Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, it IS possible to run th eeamon games with an emulator, but you have to do it through dos, maybe linux works as well but I odnt know about that. Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Mich, Unfortunately, that's usually not the case. Just because a word sounds right doesn't mean it is correct. The English language is filled with words that change spelling based on context and meaning. For example, none, as in nothing, and nun, a Cathlic woman who has devoted her life to God

Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread dark
cool Jacob, I didn't know there was an infocom hobbit (and I thought I had all the infocom games. I'll have to try that one myself. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jacob Kruger" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:38 AM Subject: Re: [A

Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread dark
I have a nasty feeling the only way to run it would be with a c64 emulator like vyce, unless someone ported it to windows or doss (and I don't recall hereing of such a port). the problem is that screen readers don't seem to be able to interact with text in emulators, so there isn't a way to re

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread dark
yep, english is a silly language. Why it can't be phonetically spelled like spanish or Italian I don't know. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Mich" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Game

Re: [Audyssey] question about Eamin addventure Game

2011-02-21 Thread dark
There is eamon delux which was an attempt to port eamon to windows (and the way I first played eamon myself). It's slightly tricky to run sinse some of the option screen require counting, and it only contains about half of the full archive of eamon adventures, (i've contacted the author but sadl

Re: [Audyssey] mvc 3 arcade mode playthrough

2011-02-21 Thread Scott Chesworth
Looks like I'm eventually going to get to try this title on Friday night. I'll be playing with someone who's a massive fan of this flavour of fighting, so will get my butt handed to me on a plate no doubt, but I'm looking forwar to it all the same. Don't think I've ever heard a fighter with quite a

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread dark
Hi Tom. I must admit that's another reason for my own spelling. My typing speed is something around 130 words per minute, in fact over christmas when I got an extremely bad case of the flue complete with a sore throat, I ended up not speaking at all and using Hal instead. Luckily, my typing

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread dark
well tom, remember that I have a particularly english way of speaking (people have accused me of sounding extremely posh), and thus don't pronounce the strong r in words like fausit the way most Americans, Irish, and indeed some English accents like west country do. In my accent (which is

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayden, Unfortunately, I've never completed Heist. One reason for that is the past three four years has mostly been spent behind a computer programming games rather than playing them. As a result any game like Heist that takes hours of puzzle solving really hasn't been high on my activities. Al

[Audyssey] mvc 3 arcade mode playthrough

2011-02-21 Thread Clement Chou
Only a partial playthrough... the last few matches before the boss. And that boss is a monster. I'm using a team of Dante, Chris Redfield and Wolverine. Enjoy... comments and the rest welcome as usual. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3394499/marvel%20vs.%20capcom%203%20partial%20arcade%20playthrough.mp3

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Hahaha! That sounds about right. Strangely though I think some girls sound cute with a bit of a New York accent for some reason. Then again, I love girls with accents. English, Australian, Southern, they all sound interesting to me provided the girl in question has a sexy voice to go w

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Lisa Hayes
I like that feature as well as you can do it with scrambled words like in the titanic game open passage is written backwards and you have to translate it to get by a point in the game. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "Phil Vlasak" To: "Gamer

Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread Jacob Kruger
See my other mail. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: "Lisa Hayes" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of

Re: [Audyssey] NetHack

2011-02-21 Thread Ken the Crazy
By the way, it won't describe the scene in words. It only tells you if certain things happen. It never says anything about the actual map. Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to experience massage! It's the Caring without the Staring! - Original

Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread Lisa Hayes
so where did youget it from? I'd love to know thanks. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "Arianna Sepulveda" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS All right, so I've

Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread Lisa Hayes
I'd also love this too please. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "Arianna Sepulveda" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:22 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS Hi all, I was wondering if anybody knew how

Re: [Audyssey] NetHack

2011-02-21 Thread Ken the Crazy
That's right. The text is displayed at the bottom of the screen, about four lines of it at a time. Longer texts appear in a window of their own which can be read with the pc cursor. Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to experience massage! It's the

Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound?

2011-02-21 Thread Ken the Crazy
Heli is a toy helicopter flight sim game. It's a community project. By the way, if someone could port that to vb.net I'd be most grateful. As it is, I can't find any simple games written in vb.net, so I can't even really begin to get a handle on it. Plus, there's vb.net 4, and I don't know

Re: [Audyssey] Adventure games for the PAC Mate Omni

2011-02-21 Thread Ken the Crazy
Pocket Tads works well on Pac Mate, but you have to set the font size to a specific number or you get double spaces between words--they have to be at 12 or something like that, can't remember. Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to experience massage!

Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread Jacob Kruger
Here's a download link for the infocom version of it that works well enough in winfrotz: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13327195/hobbit.z5 Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: "Arianna Sepulveda" T

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Charles Rivard
Me, too. I would find it a slight problem if I told a game to say hello to, hmm, let's see, is it Haydon?, Hayden?, or someone else. Sheesh. Then again, it could be Presly, Preslee, Presley or Prezly? One of them's bound to be right, and it is important. (grin) --- Laughter is the best me

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Charles Rivard
I never could figure out why people from parts of New York always eliminate an r from words that contain them, but insert an r where one doesn't belong. For instance, my sister's last name is Earle. They will pronounce it oil. Yet, they will also tell you about changing the Earle in their cah,

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Charles Rivard
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Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread Arianna Sepulveda
All right, so I've found a zip archive containing the games. Unfortunately, they are in the .tap format, and I don't know how to get Windows or Linux to handle this. Of course, I'm Googling like crazy, but I haven't found anything as of yet. aAny suggestions? Thanks, Ari On 2/21/11, Arianna Sepu

Re: [Audyssey] marvel superheroes vsstreetfighter-wasRe:marvelvs.capcom 3 menus and character screen!

2011-02-21 Thread Clement Chou
I'm pretty sure it's modded.. downloading games like that wouldn't be very legal from the way I see it. At 09:31 AM 21/02/2011, you wrote: Hm, didn't think so, I never got it modded- however, I did have to spend alot of time getting the softwares up to date after I bought the machine. "No one

[Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS

2011-02-21 Thread Arianna Sepulveda
Hi all, I was wondering if anybody knew how I could get my hands on the old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit? It ran on the C64 on a cassette tape or floppy disk (not sure if that was a 5 In. or a 3.5 In.), but if anyone knows where I could get this, it would be awesome! Also, how the heck would

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Lisa, His other titles, in order, are: Time: All Things Come To An End Heist And Enemies. By the way, Thomas, have you ever played and beaten Heist? If so, I'm stuck at the stopwatch maze puzzle in the volt and am completely unsure as to how to continue. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Mes

Re: [Audyssey] Adventure games for the PAC Mate Omni

2011-02-21 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, No--at least none written just for it, per say. However, you might want to check around and see if there's a version of Frotz that works on Windows Mobile 6. If so, feel free to throw it my way. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, Trust me--there are quite a number of people who'd gladly agree with you. I for one do not. I try and be quite meticulous as far as spelling goes. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Mich Sent: Mo

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Mich
Hi to dark. Dark said "I tend to spell everything phonetically and because I don't tend to mind as long as it sounds right" to witch I say I do the same thing!!! and think the same as you do regarding if it sounds Wright then it must be. I am happy that there is another blind person who does th

[Audyssey] question about Eamin addventure Game

2011-02-21 Thread Mich
Hi all. all this talk about adventure games got me thinking. Has any one ever made a game of Eamin for the windows platform? since I know that a few years ago Draconis Entertainment was thinking of doing one but I am not sure if that ever got off the ground? I used to love playing that game on t

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Darren Duff
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Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Darren, Well, admitedly mine isn't the best either. I often make typos, come back and proofread what I wrote and kick myself for making such a mistake. For example, the other day I wrote faucet like fosset, and later when I saw my own e-mail I realised I sent it out spelled wrong. I knew fauce

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Ahem, I do understand, but that's not even close to how faucet is spelled. It is f a u c e t. There isn't even an r in the word so I'm not sure where you are getting the for sound when it is foss not for. Is this an accent thing that confuses you? The reason I ask is because down south,

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Thomas, As my spelling is bad too, I like the feature, of a text game or screen reader to be able to review the screen and copy a word to the clipboard. Then allowing you to paste that word in the edit box. So if you see a Great greaxlaxc you can copy it's name and say, Hi greaxlaxc! -

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread dark
Hi tom. i do know my spelling is rather haphazard, but mostly because I tend to spell everything phonetically and because I don't tend to mind as long as it sounds right (forsit isn't really a commonly used word overhere anyway). generally though when I'm playing if I tend to be extra careful

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Darren Duff
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Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yeah, I know. Although, it would help if you spell the item correctly. I'm not trying to pick on you, but I couldn't help but see you spelled faucet forset. That would definitely be a cause for a game not to respond if you spell things incorrectly like that. This isn't the first time I've

Re: [Audyssey] Anyone out there playing Soul Blade?

2011-02-21 Thread Tom Randall
Hey Michael, yes I have tekken 3 which I originally bought for my ps2 which I can actually still play on my ps3 because I intentionally bought one of the backward compatible ones. This is a good thing as I gave my ps2 to a friend for Christmas, he wants to learn what games we can play as he used t

Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game

2011-02-21 Thread Shiny protector
Cool. I never tried a text adventure on my laptop. - Original Message - From: "Raul A. Gallegos" To: Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game yes it is. I use the Adrift game system for it. On 2/21/2011 1:58 PM, Shi

Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound?

2011-02-21 Thread Shiny protector
What's the name of your headphone, and is it surround sound? - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound? Hi Muhammed, I honestly don't know, but there are a lot of sound cards

Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound?

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Muhammed, I honestly don't know, but there are a lot of sound cards that have 5.1 surround sound support. However, the high-end sound cards like the Soundblaster X-Fi and Sound Blaster Audegy IV have three speaker outputs instead of one. The reason is if you go out and buy a 5.1 surround sound

Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound?

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Tomb Hunter 2 doesn't officially exist yet. I haven't even started creating it. What I was telling Muhammed is basic concepts I'm planning for Tomb Hunter 2. I apologise if I made it sound like a done deal, but it is not even started production yet. I litterally haven't finished Tomb Hunter 1

Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game

2011-02-21 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
yes it is. I use the Adrift game system for it. On 2/21/2011 1:58 PM, Shiny protector wrote: Isn't it a text adventure? - Original Message - From: "Raul A. Gallegos" To: Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game You a

Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game

2011-02-21 Thread Shiny protector
Isn't it a text adventure? - Original Message - From: "Raul A. Gallegos" To: Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game You are a guy who has to get various tasks done before your wedding can take place. The reason is

Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Raul, Interesting. You know, I do have a couple of suggestions for the adult version of the game as well. I always thought it was sort of odd you pretty much get a chance to make out with all the good looking laidies in town, but there is nno way to finish off the game with the bride to be, Sam

Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game

2011-02-21 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
You are a guy who has to get various tasks done before your wedding can take place. The reason is because it was originally supposed to be held in the nearby large city, but due to things changing, it needs to be moved to your own small town. Things include ordering the wedding cake, setting up

Re: [Audyssey] marvel superheroes vsstreetfighter-wasRe:marvelvs.capcom 3 menus and character screen!

2011-02-21 Thread Johnny Tai
Hm, didn't think so, I never got it modded- however, I did have to spend alot of time getting the softwares up to date after I bought the machine. "No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't." Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling- call or

Re: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game

2011-02-21 Thread Shiny protector
What's the game about? - Original Message - From: "Raul A. Gallegos" To: Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 2:50 PM Subject: [Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game Hi all. I've had a few requests to see if I would be willing to release a non-adult version of my wedding

Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound?

2011-02-21 Thread Shiny protector
Ken's game. - Original Message - From: "Ben" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound? What is heli? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of S

[Audyssey] Adventure games for the PAC Mate Omni

2011-02-21 Thread Rayette
Are there any text adventure games for the PAC Mate Omni? --- 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_audyss

Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound?

2011-02-21 Thread Ben
What is heli? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Shiny protector Sent: 21 February 2011 12:26 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound? Hi Tom, Ok. Another question. Does the Real Tech HD support

[Audyssey] La mort's all entombed recordings

2011-02-21 Thread burakyuksek
Hi, I want La Mort's all entombed recordings. Can you send it? saygılar sevgiler. --- 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/mailma

Re: [Audyssey] marvel superheroes vs streetfighter-wasRe:marvelvs.capcom 3 menus and character screen!

2011-02-21 Thread Clement Chou
Your PSP definitely has to be modded. lol. That's the only way to download games that aren't released on the psn stores. At 12:23 AM 21/02/2011, you wrote: I'm assuming your psp has to be modded for this to work. Or again. Maybe not. Am not sure as I haven't tried that. -Original Message-

[Audyssey] news about a new version of my wedding game

2011-02-21 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi all. I've had a few requests to see if I would be willing to release a non-adult version of my wedding game. Since I've gotten enough requests for this, I've decided to do that. So I've begun work on it and should have something out within a few months, time permitting. The concept of the ga

Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound?

2011-02-21 Thread Shiny protector
Its not released yet, but that's only what I know. - Original Message - From: "burakyuksek" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:48 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound? Hi Thomas and all, Where is toomb hunter 2? saygilar sevgiler. - Original Mess

Re: [Audyssey] Surround sound?

2011-02-21 Thread Shiny protector
Hi Tom, Ok. Another question. Does the Real Tech HD support surround sound because I want to get the logitech g 35 Surround Sound headphone for games like TDV and Heli. Thanks. I'm currently running win xp so was just wondering. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Di

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread Shiny protector
Or. x torch, l, g a, and those stuff. - Original Message - From: "Trouble" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games Try get water and when examining things its look. So would go like this, take cup, get wa

Re: [Audyssey] marvel superheroes vs streetfighter-wasRe:marvelvs.capcom 3 menus and character screen!

2011-02-21 Thread Liam Erven
I'm assuming your psp has to be modded for this to work. Or again. Maybe not. Am not sure as I haven't tried that. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Tai Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 11:09 PM To: Gamers Discuss

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Adventure Games

2011-02-21 Thread dark
Hi tom. That is true, though generally as Americans write a lot of if I do tend to use American words for things reasonably often, I did try put cup under forset, but got "I don't know the word put" then tried fill cup and got "there is nothing to fill it with" While I agree on using di