Re: [Audyssey] word games from 7-128

2009-02-19 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hi, Phil, You might want to double-check some of those; I'm pretty sure Word Jungle at least isn't for VI players. Best, Terrence On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:10:06 -0500, Phil Vlasak wrote: Hi Folks, I just added five word games from 7-128 Software to my games list and prices list. You need to

Re: [Audyssey] Creating a Mud was Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
I can't remember the URL right off, but there is also a variant of Ubuntu, known as Vibuntu, that is designed for accessibility. Terrence -- From: William L. Houts abra...@drizzle.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:27 PM To: Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] For all who have or have played the Nintendo Wii...

2009-01-19 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
I haven't ever even looked at a Wii, but might just check it out after listening to this conversation. It connects to an existing TV, doesn't it? My apartment's pretty crowded, so space is at a premium. Thanks, Terrence -- From: Ken

Re: [Audyssey] Adon

2009-01-19 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Wow! I'd be interested in the sound pack links for Adom; I have played Nethack on my Linux box, squinting; it'd be great to have a setup like you're talking about. Thanks, Terrence -- From: Ken kenwdow...@neo.rr.com Sent: Sunday, January 18,

Re: [Audyssey] Cross Platform Speech Support

2009-01-19 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
My personal preference is Cepstral Callie; of the ones you mensioned, probably ScanSoft Daniel or Karen. When given a variety to choose from, many people I have worked with have had similar preferences, especially when tspoken letters are involved. Terrence

Re: [Audyssey] Mapping program?

2009-01-09 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Something like that would be perfect for a game like Materia Magica, where there are cities with lots of streets buildings to keep track of. -- From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:27 PM To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Karaoke machine for blind people

2008-12-29 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hello Ari, Basically, you have a Braille display connected to a PC, which is hooked up to and/or runs the karaoke lyrics. The lyrics are sent to the Braille display in the same manner printed lyrics would be displayed on a screen. I saw this at CSUN, and it was pretty effective. Terrence

Re: [Audyssey] Another good mud

2008-12-27 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hello, Michael, Do you have an address for that? Thanks, Terrence -- From: MICHAEL MASLO mmaslo1...@swbell.net Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 9:19 AM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Another good mud Hi:

Re: [Audyssey] Muds

2008-12-12 Thread Terrence van Ettinger (AKA Angus MacLaren)
for the Blind, Oregon campus www.guidedogs.com - Original Message - From: Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren terre...@terrencevak.net To: mmaslo1...@swbell.net; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Muds I

Re: [Audyssey] Muds

2008-12-07 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
I happen to like both those muds; I go by Albrand on Materia Magica and Braedan on AlterAeon. The one thing I have found challenging on Materia Magica's quests is trying to find specific places, especially in New Rigel...there's so many shops etc. it's hard to remember where they all

Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration

2008-12-05 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
SAPI Frustration From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, November 24, 2008 10:23 am To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Hi Terrence, If I remember correctly you have to unpack the file to a temp directory before you can run setup.exe. Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren wrote

Re: [Audyssey] cutting lades?

2008-11-28 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Haven't played this game, but are you sure they're not cutting Blades, with a B? Terrence -- From: Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 5:06 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] cutting lades?

Re: [Audyssey] cutting lades?

2008-11-28 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
It's a mistake that is easy to make even if you speak good English.-- From: Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 10:27 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] cutting lades? Hi, oo yes

Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration

2008-11-24 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:47 AM To: Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration Hi Terrence, since you have already tried the DelUserLex.exe file. Here is another fix that I was told about. Not sure if it is actually

Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration

2008-11-24 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Where do I put this speech51msm stuff? It seems to want to put it in temp, but I don't think that's the right spot. Thanks, Terrence -- From: Jim Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:49 AM To: Terrence van Ettinger AKA

[Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration

2008-11-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hello, all, Well, I've tried a few things to get my SAPI fixed, since I'd really like to be able to use it with vipmud, but it still isn't quite right. Here's what I've tried: I've installed Jim Kitchen's winkit file. I've reinstalled the SpeechSDK5.1.exe package. I've also

Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration

2008-11-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
I did that; it didn't have an impact. -- From: Trouble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 3:55 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration Go back to Jim's site and grab

Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration

2008-11-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
installed some Cepstral voices to try them with Montezuma's Revenge, removed them and after that his Sapi voices completely stopped working. Apparently Microsoft's Speech API is very easy to break and if you do the wrong thing say goodbye to it. Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren wrote: I

Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration

2008-11-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
OH! Duh! I'm on XP; I'd mensioned that before but should have again. -- From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:36 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] More SAPI Frustration Hi,

Re: [Audyssey] Fantastic Vista Computers and How to get gamestoplayon them

2008-11-19 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fantastic Vista Computers and How to get gamestoplayon them Hi Terrence, That left over test was a case of being too tired to scroll down and delete it. Phil - Original Message - From: Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Audyssey] Fantastic Vista Computers and How to get games to playon them

2008-11-18 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Next you what? Don't leave us in suspense! '-) Or was that an unintended sentence? g Terrence the interminably curious -- From: Phil Vlasak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:44 PM To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Great Escape (was Re: Apple computers.)

2008-11-16 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
. - Original Message - From: Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Apple computers. Yep, that's the one. I used to play it all the time when I was a kid

Re: [Audyssey] Apple computers.

2008-11-13 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Oh yeah, I remember the typing invaders one. I'd love to find something like that to let my students mess with...a bit of a change from the typing practice they do now. -- From: Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:27

[Audyssey] Great Escape (was Re: Apple computers.)

2008-11-13 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
the head if you tried to push past it. Then you had I think fifty moves in which to find the first-aid kit or it was lights out. - Original Message - From: Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 12

[Audyssey] Sapi Issues

2008-11-13 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hello all, I'm using Windows XP Pro, and for just about any game that uses SAPI, I get an error message of some sort about SAPI not working. What can I do to fix this? Thanks, Terrence --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL

Re: [Audyssey] Daus.

2008-11-13 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
What OS are you using? You should have it; it's actually DOS (spelled D O S), and is generally called Command Prompt, or something similar. I believe it should be under All Programs/accessories. HTH, Terrence -- From: Ryan Conroy [EMAIL

Re: [Audyssey] Sapi Issues

2008-11-13 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
still waiting for the Windows XP CD to reach me. -- From: Jim Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:27 AM To: Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Sapi Issues Hi Terrence

Re: [Audyssey] Apple computers.

2008-11-12 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
-- For the eamon games, I believe there're ports available in Tads or zcode versions; you might search them out at www.ifarchive.org. As for some of the others, one I used to love and would love to be able to mess with again is Great Escape.

Re: [Audyssey] Apple computers.

2008-11-12 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Yep, that's the one. I used to play it all the time when I was a kid. Both at school when I had the chance and at home. Darn thing had a typo for villain, so much of the time it said villian. -- From: Bryan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one bigaspect

2008-10-25 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
I know that several computers have the ability to connect two keyboards; seems that it'd just be a matter of adding the capability into the game itself. Terrence -- From: Chris Hallsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:14

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one bigaspect

2008-10-25 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Couldn't the multi-channel capability of sound cards be implemented to take care of the cutting-off issue? Let one player come through 1 channel, and the other through another channel?n'Coud -- From: Munawar Bijani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] SoundRTS thoughts

2008-10-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
always helpful to employ a few expendable guys who act as scouting parties. On 10/22/08, Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah! OK! Now I just need to practice so I quit getting neutralized every darn time! Too bad they don't have a spy/scout character

Re: [Audyssey] SoundRTS thoughts

2008-10-22 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
menu. Just point the peasant to the building being worked on and tell it to repair and he will begin helping construct the building. Hth. On 10/22/08, Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm...it seemed when I did that that I was just told the building was already

Re: [Audyssey] SoundRTS thoughts

2008-10-21 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
: [Audyssey] SoundRTS thoughts Hi. Yes it can be done. You can move to a peasant and tell it to build there and it'll join the others. It's been ages since I played, but if I understand you rightly, it is, or was, doable. - Original Message - From: Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus

[Audyssey] SoundRTS thoughts

2008-10-19 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hello all, So I'm sitting here playing SoundRTS, and thinking it would be great if I could add peasants to a building project that was already in progress. Can that be done\? If not, it would be a great addition to the game imho. Terrence --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If

Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers 3rd level

2008-10-18 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
There's one at the Terraformers web site; if you look through the FAQ, there's a walkthrough that goes through the second level. Terrence -- From: ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:45 AM To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers 3rd level

2008-10-17 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
That's what I did--and the door even made the opening sound--but I still can't get into it. -- From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:43 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers 3rd level

2008-10-17 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hmm... well I turned south from facing the tone wheels, making sure I was at 15,173, but I just seemed to be running into the wall. -- From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 12:10 AM To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers 3rd level

2008-10-17 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
I'm walking all around where the sound seems to be and where the GPS seems to indicate, but the door won't let me through. -- From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 12:14 PM To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Another Terraformers Question

2008-10-16 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hmm, I may have to rerun that section and try that method. As it was I ended up just shooting the thing and getting the part that way since I was already aiming right at it when I walked in the room. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[Audyssey] Terraformers 3rd level

2008-10-16 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
I'm in the room with the 2 tone wheels the door between them...or so my GPS says. But no matter how I walk towards the door at W15,N73, it doesn't seem to open. Is there something more I should be doing? What about the jellyfish/octopus things--should I be doing something with them? They

[Audyssey] Another Terraformers Question

2008-10-14 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hello again all, What exactly is the trick to dealing with the robot on the 2nd level fast enough? It always destroys me before I can get all the sound keys inserted. Thanks, Terrence --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL

Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers First Level

2008-10-11 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
-- From: nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:29 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers First Level 1. where can I find this game? www.terraformers.nu 2. is it a free game?

Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers First Level

2008-10-11 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
I hadn't noticed it being ring shaped before, but now that you mension it, it kind of does make sense. I've got one of the computer parts already (I finally figured out I could sort of fudge and go find the original file containing the sound flower, then listen to it outside of the game. From

[Audyssey] Fw: Terraformers Saving issue

2008-10-10 Thread Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Hello, all, When I try to go back and play a game I've saved in Terraformers, I find myself at West 26 North 14, despite the fact that I *had* been at West 14 north 90 or so. Is this a defect or sam I doing something wrong? How can I get around this? Thanks, Terrence --- Gamers mailing