Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight

2009-10-10 Thread Johnny Tai
Gah, after ten tries I managed to get my goblin thief and his two ogre mages to the granite guardian...and now I'm stuck there...seems no way to beat it when I can barely scratch it and it kills an ogre in a round rofl. God I miss my human warriors! And to top it up, I don't have any

Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight

2009-10-10 Thread dark
Don't your mages have shrink? Usually I like to specialize my mages in one or two spell schools, - usually lighting or shrink (grow is fun, but imho not quite as useful). Hit the guardian with a high level shrink spell, you can also use your other mage as a second shrinker if

[Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread dark
Hi. poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means no more stat and item keeping, looking up numbers on tables, rolling dice or long drawn out combats. In fact it would make the Lonewolf

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread Orin
If this turns out to be accessible, I'll be a happy man indeed. On Oct 10, 2009, at 4:21 AM, dark wrote: Hi. poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means no more stat and item keeping,

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread Jason Allen
I created a temporary website for www.blind-games.com in Silverlight and it didn't appear to be very accessible. It might be possible to make the site accessible with a different methodology. After all, the entire site doesn't have to be in Silverlight. Only the app. Jason --- Gamers mailing list

Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight

2009-10-10 Thread RONALD HOPKINS
I've tried to beat the granit guardian also, but failed misserable every time, even with an ogre or thief. - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread dark
Well, I'm incredibly sorry to report that the webpages which use the Ap are about as inaccessible as you could imagine! There is literally no text there Hal can read beyond the status bar at all, in fact I even tried saving the page as text and got nothing. I'm certain that Silverlight

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread dark
Before I start talking nicely to the developer, I'd be interested to know precisely how much work it'd take to un-silverlight the pages but keep the ap running. Would that in fact be possible? or would it take just as much work and redesign of the entire program as rewriting the 7th sense Java

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread Oriol Gómez
Well, who uses hal anymore these days' Hal is inferior to any screen reader you can think of, even NVDA. So before giving up, I would try it with other readers. On 10/10/09, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Before I start talking nicely to the developer, I'd be interested to know precisely how much

Re: [Audyssey] seeking very basic chess instructions

2009-10-10 Thread Milos Przic
Hey Bryan, that's not the case. I am for example a very stupid chess player, but still can play sound rts and other strategic game very well. I mean, it is not only the strategy that you need to play ches. It is more complicated that all the other strategic stuff. Best regards!

[Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread dark
Hi. I have a small problem, well actually a rather large! problem. During installation of Java I happened to notice msn explorer was stil on my compter. I attempted to remove it in add/remove programs and by mistake removed outlook express. no problem I thought time for a system

[Audyssey] Bgt beta applications

2009-10-10 Thread Philip Bennefall
Hello everyone, Beta application submissions for the Blastbay Gamer's Toolkit (bgt) are now closed. We will be contacting the people who made it into the team over the course of this weekend. I would like to say a very big thanks to all of you who took the time to submit your applications, and

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Query

2009-10-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, No, jobs and game programming aren't mutually exclusive but it can be tiring to do both. If you spend 8 to 10 hours a day behind a computer programming for employer x and come home to do more of the same your hands will get tired, your mind begins to fuzz out, and at that point of

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Query

2009-10-10 Thread Bryan Peterson
Exactly. Aside from your wife and son I'm sure you've got an actual job that demands your attention, and if it involves using a computer I can totally understand why you'd be feeling burned out. I had a temporary job working at a radio station, and while It was cool to operate some of the

Re: [Audyssey] entombed---it's a losing fight

2009-10-10 Thread Johnny Tai
Gah, stupid here did not make them practice shrink since the three parties before never used it rofl. The groups that came before took out the guardian with force alone, so I never thought shrink be useful here... Heck, might have to redo this round. No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't.

[Audyssey] Technoshock Story 5

2009-10-10 Thread Sky Taylor
Hello List, I am still on level 5 of technoshock having restarted the game, and I just obtained the yellow and blue keys, but where might I find the red key? I went through the area where the fireballs were, and i'm now in a room with a door where if I walk too close it kills me do to a trap.

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed Query

2009-10-10 Thread dark
Fair enough Tom, and that does make sense. Neverthelessit's quite a shame when something like that can completely force someone out of programming. there's afterall a big difference in stopping entirely and progressing at a slower pace which will actually leave time for your fingers to

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread Charles Rivard
Any way to restore the registry with a backup you previously made before making the last changes to the registry? Just a thought. --- Shepherds are the best beasts. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:58 AM Subject:

[Audyssey] lw soundpack

2009-10-10 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. tom can you send me the link to the new lw pack you made? I was doing some fidling but on trying to reinstall things and re do things I found I had the old pack. On that note I am working on a pack of lw using silent hunter 4. I have most of that ready but I need to check, I may try to

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm silverlite has not always worked for us its not really accessible. However what are the lonewolf gamebooks I thought lonewolf was a gma game but I guess its many things. Also where do I play these lonewolf things with the online silverlite program, also how do you play with the java

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm hal is still good as long as you have the latest version. saying that I wouldn't use just one reader, I use nvda, hal and jaws, however thats my opinion. Hal is good in some things but really bad in others. The good things it does is not putting spurious info everywhere. when you brouse

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Before performing the system restore did you by chance make a restore point to go back to just in case the system restore failed? If so you should go in to system restore and select the latest restore point you have and try and undo some of the changes made by the system restore. As

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread shaun everiss
ok, wow you should never try to diddle with your system during an install. Found that the hard way myself and had to fiddle but got it mostly working. I suggest you reformat. Next time wait till java is installed all the way. you should be able to remove msn explorer from windows setup in add

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I'm sorry to say this isn't your day old buddy. i've not had much success with Silverlight stuff. I tested the latest silverlight release and it gave Window Eyes 7.x some troubles. So I decided to forget it. Not sure what more I can say other than in myopinion Silverlight isn't very

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread dark
Hi tom. I initially tried to restore things to a restore point created yesterday afternoon, that was what caused the problem. I've just tried to restore to a point created on the 28th of september, - and exactly the same thing has happened. as for backing up the registry, this is

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread dark
I'd really rather not reformat if I can avoid it, not the least because I don't have a windows xp disk and it'd mean taking my computer 100 miles back to Nottingham to get it done. as for user accounts, I hate! the things, sinse every single problem my pc has ever had has derived from

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread dark
I'm talking about the Lonewolf gamebook series from http://www.projectaon.org/new.htmm, a set of incredibly good gamebooks which tell a long ongoing story, have skills and other interesting mechanics, and were originally released in the 1980's but have sinse been made public domain. Usually,

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread shaun everiss
aah you don't need to fix that removal with a system restore, its in the add windows setup components I have seen it its like a seperate item. if its checked, uncheck and then recheck it gagain and it should work. At 10:18 a.m. 11/10/2009, you wrote: I'd really rather not reformat if I can avoid

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread Tristan B
Hi Dark, I will outline the steps you will need to take, if you can use that (secondary) user account to full capacity: 1. Since Outlook Express is part of the Internet Explorer 6 package, you will have to install Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, or in your case you may have to downgrade from

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Ouch! That really is a serious problem, and one kind of hard to fix via e-mail. Without actually standing there looking at your system it is pretty hard to say what is wrong, give advice and or solutions, when I can't eyeball the status of your system firsthand. I'm sure there is

Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?

2009-10-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Umm...If these Lonewolf game books are public domain perhaps I could convert them to an open source text adventure system like Sryth. I've been meaning to write an RPG or game book style game anyway and I'd have no problem converting an existing game to a more accessible format as

Re: [Audyssey] Crysis!

2009-10-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Okay...That's something of a big problem. I know you said you don't have an XP cd, but do you have a product recovery partition on your hard drive? I ask because most new computers don't come with installation disks any more. With my Compaq laptop I have to install Vista from a product