Jim Kitchen passed away

Jim Kitchen passed away James H. Kitchen Jr., 58, of Chardon passed away August 2, 2015 at Tri Point Medical Center in Concord.He was born in East Cleveland, the son of the late James H. Kitchen Sr. and Martha (Booth) Kitchen of Kirtland.Jim was a self taught computer programmer who was

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Jim Kitchen's Inc, for free Windows games.http://www.kitchensinc.net/Home for free Windows SAPI five text to speech games, winPD. File Size 8.2 meg Pizza Delivery. Earn tips and promotions delivering delicious pizzas from the Pizza Kitchen. The faster yo

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I am sorry to hear about Jim's passing.  He will be missed, remembered, and his contributions to the audiogames community will certainly live on for many years to come. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=226954#p2

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away That seems ironic, because I was just playing one of his games about 2 hours ago. I only actually talked to him once, and that was a phone call where I told him about a game idea I had. Jim Kitchen will be remembered. Maybe a later generation of devs will get

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away From Jim KitchenMay22 , 2015 I started teaching myself the Basic programming language in 1980 on a Texas Instruments 99 4A- home computer.  Next on an Atari 800 XL home computer, then an IBM PC Junior.  I mostly wrote games with some simple graphics.  By

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away From Jim KitchenMay22 , 2015 I started teaching myself the Basic programming language in 1980 on a Texas Instruments 99 4A- home computer.  Next on an Atari 800 XL home computer, then an IBM PC Junior.  I mostly wrote games with some simple graphics.  By

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away The date for his memorial has not yet been set (according to the funeral home website), but when it is I am more than willing to send a flower arrangement on behalf of the audiogames.net community.  I did not personally know Jim so I don't want to step o

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I'd be happy to send some flowers to him too. I always enjoyed all four types of his games (adult and/or sexual ones included ). I enjoyed the homer ones as well. I will always remember him. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=226959#p2

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away You know I love his games sad to see him go I have also talked to him on the phone a few times cause of tech problems, I was having on my windows 98 computer I had at the time, with getting his games to work with more than one sound to play. I really hope

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Obituary wrote:In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Cleveland Sight.I had failed to notice this part of the first post.  Am I correct in assuming flowers are still welcome and contributions are an alternative, or are they saying they do

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away [[wow]],  I did not expect this to happen and, so early in his life too. He will be dearly missed. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=226971#p226971 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Well, yes, Mr. Kitchen will be missed. His death was a big big surprise to me, as well as the whole audio games.net comunity. I was fortunate enough to find a copy of the song I composed for the game that we were going to colaborate on, but it never got started

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I was shocked to read that Jim Kitchen has passed away. He'll bee missed for sure in the blind community world wide...I've always been fashinated of his small quite random but cool games, and I always found it cool that people didn't heard from hi

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away SLJ, that is basically what I had in mind too.  Because I already have a donation option on my own website, I would be able to easily combine funds anyone wanted to have spent toward flowers.  Even if no one else wanted to contribute with donations, I still

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I admit this one shocked me too, both because it was so unexpected and because Jim was hardly at the end of his life. Jim's games were certainly some of the first I ever played, indeed the fact I had so much fun with them back in 2005 even though I couldn&

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away That's sad to hear this news. I like, and enjoy his game very much. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=226982#p226982 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabah

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I heard of this earlier today, I haven't known him personally, and that's regretable, and the loss will be felt across all of us, for all the games we enjoyed of his creations, back through 20 years. He will be missed, and remembered, if not worldwid

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away A friend posted the news up on his Facebook, and that's how I found out. I too am quite surprised. I'd only exchanged emails with him a couple times, but he seemed like a descent fellow. His DOS games were the first games I'd played after losing

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away From the 5th of May 2008, Jim Kitchen's Tech Talk Presentation from Accessible World. As far as I know, that's the only audio recording of him, that exists.Rest In Peace. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=2269

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away [[wow]]. that's really sad, and quite shocking too. Jim's were some of the first games I played, -- trucker being the one I got the most addicted to but was never able to properly beat. . Anyways I've only exchanged 2 emails with him, and that wa

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Thanks for the link Trenton. that would helps some people who don't know jim clearly like me. Only I know his game. and I was also exchange email with him last year. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=226989#p2

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I'm shocked! I'm really shocked, I can't believe that good Jim passed away and left us forever.I'd like to say my condolces for all who was close to him. I'll miss new games of him, it was so funny playing his games.Dear Jim, you'

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away The ironic thing is I'd just beaten Dungeon Master before I opened my Email and got the news. I'd asked him a while back if it would be possible to add the ability to add new women into the pool that the game picks from. That way you could design girl

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away HelloThis news surprised me too.I was fortunate enough to exchange a few emails with a few months ago to see if I could translate their games to Spanish. Unfortunately for me the he not agreed to my proposal, but it does not matter right now.My deepest

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away This is shocking. Fifty-eight is definitely not that old and I'm sorry to hear of his passing. I played a fair few games by him and am very impressed, he was a talented longtime developer who, while he may not still physically be with us, his games an

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I am so sorry to hear of Jim's death. I'm in tears as I'm writing this. I shared his games with lots of friends of mine and I actually played his monopoly game with a couple sighted friends of mine and they enjoyed it. My condolences go out to

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hello,This is definitely a sad thing to wake up to. I remember playing his games from the old mac 1 version 6 windows self voicing, all the way up to the latest pizza delivery. I'm now wonderin what is going to happen next, and I wish his family and such

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hi.This is very sad news. I played those games back in 2010 and had a lot of fun. They were one of the first audio games I played. Rest in peace, Jim! Your games will be remembered! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227027#p227027

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I just loved the time i hat spend playing his football game. And now that he has passed away i will just be more than happy to get his old titles out, and play them for days! He was the only programmer, who made an audiogame out of this complex sport for windows

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away When I heard about this yesterday, I was very surprised. While I have never spoken to Jim personally, I have interacted with him in public discussions on Audyssey. He always had something constructive to say and I found his Email signatures very amusing. As many

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Is this recording supposed to just end so suddenly where he talks about Monopoly and Golf? Why did it just cut off? That is strange. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227039#p227039 ___ Audiogames

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hello everyone,I can't exactly pinpoint the emotins I felt when I first came across this subject. I may have never heard about this at all had I been on this particular part of the forum. I had a reason for being on this section, though, which is is irrel

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hi all, and especially to the moderators at the Audiogames forum.I have downloaded all the games from the Kitchensinc website, and sorted it all in the right folders for my personal backup.I think it would be really great, if the audiogames.net website would

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away That is very sad to hear.Considering I'm 57, 58 is a way too young age to pass away at.I've only played one of his games, but downloaded several that sounded interesting. Now I think I'll go download everything, because too many abandoned games ju

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Diabetes can really shorten your lifespan and I do know Jim was living with this disease. Whether it was a contributing factor in his death we may never know. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227065#p227065

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Sleep the long sleep, may it be the peaceful way to your new life, Jim.I got the news this morning my time (it's 10 and a half at night here). Rememberred sorting tons of sapi voices just to make the hellish realism out of his monopoly game (I'm that

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away @Slj, sinse Jim's games were free anyway there would be no problem with redistribution, remember the only nono as far as this forum goes is trying to assist people in getting commercial games without paying. That being said I think your probably the fif

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away SLJ wrote:Hi all, and especially to the moderators at the Audiogames forum.I have downloaded all the games from the Kitchensinc website, and sorted it all in the right folders for my personal backup.I think it would be really great, if the audiogames.net website

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away With my debit card on the fritz, I might be too late for a donation, but I could also host the games on my server as well, it's a free cwahi host. Well, that is, if I can rangle them enough to give me a password reset without solving the captcha haha. But

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hi.@Dark: Thanks for your reply. I haven't seen others mentioning that they'll host the games... To all others:Since it all is freeware and since I'll not brake any laws on doing this, I'll paste the link to my folder here so you can grab an

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hello.thanks you very much SLJ.Greetings. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227085#p227085 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Haha, Dark is right, Jim's games are going to end up immortalized on 40 websites by the time the dust settles!  I had grabbed my own copy of Jim's website yesterday, shortly after I tried spreading the news to the people playing Swamp.  If I'd

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Well, I have some good news, as far as Jim's dos games. If you're running Windows 10, you can run dos programs natively. I tested it out with the games from the talking dos box folder. Why Microsoft decided to add the support back for dos apps, I

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Oh, nice Aprone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227126#p227126 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Oh, at first, I thought that is not true but then today, i read the news. I loved his games. I don't knew him personally, but exchanged emails a few times with him. Rest in Peace, Jim, we'll miss you. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Jim's first-ever web site, was originally at:http://www.now-online.com/jkitchen, where an archive from the ""Wayback Machine" can be found hereJim's more well known home on the web,  before his now "Permanent" place, was

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away It's sad to hear this news. I never knew Jim, though I talked to him via Email a time or two.Add me to the list of people who took steps to make sure his website lives on. I am in Twitter contact with someone who works at the Internet Archive, and I asked

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away That's good, and hopefully every file on the site will be available in the wayback machine, as sometimes file downloads on there are a hit-or-miss. That should be very easy because the site's still online when being archived. URL: http://forum.audi

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hello everyone,I just read the news and it was just shocking me! Sure, we have developers who abandon their games due to a couple of understandable facts and reasons I don't want to include here, but it is really sad to hear that a developer passes away.

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hello everyone,I just read the news and it was just shocking me! Sure, we have developers who abandon their games due to a couple of understandable facts and reasons I don't want to include here, but it is really sad to hear that a developer passes away.

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hi.Guys, just asking again, are you seriously talking? I, can't, believe, that. Jim's games were, like too many of you, some of the first audio games I ever played several years ago. At that time I had the curiosity to look at that great person's

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hi there.I was really sad when my friend told me about Jim's death.I remember playing his games when i first discovered Audio games.They were and are still amazing.May he rest in peace.regards.Ahmad. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=2

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away It upsets ,e. I have a friend who talked to Jim a lot. I will try my best to buy flowers for him. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227296#p227296 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I can't find Jim Kitchen on the sight. The sight is rather confusing to me. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227297#p227297 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabah

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hi Garrett, I think the site said it'll take contributions in loo of flowers, so I don't think they accept those. A donation would be nice, and you can still makea donation if instead. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=2273

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away I just came across this this morning. Very sad news indeed. His were the first audiogames I ever played and I still play them all the time.It's sad to think that there will be no more contributions from his inspiring and comical brain. Looks like I'm

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away About the games, the website will remain and they'll try to keep it up hosting the games and the other page's content as long as possible.Here's what the main page currently says:Hi. This message is from Jim's sister, Cindy. Jim passed away

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away We should properly send her a link to this topic on the forum, so she can read how much we enjoy his games. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227462#p227462 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away This is so sad to hear and at such a young age too. I collaborated with him on several of the trivia files, especially the LOTR and a couple others and he was always a pleasure to work with. I am sorry to hear of this and will send my prayers and best wishes to

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hi.Oh this is terrible what a huge loss. That's crazy he was only 58 that's way too young to die.I wish I had known him i always wondered why he wasn't on this forum. I loved all his games but especially awesome homer and homer on a harley I'

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Re: Jim Kitchen passed away Hello. That dropbox link no longer works. I was wondering if we can have an updated link? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=244829#p244829 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames