Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-13 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. The big thing I like better about IE9 over 8 is that it handles downloading a lot better. Starting a download is simpler and you don't have those annoying things where you have to tell it that yes you want to download the file, then reload the page and hit the download link again just to g

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-12 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Valiant8086, Thanks for letting me know that. BFN - Original Message - Hi. I just checked and NVDA seems to work fine with HJ pad also, just FYI. Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.14 portable. Jim Kitchen's Inc, for games that are up to 110 percent funner to play. j...@kitchensinc.ne

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-11 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. I just checked and NVDA seems to work fine with HJ pad also, just FYI. Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.14 portable. On 12/11/2011 5:56 AM, Jim Kitchen wrote: Hi Hayden, Oh, cool, I didn't know that NVDA could use the sapi5 voices. Thanks for letting me know. Some day I will have to install a

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, The dealer having set rules for when to hit or stay was why I was confused when you said The other difference is from what I've seen so far Alantic City Blackjack just seems to have a better A.I. Its nothing specific I can put my fingure on, but the A.I. tends to know when its a good

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Hayden, Oh, cool, I didn't know that NVDA could use the sapi5 voices. Thanks for letting me know. Some day I will have to install and check out NVDA. But right now since I wrote my own Email program it reads my Email unattended using the AT&T Crystal voice and then throws me into HJ Pad

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Shaun, I.E. 9 can easily be disabled by unchecking it in optional updates under Windows 7. However, given the fact that most applications use ribbons, most browsers have multitabbed browsing, browsers have a separate download manager window, etc most of the features in I.E. 9 you'll probably want

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, This is really way off topic for the list so I'll consider this my last message on the subject. However, there are certainlyh advantages to having multiple tabs open in a single browser window. Especially, if you are sighted which is the target market the new browsers are designed for in

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-10 Thread shaun everiss
Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: 10 December 2011 09:44 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. well I have the latest nvda. Ie9 is faster and has standards complience. Nvda can

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-10 Thread dark
s Discussion list'" Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Ribbons are the worst thing Microsoft ever did, apart from windows 7 itself, imho -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audys

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-10 Thread Ben
Ribbons are the worst thing Microsoft ever did, apart from windows 7 itself, imho -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: 10 December 2011 09:44 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-10 Thread shaun everiss
I have turned off the toolbars, and multitab brousing for the most part, but find that since using nvda for full reader I have seldomly had to interact with toolbars, the same with ie9. My only issue is that at least in nvda progress bars don't speak and the download ariea is a bit strange. But

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-10 Thread shaun everiss
well I have the latest nvda. Ie9 is faster and has standards complience. Nvda can not read progress bars though which is a pain, i don't think there is any way to stop win7 updating to ie9 or at least I have not found a way to hide it. However, it does have some features which though annoying I

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-10 Thread dark
Well Tom, I know Hal supports ie 9 sinse I've seen the access files for it at least. I don't mind multitabbed brousing just as long as I can turn it off as is the case in Ie8, along with turning off toolbars, searchbar and all the other rubbish that gets stuck on pages, sinse really all I want

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, No. If anything else Internet Explorer 9 is far worse than Internet Explorer 8 for a number of reasons. First, as I mentioned in a prior e-mail it no longer uses MSAA on Windows 7 but uses Microsoft's new accessibility U.I. framework which not all screen readers support yet. This means a

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, That's my understanding as well. My Blackjack game hits on 16 but stands on 17 and above. On 12/9/11, Jim Kitchen wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Hmmm, maybe that is a difference in rules then, as I have always known the > dealers rules to be that the dealer hits on 16 and below and stays on 17

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread Hayden Presley
mber 09, 2011 4:47 AM > To: Thomas Ward > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. > > Hi Thomas, > > Yes, I'm sure that you are correct in that my Celeron 2.4 GHZ 512 meg ram > and my Pentium 2.0 GHZ 512 meg ram computers would not do well at all > run

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Well, the processor speed of your computers is fast enough to run Win 7, but you don't have enough memory on either one. Windows 7 requires a bare minimum of 1GB of ram for the operating system and at least 2 GB or more if you want to run Microsoft Office, Jaws, Internet Explorer, etc. An

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread Brandon Misch
(no, I don't know anything about triple talk hardware synts). > > Best Regards, > Hayden > > > -Original Message- > From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On > Behalf Of Jim Kitchen > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:47 AM >

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread Hayden Presley
amers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kitchen Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:47 AM To: Thomas Ward Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hi Thomas, Yes, I'm sure that you are correct in that my Celeron 2.4 GHZ 512 meg ram and my

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yes, I'm sure that you are correct in that my Celeron 2.4 GHZ 512 meg ram and my Pentium 2.0 GHZ 512 meg ram computers would not do well at all running Windows 7. Heck might not even like Jaws 13 for that matter. But they run plenty fast enough for me with what they are running.

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Hmmm, maybe that is a difference in rules then, as I have always known the dealers rules to be that the dealer hits on 16 and below and stays on 17 and above. Except for a soft 17 which the dealer can stay or hit. BFN Jim Help!! I hit the power switch and it didn't die j...@

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread dark
Out of interest tom is there any bennifit to the new Ui change? I'm using ie 8 currently because I've stil got windows xp, but frankly I really dislike multiple tabs, and prefer just to open a window that I can alt tab too sinse it's far more logical to me to do that. I've noticed a trend to

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-09 Thread dark
eeded skill, which is why I pay for someone out of my dsa in this case, more to the point, someone who already has a masters herself. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:41

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Ward
am running Windows Vista home premium with a duo core processor. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Thomas Ward" > To: "Gamers Discussion list" > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 5:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. &g

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Well, at the moment the bet limit is the only one I can think of. Its a lot more challenging when you can't bet more than $100 per hand because you can't just bet all of your chips at once and make a killing with one good hand. You have to work at the game for hours to make a decent proffi

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Sure. Naturally Jaws 4.02 was written for the versions of the software you are running. You can't really upgrade anything on that computer without upgrading Jaws first since all of the newer software requires a newer screen reader too. For example, I assume you are running Internet Explor

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Sure. I definitely do not disagree with you. Dolphin's payment plan certainly is more fair. So is GW Micro's. However, as Freedom Scientific is largely funded here in the USA through government run state agencies they really do not have any incentive to change their payment plan or be mor

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, BTW my computers are just about as old as Jaws 4.02. I have never up dated any of the software so that it all runs the same as it did out of the box. You know like if I up dated I E for instance, I bet that it would not work so well with Jaws 4.02. I am just very happy that both of thes

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, May I ask, other than no bet limit, what rules are different in Atlantic City black jack than in say my black jack? Thanks. BFN Jim My favorite color is red, black and chrome. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing l

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread dark
ce and get cash off. beware the grue! dark. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hi Dark, Yeah, I know it is unfair, but its because

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Ward
- Original Message - > From: "Thomas Ward" > To: "Gamers Discussion list" > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 11:14 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. > > >> Hi Shane, >> >> Yeah, that sounds about right. I

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-08 Thread dark
: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hi Shane, Yeah, that sounds about right. I think I was using Jaws 4.02 around 2001 or 2002. At least 10 years ago. However, I do understand because of the

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Angela Lerma
I am running Windows Vista home premium with a duo core processor. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hi Angela, What kind o

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shane, Yeah, that sounds about right. I think I was using Jaws 4.02 around 2001 or 2002. At least 10 years ago. However, I do understand because of the cost of access technology how something like that could get so far behind, and why someone might be reluctant to upgrade. That's exactly why I'

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, True enough. Although, there are several accessible Blackjack games including yours they are all slightly different. What I like about this Atlantic City Blackjack is that it uses the same rules as Atlantic City casinos instead of Vegas casinos. Its also pretty challenging as well. For in

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Angela, What kind of processor and what Windows version are you using? I've tried NVDA on a 32-bit system running Windows 7 and NVDA works fine. When I try it with the game on a 64-bit system running Windows 7 and it has troubles with the game. I'm trying to determine if this is due to the plat

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Brandon Misch
one thing you can use is nvda with is free and would help you out in these times. On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Jim Kitchen wrote: > Hi Charles, > > Ok, so maybe the Atlantic City black jack game is not speaking automatically > because I am running such an old version of Jaws. The game runs f

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Charles Rivard
ember 06, 2011 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hi, Holy cow! Yeah, that would be an excellent reason for the game not to work for him. As I recall Jaws 4.02 had problems with Windows command prompt support. Later versions have obviously fixed this issue as I'

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yes sir, Jaws 4.02. But hey if you are buying me version 13 I will run it happily. Well as long as it still supports the VB6 IDE so that I can continue to develop games such as my casino pack of games. BFN Jim If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Ok, so maybe the Atlantic City black jack game is not speaking automatically because I am running such an old version of Jaws. The game runs fine, I just need to use the review cursor. But truthfully the only reason that I even tried the game was because Michael sent it to me in

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Shane Davidson
t: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hi, Holy cow! Yeah, that would be an excellent reason for the game not to work for him. As I recall Jaws 4.02 had problems with Windows command prompt support. Later versions have obviously fixed this issue as I'm not having any issues with Jaws

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-07 Thread Angela Lerma
My NVDA works perfectly fine with it. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hi Michael, Oh, the game itself runs fine. Its ju

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Oh, the game itself runs fine. Its just NVDA acts sort of funky when the text appears on screen and NVDA wants to spell each word instead of speak them. I have to shut NVDA up, and review it with the review cursor. I suspect there is probably some setting I have to set to get NVDA to r

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Holy cow! Yeah, that would be an excellent reason for the game not to work for him. As I recall Jaws 4.02 had problems with Windows command prompt support. Later versions have obviously fixed this issue as I'm not having any issues with Jaws 13 and the game. Another classic case of why the "i

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by turn off the speaking of characters. I don't see any option remotely like that in the NVDA preferences. Any clarification here would help. Cheers! On 12/6/11, michael barnes wrote: > Hey, Thomas. > Richard told me to let you know how to fix the issu

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, What version of Jaws are you running. When I play Atlantic City Blackjack using Jaws 13 it reads the text automatically. I did notice though with NVDA it attempts to read the screen automatically, but stutters as the text scrolls onto the screen. However, Jaws 13 seems to work fine with th

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Thomas. Richard told me to let you know how to fix the issue you are having with nvda problem. He said to turn off speeking of characters when runing a console program. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread Hayden Presley
..@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:53 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. think it's not working for him is because he's still running jaws 4.02. On Dec 6, 2011, at

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread Brandon Misch
have JAWS set to > speak highlighted text? > > --- > "Security is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of the Lord." > > - Original Message - From: "Jim Kitchen" > To: "michael barnes" > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:15

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread Charles Rivard
ge - From: "Jim Kitchen" To: "michael barnes" Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:15 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hi Michael, Thank you for sharing Richard L. De Steno's black jack game. The thing is, the text on the screen does not

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Thomas. I don't know if it is your screen reader or not because he tested the game on a 64 bit computer. That is the type of windows 7 that he has. A friend of mine has a 64 bit windows 7 computer and he said it runs good. He is using System Access. But I will pass this along to him. -- Em

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Michael, Thank you for sharing Richard L. De Steno's black jack game. The thing is, the text on the screen does not get spoken automatically by Jaws. At least it doesn't for me here. BFN Jim Full house bar and grille Liquor in the front Poker in the rear j...@kitchensinc.net http:/

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Thanks. I downloaded and tested the new version. Its ok, but I've noticed a bit of an accessibility issue with it. When the text is printed to the screen NVDA tends to stutter and speech is extremely choppy on 64-bit Windows. As I've seen this issue before I think the issue is that Ri

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-05 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Joseph. Yes he is planing on doing the other five games. The reason he had not been in the gaming picture because of personal reasons. But however he said that he would like to do all his six games for windows and hopefully make some new games. Richard was telling me yesterday in a email tha

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-05 Thread joseph weakland
earlier i tried the windows version of the blckjack game and i love it. any more windows version of games by him planned? - Original Message - From: "michael barnes" To: Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. H

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-05 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Hayden. Yes my app is finally on the app store. The name of the app is call De Steno Games. it is also put out by fastintelligence. I hope that everyone is enjoying the new game from Richard. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn mor

Re: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Subject: [Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game. Hey, Everyone. Incase my message didn't get through yesterday I have some great news for all! Richard L. De Steno email me and told me that he has made a windows version of Atlanic city blackjack. He just release it yesterday. He also told me

[Audyssey] De Steno releases windows game.

2011-12-05 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Everyone. Incase my message didn't get through yesterday I have some great news for all! Richard L. De Steno email me and told me that he has made a windows version of Atlanic city blackjack. He just release it yesterday. He also told me I am more then welcome to pass it out to anyone that