Agreed. Instead, I send PDFs like these to OpenBook, and it OCRs them for
me, some quite well, and others poorly.
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Behalf Of Keith S
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 4:55 AM
To: Gamers Discussion
I agree with this. If someone's message is incomprehensible, I just skip it
and move on, and become less likely to read the next message from them.
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Willem Venter
Sent: Sunday, December 1
Hi,
This discussion about the top 25 best games for the blind has me intrigued.
As a blind gamer, I'm interested in the best games for the blind, regardless
of who developed them or what their motivation was.
What this means for me is that I pay for my Blind Adrenaline membership, and
I have the
Hi Dark,
I'm looking at the Pontes Backgammon site. So, if I donate 13 euros, I'll
be able to play a full game, but if I don't, I can't.
I'll have to do some conversion, because I'm not sure how much that is in
U.S. funds. But if the game is good, I'll gladly support it, especially for
the oppo
Hi Philip,
I'd be interested in giving this a try. I'd have to familiarize myself with
BGT, though, and that could take a little time. I assume there's a BGT
version we can use without purchasing the software. What limitations does
it have?
Links to information on getting started with BGT would
Good Afternoon,
The possible BGT competition has me thinking, and I have two very general
questions.
First, can BGT be used to design any type of game? For instance, card game
to aircraft simulator? If not, what limitations should I be aware of? (I
intend to do more research this weekend, but
Happy New Year! I hope that 2012 brings us many good games, and many good
times in the rest of life as well.
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Behalf Of Shiny protector
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 7:51 AM
To: Gamers Discussion
Hi,
I've heard about this site, but I don't know much about it. Is it a
subscription site? Are the games good? I saw a review that said that
keyboard control was very spotty, and that you'd go to play a card, and
actually play a different one than you intended.
I love card games and such, but
I like La Scopa, but I really really really don't want to know about the
comings and goings of those not at my table.
I had some problems getting into games. I also couldn't find the rules for
1,000 Miles.
I like the idea of being able to play these games. I'd love to see hearts
and backgammon
Hi,
Does this site actually work? About a year ago, I tried to create an
account there. It told me I'd receive a confirmation Email, which I never
did.
So I tried again, using a different Email address this time. Once again, I
was told that I would receive a confirmation Email, but I never did
s you have or by your isp.
This is particularly likely if it happened with two E-mail addresses.
If i were you, I'd request a password, then check those folders.
Hth.
Beware the grue!
dark.
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Actually, it has the link to the game in it, which I thought was what was
requested.
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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [Audy
Hi There,
I would love to find accessible versions of these games, either on Windows 7
or iPhone (or even on the Braille Sense, but since that seems unlikely, I'll
keep my fingers crossed for the other two).
Please let me know if there's anything available.
Thanks,
Nancy
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Tootle Tiles? Wow. It sounds like a kid's game.
Actually, mahjong is usually a four player game. And there are many
variations, from Chinese official to American to Japanese riichi.
One of the complexities in many versions is the number of fan, or ways to
score points. In Chinese official
Actually, you may be thinking of Mahjong solitaire, which I don't want. I
don't see any way for a person to play that.
Regular mahjong plays a lot like rummy ... except where it doesn't, and
there are a lot of ways it doesn't.
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rson).
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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To: "'Gamers Discussion list'"
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Checkers, Mahjong
> Tootle Tiles? Wow. It sounds like a kid's game.
>
> Actuall
s an oxymoronic statement like
"It's the same, but different." (grin)
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Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 8:00 AM
Su
Hi Dark,
What is also ironic is that mahjong is not an ancient game. This
misconception isn't spread just by APH, though; we see it in much of the
literature of mahjong. It actually came into being in the 1850's in China,
and was brought to the U.S. in about 1910.
There's actually a good book f
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Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Checkers, Mahjong
> LOL.
>
> The core te
ot like rummy ... except where it doesn't, and
> there are a lot of ways it doesn't."
>
> So, does it play like Rummy? or not. That's an oxymoronic statement like
> "It's the same, but different." (grin)
>
>
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Hi Thomas,
I'd be delighted if you developed an accessible mahjong game. I think it
would be great fun to play, and quite a nice digression from the games I so
often see available.
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paire, isn't it quite obvious what your looking for?
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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To: "'Gamers Discussion list'"
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Checkers, Mahjong
> Hi Dark,
Hi Quentin,
I believe you can find the rules for Chinese official mahjong at
www.ninedragons.com.\/mahjong/oir.html
If you do develop this, and want a beta tester, just let me know. I'd be
happy to help.
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Hi Thomas,
I have a suggestion for you. Have you contacted the publisher of these Star
Wars books? In the past, I have made arrangements with publishers of both
role-playing game books and computer programming books. In cases where they
didn't normally sell electronic copies of their books, they
Hi Dark,
I've had good luck with Steve Jackson Games, Atlas Games, Pinnacle
Entertainment Group, Hogshead Publishing (I think they're a UK group),
Murach Books (they're the computer programming folks) and other small press
sorts that I can't think of just now.
WoTC does ignore us, that's true. No
Hi,
For years, I played on AmberMUSH and a few Pern MUSHes. Then real life took
over and I disappeared from the MUSH scene for a while.
I'm not sure there are really MUSHes left. Text-based role-playing in that
fashion seems to have been replaced by World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs.
I know
Hi,
A friend just forwarded me a link to a Kickstarter project for Braille dice.
Oh, we've long been able to read 6-sided dice, but these are for many of the
dice traditionally used in role-playing games: D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20 and
D30.
They're trying to raise $11,000 to get this underway.
Pl
Hi Nick,
I would be happy to help test for you, as time permits.
I have Braille displays at home and at work, and I read Braille daily, for
programming, and for both personal and professional reading.
Unlike others, I find Braille to be of daily value, and generally prefer it
over speech for thi
As for cheaper than a small car, work purchased a 40-cell Braille display
for me for $2700. That's cheaper than most small cars I've seen, unless you
want a clunker.
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Behalf Of dark
Sent: Saturday,
Hi Nick,
I for one am looking forward to seeing what you can put together. I love the
idea of a Braille tetris.
As for folks like the one below, I'd try to ignore them. Some people just
need to rattle cages.
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Hi,
This has been under development for a while.
Before I purchase it, I have a few questions.
Are you likely to find many other players on-line?
At this point, without registering you can only complete a game on easy.
Are the settings for the other games actually harder, more challenging to
pl
Hi Dark,
>From what I've seen, it looks to be a good game. I'll grab a copy today.
I'm looking forward to trying it on difficult.
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Behalf Of dark
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 4:48 AM
To: Gamer
lf, or perhaps there be a colour choice after
each match.
This is however a miner issue and I believe Manu will fix it at some point.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: "Loravara"
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'"
Sent: Saturday, August 18,
I got an iPhone 4 on Thursday. I have some games, including Moxie, Moxie 2,
Frotz, Choice of the Dragon ... what else do you have?
Thanks.
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Behalf Of peter Mahach
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010
Hi,
Is there a good accessible backgammon game out there?
I remember purchasing one a few years back, but there've been a few
computers between me and that game, and I don't have it anymore.
Thanks.
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Hi,
I have Frotz installed on my PC. Are there any scripts for it, or settings
to make it read only what's new on the screen, or anything like that?
Thanks.
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Ah heck, if you're a nerd, I'll happily jump on the bandwagon with you.
This looks very interesting.
How much time on a daily basis do you think it takes to play? As I said, it
looks interesting, but I don't want to commit to something and not be able
to follow through.
Nonetheless, I'm already
I just bought the game. I hear there's an upgrade from 1.0. How do I find
it?
And could someone give me the subscription address for the Entombed mailing
list. The address I received doesn't seem to work.
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Currently, I'm playing a necromancer/assassin. A lot of fun.
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Behalf Of dark
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 5:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The Drake is Dead!
Tat ta wa
I agree. You'll never convince them, and they'll continue to be obnoxious
for as long as they realize it annoys you. They're not worth your time.
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OK, I was running around on levels four and five.
First, when going down to level five, I was told the stairway branches, and
to pick between the mines and Goblin Town, or something like that.
I picked the mines.
When I came back from level five, the stairway didn't branch anymore, and I
couldn'
I lost to the drake. Rather spectacularly, too.
Much fun.
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Behalf Of Hayden Presley
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 7:51 AM
To: 'Gamers Discussion list'
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The Drake is Dead!
Hi
Good Morning,
Currently, I am a mainframe programmer who uses COBOL, CICS and JCL.
I've been tempted to design a few of my own games, but I'd like to do so on
a Windows 7 machine, not the big mainframe we use at work.
Initially, I'd like to design things that you play alone, against a
computer,
I have to agree. I haven't listened to the entire manual, but for what I
did listen to, the reader was excellent.
And I dutifully wrote my "Hello, world" script.
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anything, while BGT is specifically geared towards audio game
development.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:00 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Programming Language
I'm definitely looking forward to all of the developments you're discussing.
Networking and file writing will both be important to my eventual plans.
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Behalf Of Philip Bennefall
Sent: Wednesday, Ma
Oh, I say leave the semicolons in. From my perspective, C++ is a new
language, and the semicolon is just a syntactical requirement.
After all, I have to put periods at the ends of my COBOL statements.
(Actually, they're no longer required, but I'm working with people who've
been programming in CO
I would like to agree with this. I think BGT is highly relevant to this
list. Please allow discussions to continue; for those not interested, the
delete key works well.
I suspect we've all had to delete messages we weren't interested in. That's
the beauty of a list; many topics and ideas can be
Good Morning,
What is this game and where do I find it? Was it fun to play?
Thanks for any reviews or information.
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Hey, Lori,
Where do you find Elven Quest? I've never heard of it, but it might be fun.
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Behalf Of Lori Duncan
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 5:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [Audysse
No problem; and I haven't paid for VIP yet. I'm trying to decide if I want
to MUD at all. When I was MUSHing, I used SimpleMU, and loved it. It
didn't require any JAWS scripting, or anything special except silencing the
status bar, which I did with a frame.
I haven't tried MUSHclient in years,
Hi,
I used to have all of the BG games, like Hearts and Sudoku and such. I no
longer have them, as I just replaced my computer after an unhappy computer
crash. How do I go about getting all of these games back?
Thanks.
Lora
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I recently bought a PS3 console. Originally I bought it for the
DVD/Blue-Ray capabilities. Now I begin to wonder what games I might be able
to play with it.
I love board and card games, and would love a role-playing game that I could
play. I'm not into sports games at all.
I'm willing to try o
Hi, Thomas,
Card games? How do I find them? Every time I look for Games in Windows 7,
I keep finding the HP games, which don't look terribly accessible.
But if we can find an accessible Windows card game or two, I'd love to give
them a try.
Thanks.
Lora
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still most likely have to send a request to have them
> emailed to you from spoonville games though.
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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, but not his spirit...'
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To: "'Gamers Discussion list'"
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BG Hearts and Other Games
> Thanks to you and Jacob both. I just sent Ian an Email.
>
> Wi
ssible, you'll always
need to at least memorize menus and such, but many are playable, especially
the fighters.
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Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 5:18 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Acc
HTH
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:38 -0700, Nancy (Loravara) wrote:
> Thanks to you and Jacob both. I just sent Ian an Email.
>
> Will these work under Windows 7? Do I need to do anything special to make
> them work?
>
> And ... on his Web site he talks about text to speech voices,
Hi, Ryan,
Nice job on the patch. I installed the newest version of Monopoly, and it
works fine under Windows 7, and correctly auto detected and used JAWS.
Thanks for the work on this!
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/spoonbill-games/
and that might give you a good start.
HTH
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:09 -0700, Nancy (Loravara) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to have all of the BG games, like Hearts and Sudoku and such. I no
> longer have them, as I just replaced my computer after an unhappy computer
>
Is there a way to silence the music in the game? When I try to turn the
volume down for the music, nothing happens. I would like to turn it off
altogether. I like the sound effects, just not the music.
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: [Audyssey] RSGames Monopoly Patch
Sure just press f3 to turn the music down or all the way off. f4 will turn
it back up. F5 and f6 do the same for the sounds.
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Elicia rolls 6, 5.
Elicia moves eleven spaces. He lands on Park Place. It is a Blue property.
It is owned by ramiro, and it has a hotel.
Elicia must pay rent of $1500.
Elicia is bankrupt! Elicia is out of the game!
It is now Loravara's turn.
Elicia is watching.
It is now ramiro's tur
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