Re: [Audyssey] joining the Interactive Fiction Group

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ari, All of the tens of thousands of News Groups are still very active. Including the Usenet groups. A sighted friend of mine set up an inaccessible News Groups robot program for me that scarfs the sound files from such groups as alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.sound-effects and

Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, Besides baseball version 4, I also released golf version 10 in 07. Just wondering, isn't auto racing via Rail Racer a sport? Would motorcycle jumping via Homer on a Harley be a sport? It's not exactally a racing game. Maybe a fpd First Person Driving. grin Life version 3 and

Re: [Audyssey] top speed language packs and music

2008-01-31 Thread Davy Kager
Hi, You can change both the language and the music just by changing the .ogg-files in the Sounds\En-folder. Alternatively, you can create a new folder, such as Fr, and put your French language files in there. Then in racing.cfg you can change your language settings. It's indeed a little weird

Re: [Audyssey] The next issue

2008-01-31 Thread Davy Kager
Hi, When will the next issue be published? I don't ask for exact dates, just an estimation. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Ron Schamerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:09 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] hand held fishing games

2008-01-31 Thread Mich
hi I just did a google serch for Lunker Bass Fishing game and came up withthe game. so it is still around and still avaible. as for any of the other hand held fishing games i have not played any but i just thought that iw ould let you know what i found out. from Mich Verrier from New Liskeard

Re: [Audyssey] This is Ridiculous

2008-01-31 Thread Ken the Crazy
A list for new games announcements would be awesome! Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to experience massage! It's the Caring without the Staring! - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] top speed tracks

2008-01-31 Thread djc
I only wrote 1 car called the telephone car and I just basically used numbers from another car file and just made changes. Someone else on here is probably a better person to help you. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/30/2008 at 9:00 PM josh wrote: Hi djc, Can you make a program

Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Dark
Hmmm, that's certainly true about the different sized player base, but I wouldn't have commercial games always totally separate from free games in all catagories either. How about best commercial game, best free game, and then generic genre catagories such as action and stratogy and

Re: [Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi John, Yeah, I think a speech range of 150 to 450 is just fine for me. Though, personally I think you might want to go by 25 units for some other users who may want to more fine tune the speech rate. Using 50 units is ok with me, but like I said for some other users 25 may be better. John

Re: [Audyssey] joining the Interactive Fiction Group

2008-01-31 Thread Dark
well, sinse you can just read the groups page like a web forum rather than having messages delivered to you, traffic doesn't matter. but things did seem to get a tad technical, in discussion about the parza and various merrits of If languages, and how game X could've been better for being in

Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Dark
Wikipedia is your friend, there's a good artical about the game. I've always called that one peg solitare, sinse in england I think the card solitare games were more traditionally called patience, my Gran certainly always used to refer to them as patience. Again though, try wikipedia for

Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Dark
appologies Jim, I forgot about golf v10 when thinking about sport, either way you seem to have a monopoly there as well ;D. My gut reaction would be that only a game simulating real professional motor racing, such as i believe Usa race way will would count as a sport. Afterall, with

Re: [Audyssey] voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ron, I agree just splitting games into free and commercial doesn't quite fit the bill here. I can see where games like Sarah and Montezuma's Return could compete or be nominated under the same catagory because they both fit into a sort of action genre. However, Rail Racer is a great game,

Re: [Audyssey] hunting for the audyssey zip file.

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shane, i know of two places where you can get all the magazines. Kelly has an Audyssey magazine mirror, but I can't for the life of me remember the address. You can also usually get most of the mags from http://www.audiogames.net which is like the central resource for anything audio game

Re: [Audyssey] voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Tj
HI, What aobuit being able to voat for more than one style of games. Like best free game, best paid game, best over all, and you could voat for your game pick in each genre. Tj - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] hunting for the audyssey zip file.

2008-01-31 Thread ari
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

Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread ari
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.

Re: [Audyssey] top speed language packs and music

2008-01-31 Thread josh
too bad there isn't a program that helps you do this. - Original Message - From: Davy Kager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:18 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] top speed language packs and music Hi, You can change both

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread josh
so thomas could still sell his starwars game? - Original Message - From: Che [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:23 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] copyrights If any developers have thoughts of using any copyrighted material

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread Liam Erven
it just means that if thomas is sued, he will just be sued for company property instead of personal property. - Original Message - From: josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] copyrights so

[Audyssey] Giftanum

2008-01-31 Thread Jozwiak, Hunter (K12)
Where is Giftanum. I heard Shane Davidson had it. Hunter --- 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.

Re: [Audyssey] mud at toastsoft.net

2008-01-31 Thread Dakotah Rickard
Hi. I love Miriani. I'm John Locklier: Hale. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john snowling Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 13:33 To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mud at toastsoft.net Certainly is now I've got the

Re: [Audyssey] top speed language packs and music

2008-01-31 Thread Leonard de Ruijter
Josh, No, there isn't, but you're free to program a carmaker. Otherwise i will advise you to change an existing carfile. - Regards, Leonard de Ruijter e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On donderdag 31 januari 2008, at 15:41:06, wrote josh: too bad there isn't a program that helps you do this.

Re: [Audyssey] plans about top speed 3

2008-01-31 Thread jorge
Hi. Some time ago I read on audiogames forum that developers of top speed are planning realize Top Speed 3. Do you know if they are still planiing it? Thanks, Jorge - Original Message - From: Leonard de Ruijter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent:

[Audyssey] Peg solitare

2008-01-31 Thread Dark
Hi ari. I believe fox and geese is a two player game you can play on the same board with similar rules to draughts, though I don't really know much more about it. I mention the solitare patience business though because I remember when we were discussing blank block there was a bit of

Re: [Audyssey] plans about top speed 3

2008-01-31 Thread Davy Kager
Yes, there is some development going on, and it's gonna be really neat stuff! I'm not sure if I'm allowed to talk about it though, so I'll keep my mouth shut for now... - Original Message - From: jorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Leonard de Ruijter [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, That is exactly the issue I am facing. If I release my Tomb Raider game and Star Wars games as fan fiction, make them open source, etc it might be enough to cover my butt legally since I did not technically make any money off the games. However, that still breaks the part of the end

[Audyssey] judgement day

2008-01-31 Thread josh
Hi, when I install judgement day I get an error. has this issue been resolved? --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Unfortunately, that kind of thinking doesn't do anyone any good. That won't stop them for suing for damages if they decided to take it to that extreme. Besides which if they get a court order to destroy my materials and I fail to comply with that court order that could be seenas

Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Che, First, before we actually decide upon catagories what we should do is compile a master list of games produced in the last year. The games themselves should be able to give us an idea of what catagories are possible for this year. possabilities. As for commercial verses fre I am not

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, as i pointed out so many times on this list alone it goes beyond greed or a lack of desire to offer accessible games for us. It is simply we don't have the numbers to prove we actually matter. They aren't going to spend x amount of time to add accessibility for game x for just $2000,

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread Bryan
It's funny, but I'm having to do something similar in my life. You'll forgive me for straying from the topic of games briefly I hope, but I'm having some difficulty with the housing authority letting me get a guide dog. Right now they seem to think they can count the service animal as a pet,

Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Well, in my opinion Homer, Golf, Baseball, and Rail Racer are all sports games though coming from different sports. Jim Kitchen wrote: Hi Dark, Besides baseball version 4, I also released golf version 10 in 07. Just wondering, isn't auto racing via Rail Racer a sport? Would

Re: [Audyssey] top speed tracks

2008-01-31 Thread Leonard de Ruijter
Hello Josh and others, I will look in the database of the old community site for the track- and carmaking tutorials. - Regards, Leonard de Ruijter e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On donderdag 31 januari 2008, at 3:00:57, wrote josh: Hi djc, Can you make a program so it's easier for us to

Re: [Audyssey] The next issue

2008-01-31 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi Davy The next issue will be published before the end of Feburary, around the 24 or 25. That way it's out before my birthday. :D Ron --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] Giftanum

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, Shane did get the source for the game, but I am not sure what if anything he did with it after that. He is on list so perhaps he will fill us in about the game. If not I suppose once my other obligations are taken care of next Christmas I can write up a clone of it, or the Christmas

Re: [Audyssey] mud at toastsoft.net

2008-01-31 Thread Stefen Hudson
Awesome. Rothque Torraske, Commonwealth. -- From: Dakotah Rickard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:35 AM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mud at toastsoft.net Hi. I love Miriani. I'm John

Re: [Audyssey] hand held fishing games

2008-01-31 Thread Charles Rivard
The question remains, though, have you had any luck with such games? Thanks. --- If you don't stand behind our troops, please, feel free ... to stand in front of them! - Original Message - From: Mich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Audyssey] joining the Interactive Fiction Group

2008-01-31 Thread Orin
What I did notice about this group is that they give you a lot of news on new games. http://www.roguelikefiction.com is pretty interesting. I'll have to check that mag out. On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Dark wrote: well, sinse you can just read the groups page like a web forum rather than

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Not legally. All an LLC means is that USA Games, not me personally, would get sued for damages and they could get a court order to close USA Games down or charge royalties from USA Games which would kill the company in any case. You have to understand here I started USA Games as a

Re: [Audyssey] plans about top speed 3

2008-01-31 Thread jorge
Hi Davy and Leonard. Thank you for the information. I will certainly wait and have a look on next issue. Greetings, Jorge - Original Message - From: Davy Kager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] The next issue

2008-01-31 Thread Davy Kager
Hi, In that case, it'll be fully packed with racing news, I promise! Oh, and congrats in advance. - Original Message - From: Ron Schamerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The next issue

Re: [Audyssey] hand held fishing games

2008-01-31 Thread Mich
no i haven't from Mich. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] hand held fishing games The question remains, though, have you had any luck with such

[Audyssey] dog guide's rights - Re: copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread Charles Rivard
Show them the laws regarding service animals. Maybe the school where you trained with the dog would help by backing you up with the authority that the housing authorities don't think you have. Also, let them know that you will, willingly, get the police and any other authorities necessary

Re: [Audyssey] mud at toastsoft.net

2008-01-31 Thread jaliya skye
Hello there. I play Ryzali Sanlinde when I actually log on. Sigh, I like the soundpack with monkeyTerm but I hate the fact that there is no word wrap. yes, I'm sure that I am being extremely petty and difficult, but for me, if I have to read back through text for something and there is no

[Audyssey] cthulhu nation

2008-01-31 Thread Orin
Hi all, Has anyone played this game and had any luck with the map? I find it a bit confusing, and was just wondering if anyone had tried it out. The game is set in the 1920's, and this orginazation known as The Group wants you to go out and kill all types of creatures, I don't know how the

Re: [Audyssey] mud at toastsoft.net

2008-01-31 Thread Stefen Hudson
Yeah, I agree. Word wrap would be nice. There's an in-game solution for it but it slows down the text a tiny bit. -- From: jaliya skye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:07 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org

[Audyssey] Blind Accessible Game releases, 2007

2008-01-31 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Here's the list which Phil compiled, I can't recall if there were additions to it or not. Ron - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:09 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Blind Accessible Game

[Audyssey] New Java MUD Client Now Available, Including JMC JAWS Script Update

2008-01-31 Thread Bryan Garaventa
Hi, in case anyone is interested, there is a new release of JMC (The Java MUD Client) available (V3.5.0.2), that has some pretty interesting new features... In case you haven't heard of JMC before... The Java MUD Client can be used with any MUD listed at MudConnect.com, and was long thought to

Re: [Audyssey] New Java MUD Client Now Available, Including JMC JAWS Script Update

2008-01-31 Thread Stefen Hudson
Wow, that's pretty cool. Will have to try that out. -- From: Bryan Garaventa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:27 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] New Java MUD Client Now Available,Including

Re: [Audyssey] New Java MUD Client Now Available, Including JMC JAWS Script Update

2008-01-31 Thread Liam Erven
I gave jmc a good look when trying to port my miriani scripts to another program, however it gave me so many problems. but.. I'm considering going back and looking at it again since there's a new version. - Original Message - From: Bryan Garaventa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Award catagories was: voting on game of the year

2008-01-31 Thread Dark
I agree on both counts there tom. Speaking of the master list then, I would personally say all releases of new gameplay should be considdered as viable entrance. that is, all new games, all public betas and any updates to an old game which improves the gameplay, such as Jim's golf and

Re: [Audyssey] New Java MUD Client Now Available, Including JMC JAWS Script Update

2008-01-31 Thread Greg
Hello, Will the current JAWS scripts work with the new JMC. Thanks Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Garaventa Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:28 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] New Java MUD Client Now

Re: [Audyssey] dog guide's rights - Re: copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread Darren Harris
Ov er here in the UK nobody can stop you from having a guidedog. And if they refuse you because you have a guidedog then they're in more trouble than you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: 31 January 2008 21:21 To:

[Audyssey] accessible games and avg antivirus

2008-01-31 Thread josh
Hi, Do any of you have issues with AVG being corrupted because of installing accessible games? My AVG doesn't like the judgement day demo. --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread josh
you could encourage people to donate money. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] copyrights Hi Josh, Unfortunately, that kind of thinking doesn't do

Re: [Audyssey] Giftanum

2008-01-31 Thread shaun everiss
well there was a version released, by shaned games. But due to selfdestruct or something like that using some code from bpc or something or something it went down, maybe that was xlstudios. I forget but yeah shaned games went away in the same year it came up. There was supposed to be a load of

Re: [Audyssey] Giftanum

2008-01-31 Thread Jozwiak, Hunter (K12)
Now my second question is, what is Giftanum. I have just heard about it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:10 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Giftanum well there was a

[Audyssey] Yo

2008-01-31 Thread Jozwiak, Hunter (K12)
Hi folks, it is here. The game I have been looking for. Self Destruct. Check out www.blindnet.co.nr http://www.blindnet.co.nr/ I am dying to try it out. Could someone give me a step-by-step things-to-do after I get the game? Hunter, Gamefinder-not! Just Kidding! --- Gamers mailing

Re: [Audyssey] top speed tracks

2008-01-31 Thread josh
yeah but you don't know the accepted values and parameters and things. - Original Message - From: Cory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] top speed tracks you know it's really to bad. The

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread shaun everiss
some of that opensource stuff is donation ware. At 12:33 p.m. 1/02/2008, you wrote: you could encourage people to donate money. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:43 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] accessible games and avg antivirus

2008-01-31 Thread shaun everiss
no, but aparently if you load an older version of avg say 7.5.428 its not supported to update from that version anymore. avg crashed and corrupted itself. Getting the new version is no piece of cake either. I finally got it, but you need the latest engine of avg to actually have t it work. At

Re: [Audyssey] cthulhu nation

2008-01-31 Thread william lomas
hi we stuck as the game is based on tiles. tiles represent quests. again looks like we have to ask again for accessibility left behind as per usual On 31 Jan 2008, at 20:01, Orin wrote: Hi all, Has anyone played this game and had any luck with the map? I find it a bit confusing, and was

Re: [Audyssey] copyrights

2008-01-31 Thread josh
hi thomas, When I learn visual basic, probably when i go back to college, and if I make games and use copyrighted material: I will just use the sounds and if they come after me they come after me, if not, oh well. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Yo

2008-01-31 Thread william lomas
how about reading the manual? On 1 Feb 2008, at 02:16, Jozwiak, Hunter (K12) wrote: Hi folks, it is here. The game I have been looking for. Self Destruct. Check out www.blindnet.co.nr http://www.blindnet.co.nr/ I am dying to try it out. Could someone give me a step-by-step