Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-08 Thread dark
Hi tom. I'm just catching up on my E-mails after a telephone down time and a miner but nasty illness (one is fixed, the other not quite), so congrats on this Tom. I'd certainly be interested in assisting with the new site, perhaps contributing some content if I could, but I'll wait to let

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-08 Thread dark
I've actually always thought the same when the question of various sites about games turn up. multiple information soucres does help, indeed especially in different methods (I myself find the pcs games list a great overview). Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __

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2013-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
Hi dark, definately feel for you there. As I type this I am staring at the wreckage of 2 phone units, one of which will work again maybe the other is dead. This has made communications a bit harder, also one of the remote places I do family work for has a dead printer wo as you can imagine

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
yeah, one thing I'd like would to be some sort of rss feads if we ever got audyssey to a blog platform as that sertainly would move the magazine to the modern thing. on that note if we ever did reviews I'd be happy to test and review products from devs and stuff for free for mags and other

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
true, I have a pc and I realise that that platform even in the sighted market is waning in what is avalible for it. I do plan to get an iphone because a lot of the gaming industry seems to be moving towards that. At 01:17 AM 3/9/2013, you wrote: Hi Shaun, Well, then, might I advise that you

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm yeah I never thought about that. I'd also like other formats text html and a few other things, and yes there are sertainly things we can do. A lot of magazines thesedays have gone online and discontinued paper versions this is no different. there are competitions promos and other adds for

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2013-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
true and most games are online anyway. I think the blind gaming industry is going a bit like that smaller stuff but no major things. and that may be better especially with what we have with engines and other things. At 07:33 AM 3/9/2013, you wrote: Hi Shaun, Well, yes and no. The PC is

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaun, I do not know of another game out there like my Dungeon Master game that I put out last year. Same with my strip war game that I put out last year. And even though it is a simple little game, I did release my Press Your Luck game this year. BFN - Original Message - well

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-07 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
One can only work with what one gets. On 07-Mar-2013 2:00 AM, shaun everiss wrote: I don't know tom it was unfair to the mag in its origiona format and I wouldn't dis it. however I feel that over the last few issues as stuff has shifted that it has degraded over the years. most of the news and

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-07 Thread Charles Rivard
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members Hi Shaun, Regarding podcasts etc we can discuss that once the new website is up and running. However, if we are going to do it we need a decent show host to do the podcast. Not everyone is necessarily qualified for that position

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2013-03-07 Thread shaun everiss
that sounds good. has anyone thought of making the adam the imortal gamer and game rescue unit into actual games maybe 3d games? An idea I had was sort of like the mirror universe, adam is the same his computer however gets a virus and becomes evil,. On that note I'd really like some of the if

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2013-03-07 Thread shaun everiss
true tom ofcause with everything thats out there there is really no need to write something for the mag as it is. I think I may be one of the last that uses text and a keyboard as it was meant to be used. I hang on to the old ways. But most others yunger generations in general don't, text is

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-07 Thread shaun everiss
No I havn't forgot, this is over all, nothing much since shades of doom has got me interested or is it the fact I have got so used to stuff in general that I don't notice. maybe its a bit of both. I don't have the time I used to to actually take as much notice as I usually did in the past and

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-07 Thread shaun everiss
Hmmm maybe you are right I don't however have time to tweat all day long or facebook all day long. The email format does work fine but maybe a dropbox or something with files who knows, a forum I guess as well as the list. a teamtalk server is also good stock if possible, teamtalk is free.

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread Ron Kolesar
A huge congratulations Tom. I know you'll make a grat administrator for all blind gamers to come. I have to let a friend of mine who's just losing her vision know about this list. But she is a apple user though. Again, a huge congratulations and can't wait to see the new changeses and

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread Charles Rivard
Congratulations, Tom! I know that this will be a huge undertaking, and I wish you all the best in this. It should be exciting and good for the visually impaired and blind gaming community. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know either on or off list. When the list is moved,

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread Charles Rivard
:57 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members Hi Chris, Rather than think of Audyssey as being different from Audiogames.net I see it as another resource where people can obtain some of the same information. Eventually, Audyssey may grow, have different content, etc

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
on the note of change though this may disadvantage a relitive few, I want to put foreward the thought about putting audyssey mag to be in a podcast form of a sort. There are several reasons. firstly we have 1 central editor, ron doing everything. That was fine with a central editer with disks

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
well audiogames.net has the established database, link to it if you want but you are reinventing the wheel. On the other hand we need to have some sort of mirror for audiogames.net. audiogames.net is the main database resource and this means if it goes down for any reason thats most of us gone.

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2013-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
, which is what this will be, is a good thing. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread kev lyon
hi all, just to say i second tom's ideas/intentions. audyssey in it's various forms has been in existence for close on 15 years! it should have it's own site and be a focal point of the blind gaming world. in fact, it's a shame it's never had such a set up before as it was around long before

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2013-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree kev. however as far as I can remember, articles dropped off so now audiogames.net is where you go and audyssey is crappy rubbish! I am not saying don't take it out the bin and dust it off, but the fact is that there is almost nothing to read in it these days and its so nonregular I

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi I'll have to agree. Yes I'll admit to dropping the ball on things but like Tom says it's life and computer crashes don't help. and all things being equal whenever did Shaun ever submit something? I had both my primary and external die in about a month of each other. I do want to

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
I don't know tom it was unfair to the mag in its origiona format and I wouldn't dis it. however I feel that over the last few issues as stuff has shifted that it has degraded over the years. most of the news and letters I have gotten weeks in advance. Most have the net well most of the

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2013-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
I wander if there would be any use that as well as having audyssey in all the formats its in including podcast which would be good I'd like it in a more modern blog form or at least parts of it. This is probably further down the road, but an idea would be to have an apple/android and win8 app.

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2013-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
well I have a certifficate in radio broadcast from a local coledge I don't have every bit of equipment but if I had audio files of people reviewing things that would be fine I guess. ofcause the issue would be if I had to do anything crazy, so maybe not for me. but yeah when things come. At

Re: [Audyssey] Important Notice For All List Members

2013-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
Well you may as well know submitting is just not my thing, ok, writing in general is one of my week points, could never make essays etc long enough to save my bacon, still can't. Life sucks some times I aggree. I have done some tech casts reviewing different things and always planned to do

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Aaron, Absolutely... I'm still going to be using .NET Framework 2.0 and DirectX 9 for backwards compatibility to Win 2000, XP, 2003, but have forward compatibility with Windows Vista. Eventually, though since Microsoft has announced it's lack of desire to support Windows 9x with DirectX and

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2007-02-23 Thread Davy Kager
Kager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. I think that the .NET Framework will be released for WinXP too. And the same goes for DirectX 10, however not all hardware support it correctly

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, My game development computer is a Dell Pentium 4 2.0 ghz. My Internet computer is a Dell Celeron 2.4 ghz. Both have 512 meg of ram. So if I were to add memory I am sure that they could run Vista. But I am very happy with XP and the way that they run now. Plus most of what Vista

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2007-02-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Davy, No, Windows Vista developers still use Visual Studio 2005. The only diference is they will likely install the new platform SDK which includes the new managed SAPI, .NET Framework, and a bunch of other cool stuf. Davy Kager wrote: As far as I know the beta has already been released.

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2007-02-23 Thread Davy Kager
I didn't mean the programmers side. I rather meant a new technology like .NET. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. Hi Davy, No, Windows

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2007-02-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, I am not a fan of Del computers, prefering home built machines to factory built ones, but the system specs of your computers are still pretty good. I'm certain your systems fall in the minimum specs for Vista, and are pretty equal to what I have on my desktop. The Vista machines I have

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Brandon, Interesting. I figure to get JFW 8 working the person you know of ran Vista under a more triditional desktop setting. I'll be more than happy to try Jaws 8 under Vista and see how it works. Cheers. Brandon Hicks wrote: Hi, I beg to differ on the point of running JFW on Vista. I

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-23 Thread aaron danvers-jukes
but will your games still work on windows xp? regards, aaron ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription

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2007-02-22 Thread damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive
i'm not planning to upgrade to vista at all! lol regards, damien - Original Message - From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:36 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. Oh my, thats a load

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2007-02-22 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Damien, I don't plan to up grade to Vista either. Well until I need to buy a new computer and can get it only with Vista. Guess one reason is that the version of JFW (4.02) that I am running probably won't work on Vista. grin BFN - Original Message - i'm not planning to upgrade

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2007-02-22 Thread Gerry Leary
Why not? - Original Message - From: damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. i'm not planning to upgrade to vista at all! lol

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive
:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. Why not? - Original Message - From: damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice

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2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Well, eventually I suspect you will need to do so at some point in time as Microsoft is introducing allot of new technologies in Vista like the managed SAPI support, built in speech recognition, .NET Framework 3, DirectX 10.0, and a bunch of new stuff that is not available on earlier versions

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2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Light scribe is a feature of very recent dvd and cd burner designs which allows you to flip the disk over and directly burn an image on to the disks surface using your burners laser rather than using the more traditional paper and ink labels. As a result the disks will have a more

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Yes, anyone seaking to update to Vista needs a fairly modern PC to even run it. Especially, with the new 3D desktop Windows arrow. If you run Vista with the classic XP desktop you can ssqueeze with 800 MHZ and 512 MB of ram. If you run it using the 3D desktop you will need to basically

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2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Well, I don't think most users will want to upgrade right away anyway. The accessibility for Vista just isn't really out there yet. There is WE 6.1 beta, and Windows marrater, but Jaws users will have to wait for Jaws next major release to have Vista support, and even then if it is

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Ward
@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. Why not? - Original Message - From: damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:04

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I am pretty sure MS will be releasing a DirectX 10 and .NET Framework 3 for Windows 2000 and above, but Windows 9x is basically scrapped as far as MS is concerned. There is already a developers only release of .NET 3 for XP, and I don't see devs jumping on 3.0 so soon after 2.0 was released

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Damien, I have no idea where you have gathered your information about the .NET Framework, but it is very much incorrect. The .NET Framework itself is completely accessible. As for the development ides VS 2003 and VS 2005 are also accessible provided you are using a fairly modern version of

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2007-02-22 Thread Yohandy
] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. I think that the .NET Framework will be released for WinXP too. And the same goes for DirectX 10, however not all hardware support it correctly so there's no reason

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive
used to try out vs.net, it has always acted up one way or another. regards, damien - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. Hi Damien

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Ward
. http://gh.ffshrine.org?r=16426 - Original Message - From: Davy Kager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important notice. I think that the .NET Framework will be released

Re: [Audyssey] Important notice.

2007-02-22 Thread Brandon Hicks
Hi, I beg to differ on the point of running JFW on Vista. I know of at least one person who's running JFW 8 on Vista. I'm not sure which version, or what features were enabled, but it is possible. I personally will only upgrade to Vista when I get a new computer. I do like the ideas of it, but