Re: [Audyssey] Multiple headphone jacks and gaming?
Yup yup, now I've got you. We were shooting at the same thing, just you described it way better. It's a bloomin marvelous idea man, let's hope it catches on with a dev or 2. On 11/23/09, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: It's the idea of two people on one computer with a set of headphones, and thus a full sterrio field, each, that I'm driving at here. As I said, imagine troopanum, with each player having control over a different gun with it's own targiting sound, cooperatively trying to shoot down the spaceships, or competing against each other for score. This has been possible for main stream players by having two characters on the same screen right sinse the 1970's, mulotiple headphone jacks would make it just as possible in audio. Of course, external speakers might be an option, but personally I've never had any luck playing complex audio games with speakers at all. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Scott Chesworth scottcheswo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:18 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Multiple headphone jacks and gaming? Other than the fact that a passive splitter jack halves the signal each set of headphones are being sent, which most likely wouldn't even make a particularly noticeable difference unless you're using mega good cans, there's nothing but fun to this idea. I remember playing Mortal Kombat 3 and some flavour of Quake over LAN when I was at a college with a very liberal IT department hehe, but in actual coding terms I should imagine playing over LAN isn't too much different then playing over whatever protocol people choose to use to connect gamers over the internet, except there'd probably be even more tech support involved for the devs because LAN options are way easier to mess up. Dark, were you thinking more along the lines of a 2 player setup where each player has half the keyboard or if a game was turn-based? So 2 people yes, but on one computer, as opposed to more traiditional LAN or net play? If so, it sounds like fun. Actually even if not, it sounds like fun. Scott On 11/23/09, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: , where did I say I was going to wear two sets? I was thinking of this for having the advantage of a complete and complex sterrio environment for multiplayer audio games, multiplayer meaning, two people! I tested the jack myself by plugging in two sets of headphones and listening to the quality on both successively, sinse the last thing I'd want when I'm sitting down to watch through Doctor who with my friend is to suddenly find one set of headphones had pants audio quality! Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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.
[Audyssey] Multiple headphone jacks and gaming?
Hi. Recently, I picked up a double sterrio headphone jack from a hifi shop, sinse my idiotic downstairs neighbors are complaining about noise, but I stil want to have my friends round for massive doctor who watching evenings. This will let us both have headphones, in just as good quality as if I were using headphones alone. My stupid neighbors aside (I'm currently in discussions with the police about stopping their constant complaints, but that's another story), it did occur to me multi headphone sterrio jacks could be a great addition to audio multiplayer games at the same computer. Imagine for example a completely real time space invaders game with two guns, each with a different targiting sound, acting just the way the old Atari 2600 game did with it's two differently coloured spaceships appearing on screen at once. sets, with two sets connected to test this myself). What do people think? Beware the grue! Dark. --- 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] Multiple headphone jacks and gaming?
hmmm as I said on the other list you can't wear 2 sets at the same time so it wouldn't work. At 11:46 p.m. 22/11/2009, you wrote: Hi. Recently, I picked up a double sterrio headphone jack from a hifi shop, sinse my idiotic downstairs neighbors are complaining about noise, but I stil want to have my friends round for massive doctor who watching evenings. This will let us both have headphones, in just as good quality as if I were using headphones alone. My stupid neighbors aside (I'm currently in discussions with the police about stopping their constant complaints, but that's another story), it did occur to me multi headphone sterrio jacks could be a great addition to audio multiplayer games at the same computer. Imagine for example a completely real time space invaders game with two guns, each with a different targiting sound, acting just the way the old Atari 2600 game did with it's two differently coloured spaceships appearing on screen at once. sets, with two sets connected to test this myself). What do people think? Beware the grue! Dark. --- 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. --- 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] Multiple headphone jacks and gaming?
, where did I say I was going to wear two sets? I was thinking of this for having the advantage of a complete and complex sterrio environment for multiplayer audio games, multiplayer meaning, two people! I tested the jack myself by plugging in two sets of headphones and listening to the quality on both successively, sinse the last thing I'd want when I'm sitting down to watch through Doctor who with my friend is to suddenly find one set of headphones had pants audio quality! Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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] Multiple headphone jacks and gaming?
Other than the fact that a passive splitter jack halves the signal each set of headphones are being sent, which most likely wouldn't even make a particularly noticeable difference unless you're using mega good cans, there's nothing but fun to this idea. I remember playing Mortal Kombat 3 and some flavour of Quake over LAN when I was at a college with a very liberal IT department hehe, but in actual coding terms I should imagine playing over LAN isn't too much different then playing over whatever protocol people choose to use to connect gamers over the internet, except there'd probably be even more tech support involved for the devs because LAN options are way easier to mess up. Dark, were you thinking more along the lines of a 2 player setup where each player has half the keyboard or if a game was turn-based? So 2 people yes, but on one computer, as opposed to more traiditional LAN or net play? If so, it sounds like fun. Actually even if not, it sounds like fun. Scott On 11/23/09, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: , where did I say I was going to wear two sets? I was thinking of this for having the advantage of a complete and complex sterrio environment for multiplayer audio games, multiplayer meaning, two people! I tested the jack myself by plugging in two sets of headphones and listening to the quality on both successively, sinse the last thing I'd want when I'm sitting down to watch through Doctor who with my friend is to suddenly find one set of headphones had pants audio quality! Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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. --- 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] Multiple headphone jacks and gaming?
It's the idea of two people on one computer with a set of headphones, and thus a full sterrio field, each, that I'm driving at here. As I said, imagine troopanum, with each player having control over a different gun with it's own targiting sound, cooperatively trying to shoot down the spaceships, or competing against each other for score. This has been possible for main stream players by having two characters on the same screen right sinse the 1970's, mulotiple headphone jacks would make it just as possible in audio. Of course, external speakers might be an option, but personally I've never had any luck playing complex audio games with speakers at all. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Scott Chesworth scottcheswo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:18 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Multiple headphone jacks and gaming? Other than the fact that a passive splitter jack halves the signal each set of headphones are being sent, which most likely wouldn't even make a particularly noticeable difference unless you're using mega good cans, there's nothing but fun to this idea. I remember playing Mortal Kombat 3 and some flavour of Quake over LAN when I was at a college with a very liberal IT department hehe, but in actual coding terms I should imagine playing over LAN isn't too much different then playing over whatever protocol people choose to use to connect gamers over the internet, except there'd probably be even more tech support involved for the devs because LAN options are way easier to mess up. Dark, were you thinking more along the lines of a 2 player setup where each player has half the keyboard or if a game was turn-based? So 2 people yes, but on one computer, as opposed to more traiditional LAN or net play? If so, it sounds like fun. Actually even if not, it sounds like fun. Scott On 11/23/09, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: , where did I say I was going to wear two sets? I was thinking of this for having the advantage of a complete and complex sterrio environment for multiplayer audio games, multiplayer meaning, two people! I tested the jack myself by plugging in two sets of headphones and listening to the quality on both successively, sinse the last thing I'd want when I'm sitting down to watch through Doctor who with my friend is to suddenly find one set of headphones had pants audio quality! Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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.
