Re: [Audyssey] Interactive fiction

2010-04-05 Thread Jacob Kruger
Will again just ask if anyone knows how to get winfrotz TTS working if it renders only startup errors? Aside from it, have tried out varous other interpreters like windows glulx, filfre etc. and while with them I have to use the jaws cursor to read the text, they work, but where winfrotz TTS

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
well www.ifarchive.org has some stuff. I still have some files up on dropbox but I will shortly be clearing space of them. Where can I get these games at? I would be willing to try all of them. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org]

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
well I didn't care for zork myself dungeon and dunjin were my things I played. on that note is there any way to play agt files in windows like you play other files I have tads and frotz working hugo and glulx which I am happy using right now but agt and maybe a windows advint interpreter would

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
well firstly hit one of the mirrors ifarchive is slow and bad. select plover or mirror.ifarchive.org next go to games there are games based on interpreter. inform is inform games in the root of the archivers there are interpriters folders for zcode, tads, etc. When I go to the archive where do

Re: [Audyssey] messege to dark

2010-04-05 Thread dark
Well it does take a few seconds, but that probably depends upon your machines' speed and how many things you've got running. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: michael barnes c...@samobile.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:16 AM Subject:

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread Lisa Hayes
Sean what agt files have you? I have a game called sos, son of stage fright but can';t play it now. Wish I could in windows. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] multiple player game

2010-04-05 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yeah, WWE and TNA especially the Knockout division. And maybe some UFC as well. When I was young and had site I golfed and was on a bowling league for years. I also liked to watch Indy racing, drag racing and bowling. None of those excite me to listen to. I do though enjoy

Re: [Audyssey] multiple player game

2010-04-05 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Robert, I am sorry, but I think that you must have talked with someone else about Racko, vb6 and an AI book. I do not find that at all in my Email archives. And I have never read or known about any AI books. BFN - Original Message - Hello Jim, awhile back I talked to you

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
well I have cosmoserve starship piramids of mars and a few others lostin space I think The game I will most miss is cosmoserve. though thinking of it now it would be weird to play it in a windows environment. dos related screens don't work so well anyway, in hugo playing futureboy the screen in

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread Lisa Hayes
Me too, I heard their was a windows version of agt is this true and if so co you have it or know where I can get it. I'd love to convert sos to windows. Thanks. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] multiple player game

2010-04-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, In deed. Unfortunately WWE especially is very controling regarding their copyrights. I'm not sure I could legally get away with using actual super stars names without getting in serious hot water. I guess if you or I wrote a wrestling game all of the wrestlers in the game would have to have

[Audyssey] Winfrotz 1.16 - with a speech option

2010-04-05 Thread Jacob Kruger
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[Audyssey] important messege to entombed players

2010-04-05 Thread michael barnes
i had to reload my computer and so i install entombed back on my computer. but everytime i log in it keep acting like i didn't buy the game. i even put in my transaction number that it ask for but still won't let me unlock the full game on my computer. so what do i do? -- Email services

Re: [Audyssey] important messege to entombed players

2010-04-05 Thread Muhammed Deniz
You might have to contact Jason about the problem. Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well, this is the right

Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz 1.16 - with a speech option

2010-04-05 Thread dark
Hi Jacub. If I remember rightly, windows frotz and win frotz are actually two different programs, --- though they are similar (I'm not sure if windows frotz is an earlier version). I do know win frotz tts is built on an older version of win frotz than the current one, because I actually

Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz 1.16 - with a speech option

2010-04-05 Thread Muhammed Deniz
Jacub? Lol! Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well, this is the right place for you then! If you would like

[Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread dark
Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer

Re: [Audyssey] important messege to entombed players

2010-04-05 Thread dark
You don't need the transaction number, just your account name and password, and to create an account you must enter the E-mail address tied to your paypal account. If you entered all those details right there shouldn't be a problem (but remember right, means letter exact). Beware the Grue!

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread Milos Przic
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[Audyssey] dark here a question

2010-04-05 Thread michael barnes
i did like you told me but when i create a new account it tell me that my email is already in use. so what do i do? -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
well I never heard of agt for windows. there was agility I think but it means you need to convert the games and I really havn't tried it. at any rate I think it takes away the feel having to recompile the stuff so I can play it on another editer and I never had luck with it anyway. I wish there

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, as many of you know I was sighted for many years. the very first video game I can remember playing was Packman on my Atari 2600 around 1982 or so. I later got several more games from that era such as Demon Attack, Space Invaders, Missile Command, etc. All the classics in other words.

Re: [Audyssey] dark here a question

2010-04-05 Thread dark
Try the change password option in the main menue, --- that's what it's for. Oviously your account is fine, you just need a correct password. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: michael barnes c...@samobile.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:11

Re: [Audyssey] dark here a question

2010-04-05 Thread michael barnes
i did that last night but i'll give it another try but if that don't work what do i do? -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the

Re: [Audyssey] dark here a question

2010-04-05 Thread Bryan Peterson
I'd Email Jason if you're still having problems. He seems like a fair, reasonable guy. He should be able to help you out if the rest of us can't. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the castle of ggh. - Original Message - From: michael barnes

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread dark
Interesting tom, we were probably playin some of the same atari games like packman, berzerk and space invaders in 1985 and 6, accept I was about three or four at the time ;D. I also stil own and play my Snes, (it's hooked up to my pc monitor right now), but having been collecting games sinse

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I find the Wii a bit more than I can handle. The menus are tricky enough, but the Wii motes take something to get use to. I was playing the Wii with my family last night and I couldn't get the hang of the motes as hard as I tried I couldn't ski straight to save my life. I move to rapidly

Re: [Audyssey] important messege to entombed players

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
well since the scoreboards are down I think other things may be to. no idea, maybe jayson is putting the market up but shouldn't take everything down but hmph. At 06:52 a.m. 6/04/2010, you wrote: i had to reload my computer and so i install entombed back on my computer. but everytime i log in

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread Muhammed Deniz
Hello Dark and others, my ixperance was this. I started playing audio games in til 2007 and my laptop was broken alittle bit. It was a rubbish school hp laptop. Ok, I said to my teacher that I want a new computer and my teacher ordered one and it came. When the computer came, I started playing

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread Muhammed Deniz
I really love the wii! Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well, this is the right place for you then! If you

Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz 1.16 - with a speech option

2010-04-05 Thread Jacob Kruger
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Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread Jacob Kruger
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Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread Jacob Kruger
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Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread michael barnes
here how i got into audio games. i started back in school i played the old dos text games. like shoot 96 and run for prisident and destiation mars. i didn't play them as much as i did video games because at the time i had some sight. in 2008 someone told me about jim's games. and so i

[Audyssey] Online games

2010-04-05 Thread Lindsay Cowell
I will be able to use a computer with system access to go today . Any ideas for online fast paced games I can try, with lots of action. Lindsay Cowell --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make

[Audyssey] Mud Connect and Vipmud.

2010-04-05 Thread MissWings
Hi all. I'm trying out the Vipmud client from GMA Games and went to the Mud connect site, but does anyone know how to specifically search for text muds? I found a mud on their site but can't find the host and port info so I can add it to the Vipmud directly. I think it's trying to connect me

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, I've never heard of a windows version of AGT myself--where'd you hear about that/ Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:21 PM To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz 1.16 - with a speech option

2010-04-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, You actually have that one as an inform zcode file? The onlycopy I have right now has them as DOS applications in .com format, and some of them, like King Arthur, trinity, and A Mind Forever Voyaging, or either in. exe format (JAWS does not seem to particularly like the format on those) or

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, You had trouble with the main IfArchive site? Hmmm...that's strange; I have no trouble at all using it. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:06 AM To:

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Shaun, Dungeon? What's that one? I recognize your other one, but the only D U N G E O N I know is the compliation of the three zorks. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Monday,

Re: [Audyssey] someone please help

2010-04-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, They work moving him, it's that you don't hear the movement. Try going into the preferences screen then simply choosing save without modifying your options. HTH, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of michael

Re: [Audyssey] something for all of you gamers

2010-04-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Michael, Maybe it's just that I've not had much experience with joysticks as it relates to accessible titles or RPGs in general but I don't really think that it does much for Entomb besides probably slowing it down. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From:

[Audyssey] to hayden presley

2010-04-05 Thread michael barnes
thanks for the info. like i was saying before on the list i've been having trouble with getting entombed to activate the full game. i had to reinstall the game to my computer and when i did it ask to upgrade to the full game. so i log in and it said that it couldn't see where i pay for the

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread ian mcnamara
hi all this is a good topic i think and very interesting. i went to the royal nattional college in 2001 and never knew their where games out their for people like us. like you i was playing games on the atarie saiga megadrive and playstation with sighted assistance and their where very fiew

[Audyssey] to Miss Wings on mud client

2010-04-05 Thread Chastity MORSE
Okay, I'll do my best here since I've used vip-mud and mudconnect.com. First, when you go to the mud connect sitee choose I think it's the 3rd link on the page something about mud listings and that will give you the choice of finding a game by name, category, mud code type, or to use the mud

Re: [Audyssey] Online games

2010-04-05 Thread Orin
THere's lots of them. Unfortunately. They aren't accessible. Flash and all that. On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Lindsay Cowell wrote: I will be able to use a computer with system access to go today . Any ideas for online fast paced games I can try, with lots of action. Lindsay Cowell

[Audyssey] bgt tutorial suggestion

2010-04-05 Thread Chastity MORSE
I was just wondering if there was a chance of making the bgt audio tutorial into a PDF or textfile or a link that will come up in text. For those of us that learn by reading instead of listening, it would be a great improvement. Thanks: Chastity --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If

Re: [Audyssey] Mud Connect and Vipmud.

2010-04-05 Thread Dallas O'Brien
hi. when you find a mud, look for the line that says site. that will have for example site: valhalla.com port 5000 this is just an example. but thats what it would look like. and it also might have an IP after it. this is just another way to connect to it. - Original Message - From:

[Audyssey] WINDOWS AGT INTERPRETER

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
hI LIZ AND ALL. OK GUYS TODAY i WAS BORD SO LOOKED AGAIN AT THE AGILITY WINDOWS INTERPRETER. i CONVERTED THE GAMES INTO THE AGX SO THEY COULD RUN BETTER APARENTLY. HOWEVER IN GHAMES LIKE COSMOSERVE THE GAME DOES NOT HAVE THE PC SPEAKER MAKE THE NOISES YOU HEAR IN THE GAME. AFTER YOU START THE

Re: [Audyssey] Online games

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
WELL i HAVE ALWAYS FOUND THE GAMES AT FFPROJECT.COM TO BE A GOOD TIME WASTER. IN FACT i MAY BOTHER WITH THIS FOR A BIT NOW. At 11:26 a.m. 6/04/2010, you wrote: I will be able to use a computer with system access to go today . Any ideas for online fast paced games I can try, with lots of action.

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
dungeon and dunjin were semi zork remakes for dos. unfortunately like a few dos games these are dos exe files so I can't play them in windows. I can play now all tads and frotz stuff and some agt titles still testing agility compiled files. At 12:24 p.m. 6/04/2010, you wrote: Hi Shaun, Dungeon?

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
Hmmm since people seem to be discussing this. I got into audio games by accident. in about 1993 I started mucking with dad's old disks and found things I could play. My first real text game was from a friend and it was called intergalactic battle. you could be be oryan klingon I think romulan

Re: [Audyssey] Online games

2010-04-05 Thread shaun everiss
there are games like core exiles but they are not exactly fast paced. I know there are flash games which are ok but I can't remember check www.audiogames.net they seem to be the main database for just about everything in the industry. even experimental stuff. Even if you don't submit anything if

Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?

2010-04-05 Thread Lisa Hayes
Well I started with a keynote and only could play dos stuff then, beyond the titanic, hitch hikers all the infocom stuff got on to the original yahoo audyssey list in 2000 through Paul nimoo who was here and put my windows 98 computer together met and love sod and all the other audio stuff.

[Audyssey] what to do?

2010-04-05 Thread michael barnes
does anyone know how i can contact the maker of entombed? i have already e-mail him three times on the contact link on the blind-games webvsite. but he have not got back with me on my problem with activating the full version of entombed. i did like some of you told me but i can't get it to

Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there?

2010-04-05 Thread Lisa Hayes
Maybe someone could write agt for windows. feel like doing that Thomas? Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:21 AM Subject: Re: