese or something like that. Thanks for the magazine link though, I never knew about this, will look at it. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] grizly gulch cheat
Still no joy on the rumour that you can become a criminal, I really wish I knew why that rumour happened. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] accessible games and avg antivirus
For some reason, when I want to play Bopit, I have to disable f-secure, if I don't, I get an error message, and the game won't run. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] accessible games and avg antivirus
Trouble, that's an absolutely ridiculous question and assumption about viruses and countries. First, some of the best antivirus products like Kaspersky are Russian, and second, you'd be excluding the whole world, the UK has Sophos, the USA has Norton, and, yes, viruses do also originate from those countries as well, remember Malissa? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Blind cool tech review posting
Hi Dark, How about seeing if you can submit it also to Main Menue? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] KChess question
Hi guys, What exactly is the difference between KChess Advanced and KChess Elite, what does Elite have that Advanced Doesn't? Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] free space invaders games
Hi Josh, There is Sonic Invaders, although hopefully it will work on your system, it seems very fussy about such things. I'm sorry I don't have the link, but you can look on audiogames.net. I also think there's another one from UA games, but am not sure about its name. I can't think of any others? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] accessible games and avg antivirus
OK guys, we can take this to the new group if necessary. Bit Defender is a Rumanian one, I've heard it's good, but I don't know if it works with JAWS, and the site for me was so inaccessible, that I couldn't find where to download it, the links were images. Kaspersky and Steganos for me didn't properly work with JAWS either, because I like playing around with settings, and I couldn't access those properly, I like AVG and f-secure. MCAFEE also I think is accessible, and I never tried Norton. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] great technology newsletter was Re: accessible games andavg antivirus
Is this a blind thing, I mean, does he compare them with JAWS or other screen readers? That's actually a cool idea if someone had the time, some persons very knowledgeable about computers like Thomas, who know how to use them, could make a computer magazine for blind people, I don't mean one that focuses on adaptive technologies like AccessWorld or Main Menue, but one that would give reviews of software based totally on how accessible or screenreader friendly they are. I know that many people ask on mailing lists, but, for me, first, they are not comprehensive, and, second, because many users are at different levels of computing, you sometimes get people saying something is inaccessible when it actually is very accessible, or vice versa. Like sighted magazines show you how to do things with a mouse, this one would show you how to do things in other ways, in the way that, for example, a sighted magazine would have a feature in showing, for example, video editing, blogging, getting started with Excel, but explaining it too obscurely for blind people, like they would say click on the yellow button, this magazine would show accessible ways of doing things. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Moderator Close topic accessible games and avg antivirus
oops, sorry Tom, didn't see that. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] accessible games and avg antivirus
Hi Constantine, I'm not too sure how to subscribe manually, but if you email Cara, she can subscribe you or tell you what to do. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] running games on a stick?
So then, what do you think the best way is? Would it work, if I ran a setup file, you know the part where you choose the letter to install to, the drive lettre, if my stick's lettre is G, can I change the directory to G:\? Or is it better to just copy the Showdown folder from my program files to a directory on the stick? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
Given what Thomas says, to me the piracy question is relative, in some cases and for some products, I have seen cases where I would justify piracy, but, in this case, I think it's awful. We must remember that Liam is not some multi-million-dollar company, and I also don't think he's charging huge price for his game. I mean, take the other fact that he also bothers giving us support and helping out as well, it's really not nice that keys for his games are being circulated. I do agree though that I hate the whole thing with a game where you format the computer, but are people responsible enough that if you don't put security measures on they won't pirate? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
Who knows, you might get some poor guy who'll pay you for that, grin! Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Games on the Braille Desk?
Hi all, Sorry, am asking again, in case noone read my last post about this. My friend still has an Arctic Braille Desk, and we want to know if it's possible, using it's Standcom utility, to put games onto it, as we have heard it's possible, but the mannual is quite vague about whether you can run things after transferring them with standcom, and we're a bit nervy to try. Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] running games on a stick?
so that I can carry it around and play it on other people's computers without having to install it and causing them hassles. I've already put nvda on, but that was a specially designed portable ap, but, as I've heard, you can also do it with games, so it's cool. Also, what you need, is if someone could make nvda read the frotz, tads and Alan, you could of course play text adventures as well. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
No, there are instances that I have seen where for the case of humanity, I am looking at it from the perspective of the developing world where money is scarce, and, let us say, before NVDA and free screen readers, there were, let's call them needs, and there were questions of refused funding for such programs while a fellow blind comrade's livlihood was in peril because if he didn't have such software he couldn't get a job he needed to support his family, even though he was willing to work, some people were unable or unwilling to help out. I'm being cryptic, but I can still defend piracy. There are also instances of persons living in countries under US sanctions who, a certain blind person wanted to become a teacher, and, because he was not allowed to import screen reading programs, well, provisions had to be made. I know that this is technically piracy, but I regard this as delicate shades of grey where I would allow human discretion. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
here here Darren! Not judgemental! Sure, it is stealing, but in some cases I consider it a more Robin Hood type act. But I do think for blind games and software, for me ethically, piracy is a no-no, because people like Thomas and Liam are one-man businesses, trying to make a living, they're doing it for a very small market like us, they're also not rich rich, and also games are not an absolute necessity, but I do agree that if a person does pirate, I'm thankful there's not a huge spying satellite judging harshly every case. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Pac Mate games again!
Hi all, Have I been missing something for ages, or is there still no solution to the problem of, for me at least, not being able to play text adventures on the Pac Mate? With the Inform interpreter, even when I try the JAWS cursor, the PM is silent and you can't even load a story, and with tads, although I've tried playing around with the view menue, only half the game text is sometimes read. Is there another interpreter for pocket pc which I can try, I'd really love to play Alan games on the Pac Mate! Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
Hi Thomas, I have also been thinking about it from your point of view, and it really is a tricky situation, but thanks to some new good free screen readers there isn't as big a problem as it used to be. What I would wish for is that, if a person needed a product like jaws, and they were living in a developing country, if Freedom Scientific could work with some aid charities where something could be arranged. Big companies like Microsoft do alter their prices for different regions, but, as you say, they have enough people to do so, it's just that I have seen first-hand experiences of people having huge problems because they can't afford the software, but I also really do understand the other point of view. If screen reader companies were to start regional pricing, then people in rich countries would find a way to import or get coppies from developing countries. One thing which someone did mention, many of us are very happy with the GW Micro idea, because many dealers in some developing countries don't have enough money to allow customers to do a monthly payback, but the GW model has given quite a few people a good solution. Even in a country which is less developed for blind people, I'm still always grateful that I was born in South Africa, because some blind people are treated absolutely awfully in some other countries. I know, until recently, there was a law in one country which didn't allow blind people to marry, because apparrently the government of that country actually considered blindness on parr with severe mental problems, and in many superstitious cultures, if you're born blind, it's considered by everyone that you are cursed, there was a case my friend had to deal with where a father had basically locked his own blind son in a room, not even allowing him to go out into the community because, in his eyes, his blind son brought shame and disgrace on his family. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Audiogames and Kevin?
Hi all, Just wondering, but what has happened, first to Richard from audiogames.net, he hasn't posted on here for absolute ages, and also Kevin, our owner, can't even remember when last he's posted either? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Article about Interactive Fiction for Spag magazine
Hi all, I have emailed the editor of Spag magazine for players of Interactive Fiction. I got a reply, but, because of some attachments, which I don't know how exactly to remove because it would go over the size of messages for the list, I have forwarded the message to Thomas. Anyway, the point of this message is that Spag magazine would like an article about us as blind players playing interactive fiction, the next issue is coming out in a month's time. I am quite an amateur in IF, and still haven't tried out many interpreters and so on, so could someone who has more experience then I do with IF write the article about playing IF from a blind person's perspective, maybe saying what interpreters don't work well, how it's done, I don't know, just a general thing to make people more aware of us. There are some things I'd like whoever writes the article to highlight, though, like the, if we put in that we're still having problems getting these Pocket Interpreters to work on the Pac Mate, maybe someone would in the IF community would be prepared to modify them a bit, as the Source Code is freely available, and maybe other issues if there are still accessibility problems or just anything. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] one more thing
One other thing for the article which I forgot to mention, the problem that some text games need you to see graphics to solve them, an example would be the Quest game about you in a hotel trying to solve a murder. If noone with more experience has the time twrite the article, I'll be happy to try, but I'm worried it will not be accurate. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Article about Interactive Fiction for Spag magazine
OK then, here's the editor's address. It's Jimmy Maher, and the add is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] online quizzes?
Hi all, For example, on facebook, there are many brain tests where you have to solve puzzles and choose from options, you only have a little time to finish these. Does anyone know of more accessible games and puzzles that can be played online that also have time limits, like maybe some clever quizzes or something? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
give us an accessible game with sound effects for that Thomas, lol! Seriously, there's this really cool sighted board game, where, I can't remember what it was called, but what happened was the pieces were planes, and you threw dice and moved on a map, trying to answer questions about capitals and stuff, there would be cards you had to draw as well, with chance events like a terrible storm has diverted you to Helsinki. I can't remember exactly, but the aim of the game was I think at the beginning, you drew something that decided from where you started and to where you had to go, something like your flight must go from Washington to Melbourne. I do actually wish there were some fun ways for learning geography, as it's hard to get braille maps here and I'd love to get a better idea where countries are compared to each other. I can of course say that Germany and France, for example, are in Europe, and I think I'm right that they even border each other, but I don't really know who's west of who, or where Ohio and Florida and all the states in the US are when you here people talk about them. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] fast gaming fingers and reflex?
Hi all, This is quite a weird question or thought, I just would please like some feedback and funny stories if anyone has experience of this. I was trying to play running in an olympics computer game with my friend, now, how you run is you press the left and then the right arrow one after the other. What I want to know, is even from small, he has been able to press these arrows or at least, to use his fingers at incredible speeds compared to me. I am really much slower at games that need quick reflexes then he is. My question is, do you guys think that playing more would improve a person's fingerwork? I really find it amazing that people manage to finish games like Troopanum on absolute hard, I don't get anywhere near that, and, is it somehow a strategy, or extremely good reflex and listening? I also find it fascinating at how much the mind plays a part when you want to play. Sometimes, a person wants to play something fast-action, but, if you're not up to it mentally on that day, if you feel relaxed, even if you want to play well you just can't get yourself into the frame of mind to get the best hand-ear coordination possible, and, is it just me, but when you are with friends and want to show them how to do something in a game, nearly all the time that you're on your own, you can do it, but when your friends are there, at the back of your mind you know that you just have to get it right, you know that they're listening, hoping you'll show them how to do something, it's at moments like that that you just can't do it, like, I remember on my Nintendo, on the athletics, if you jump over the high jump bar three times in a row, you get a lovely little alien guy coming down in a jetpack, with cool sound effects, and giving you ten thousand points, but it was almost impossible to do it when you wanted to show your friends! Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Important Montezuma's Return announcement
really Thomas, feel very sorry for you about this, can't stand bloody evil people like that, these big bullying corporate-types who try and find anything to sue over to just make money, that's the one thing I find not great about America, the culture over there of people just wanting to find problems and suing all the time. It's absolutely disgusting, I mean, how could anyone even confuse them with you, you are making a game for blind people, they're not even bothering to do that anyway. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Important Montezuma's Return announcement
Thomas, There are sites saying this company doesn't even exist anymore, so how can they trademark the game like that? If they're not even existing, my guess is could this just be sour grapes and an excuse to try and get something by threatening? If they don't even exist anymore, how can they even have a case so petty, there's someone there with too much time on his hands. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Important Montezuma's Return announcement
Tell me Thomas, as I'm not clear on this, I understand a bit about naming and trade marks, but, what would happen, if, for example, a company invented a game, and another company invented practically the same game, but just with a different name, can you copyright a concept? Example, a person makes a game where they fly around in space visiting planets, and calls it Planet Visitor, and then someone else makes a game with exactly the same concept and calls it Galaxy Traveler, would the first company have a case? I've also wondered this in screen readers, say now JAWS have made a set of keystrokes for their screen reader, what would happen if another company started up, making a screen reader that used the exact keystrokes as JAWS, would JAWS have a case? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] fast gaming fingers and reflex?
For me the best time to try playing is in the mornings, I'm at my best, but not a propper, hot South African morning, it must sort of be earliish and a sort of crispy, coolish day. The little bit of cool breeze really does somehow do something to my concentration for playing. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] online quizzes?
Hi Richard, Thanks, will look at it. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] logic and spatial awareness games
Thanks Dark, but what's really rubbish is you know, what I was also thinking of for logic, are logic puzzles, but I can't find accessible ones, I've been to plenty of sites and I they're all flash-based, you know, the kind of puzzles where, for example, five boys date five girls, and they give you clues for you to work out who dated who. For spatial, I'm with you, but, something like Blank Block, I'm just rubbish at trying to picture moves in advance, that's probably why I'm also rubbish at chess, I just don't vision all the possibilities with all the ifs and buts, this spatial question is really tricky! About chess, I heard someone once, would love to know you guy's thoughts on this, but do you guys think it's harder for a blind person to play chess given the same amount of time with a chess clock as compared to a sighted person, I'm not talking about braininess here, I'm talking about do you guys think sighted people can see moves mor obviously, since their eyes can sort of do a more visualisation of the different parts of the board sort of quicker then a blind person having to use their hands, not to mention that, while the blind person is moving, the sighted person can look at the board, but the blind person can't feel the board while the sighted person is moving, lol, can you imagine! Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] logic and spatial awareness games
Hi all, Does anyone know of games to improve a person's ability to use and grasp logic, and another one, if not the same, to also somehow improve spatial awareness, because I'm rubbish at both of these. I don't know if games for helping to improve such things exist, but if there is, could someone advise what games are the best to play. Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] chineese checkers.
Hi Lisa, If you mean Checkers as in Draughts, then there is a wonderful Draughts game especially designed for the blind, with three other games on a CD. It comes from Azabat in the UK, it costs I think it was 40 pounds, I ordered mine from RNIB. Sorry, don't even know if I've spelled the company properly, and I don't have the site either, maybe someone else knows. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] ninja turtle game
Hi Constantine, I think you'll also enjoy my article about the NES, which I sent Ron to, if it's good, he will put it in Audyssey. I also wrote that article, because I hope it will get more of us talking about how we got into games. I'm fascinated by your history as well, yes, we couldn't play half the stuff, but that doesn't stop us from just racing and crashing the car, but now that consol games are so expensive, it's probably quite awful for people getting into it, as they actually have to spend lots of money just on the one game, not having the cool -in-one stuff we did. What other games did you enjoy on the NES, I still have mine. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] chess challenge - Re: logic and spatial awarenessgames
Hi Dark and Charles, I don't know chess braille at all, but is it true what I've heard that American chess braille is different to British chess one? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Important Montezuma's Return announcement
The two high-rise buildings! Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Educational games problem
Hi all, Has anyone else noticed that it's really unfortunate and awful that there are suddenly, as far as I know, hardly any educational games for blind children? Before there used to be so many, MindsEye2, or something like that, they apparrently had good quality educational games, and Code Factory also had all those fairy tales, now they've stopped, I can't think of anything teachers of young blind children can use, how did this suddenly happen? PCS also had one, I think. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] chess challenge - Re: logic and spatialawarenessgames
I think chess actually has a braille code, like what maths does in America. There's actually some way chess players use to show a whole board in braille, but I met a guy once who told me he couldn't read the British chess braille, because, he said it was a different way of brailling than he knew. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] alice in wonderland.
I'd love to know where to get the adventure game one, I tried the pc one, but it was stand-alone dos, and one of those that JAWS doesn't read because of graphics. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] UK devs any1 4cricket
Hi Mark, I think at the moment, for cricket fans like us, and even football, it's just a fantasy for the moment. These sports are so popular that, as I've said forever, it would be great to give such projects to RNIB or, for the football, let blind organisations all over Europe come together to produce a mega game. As far as I'm concerned, if you want a really good cricket game with teams, sounds, and commentary, that's probably not something you just want one guy to do, you need much feedback, you need people from all over the cricket world like us from South Africa, our Ausie, Kiwi, New Zealand and English pals, and of course India, I mean, there are many blind people in India, I actually would think that organisations could cooperate on a cricket game as well. Well, at the moment, your only choice is Batrick, we can do that in the meantime. When I think of a cricket game, I'm thinking of some sort of solution where we could use stereo again, where, let's say, the batsman has an area stretching from the far left to the far right, the bowler tries and bowls, and the batsman maybe tries to move towards the ball and hit it, he can hit it to different directions, but there are many other complex things like fielding and things, I don't want a game where I just press a number for the shot I want, I've always thought that sports games should really most of the time hardly ever be down to luck, and that, if you time or do your moves exactly according to extreme split-second timing, you should get results, because a sports game like cricket and football for me, quite a bit of the time it can work a little bit on randomness, but rather also work on whether you're able to keep focus and concentrate, or, if you use some players and make them run too much, they get tired. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] lower than bsc ok for games?
Hi all, This is quite a tricky question, I suppose this goes to our developers like Thomas. I have a friend who, his situation is a bit tricky, in that he's not sure what to do, he wants to develop Information Systems for businesses, but he would also like to try his hand at games developing. Now, his problem is this, to get into the bsc of computer science, you need maths and science, but he didn't do science at school, so he can't get into the BSC. Some people say that you need physics to be able to program games, to like understand speeds and distances and things, but is this really necessary? Instead of doing a BSC, he can do a diploma in IT at a college, or, at the uni, he can do a BCom in Information Systems. If he were to do the Information Systems BCom, would the programming which he would pick up, where he would learn to make Information Systems, be OK for him to develop, even maybe some basic games? I know he'd like to do the BCOM, as his main goal is to develop business systems, but do you think he'd be able to also develop games and programs with it? I'm unfortunately not sure what the diploma in IT teaches, but is a BSC really necessary to understand things like Artificial Intelligence or to program computer games? Sorry, I know this sounds a bit confused, but, basically, I think what I want to know is, do you really need a top-of-the-range BSC in computer science to be a good games developer. He has enough maths to do a diploma in IT, or a BCom Information Systems, but his physics and science is really not good. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] UK devs any1 4cricket
Oh sorry Mark, I didn't read board game, I sort of probably just got carried away by cricket game! Well, you'd have to probably sort of make rules for a game like that, because I've never heard of a cricket board game. One fun little game my friend and I used to play, you have three batsmen, then you take a dice. You throw it, and one, two, three, four and six are for runs, and a five is a wicket. You use your three batsmen, and he uses his. For the toss, you do one chooses odd, and the other even, the winner decides whether to bowl or bat first, and you do as many innings or balls in an innings as you want. We also devised a more complicated cricket game using dice, but I've forgotten a bit how it worked, I will actually write an article about games we invented using dice. We actually managed to make quite a few sports games using a dice, it's amazing what imagination and a dice can do. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] lower than bsc ok for games?
ah thanks Thomas, so it's probably then ok for him to do the BIS and then just read up books on games programming, because, as I've said earlier, he unfortunately can't choose courses out of degrees, the BSC is a fixed degree and he just doesn't have the science and physics to be able to do that, but he's not too bad at maths though so I think he'll then be ok with the BIS and reading like what you say, because he unfortunately doesn't have the choice at our uni to take and do stuff independent of the whole degree, they're not the most flexy people. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] UK devs any1 4cricket
Hi Tim Are you really, really sure you'd like cricket? All my friends from non-cricket-playing countries think I, and all the rest of the commonwealth are totally mad. I have a Portuguese friend, and, whenever I'm watching cricket, we have a joke where he says to me that only the English are mad enough to invent a game where you hit the ball with an oar thing and run between two pairs of sticks, and only people like me here in South Africa are mad enough to play it with them. I haven't asked him though about what he would say that the English also invented football, which we all love, but he would probably say that that was some kind of luck. I hope cricket does grow though, I hear they're trying to get people in China to play, we could have more countries to play in the world cup. I did actually once hear that they do play cricket also in New York as well. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] lower than bsc ok for games?
Hi Dark, It's not about time, it's about the problems here, because the University doesn't have a gap course which can help him if he never did Physics at school, and the problem is that, unfortunately here there isn't a place which can do such advanced stuff in braille if he wants to do the sort of bridging course because they don't know how to get the physics stuff into braille in the first place. I don't know, maybe he should just do the Information Systems BCOM first and then just hope he'll know enough to do some programming for games or pick it up later I suppose. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Handy Games
Hi Kevin, There are wap games, you play by clicking on links of the wap site. Go to wap.kalador.com and then you click on Home, then on, I think Games. There are also some at wap.worddial.com as well. I think Code Factory also makes a few phone games for blind people, but I haven't tried them and don't know anyone who has. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] lower than bsc ok for games?
Actually Jim, I think what you've just said is probably some of the most encouraging stuff for someone like him, because I think many people, even myself had this notion that you need to be this absolute BSC-type, flying through a whole degree in college type of person. I'll talk to him about this, because I think that we always picture people like Thomas and you as like having these major degrees in computer science, and, really, this will probably not just be thrilling for him, but even for me as well! Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] super secret audio from LWorks
Hi Liam, I Still want Sphere, I wish you were still wanting to do that. I'd definitely buy a well-made table-tennis or Pong game, what I mean is, a Pong game with tournaments, strangely-behaving tables, maybe different types of shots and bounces, fun features, crowds, a Brit umpire like what they have at Wimbledon tennis, and also multi-player, that would have really been fun! Please!! think of doing Sphere again. Shots could have counter-shots, walls on the sides of tables where the ball would bounce off, bril. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Handy Games
Hi Claudio, Well, the Top Gun game on worddial, it is a game where you can play against other users, but there isn't a game where you can play against a friend, like two-player totally, they all work like ranking things. By the way, I haven't forgot about our German and English lessons, it's just that I can't get for-the-people to work properly, we could try Skype maybe sometime next week if you are on Skype? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] I am really worried, we could lose another game dev again
Wow Trouble, I'm trying to understand, you mean ISPS have actually disconnected people because of lack of maturity? How on earth do they decide what makes a person mature? Absolutely weird. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Savage Gambit
Hi all, Is there anywhere from where I can download The Savage Gambit and the trainer thing? The site where it's on seems closed down. You know, thinking about boxing games, I don't know if it's changed nowdays because I haven't tried the latest consols yet, but most of these games are really not like real fights! Most boxing fights are about strategy and go to points with few knock-downs or knock-outs, and to concentrate for three minutes at a time, for twelve rounds must probably be exhausting. The only boxing game I did see nearly like this was unfortunately not too accessible, on the Sega Megadrive called Foreman For Real. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Fw: What's happened to Code Factory Games?
- Original Message - From: Emilia Vasari [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:06 PM Subject: RE: What's happened to Code Factory Games? Hello, To purchase these games please contact Steve Nutt from Computer Room Services (England) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Independent Living Aids (USA) at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me know if you have any further questions. Best regards, Emilia Vasari Sales and Marketing Assistant Code Factory, S.L. Tel. +34 93 733 70 66 www.codefactory.es Code Factory Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Moving Accessibility Forward! www.codefactory.es -Mensaje original- De: ari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: sábado, 16 de febrero de 2008 15:40 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: What's happened to Code Factory Games? Hello, I would please like to know why Code Factory is not selling all the wonderful entertainment and educational games that were made? Are there any plans to make these games available again, as I really loved the professional way in which they were made using real actors, and as there is already not much available for blind people in the way of gaming entertainment, it really seems quite sad that these games are not available anymore. I do understand that Mobile Speak and those solutions are the most important, but these games were also much fun. Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Any suggestions for the savage gamut?
I agree the game must be challenging, but the Bopit-style, constrictive interface was really too stiff. I want the trainer not to have such a terrible voice, I don't think the idea of punch and counter-punch is even such a good idea, in that real boxing doesn't work that one punch can only be countered by another, and that if you miss a punch, that it is certain you'll be hit, if possible I'd really like the ability of boxers to somehow be able to move around the ring, don't know how that would work, I would like a feature where you could set things like shorter or longer fights, what I mean is, you could really have three minute rounds with one minute rests, but the boxer's stamina mustn't then be arcade, I mean, it's understandable that if you punch the guy many times without a response, there'll be trouble, but it, like real boxing, it must be more strategy in that the boxers must avoid being punched so much if you aren't that good, you must be able to scrap out a long fight, stamina and endurance. I mean a certain arcade and real life mode, where arcade is your many knock-downs, and your real-life if you're not really good against an amateur boxer, or if you're both really professional, you then won't be able to knock him out. Maybe it could be like a boxing game like World Champ where you need to train hard to get more power and things. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Any suggestions for the savage gamut?
Hi Phil, Is it true that you guys once released for Windows a kickboxing game, what was it like and how did it work? I unfortunately was never able to try out your dos games because my sound card was one channel, and I didn't have hardware synthesizer or JAWS for dos. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Pac Mate BX games and FS
Hi all, Please forward to people who are interested in games and have a Pac Mate. I don't know if any of you guys would also write to show that we are quite a group who would like this, but I have emailed FS, attaching coppies of the game interpreters that I've had some sort of success with, and told FS of my experience, example that the .z5 and tads interpreters won't read all the game text, and that they should try and make the interface so that JAWS can read the environment automatically without having to route the cursors. I know that, probably for the most part, I don't know whether I can expect anything from FS, but, like I tried to explain to them in my email, text adventures are a past time of many blind people, and it is a fun thing to do while travelling, as well as improving language and thinking. So, I'd also appreciate other Pac Mate owners to also write in if they are having these problems, it's is a long shot, but maybe FS will do something if enough of us are interested. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Pac Mate BX games and FS
Thanks Charles. To continue this, we can go to the Otysey group, but I must say that the response you got is really awful, I mean, you think, every computer that a blind person in the whole world would use has these games on. Aparrently the Window Eyes people have made WE to work with solitaire, I mean, is it really too much effort for FS, especially when you think that WE users are just as capable of doing their jobs with GW Micro seeming to be more flexible on things. Looking at this as well, If I hadn't spent all the money on FS, I would have traded in both my products. For me, the Pac Mate has rubbish braille support, especially a person like me needing better foreign language braille, and not this computer braille for calendar and everything, and I don't think the upgrade from JAWS 8 to 9 was really worth much in terms of enhancements, it shouldn't have been a major upgrade. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] flash and video problem
Hi all, You can reply off-list, but this is also with audiogames and flash games, as nothing seems to work, I know this might be considered a bit OT, but I've asked on so many lists and noone has had an answer for me and I'm really beginning to get desperate because I really don't know what to do, sorry. My problem is that, I can't work out if it's a flash issue, but for quite a few weeks now, it doesn't look like flash content, like Youtube Videos, sudo-san, nothing wants to play. I click, for example, on a link of a youtube video, or a link that says watch a video, or on the sudo-san link, I'm getting absolutely no response. The page of the video pops up with the buttons to play them, but even when I try and press the flash buttons, nothing happens. How can I work out what's going on? Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] flash and video problem
Wow thanks Shaun, it worked. I did do some stuff once with the registry, and maybe that was it, but the reinstall did work. Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] writing articles on accessible games? Re:segagenesis accessible games
Hi Ron When is the new issue coming out, can't wait! Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight news
yes, unfortunately school and uni definitely come first. I can't learn something and leave it for a bit, because then I just forget it, like I tried to start learning how to script jaws, but because of other things I just couldn't do much at a time yet, so I've sort of forgotten what I've started doing. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] problem with super mario
Where can I download this game from, because whenever I tried the link it would give me the page cannot be displayed thing. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] the WII! again
hi all, I'd just like to know, we've heard that the games that come with the WII are playable, but if my friend gets a WII, what games have some of you guys bought that are also fun and accessible? I've also heard of a new game called Mario Olympics, which sounds fun, it is olympics with all those cool sports, but is it accessible? Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] writing a text adventure
Hi all, I remember asking this ages ago, and someone suggested that, without any knowledge of programming, you could use inform to write a text adventure, but that it wasn't too great for screen readers. What I want to know is, even using programming, what's the most accessible package to write text adventures in, and what's the difference between them. If you also don't know programming, isn't there maybe an quickstart guide somewhere for a text adventure writer? Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] the WII! again
ok I understand what you're saying about the other two consols, but what makes the wii sound cool is the whole thing of moving and playing, and also the family-friendly aspect. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] writing a text adventure
Hi Rob and Trouble, thanks for these, just one other question, have you guys tried Alan and what is it like? I'm asking because I also like it's interface when playing games. I'll try inform and see what happens, but is there a guide for beginners? I know even for programming, Tom talks about Safari, but I wanted to also look on blindprogramming, and, I don't know if it's just me, but the site seems totally weird! I remember in the old days there were tutorials and stuff, but now there's this weird login screen which doesn't even seem to have anything to do with blindprogramming anyway! Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] writing a text adventure
Hi James, Are you saying that blindprogramming doesn't exist anymore? What does this droople login mean, what would happen if I registered for it? Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Number Memory Game
Hi all, I know DanZ Memory and some other simon games which use sounds, but I want a memory game, something like Tarzan Junior's, where the thing just uses numbers or objects. Anything out there? I like the Kim game of 7128, but what I don't like about it is that it stops and gives you a score, it should just carry on with more objects! Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Number Memory Game
Thanks guys, will check soon. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Number Memory Game
Hi John, Yes, something like that, more objects, maybe higher levels, and it would also be cool if the objects had more sound effects. What I mean is, some objects have sound effects when you move through them with your arrows, but others don't. Maybe for those who don't like sound effects there would be a choice to turn them off. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] my intro
Hi Aiden, welcome to the list also from me. I'm Ari, and I'm from South Africa. I'm 22-years-old, and a uni student. Really looking forward chatting with you about games. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] The Sega
Hi Tom, I also have a Sega Megadrive, absolutely bril. I think the Maddon, if you learn the menues and the key functions, and maybe let the pc do some stuff for you such as, I think after you've passed, you leave the control and the pc automatically runs, not sure of this, but I think there's a possibility it could sort of be accessible. Don't know about the other games, but am sadly guessing that Sonic and stuff aren't really playable. Get Golden Axe if you can, you just walk right and when you hear something trying to attack you, you can try attacking it, I think it's quite accessible. The WWF (now WWE after being sued) games like the Arcade Game is absolutely accessible, also Toughman Boxing, Rugby World Cup 1995 (with quite a bit of practice and learning tactics), are accessible. Another game with commentary that might be accessible is Bret Hull (really sorry about the spelling) hockey. This game is quite fun, because you can remove the golies, so if you do that you get these like really huge scores. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] What is a Crossword?
Hi all, On the subject of Crosswords, I know this does sound a stupid question, but I've never really understood what exactly a crossword is, even though I've heard braille ones do exist, I've never seen one, from where do you get them? I know it's a grid thing, but how large is it and what do people mean when they talk about things like joined, across, etc? Is there an accessible one that I could maybe see or try to understand it, I know ME2 used to make one, but I was never able to try that. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Braile rubics cube
No Ann, I'm also depressed about that. People have told me to just get a cube and get someone to help me label it. There used to actually be many braille games that there isn't now, cludo, the cube, many other games as well. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
