Re: [Audyssey] a games list: was Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread Ken the Crazy
There is a new game called Say What that sounds cool. Also, I found a little travel version of Bop it, but it's called Click it. It has a click it switch, a mix it knob, a pull it trigger and a hit it button, and it's much faster that Bop it. Like most keychain games, such as fishing and ten

Re: [Audyssey] Loquendo voices was Quick question

2007-12-18 Thread Ken the Crazy
I can't get Jaws 7.1 to work with any SAPI 5 engines very well. It's a real bummer. Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Coming soon, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. - Original Message - From: "Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread Ken the Crazy
I have a 17-piece 3d fish puzzle. It takes me about half an hour to complete now--well, it did. I can't play it any more cuz Jacob and Aria, my two kids, lost half the pieces. Maybe they were hungry for fish? Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Coming soon, Blind Comfort! The plea

Re: [Audyssey] sryth-help again.

2007-12-18 Thread Bryan
If you click the link in the riddle you might just find the answer. A clue. His name is the same as a Srythian city, though it is one that isn't playable yet. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Original Message - From: "Jimmy Odin Kristoffersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers D

Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Sryth- quickstone

2007-12-18 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi AC No special powers I've yet discovered with the quickstone. However shadow magic is a fairly nice power to have. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:20 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Fw: Sryth- quickstone Hi list, I have another qu

Re: [Audyssey] Do you want a manual for the psp?

2007-12-18 Thread Tyler Wood
It would be excellent! Especially being able to know all of the menu sequences in order (game, music, etc). Also a physical description of the unit itself would be great. - Tyler visit my website! http://www.valiant.789mb.com note: Make sure you have your speakers turned on to get a cool-soundin

[Audyssey] monty bater 8.

2007-12-18 Thread ian and riggs
hi do i have to un install bater 7 before installing bater 8 or not thanks ian --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread Charles Rivard
You might try googling "fidelity Electronics". I think their name has changed since I last looked, but it's a start for a good chess machine that is playable by blind players. HTH. --- Shepherds are the best beasts. - Original Message - From: "ari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discu

Re: [Audyssey] recording games being played?

2007-12-18 Thread Charles Rivard
Seeing as I don't have, nor do I care for, Real Player, the answer doesn't apply, but the info is interesting. Thanks. --- Shepherds are the best beasts. - Original Message - From: "Gary Whittington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:00

Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Sryth- quickstone

2007-12-18 Thread Karl
Hi, The Quickstone has nothing to do with Shadow magic. Original message: > Hi list, > I have another question about the quickstone. I have finally acquired it, > but do I need to get the power of shadow magic before I can use it with > the stone, or is there something else I need to do? > I have g

[Audyssey] Fw: Sryth- quickstone

2007-12-18 Thread acarthon
Hi list, I have another question about the quickstone. I have finally acquired it, but do I need to get the power of shadow magic before I can use it with the stone, or is there something else I need to do? I have gotten my experience boost and have used it to heel myself twice. Thanks, AC ---

[Audyssey] sryth-help again.

2007-12-18 Thread Jimmy Odin Kristoffersen
Hi all. I just begin on a new Adventure, and now i fount a riddle, but dont have the answer, i have be on this before, but havent fount the answer, enny help? The riddle: "A hero for all ages was he whose Aldvarian blade knew no equal; His sinewy steel tasted the hide of serpents, and the bone

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread tim.brugh
hi jim, just want to report a bugg if i may in the monopoly 7 game some times when alt tabing or just at randon, there will be a glass breaking sound and then my disk drive ejects! weird butt just wanted to let you know. thanks and if you have any questions, please email me back and let me kn

[Audyssey] puzzles

2007-12-18 Thread Raul a. Gallegos
Hi. I just have puzzles which fall into the solitaire category. One of them is 4 equal parts, all shaped the same way, sort of like a 3-d trapezoid. You put them together in such a way that you build a pyramid. I have other ones which are block shaped and you have to stack them certain ways to

Re: [Audyssey] recording games being played?

2007-12-18 Thread Gary Whittington
Lately just been using my Real player to record. Last Saturday I was able to hook 2 computers together to play Kitchen's Monopoly with other players in a chat room. I plan to use this same strategy tor record my upcoming audio instructions for Strat Football.. This way I can hear my recording l

Re: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance

2007-12-18 Thread Bryan
Well, you can, it just takes a lot more trial and error. That's why they modified level nine to not include saving. You could just reload the save each time you got a wrong wafer until you had it pretty well memorized. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Audyssey] extra sounds betas, and music for bopit download

2007-12-18 Thread Yohandy
I doubt you can simply download the voices. I downloaded the bop it tool which to my surprise is pretty accessible, and according to the instructions you need to plug the bop it in, and pull it. once you do that a list of sounds and voices will appear and you simply check the ones you wish to c

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread ari
Good suggestions, Charles. I once tried, I think it was called Alexandra Talking Chess Computer, found it a bit unusable, didn't like it though. Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread Charles Rivard
You go to a store and just tell them, patiently and specifically, what you are looking for. You can sometimes find someone who will get the message. Another type of game you might look for is a tabletop or handheld chess computer or, for fun, a slot machine that operates on batteries. Radio S

Re: [Audyssey] which is better is not important here

2007-12-18 Thread shaun everiss
actually they are actually close and dolphin hal is attempting to get there. I am in a lucky situation that I can use 3 readers, nvda, jaws or hal. If one reader doesn't work then the other one will. Depending on what I am going to do depends on the package I will use. I eventually want to get wind

[Audyssey] extra sounds betas, and music for bopit download

2007-12-18 Thread william lomas
hi can anyone get someone to download all the voices sounds and mucif ro bopt it download and put them up somewhere for us to get them, so that i don't have to keep asking for sighted help to get ont he site i am not sure why i can't access www.playbopit.com i get links but notlinks

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I have seen those around as well, bubt only once and a while. Here in the states you have to go to a place that specialises in toys and puzzles to get those kind of puzzles. I haven't seen any at major chain stores like Wal-Mart or K-Mart. Though Toys Are Us may have them. I'd have to

Re: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance

2007-12-18 Thread shaun everiss
with the exception of level1 where the message is in the last passage before the lift the rest are on random locations. Usually on the last monster you come accross but they can be anywhere really. Sometimes I can not find 2 messages and I guess on the datawafer numbers alone. At 02:47 a.m. 19/12/

Re: [Audyssey] Loquendo voices was Quick question

2007-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I am not a fan of AT&T Natural Speech. It sounds great in their demos of it, but when you actually use it the voices are crap when it comes to reading books off of Book Share, programming, or using words that simply were not in their dictionary of commonly used words. Bryan wrote: >

Re: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance

2007-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Yeah, I really enjoy the final climactic battle in level 9. Fighting that army of monsters is really challenging, but really fun as well. One tactic I have tried which was even more interesting was teleport directly into the main room, kill the bosses, and the monsters all die after y

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread Dean Masters
Last year I went shopping with my family at Walgreens. In their toy section they had some boxes of 3d puzzles. There were three or four of them in a box. Each box had a different theme.One box was geometric designs and I htink another one was animals that come apart like a 3d jigsaw puzzle. They we

Re: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance

2007-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hunter, Each level you complete has one message somewhere on it which will give you the proper sequence to end the game. The sequence is totally different every game so unless you find and collect all 8 messages you can't complete the game. Jozwiak, Hunter (K12) wrote: > Could someone help m

Re: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance

2007-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hunter, Actually, the bosses ability to teleport is one of the cooler features in my opinion. What fun or challenge is that if it keeps coming at you and you can stand there and hoze it down with the machine gun, laser pistil, until it is dead. I rather enjoy the boss fight just because it d

[Audyssey] Moderator close topic JAWS abuse revenge

2007-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, Ok, we all had a little fun joking around and picking on screen readers, but let's close this topic and get back to gaming. ari wrote: > One thing I can't stand about this whole screenreader thing is doing the > change. I use JAWS at home, the uni to which I'm transferring uses WE, so

Re: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance

2007-12-18 Thread Jozwiak, Hunter (K12)
I don't like the bosses because they bounce. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 5:04 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance Hi Karl, Yeah, I guess we

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread ari
Hi Raul, Yes, I have a good collection of stuff, but I want those puzzles and brain teasers that you can play on your own. My problem is that we just have toy stores who sell these, and my parents don't really know what's cool for a blind student, or where to find it. Could you tell me like what

Re: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance

2007-12-18 Thread Jozwiak, Hunter (K12)
Could someone help me with the Datawafers. I cannot find any messages. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 2:13 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] SOD Boss was Temperal disturbance Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread Raul a. Gallegos
On this, I must respectfully disagree. Anyone who knows me will tell you that for the most part I am a home body, but I can tell you, ther are plenty of things which interest me out there and they are not computer related. I have well over 1500 DVD movies in my collection, well over 5000 CDs in

Re: [Audyssey] JAWS abuse revenge

2007-12-18 Thread Raul a. Gallegos
Hi. While I can't speak for why Jaws does certain things, I can tell you that the approach that screen readers have with key strokes is no different than two car manufacturers have about the placement of buttons, styles, etc on their cars. Take Toyota and Honda for example. they both make excel

[Audyssey] which is better is not important here

2007-12-18 Thread Raul a. Gallegos
That I believe is truly the best answer to avoid a war . Thanks for that. cory said the following on 12/17/2007 8:20 PM: > jfw and wineyes are both great. So there! hahaha > - Original Message - > From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" > Sent: Monday, Dec

Re: [Audyssey] size of messages

2007-12-18 Thread cory
jfw and wineyes are both great. So there! hahaha - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] size of messages > Hi Raul, > Hmmm... Seeing that both of us are moderators and use

Re: [Audyssey] Good Christmas presents?

2007-12-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ari, How about a nice remote control vehicle? I have like 10 of them which I have listed below. So I have a 1 to 6 scale Hummer. It has lights, horn, door lock sound and engine sound. The hood, doors and rear hatch all open and close. It has full spring suspension and an on and off road

Re: [Audyssey] Online harry Potter game

2007-12-18 Thread dark
Hi Jimmy. the hogwarts live game is certainly screen reader accessible, and deffinately worth a look, but I will say that the last time I looked into it, it did rather overdo the adds and pop ups thing, - much more than in Logd for some reason. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Messag

Re: [Audyssey] JAWS abuse revenge

2007-12-18 Thread shaun everiss
Well I use hal and jaws. I use jaws for some websites and andvanced things and hal for the rest but then I use old versions of each thing as I havn't the cash to upgrade. At 08:26 p.m. 18/12/2007, you wrote: >And while everyone's at it, throw some big, Hal-using lads into the battle, >charge! >