HI Tom and all
Sorry, I came into this thread rather late.
I just want to say that I am planning to arrange with a south African radio
station, rsg, to do a show on accessible games.]
If willem and Jacob listens to rsg, they will probably remember
5"leefwêreld van die gestremdes"
In English, livi
HI tom
Thanks for your informative response.
Excuse the ignorance, but is 350 mghz smaller or bigger than 2.66.
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Su
I should also add that if you are over your data cap then you may have issues.
I have got over that by going unlimited ofcause that costs me a little more but
for what we use it here its worth.
At 04:20 p.m. 3/12/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Hayri,
>I usually get decent upload/download speeds from the ser
Amen to that brother.
If you want to buy someone a subscription to our card room, or let someone
know where to go to buy you one, we now allow folks to buy gifts from our
home page without being members themselves.
Just go to
http://www.blindAdrenaline.com/cardroom
and click the buy a gift l
Hi matt,
We have quite a few customers running the card games on 64 bit computers,
including with win 7 and vista. Draw poker needs a separate download for 64
bit right now, but the others work fine with default installers.
However, I am in the process of taking all direct x code out of the
Sighted people have games on their computers, and those games are played.
That's why gaming is such a big industry. For the sighted computer user, a
computer is not a work only device. Why on earth should this not be so for
the blind computer user? Windows comes with free games, even. Isn't
Hi Hayri,
I usually get decent upload/download speeds from the server. Can you
explain how slow are we talking slow on your end?
It could be your internet connection rather than the server, or the
server was experiencing some heavy bandwidth at the time. USA Games
isn't the only company to us
Hi Nicol,
These days it doesn't really matter. If you get a relatively new
computer it should be able to play any and all accessible games out
there for the PC. I've owned AMD processors and Intel processors and
they both work well for my games.
Nicol Oosthuizen wrote:
HI all
Which kind of C
Hi Thomas,
Yes it would certainly be possible by scripting, and it would not be hard to
add it to my sidescroller template either. The hard part is really to come
up with a nice enough designer interface that is easy to use for the
absolute beginner. After all you do need to have a clear idea
Hi Al,
Seeing as the games you mentioned are side-scrollers I would imagine
that Phil's toolkit could create them, or at least something close to
it.There are certain aspects you might have to script though.
For example, In Double Dragon the way you typically got weapons is by
taking it away
Go to http://www.blindadrenaline.com
.
Click on enter the card room.
Click on instructions
Click on downloads
They'll be a link to download a utility to install DirectX and .net
framework.
Best regards,
Hayden
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Hi Phil,
That is a pretty disheartening state of affairs if you put all that time
and money into marketing and get such a lukewarm response for your
troubles. It would be interesting to know how well James North did with
his booths, or if he had the same problem you did.
Phil Vlasak wrote:
H
Hi Dark,
Lol! I've got to admit that is pretty hard to beat that one. I can't
even think of anything to top that message. Though it did give me lots
of laughs.
dark wrote:
Ah tom, you seem so smug!
Firstly you should know, that as long standing beta tester for
entombed my base is locat
What Utility? I updated the racing game and all. I got something to
do with Token errors.
Beats me. I know I had them working on Vista 32 bit, but I'm not
running that any more. Went out and bought all new equipment and put
all the others in the closet, new Mac, Mac book pro and Core I 7 C
Hi Dark,
Well, I guess the main reason would be that there are a number of blind
conferences of one kind or another throughout the year like ACB, NFB,
Closing the Gap, etc so there are plenty of them, but it just so happens
they are in places too far for me to travel to very easily. There are
Did you run the utility on his site?
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Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:18 PM
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Subject: [Audyssey] Chee Games.
I'm not having ny luck runing any of Chee gme
I'm not having ny luck runing any of Chee gmes on Windows 7 64 bit OS.
And I got all the latest Direct X and dot nets. Rail Racer and his
online card games will not run.
Are there any plans on updateing these games for the 64 Bit OS as 32
Bit are fading away.
I hope GMA games will work, wi
ok guys here is the temp link for the installer.
>sendspace.com file upload confirmation for shau...@xtra.co.nz
>
>You have successfully uploaded a file called nop31setup.exe (33 MB), to
>sendspace.
>
>Description: night of parasite innosetup installeer
>You can use the following link to retrie
Hi all, BrailleSoft.net is back in business and restored. And, we have
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Hi all.
Ok this is how its gona work.
I am putting the installer on sendspace.
thats only going to last for a couple weeks, however it should give people
some time to get it and for who ever wants to host it a chance to put it up
perminantly, due to my dropbox not always being online and the fac
Hi.
Ok, the installer works, everything works.
Note, in some languages where the program can not register a file you will get
the english error because of the language not being defind.
these are traditional chinese, japanese and swedish.
other than that though the installer is ready to go.
I wil
Okay, since I'm learning computer code all ready, mainly for website
development, I'm hoping someone can help me with a question.
What is the best program to stuy for creating accessible games?
Is there a template out there where the game engine is all ready there
either for scroller games, sho
Hi all.
ok due to the fact I decided to be real smart, and not include a main program
the stupid file has decided not to create a main shortcut.
Ok, so this may take some time, I'll tell you when I am actually done i
prommise.
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Hi.
subject says it all.
Thanks to mathias for shoving me the game I have made an installer with
innosetup 3.6 and isstool, after doodling round and hacking bits of the script
its ready.
Installer features.
Should run on any windows version from 95 to whatever.
2. should not have any images, al
Yeah, the thing with wf always is that the moment someone is ready to attack
you then yeah you're blown out the sky. It's a game that you have to be
constantly online for because there's a lot of for want of a better word egg
heads on there that will quite happily spend 24 hours playing the game
Hi,
I have an idea for a free star wars side sscroller with game creation toolkit,
also a very high quality nfl football game where you can pick your teams and
stuff complete with weather effects and stuff.
I'd also like to make a game where its the 26th century and you're an evil
tyrant whose
thats cool news, I however have never beaten the game.
hmph I'll look at both of these files, I may create another multilang
installer again with innosetup 3.6 if I know where I may host the file
perminantly.
>hey everyone!
>i'm just posting this message to inform you that Francis Wolf (the
>de
Hi Tom and Phil,
I also have wanted to create games for awhile now. I downloaded visual basic
express and found it very daunting. I also looked at Python and think that
would be easier but never got into llearning it. I got some game ideas too and
a game creation toolkit and sounds would go a l
Thomas et al,
The API. from Quentin, you mentioned sounds extremely interesting.
And PM says it might be at audiogames.net.
I'll go look for it.
Thanks guys,
John
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is the game available?
On 2 Dec 2009, at 21:57, John Bannick wrote:
Game Developers,
Here's an interesting academic paper about a blind-accessible mobile
phone game.
The interesting thing about it is the way the three Brazilians used
Semiotics, the study of communication, signs, and symb
How You can make a difference
Over the next several weeks you personally can make computer games more
accessible.
1. Buy accessible games as gifts (Not necessarily ours, but anyones')
2. Suggest to friends and family that accessible games make good gifts
3. And, most importantly, suggest to ev
Game Developers,
Here's an interesting academic paper about a blind-accessible mobile
phone game.
The interesting thing about it is the way the three Brazilians used
Semiotics, the study of communication, signs, and symbols, to define
their user interface.
They defined the "messages" they
I admit I'm a litle jaded on the work subject, sinse I've seen too many
cases of blind people who have nothing but a high education, no social
abilities, and just endlessly apply for jobs to be given excuses.
Sinse employers cannot legally say "we're worried about employing a visually
impared
thomas,
he made yet another version where he interfaced with eti eloquence through
the priopriatary drivers that gw, fs and dolphin install with their readers.
this can be observed in teh latest magic blocks release which, as far as I
know also has sourcecode. the links can be located at audiog
Hi Philip and all.
I think this is an outstanding idea. I will be really interested to see
what you come up with. I've had several game ideas over the years that I
would not mind trying to implement, but quite frankly I am not willing to
put the time and effort into learning a programming langua
Hi Nicol and all.
The reason that we don't give cpu specs for pipe 2 or any of our other games
is that these games are not real resource hogs, any semi-decent system will
run them. I've run all of the bsc games on a pentium II system with 256
megs of ram and a 350MHZ processor and they run fine p
Hello,
The belief of some the blindness orgs seems to be that the only way to
make blindness respectable is if blind people are seen as always
working. This ignores social connections and the fact that if one is
able to relax better, one can work better.
I remember my first job in a mid-size
Hi Tom.
Well on a financial or charitable footing I can understand that a litle.
I myself have an equipment grant to pay for university gear to help me in my
studdies. It would however be just plane wrong of me to use it to further my
entertainment desires.
So, when the grant was used to apa
I just wanted to inform you Thomas about that your server does not have it so
good and it is slow!
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Yeah because of course blind people aren't allowed to enjoy themselves are
they lol.
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Behalf Of Phil Vlasak
Sent: 02 December 2009 19:19
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Promotion
Yeah I don't really get that myself if I'm honest. I consider that to be
quite a limiting mentality myself.
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Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: 02 December 2009 18:49
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Subject: R
Hi Thomas,
That is the comment we got at the blind conventions.
Computers are for Jobs and not for Play!
They told us that they preferred to read a book or listen to the radio if
they wanted entertainment.
It is like someone asked them to try eating some frozen cow's milk mixed
with vegetable se
Hi John,
Fair enough. I just thought I'd toss that idea out there to see what you
thought about it. SWT might be more accessible in the long run, but
going back and redoing your games to switch over to it isn't exactly
ideal as you yourself pointed out.
There is however perhaps a simpler and
Hi Darren,
That's all too true. I have talked to some agencies locally about
perhaps promoting my games and they basically said no for that exact
reason. A lot of these local dealers who sell computers with Jaws,
Openbook, etc to BSVI have no interest in promoting my games, because
they only
That would indeed be a good idea, especially if we could contrive some
kind of promotional cd with various game trailers on./
in general a sort of intro to audio games promo cd would probably help,
sinse such a cd could be sent with information to various oraganizations,
schools etc,
Ok, thanks. I figured you wouldn't have played those games and sorry I
couldn't explain them better.
Thanks,
al
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Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] High level game creation tools
True Tom.
On that vane I can certainly see if action for blind people would run
another pole as they did last year, --0-- which would certainly help. For
other agencies in the Uk I'm not certain (the rnib ar a waste of space as
I've said0, but I'll have a think.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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Hi Mike,
While it is true side-scrollers had their origins in the early to mid
1980's that doesn't mean the format can't be used in modern styles and
genres of games. As Dark has so often pointed out many of the games of
the 90's were side-scrollers too, but were far more advanced,
challengi
G Tom!
that's aggrivating, --- but unfortunately it's not agrivating enough for me
to actually want to spend more money on a voice which does have an editable
dictionary.
i can understand your synth annoyence though, sinse during my experiment
with win vision I felt the same irritations
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Hi Dark,
I do see your point. Although, perhaps we could prepare some audio
trailers of different games to let people here some of the more complex
games being played in action. Just a few short clips of what they could
get into if they were to play this or that game.
dark wrote:
It is a min
Hi Dark,
Well, at this point I'm not sure how much actual advertising we need. I
think the big picture, as has been said before, is to get the word out
that good high quality games exist. By showing off game x and letting a
few blind people try them, perhaps let their friends and family see
th
Hi Dark,
Unfortunately, from what I can tell all of the Scansoft lexicon
dictionaries are binary data files that can't be edited with a text
editor the way the Cepstral voices can. That's too bad as I'd dearly
love to make a few lexicon changes in Daniel and Karen to say things the
American wa
Hi Nicol,
What a cool idea. Actually, i do think this community could use a really
good circus game rather than a mod. We really don't have anything like
circus Atari or any of the circus games that were around in the 80's
which is kind of sad. I always felt they were fun in a non-violent sort
great idea, philip. It is very good to see that you are interested on
enabling other people to develop their own workk, too.
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Para: "Gamers Discussion list"
Data: Quarta, 2 de Dezembro de 2009 17:03
Assunto: Re: [Audyssey] High level game creation too
Sounds good to me, but, suppose doesn't help that am a bit of a
developer/scripter already, but would definitely like to check something
like this out a bit since unfortunately have never really gotten around to
looking into things like DirectX and 3D sounds etc. myself too much.
Stay well
Ja
Hi Nicol,
Nicol wrote:
If super liam for instance were a third person game, you wouldn't have
heard liam's voice in the cut sceens, but an observer's voice instead.
For example, in the cut sceen of the lava lake, instead of liam saying:
"You want me to go through that to kill a stupid robot?"
I
Well, I've tried Ashes of angels and played for a bit, but things just
seemed far too repetative for my taste,
I loved the universe and the real time ships, but constant cargo hawling
just got to be dull, sinse i didn't fancy attacking other players.
Warring factions is something I kee
Cool. Who are you on there? I'm elrond and I love playing hearts.
Yeah I play games like ce ashes of angels from time to time I used to play
warring factions but I drop in and out of that I can go for months without
playing that game if I'm honest. But I do think that ce is going to be a
game tha
Hi. Sapi support would be better than jaws support, as most windows
gamers have sapi, but not everyone has jaws.
dark wrote:
Hi John.
I'll have a think about changes. I'm sorry if I was over abrupt about the
voice thing, it's just something which for me personally has always
made me
a litle s
That's great, go on Francis, go on. Night parasite is the best free game
i have ever played.
matheus napsal(a):
hey everyone!
i'm just posting this message to inform you that Francis Wolf (the
developer of the night of parasite game) as just released the version
3.1, translated to english, with
Hi. For the most part if your computer runs Windows fine, then it will
run the games fine. I can play these games on a netbook and they are not
meant as high gaming machines.
On 12/2/2009 4:06 AM, Nicol Oosthuizen wrote:
HI all
Which kind of CPU do you guys recommend will work the best for sar
That would be good from my end.
Tim
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Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 9:15 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] High level game creation tools
Hi all,
I am, as most of you probably already know, working on a scriptable ga
the short answer Darren is no, there are no visual lables on the
systems at all, sinse mission information can be found easily from the top
dropdown menue and for a sighted player the galaxy map can provide a quick
overview of what is where.
A jump drive will directly fly your ship to sys
Hi John.
I'll have a think about changes. I'm sorry if I was over abrupt about the
voice thing, it's just something which for me personally has always made me
a litle sad about your games.
I look at the design of the games, the audio work that goes into them and
the features you add and am impre
I agree Darren, that is my preference too, I've never had any real interest
in scores or competition (one reason why the overwhelming majority of pvp
focused online games get up my nose so much).
From years of console gaming though, i also very much enjoy and appreciate
exploration based on c
a bad thing indeed.
As a side note, the actual serious work I'm doing on my deffinition of
disability in my thesis is based very much on the quali8ty of a person's
life and how much effort it takes for them to fulfill their desires.
Playing games on this model is just as worthy of access for
Wow Jim! that's truly impressive archiving ability indeed!
I knew about the public archives on the audeasy sight, but not how much
you were able to save.
Out of idle curiosity, how much space does 19 years of E-mail archiving
give or take the odd loss use?
Beware the grue!
Dark.
i don't know, because i haven't plaied this new version yet. but
probably they are. the developer only told me that there's this new
chapter 4 translated.
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Data: Quarta, 2 de Dezembro de 2009 12:20
Assunto: Re: [Audysse
Hello,
Are the first three chapters the same?
Best.
Milos Przic
msn: milos.pr...@gmail.com
skype: Milosh-hs
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To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:17 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] new chapter added to the game night of parasite
hey eve
I was going to put this out to the main forums there but I really wasn't
sure about this. Maybe Dark knows a little more before anything is said so
can shed a little more light on it. Basically when travelling around, are
there certain visual tags on the buttons of the systems that tell you eithe
Dark,
I agree entirely.
The Kevin voice is free, but sounds a bit like Robbie the Robot.
Hopefully my gang here will give me the time to add a true SAPI
interface this summer.
It will require going in and modifying the FREE-TTS sourcecode.
But I have the technical chops to do it. Just takes a
Yeah I love exploration type games. I'm not the type of gamer that likes
things to be over in 2 minutes. I like to be able to put a game down, then
come back to it later. Also I like a persistent game as well not one that
resets all the time. So games like core exiles are really the thing for me.
Thomas,
You're correct; SWT is an excellent clone of Java Swing.
I've done some SWT and coded Swing for 10 years.
However, no way are we going to convert our code base from Swing to SWT.
You're right to suspect that it would take too much time and expense.
Nor are we likely to go to a two-API co
Hi thomas,
Absolutely true. Also the thing with these types of conventions, is that the
focus is totally on work and professional uses of the computer. They don't
seem to hold the attitude that blind people would want to play games and
that's from within our own community! Indeed I've even herd of
Hi Dark,
I have archived every Email that was ever written to me or by me since I first
got on a BBS back in 1990. However I did lose some Audyssey archives not too
long ago when one of my TeraByte drives died. But what I posted about who,
which months, came from a regular Email archive. So
hey everyone!
i'm just posting this message to inform you that Francis Wolf (the
developer of the night of parasite game) as just released the version
3.1, translated to english, with a new chapter added.
i'll first send the link to dropbox,without the installer of the game,
because it seems to be
Hi Philip,
Not much of note to add yet, except to say that I've played all of the
games Al mentioned above and can't see any reason why they couldn't be
created with the setup you described. Just to reassure you.
hth
Scott
On 12/2/09, dark wrote:
> Hi Philip.
>
> I think giving people some sor
Well, obviously winter is my month, ;D.
I'm rather surprised you have archived of these Jim!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: "Jim Kitchen"
To: "dark"
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey babble report for November 2009
Hi Marc,
My Email program down loads all of my Email into one text file just like
NetTamer and other programs used to. So I then just have a program that goes
through that text file and copies all of the messages from the Audyssey list to
an archive text file. Then at the end of the month I
Hi Dark,
You know you posted more messages than Thomas once before.
Audyssey babble report for December 2008
110 people posted 1161 messages.
172 From, dark.
102 From, Thomas Ward.
94 From, shaun everiss.
68 From, Thomas Ward.
Now Shaun Everiss has twice posted more messages than Thomas.
HI all
Which kind of CPU do you guys recommend will work the best for sarah and
pipe2 blast chamber?
I couldn't see anything about the CPU recommended in the documentation.
Your advice is much appreciated.
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