with navigation, the game has been very well thought out and
designed though.
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Hi Ian,
this again shows how silly the puzzles in this game are,
I have got past the point you are at, but I did it buy using the cheat
system the 5 finger tap on the screen or on the pc the shift key.
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Hi list,
I am steadily working my way through the inquisitor audio game, the
third in the series sisters in dream, I think a lot of the puzzles in
the game are quite silly and not logical so I have used the cheat system
rather a lot.
However I am at a point where I am rather stuck and the cheat
On 12/19/13, Draconis wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Just adding a bit to your comments.
>
> Apple’s aggressive strategy regarding software upgrades tends to keep their
> platforms more robust and stable, but comes at the cost of some backward
> compatibility.
>
> That said, tho
Dark,
I'd just like to point out some misinformation in this post, and some
misunderstandings about Mac and iOS.
First, you said that iOS apps never have compatibility issues with iOS
upgrades. This is definitely not the case. Several apps, including
Solara (to bring this somewhat back to games)
Hi Dark,
thanks for your reply,
I am not registered on the forum, mostly because I am two lazy to
regularly log in and check its topics, I guess I have just stuck to the
gamers list as it comes to me, I don't have to go to it to absorb content.
it would definitely be good to make contact with
make navigation easier.
Thanks for any help,
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Hi dark,
I am sure it would be fine for you to buy the phone from apple then get
some kind of sim free plan separately.
Its certainly worth you persuing the vat free option as for example, a
sim free iPhone with 64 gb usually costs about £700.
If you get it without vat its about £560, so a big s
Hi Dark,
did you ask for the phone without vat?
As if your deaf or blind in the UK you have the right to by any Apple
products vat free that include features such as VoiceOver or adaptations
for the deaf both of which the iPhone have.
This doesn't apply to accessories though.
You get a signific
website out for more information.
it is
http://hotspotclicker.org/
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Hi Dark,
well I am an atheist so I think that there is no such thing as an after
life in the sense that the bible talks about it.
I think either we stop existing entirely, or maybe we get absorbed into
the environment and affect the atmosphere of a place.
I certainly don't think we reincarnate
Hi Dark,
just curious, what engineers have there been in the past who are blind?
I can't name that many historical famous blind people.
I know of I think a handful, Louis Braille obviously, John Millton, then
there was the king of bohemia think it was in the 12th or 13th century.
To give him cred
Hi Dark,
lol, your message made me smile, the part about the early humans.
To respond to it, if we are playing the what if game, if we had an
apocalypse we also wouldn't have the equipment for making frames and
styluses lol.
I suppose your right though, in an apocalypse I suspect almost all blin
ying to make is that the skills for maintaining
equipment seem to be lacking, I mean you would think a blind society
would know of people locally or nearer than the RNIB who could make
repairs for me.
these are just my thoughts,
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Hi list,
on an old dos computer I still have from the early 90s, I still have an
old football club management game, called soccer manager, made in about
1991 I believe, by new era software.
The game is entirely text based, the idea is that you are the manager of
a football club, you can't actua
Hi,
not sure if the audio wars author keeps up with list traffic, but if you
do, I am just wondering, will you be adding jaws support to audio wars?
as I don't particularly like relying on sapi or NVDA for voicing games.
I know a lot of developers find it hard to add jaws support to games,
perh
to do anything.
do I actually need voice over on to play this game?
Many thanks for any help,
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Hi,
I always check messages after I have finished them, to make sure they
are readable, and in case I want to add anything extra in.
As far as spell checking goes, I actually don't use an in built spell
checker for checking my typing, unless I am in word for example.
A far more useful applicatio
with games very
easily, so for example the de steno games, and now this.
There is nothing wrong with a hobby, but also you shouldn't nag people
about accessibility constantly.
These are just my thoughts, I hope they don't upset you or anyone.
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rks on win7 pro or
> ultimate, no home premium users, which is most of what (at least
> as far as I know) is being sold in computer shops, using Best BUy
> Buy as my basis.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Alex Kenny To: Gamers Discussion list Date sent: Mon, 12 D
The difference between this situation and the digital TV one is that
in the case of digital TV, all transmissions had to switch from analog
to digital immediately. In the case of VB, Microsoft deprecated it
about ten years ago. And Vb games will still continue to run at least
until the version of w
er games, shouldn't we also be
> able to enjoy the games we've already spent money on?
>
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> - Original Message -
> From: "Alex Kenny"
> To: "Gamers Dis
Hi Charles,
While this has een brue in the past, Windows 7 used fewer system
resources than did Vista, and Windows 8 will use even fewer, as it is
being designed to run on tablets and even phones as well as PC's.
No one is saying you must upgrade to new technology. However, as
previously mentione
second point, that's great that you have a SNES and can
play older games. However, I've never seen you post any messages to
the list accusing Nintendo of not caring about their customers because
you can't play GameCube or Wii games with your SNES.
On 12/12/11, dark wrote:
> H
Hi Dark,
Again, I really think you're misrepresenting Microsoft here. Microsoft
actually spends a huge amount of resources supporting older products.
For example, one of the reasons Windows Vista was delayed as much as
it was is because MS temporarily stopped its development in order to
fix major
Hi Charles,
The problem is that trying to maintain old software uses up a lot of
resources and becomes very expensive. It is almost impossible to
create bug-free software without expending huge amounts of software.
NASA, for example, spends billions of dollars and countless months of
testing to en
gt; it's supposed to do?
>
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> - Original Message -
> From: "dark"
> To: "Gamers Discussion list"
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 4:04 PM
> Subje
if Windows 8 is the
last to support VB, you'll still have lots of time to upgrade, as
Microsoft supports its operating systems for quite a while.
On 12/11/11, dark wrote:
> Hi Alex.
>
> As I said I'm not annoyed that Microsoft update their os, they have to,
> even if we don&#x
While I'm not usually the person who will jump to Microsoft's defense,
I don't think it's really fair to say they were too lazy to bother
adding VB compatibility. After all, Windows 8 will still run games
written in VB, but I'm guessing it will require the same tweaks that
Vista and 7 do, namely re
Hi list, I just sent this message to the viphone list without thinking,
grr I hate it when I do things like that, I just filled in the address
on autopilot without thinking.
just thought I would throw this question out there to see what sort of
replies come in,
what other old dos games would
Hi,
thanks for your reply, I actually didn't see any dialogue asking if I
wanted instructions when I first ran the game, but that was because I
was two impatient when the copyright notice came up.
I am using a bluetooth keyboard, I hate the iPhone virtual keyboard with
a passion, the only time
Hi,
I am probably looking in totally the wrong place,
but how exactly do we play these games? I did play the pc versions back
in the day, so am interested to see how this app performs.
I have been able to launch the app, and select what game I want to play,
but then I can't figure out how to act
fun doing so.
Many thanks for any help,
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Hi list.
I guess this question has been asked before,
but is there a way I can play swamp without the mouse?
I realise that the mouse is more accurate than keyboard navigation,
however I am playing on a laptop, and so only have a track pad.
also, I can easily see myself clicking outside the window
Hi,
I guess this bug is probably known about,
but I thought I would report it anyway.
I just managed to cause a bad swamp crash.
I did this by trying to change output from sapi to jaws,
I assume jaws support hasn't been built into swamp, or support for any
other screen readers.
I pressed tab a f
Hi,
I am just wondering, has jaws support now been added in to all games by
aproan?
I hope some will be developed further, like the time travel game, that
sounded interesting, though I haven't beaten it yet.
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Hi Jeremy,
that's a shame you won't be working on the game, it actually did sound
like it could be really cool, especially with the different weapon
choices and skill set choices.
will you reconsider, and actually think about turning this into a proper
game if there is enough demand from the co
Hi.
just wanted to say, dark ruse is creepy, the back story and the theme
music combined.
I hope we get some actual content soon, as it does sound a cool idea, I
hope I can get to sleep tonight lol.
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Hi.
I have another bug to report with raid groups in castaways.
when the raid group comes back from attacking the city, and you try to
send out another group, you get told that you already have a group out
on a raid, even though the group in question has returned.
in fact, so far running castawa
Hi.
I just found a rather serious bug in castaways with raid groups.
the bug is that if you send a raid group out to attack the yetty city,
if a squad of yetty assassins then turns up, they can still injure or
kill troops that you sent out on the raid.
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hi list.
I am just wondering, how does the placement of walls work in castaways?
do walls always have to be built between things so for example two bits
of forest or two rocky fields, is building the wall between two objects
what determines what direction the wall is facing?
so for example, in m
Hi list.
me again, in fact I also just thought, the thunderstorm at the moment
destroys goods, but perhaps on higher difficulty levels it could also
destroy buildings.
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Hi list.
I just had a cool idea for another disaster that could be added to
castaways.
what about having the possibility that your cook could burn down the tavern,
and on high difficulty levels, you could add in that the tavern could be
burned by the fire, and also buildings in other squares s
Hi.
the following bug is still present in castaways and has been for some time.
if a building is destroyed, peasants still try to deliver supplies to it.
for example, my tavern was just destroyed, and my peasants still tried
to deliver food to it a minute or so later.
and it wasn't old messages
Hi.
I am playing the current castaways, and I just had an idea which I think
would really make managing troops easier.
at the moment when you go through the different jobs you are told how
many of each type you have.
now, this is my idea.
in the case of troops, because training takes a while
Hi,
Thomas, I am trying to contact you, in your capacity as moderator of the
gamers list, I am seeking permission to post a particular message,
I am wondering, did you get my message I sent you yesterday?
I have been having a few issues with e mails not reaching people
recently, so thought I wo
Hi list.
I am playing a game with about 70 people at the moment.
I saw a message a while ago from someone experiencing huge message
delays in a game, and she speculated it was because of the number of
people she had in her population.
I two am now experiencing this, and I wonder if it could be a
Hi list.
I am still playing castaways mission 4,
and I think from playing it quite a bit a change really needs to be made
to the way doctors heal people.
at the moment, they heal people in the order they become ill, now OK,
that's fine when you don't have plague to deal with.
however, once plagu
Hi Daren,
well to save you hunting around, I will provide you with the names of
the keyboards I have found so far,
one is called the nuu MinniKey,
another is called the tk421
and the third is called the
buddy case, and is available from
www.boxwave.com
apparently this particular keyboard has a v
Hi list.
Just a thought, I am in the middle of playing castaways mission 4, and I
had an idea for population control.
at the moment, we have the ability to destroy buildings, and I think it
would be cool if we could kill off parts of our population in the same way.
for example, I am at the stage
Hi daren,
I am now really considering the I phone, as I found out about several
cases you can get for the I phone that come with built in blutooth
qwerty keyboards,
from reading reviews, they all sound like they have advantages and
disadvantages over each other.
do you think using one of these
Hi.
another little bug I just noticed with castaways in general,
when the game has to refer to 1 person, it says 1 people instead of person.
so for example all my population had starved to death and I had one
person left, so I did shift t to find out energy levels, and it said 1
people instead
hi.
I noticed a slight bug with castaways mission 4.
when the zombies turn up on your land, and you press shift g, you are
firstly told there are goblins on your land, and then the location where
the zombies are.
and then, at the end you are told there are no invaders on your land,
lol.
I think
Hi list.
sorry, my message regarding the nokia e7 was sent to the wrong list.
I had just been reading through messages from the gamers and talks
lists, and got muddle up which list I should be replying to.
please ignore my last message.
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Hi list.
I have two questions for nokia e7 users.
firstly, although I am able to make a call on the e7, if I get through
to one of these menu driven phone systems,
talks says soft key 5 for dialer.
I assume this is to bring up a keyboard on the touch screen showing
numbers that can be dialed i
Hi sean,
I did a bit of googling last night, and ran across stem stumpers, which
is available for I phone and android, but to date that is the only game
for android I have come across, and it doesn't even sound two exciting.
you are right about symbian being discontinued in favour of windows
rently has
no accessibility, so I think it might be time to leave the sinking ship
of symbian.
many thanks for any help,
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Hi,
I just thought I would let phil and the list know, the link to the rs
games site that is provided on the pcs games website is broken.
the link on the pcs games website still points to x site interactive,
the rs games site address now is
http://www.rsgames.org/
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Hi.
I think it would be quite useful to have a sound for when a building is
closed and you go over it,
as sometimes I close my tavern after it is stocked so peasants can do
other things.
however, I frequently forget it is closed til people start dying.
so it would be quite good to have a sound
Hi jeremy,
I understand why there is a blank space when hitting tab, perhaps I
shouldn't have put two issues in the same message.
the bug I wanted to report was that once you have changed the speech
mode, even when jaws support is active, the actual title of the
application window says window e
Hi.
I just started playing castaways 2.0, and a thought struck me about the
mission intros.
firstly, an option to disable showing of the mission intro would be
good, as for those who have heard it several times it can be a bit
tedius reading it again and again.
also, something else I have noti
Hi.
I just downloaded castaways version 2.0, and I jjust noticed something
which I think has been present for several versions.
basically you press tab to change the speech mode which castaways uses,
and the first time you press tab it doesn't say anything.
however, you press tab again, and it
Hi.Hi,
I am still playing mission 3 in castaways, and I must say I think it
needs some serious rebalancing, at the moment I think its unbeatable.
but anyway that's not why I am writing,
I am writing to ask could we have more control over troop training?
as at the moment, the game seems to automa
Hi.
I am just playing mission 3 in castaways for the first time,
and I have just noticed a bug with peasants.
I am sure this must have been reported, but I thought I would send this
just in case.
at the moment, I have the enemy sitting on my land, they have burned
down all my buildings, as well
Hi list.
just a bit of a suggestion regarding the building list in castaways,
at the moment, the order of the list seems a bit haphazard,
for example, I think that all the farm types should be listed right next
to each other,
at the moment you have meet and vegetable farms, and then right near th
Hi.
I am just writing as I have a suggestion for building construction in
castaways.
could the close feature be made to apply to buildings being built?
this would be useful, as I frequently find my builders carrying on
building something, when I would rather they revert to peasants, because
th
Hi,
just an idea that I thought of with castaways,
at the moment we can only select a fixed number of faults, starters and
purks.
so, my idea is still leave the minimum numbers of faults, starters and
purks,
but give the option of selecting more of any of them if you want.
I think it could lead
very
sluggish and unresponsive. It worked fine under xp, leading me to think
there must be an issue somewhere with windows 7 or something.
any help with the above issues would be really appreciated, thanks,
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Hi,
I just thought I would say in the latest castaway, there is a noticeable
slow down in the game tick sound on blazing when graphics are enabled.
I didn't even know there were graphics now in the game, I certainly
don't think they should be on by default, as most players on this list
are tota
Hi,
just wondering, what do new professions do, such as architects? are they
designers?
I upgraded a builder to one, but he didn't seem to do anything.
also, I had one builder who I couldn't make change jobs, it said he had
been specially trained.
I was only able to get the monks to start worki
Hi dark,
thanks for the reply.
I had forgotten you needed to close the intro message before you could
pull up game options.
My god, this guy is a sloppy programmer, he clearly doesn't use captions
in his code to set a proper window title.
If anyone is interested, I am using a very powerful set o
Hi list.
I have a question for those of you who have played smugglers 4 by neils
bower games.
I bought the game ages ago, and gave up with it as the screen just
looked a total mess with jaws, but things seem to be a bit better now, I
don't know if that's down to different display settings or wh
Hi dark,
sorry to disappoint, but the links on audiogames.net still point at his
website, so if you could update them when you have a spare moment I
would appreciate it.
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Hi damian,
if you could please upload the savage gamut bundled in its new
installer, I would appreciate it, as it looks like nobody else hosts it.
the link on the audiogames.net site which points at your site is broken,
you might want to speak to the person who runs it about getting the
games e
aller.
thanks for any help,
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Hey list,
I was just thinking over what happened with Thomas, and that how him
coming back on list is great for the community.
Then I suddenly thought and also now he won't be remembered as another
James north.
And then sort of off the back of that,
I thought now wouldn't that be an interesting
Hi aproan,
I thought of that, and I tried pressing spacebar several times, and got
the correct game pausing and unpausing sounds, but the timer didn't start.
I guess you will see from the file whatever event happened before the
freeze.
I have given both files self explanitory names, so I hope t
Hi.
I am playing castaways on hard difficulty,
and something really odd just happened, the game timer seemed to stop
working.
by this, I mean the tick sound you get when the game is unpaused and
events are happening.
it just suddenly stopped, and nobody did anything.
I have saved the game, and
Hi.
I am playing with the latest version, and the ability to close farms
really is useful. one thing I noticed though is that on farms, the
message is wrong it still talks about peasants bringing supplies when
you close or open it, when it should talk about farmers harvesting.
anyway, I just f
Hi,
I am just wondering, is temperal still being worked on? its a cool game,
and I still haven't beaten it lol.
I actually just found a bug, easily fixed I am sure with some checks.
But, I just crashed the game when I accidentally entered letters into
the time travel box instead of numbers.
I
Hi aproan,
I think it was my mistake, the ship already had its vegetables, I got I
think one message after saying vegetables were dropped off at the ship
and that was it.
I just beat my game, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
I didn't get the message again after one or two times.
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Hi.
I just noticed this bug in castaways when stocking the ship.
peasants continue bringing things to the ship, even when it already has
all of a particular item.
for example, my ship has 50 vegetables, but peasants still keep bringing
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I only just saw your post saying you were planning to allow the closure
of farms, that's cool.
is that feature in the currently available version?
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Hi dark,
that's the point, you can reassign farmers sure, but you can't control
what the remaining ones are going to do.
so you could still easily end up in the situation where your farmers are
wasting effort grabbing vegetables etc, when you would rather all
farmers concentrate on wine product
Hi.
I was trying to keep vin yards going yes.
but I could easily see myself wanting to stop weet production but carry
on producing vegetables etc.
I think perhaps it would be better if you could assign farmers for
specific types of farm.
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Hi list.
Just another suggestion, but I think there should be an option on farms
to stop peasants harvesting from them.
as I have had a few situations in this current game, where I have had
say 100 flower and over a hundred vegetables.
obviously that is quite a lot, and I don't need more of said
Hi list.
I just found a rather serious bug with production, at least I think its
a bug.
the issue is as follows, I assume this problem probably affects all
second and third stage jobs.
I noticed it however in the production of cloth.
I suddenly realised that my taylors kept weeving animal fur i
Hi.
another thought that just occurred to me. could we have a key stroke so
we can check where the goblins are on our land?
perhaps shift g
I think this would be helpful, as we can more easily use the information
to place guard towers to allow knights to destroy the goblins more quickly.
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Hi.
I am just writing, as I am in the middle of a game of castaways, and I
had a thought about ways to make it easier to keep track of what might
be needed in the game.
That is, could we either have a new keystroke, or it given as part of
existing information, to find out how many of each type
Hi list.
I am sure this has been reported before, but I just tried playing with
the strong start option set,
and I wasn't given my store house.
I checked and I am definitely on 0.9b, but I couldn't find the store
house when I hit shift d and shift f, and I did try leaving the game
unpaused for
Hi.
I am in the middle of another game of castaways, I am not doing two
badly, I have built the ship, but my peasants aren't stocking it, they
are still carrying stuff to the tavern, and the baker hasn't done
anything though I think it might be because they didn't finish the mill.
I can't be b
Hi,
I really would like to see jaws support fixed up, as I am having to put
up with those microsoft voices because I am running windows 7 64 bit,
the good 32 bit voices install, and can be used by jaws for example, but
they are not listed in the control panel, and I am beginning to really
tire
Hi
aproan, I am just wondering, have you had any luck improving jaws
support for your games?
I think if we could play using jaws rather than sapi it would really
improve game play, particularly as its quite hard to get good sapi
voices running under windows 7 64 bit.
this is just a suggestion
help,
Alex.
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Hi list.
I am just wondering, does anyone know if there is a way to side step in
terraformers?
As I checked the documentation but couldn't see anything about if this
is possible.
I find it quite hard to navigate around with turning etc, and finding
doors and other objects isn't easy if there is
.
Thanks so much for any help,
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get eaten or die, same thing, eventually
the cats all die.
I don't get it, as I have trees all over the land area.
And I believe the mice like acorns.
Thanks so much for any help, I am really stuck.
Alex.
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would really appreciate some help, as it looks a really cool game,
its just jaws doesn't appear to like it.
Of course once I do get jaws settled down, can I have some suggestions
how to get started?
Many thanks for your help,
alex.
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