Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question
Hi Thanks for that. I have windows 7 and will make sure my security is as up-to-date as I can make it. Thanks Amanda -- From: "Thomas Ward" Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 8:11 PM To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Amanda, That is correct. The thing about security is that everyone is a sort of link in the chain. If you are able to keep your PC clean of viruses, Trojans, worms, and various other malware you won't be able to pass it onto anyone else and infect their PC. However, if you were running out of date software with poor security you have a greater risk of getting and passing on malware. You also have a risk of a cracker finding a back door into your PC and either damaging your personal data or using your personal data to steel your identity. It is in my opinion unwise to stick with old software that will no longer get security updates, because anyone online will be at risk of being victimized by unscrupulous crackers. Cheers! On 12/27/13, Amanda Burt wrote: hi Won't people need to move away from XP now due to the fact that Microsoft are not making any security updates? Didn't someone on this list say that anyone who is running XP now will be putting everyone else at risk or am I wrong about that? Thanks Amanda --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question
Hi Amanda, That is correct. The thing about security is that everyone is a sort of link in the chain. If you are able to keep your PC clean of viruses, Trojans, worms, and various other malware you won't be able to pass it onto anyone else and infect their PC. However, if you were running out of date software with poor security you have a greater risk of getting and passing on malware. You also have a risk of a cracker finding a back door into your PC and either damaging your personal data or using your personal data to steel your identity. It is in my opinion unwise to stick with old software that will no longer get security updates, because anyone online will be at risk of being victimized by unscrupulous crackers. Cheers! On 12/27/13, Amanda Burt wrote: > hi > > Won't people need to move away from XP now due to the fact that Microsoft > are not making any security updates? Didn't someone on this list say that > anyone who is running XP now will be putting everyone else at risk or am I > wrong about that? > > Thanks Amanda --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question
hi Won't people need to move away from XP now due to the fact that Microsoft are not making any security updates? Didn't someone on this list say that anyone who is running XP now will be putting everyone else at risk or am I wrong about that? Thanks Amanda -- From: "Thomas Ward" Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:56 PM To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question Hi Shaun and all, Well, here is what I think will happen. I don't think it is anything to be afraid of because as I have said many times a lot of the stuff we have now can be run on Windows 8.1 with a little bit of tinkering. Yes, while there will be certain issues such as 3d audio support is broken in games like Shades of Doom, Tank Commander, etc it isn't an insurmountable issue. I have played Shades of Doom many times on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 using stereo mixing which is less precise but doable. What I think is going to happen is eventually a lot of people running XP right now will have to buy new computers running Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1. It is not so much a question of if but when. Let's say sometime in the next five years or so the XP user base will slowly but eventually upgrade to a newer machine, new OS, and obviously they will want games that are compatible with their new computers. As the number of blind users running something like Windows 8 grows developers will have to follow suit. They probably will be running newer computers themselves and will have to take some time to look at alternatives such as Visual Basic .NET, C# .NET, Java, whatever. I don't know if they will choose to rewrite any of their older games or not, but I feel confident that newer games will be coming out designed for Windows 7 and up just because by then most of the user base will be running something other than XP anyway. The other thing in our favor is that developers are already slowly moving away from Visual Basic 6 and are looking into more modern technology's. This won't happen all at once, but we are slowly moving away from VB 6 as a general rule. Draconis has a new engine written in C++ , and are rewriting many of their old titles. BPC Programs uses .NET which is already Windows 8.x compatible , and I don't see them having a big problem upgrading their software. Blind Adrenaline is using .NET and I don't see Che having a problem with his games on Windows 8 and beyond either. Entombed is similarly written in .NET and should have a decent shelf life assuming Jason maintains the code. There are quite a few developers using BGT now, and that is reasonably Windows 7 and Windows 8.x compatible currently/. So I wouldn't worry too much about new games being compatible as it seems as though developers are slowly but surely moving away from VB 6 in general. In short, we may have a few problems with older games, and some may stop working. However, by and large it won't be as bad as people fear. Many will still work on the newer platforms, and those that don't may get fixed or upgraded. If there comes a time that something won't work at all there is still the option to run XP etc in a virtual machine which gives a user the best of both worlds. Some people will undoubtedly drag their heals, but like you said I think the best thing to do is upgrade on your own terms rather than be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern computing world. Cheers! On 12/26/13, shaun everiss wrote: Charles I have no answers for you. All I know is that something will have to happen. All I know is we can't go on as we are. I have no idea what that will mean and yes we may lose some stuff I just don't know. All I am saying is that there will be a time when what we used and loved will be gone. Think of all the synbian phones and nokia going to inaccessable win8. Ok se have a bit of access now but still its valid. I'd like to stay with nokia and symbian but the next thing I move to may have to be something other than I am used to. We have 2 choices. We can do it now at our own pace or we can wait another 10 years, when ms finally dropps their legacy software and handle it then. But if we do we may lose all audio games that are not converted. Now it will not be all games, but it will be a good deal. We have till at least the end of win8 to decide what we do. Ms however is vary generous I doubt this will stay for long. Look at xp its been vary good about keeping it for so long past its used by date. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, pleas
Re: [Audyssey] Swamp was Re: new version of swamp
yeah. i have one. and now that i am used to using an actual mouse, it's not too bad. cause at first, on swamp, i used nothing but my trackpad. but in this new laptop, it has a clickpad. a little annoying, but it forced me to pull out this wireless mouse for the first time, and learn to use a mouse rather then a trackpad. and now that i have gotten used to it, i like it well enough. Dallas On 27/12/2013, lenron brown wrote: > yeh had to buy a wireless mouse > > On 12/26/13, Dallas O'Brien wrote: >> hi. yes. but keep in mind, that if you have one of those clickpads, >> like i do, where there are no buttons, it just clicks down to click >> the mouse, ... it won't work so well. because you can't walk and shoot >> at the same time. >> dallas >> >> >> On 27/12/2013, loriduncan wrote: >>> Hi, yes you can play Swamp with a trackpad, what you do is use your >>> right >>> mouse button to walk forward, and your left mouse button to fire your >>> weapon. When doing very small turns, you run your finger gentley >>> accross >>> the pad from left to right to turn right, and right to left to turn >>> left. >>> If you try it out in the safe zone you should hear the sounds moving >>> around >>> through your headphones. From Lori. >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Lindsay Cowell >>> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 7:39 PM >>> To: Gamers Discussion list >>> Subject: [Audyssey] Swamp was Re: new version of swamp >>> >>> Hi All. >>> >>> I want to start playing swamp. Is it possible to play it with a laptop >>> trackpad, and any tips for how to do this, and what I need to configure? >>> It's a shame you can't play swamp using a keyboard. >>> >>> Lindsay Cowell >>> >>> -original message- >>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new version of swamp >>> From: ryan chou >>> Date: 26/12/2013 7:22 pm >>> >>> if you want to survive with the axe, there is a way of doing it >>> there's a certain way to backpetal while swinging so that you can keep >>> hitting the zombie, but it can't hit you >>> it requires a lot of timing, but its doable >>> another option for you is resetting and putting points in to speed >>> and sneaking to max both, then putting points in to the glock and >>> possibly health and armor >>> or get enough rep to buy yourself a silencer and kill using that until >>> you can find loot to sell to get more rep >>> also on the issue of rep, this is why even a whole day after the new >>> version came out I still haven't joined a mission, so I can get back >>> up to a decent amount of rep through killing and selling loot >>> hth >>> >>> On 12/26/13, loriduncan wrote: Hi everyone, I just upgraded Swamp to the latest version and I can’t believe how much harder it is, especially to lose all our rep at such a high level and to only have a stupid ax to fight with. I used the rep I had to go on missions, but after some symbles person kicked me from one, and dying on another, I only had enough rep to buy back some ammo for my glock. When I think of all the hard effort I and other players have put into building up our rep over the last 2 years, I feel as though getting this far has been a complete let down now I only have an ax. It’s like hc mode, and has taken all the fun out of the game. I’m over 200 in levels, 1 hit gives me bloody clothes, and when I run out of ammo, and try to use my ax, I die in about 2 seconds. So my question to you and aprone is, how am I meant to survive if I keep on dying and don’t have enough rep to get better weapons or even ammo for my glock? I’m on map 2 right now, and can’t even make it back to map 1 alive. It’s such a shame this has happened, especially as I was looking forward to playing the game non-stop over the holidays. What do other people think to the changes? Oh and while I remember, if anyone has any tips on surviving with only an ax, and avoiding bloody clothes, could they please let me know. Many thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>> All messages are archived and c
