This post implies that blind people are lazy and not looking. I recently put
up my resume at every spa, beauty salon, doctor's office, and so on that was
in the area. I even went to a few salons. One hair stylist actually had
heard of me, and said she heard I was the best massage therapist aroun
Well, here's the simple truth. If you pay for a game, whether sighted or
blind, you *are* entitled to complain if that game does not work the way
it's advertised to, or if it crashes, and so on. This is not a blindness
issue. Now if someone has the audacity to complain about a free game, that's
this is why i wish i could develope games. ahaha. cause in australia,
this doesn't happen. on the blind pension we have here, its totally
non means tested. yes, i'd still have to pay tax on any money i made
from game sales, but my government income would not be effected in any
way, shape, or form.
hi, exactly. and to the person, i forget who now, said about security
programs and such doing so, yes, but generally its not locked down to
a particular machine, based on the hardware thats in that machine!
and generally, such hardware registration systems can be
deregistered from one machine,
Thanks Dark and beware the grew, grin love that tag.
Lisa Hayes
www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes
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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] treasuremania1
Hi lisa.
the manual can be found in t
Hi Jim,
Oh, I hear you there. That's definitely one of the hassles with
developing games for the blind. Even those of us who do make and sell
games there isn't a lot of money to make off of it. If the person
happens to be living on public assistance such as food stamps, SSI,
etc anything he or she
I'm in the same boat. I know that even if I could manage to get a job I
would lose my benefits right away, not in the reasonable time frame they
advertise when they try to get you to apply. And Joke Rehab as I like to
call it is remarkably blasé about it.
But thou must!
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Bryan,
I don't want to get too far afield, but a store refusing to help you shop is
in direct violation of the ADA. I'm not saying that a lawsuit is the best or
even a good option, but I can understand their anger.
As for games, the sighted public has just as much of an entitlement complex.
We just
Tom,
I agree with 95% of your post below. Developing games isn't a walk in the
park, financial or otherwise. But there is one comment you made that I want
to underscore.
"Developing high quality games costs lots of money. Far more money than the
average blind American collects from SSI checks each
And there's always a chance that you could then get into trouble for using
Homer Simpson sounds in your games. And as someone who recently had to pawn
all his Simpsons DVD's due to his x's frightening financial irresponsibility
and wasn't able to pay to recover them, these games are the only thi
It's a real shame when you cannot afford to try to better yourself.
Although the government claims to want you to get a job and work, you find
that you are worse off if you do, thanks to the elimination of necessary
benefits such as health care, food stamps and so on.
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Hi Thomas,
You know I love writing games. Maybe it would have been nice to be able to
make some money at it. But even early on I heard that there was not much money
to make. But one major reason that I have never taken any money for any of my
games is because I can not afford to. You know
She only has one. She just got the game today and, I was teaching her
some stuff about the game.
Curt Taubert
skype: curt_taubert
twitter: curt78Curt Taubert
On 4/23/2013 6:00 PM, Desiree Oudinot wrote:
Hi,
Does she have a lot of other tracks installed as well? there's a limit
on how many you
Hi there,
If I remember aright, the game is called Spoor Sim? I have it installed,
but I do not have the set-up file. If I did I could send it over right now.
Best wishes,
-Alfredo
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Thank you very much for your answer Thomas. I had that on my xp laptop.
Unfortunately, I've lost many setup files and other stuff. That game had
very nice sounds, but my laptop died during the days I was trying to
discover how that game was played. Anyway. Let's hope someone has the setup.
:)
Thank
Hi Eleni,
As far as I know there was only one audio game project dealing with
trains, but it was poorly written in AutoIt and I don't think the
project is available any more for download. I can't exactly remember
the name of the game, but I'm sure if someone has it they can Dropbox
it to you.
Che
Hi,
Does she have a lot of other tracks installed as well? there's a limit
on how many you can have. I believe it's 50. I never liked that limit.
I always felt that it could have been raised to at least a hundred.
there are a lot of great cars and tracks that I've wanted to try, but
never have beca
Hi. I'd like to know if there are any games concerning trains. There used to
be a train simulation game in the past which I would really appreciate if
someone could remind me of its name, or maybe give me its link, if it can be
played in Windows 7 64. Of course, any other accessible game suggestion
Well, Thomas.
Jim Kitchen has some real good free audio games.
I don't mean to say that all should give us free games.
I should have cleared that up.
However yes I agree that we all need better attitudes about this whole thing.
I apologize for any miss understanding.
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Hi, no, the bandwidth is the limits of the web hosting company I use for
my domain. I haven't used dialup in well over 7 years, and even then it
was because the wireless in the hotel I was staying at was so slow that
I could have gotten out and pushed for faster results. In any case,
dropbox wo
Hi Raul, could you maybe explain bandwith to me, is it because your
connection is dile-up that it keeps timing out? Wouldn't it work better if
you put the files on dropbox? Just wanted to know :). from Lori.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10
Hi, none taken. I'll have them up just as soon as I can. I'm looking at
getting unlimited bandwidth for asmodean.net right now.
Take care.
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Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47
On 4/23/2013 4:37 PM, loriduncan wrote:
Aw
Awww, I was so looking forward to listening to Rawl play pipe2 insane. I
actually love all of the recordings, but some of the pipe ones have me in
fits, like the one where he keeps losing, sorry Raul, no offence, but it
made me smile. From Lori.
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there is two programs that juston had on his site and i have them both one
is talking clock and the other one is day by day both are great programs.
your friend lee
In a message dated 4/23/2013 2:38:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
c...@samobile.net writes:
Yes, I agree that a developer
Hi, it's on purpose. That server is on limited bandwidth and since I put
the games back up over the weekend, it chewed through my bandwidth very
quickly. So, they are there, and available, but not for you or anyone
else just now. ?When my bandwidth resets I'll make them available again.
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Not to mention Aprone's games. I know he's put in a lot of work on those.
The great amount of negativity regarding the BSC games and dice project
nearly made me unsub from the list so I appreciate your messages on the
topic.
Christina
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Hi Clement,
That is a valid point, but at the same time the issue here is that
audio game developers are attempting to sell to a specialized market
and piracy hurts them more than it does a company like Microsoft,
Activision, EA Games, whatever. There are all kinds of costs in
producing an audio g
No problem , Brother.
I do my best. I am certainly not perfect, but I try to help anyone if I can.
When I started making TB maps, I had absolutely no idea where to get sounds
from and how to edit them, and this list helped, so it is a little pay back to
the list I guess as well, grin.
Email me
Definitely agree with all the points. But at the same time, I don't think
it's just blind customers either. Sighted gamers or computer users are
liable to pirate anything they think is to expensive because they are on
fixed incomes or because they don't think something is worth the value that
t
Quite frankly this entitlement view is why I don't have much respect for
many blind folks in general, and it's not ust to do with games. I get so mad
when I hear people talk about ow they won't participate in an activity
unless there's a discount because of blindness. THese are often the same
p
Hi Michael,
Yes, exactly. Plus I think something people often overlook is a free
game should be considered a gift not an obligation. When Philip
Bennefall created Kryngal Crash he could have charged $10 for that
game and I would have gladly paid for it,but he gave that game away
for free. I equall
Hi all,
OK, over the last two or three days I think we all have said all there
is to be said about Justin closing Blindsoftware.com and in some cases
I feel some of the comments were crossing the line. Weather you agree
or disagree with what Justin is doing, weather you think he is being
selfish o
Hello Allan
Thank you so much that is a lot of links it will take me days to go
through tham all smiles, and I all ready have utorrent.
p. s.
The truth has already set me free. I love how you put that on every post you
send.
bfn
James
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Hi Dark and all,
not only that, but studies show that the hardware ID key systems
haven't done anything to prevent or slow down piracy. Microsoft found
this out the hard way in 2007 when they released Windows Vista with a
new hardware key system, and within two weeks or so there were cracks
all ov
Lets be clear about things here folks. I think there's danger of a
mix-up here. A developer who creates free games is being generous.
We're not entitled to them. They're gifts to the community. The real
issue currently under scrutiny is whether it's fare of developers to
simply remove their games f
Hi Thomas,
I totally agree here. As a hobbiest game developer I know exactly what
you're talking about. And that is one of the prime reasons I have not
created any audio games lately, that being the money aspect. I haven't been
able to work as much as I would like during my college classes, etc
Thanks Tom. I must've missed that bit of news last year... I've been so busy
a lot of audio game news has just gone right under my radar. lol
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] super deeko
Hi. I have the setup, and I can put it to dropbox and send it, if I have the
permission, of course.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Clement Chou
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:25 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] super dee
Hi Clement,
Sure. Just go to Daniel Zingaro's site
http://www.danielzingaro.com
and download the setup. That's where he put them when he put up his
new site last year.
Cheers!
On 4/23/13, Clement Chou wrote:
> Does anyone still have this game? I wanted to play it a while ago... but
> since my c
My girl friend has this game on her windows xp and, is having problems
with her track that I helped her make but, it is not showing up with in
the game. She has it saved under c:\program
files\playinginthedark\topspeed3\track.
She also has her wave file in the same location. I even had her dro
Hi Michael and all,
To be honest it is comments like yours that makes good honest working
developers think twice about developing products and services for the
blind. Saying that Justin or anyone else should develop a few good
games for free is beyond unrealistic. Its obvious you have no
understa
hi,
seems that raul's recordings are down
I get an ftp error when trying to visit
http://asmodean.net/games
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Does anyone still have this game? I wanted to play it a while ago... but since
my computer crashed I haven't been able to find it again, as I never backed up
the setup file. Is it still floating around somewhere?
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It is a small file from what I hear. As I understand it you just run it and
it brings up a list of all the available BSC products. You just select the
one you want to register, tab over to the Product ID field and paste the
product ID of the program you want into the box and then hit Generate. I
Hi: I just made the purchase too and have never used a key generator before
that I know of lol. Is it a rather small file as when I downloaded it it
seemed to take well less than a second. Also I have a game and the day by
day pro software presently. Will I have to reinstall them so they stay
w
Hi,
I recommend Gold wave, but to be fair it is the only one I have used so I am
biased. It is pretty easy though to do some of the cooler things.
Below is a list of sites that I use for making tactical battles map pack sounds.
Most have free sounds.
The Recordist:
http://www.therecordist.com/f
Hi, if you are referring to BSC games and free games, they did in fact
have a couple of free games out there. So, I fail to see the point of
your message.
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Last night I had a crazy dream that I weighed less than a thousandth of
a gram. I was like, 0mg! - Sheldon Cooper
Twit
Yes, I agree that a developer does not have to make his or her game free.
All I was saying was with the way some of these developers do it would
be nice of them to give out a free game or two to show that they want
purchasers for their products.
Myself If a game has a good storyline to it, and h
No. give it 2 more days.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of michael
barnes
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 2:29 PM
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The Nightjar question.
Hey, Darren.
Have you gotten the game yet from the U.S. a
Hi, I don't think he's in it for the profits. But one will believe what
one thinks is right of course. No matter how much this horse is beat to
death, no one will come to a complete agreement for that is the nature
of man. Oh, and to be politically correct, of woman too.
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I'
Hey, Darren.
Have you gotten the game yet from the U.S. app store?
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Hmm, can anyone guess which topic will claim the number 1 position when
Jim sends out the Gamers report for April 2013? I won't be making any
bets for sure.
Anyway, for whatever it's worth, I just placed my order for the BSC
titles, ahem, code generator. I wouldn't want to give the impression
Hello
I'll look in to those, and do just that.
Thank you for your help.
James
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hI there
Very well put, but people will do that anyway no matter the price.
The only thing that stinks is that I don't get all that much a month and all
my money gos to rent and my wife olny works a parttime job right now, and we
have 2 kids to wary about to. So I don't think that I'll be
You can generally just google sound editing software. I
personally use soundforge, but I have heard good reviews of
goldwave, wavepad and audacity. As far as sounds go, just google
download free sounds.
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Hello
Thank you for telling us that info. That realy does stink, but I
know that the other developers will do great like they have been, and there
are still up coming developers to that can learn from this, and make there
owne mark in the gaming world.
Bfn
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If I think a game's worth paying for I'll pay for it. And if I don't have
the money right at first I'll save up and pay for it later.
But thou must!
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From: Charles Rivard
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:03 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] An An
The point is that you should not demand that games be free. That is a
selfish and childish demand.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] An Announc
Hello there
Thank you very much for sharing that. It was a great read and it
opened my eyes no pun intended that when I start to make games that it's
more then blindness that I need to keep in mind, and how much I give windows
a hard time that there the ones that wrote the article and that
Ah, good to know regarding itunes.
As to justin's choices and motivations, I've explained my reasons for
believing as I do, and do bare in mind I don't go throwing around words like
"self centered" on a whim.
Actually, it is not for myself or justin doing what "I" want that is the
issue. For
Hi Karl.
Fair enough, this was obviously something I missed, and is something I'll
considder when i start investigating Itunes, thanks for letting me know.
all the best,
Dark.
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Yeah. I play ITunes files In WinAmp a lot.
But thou must!
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:51 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] More on hardware keys was: Re:
AnAnnouncementRegarding BSC Games
Dark,
You haven't needed the iT
What a fascinating can of worms Justin's decision has opened for us.
Like many of you, I personally dislike when companies whose software
has run its commercial cycle remove it from the world rather than make
it freely available. It does leave a bad taste in the mouth. However,
I too have experienc
Hi Dark,
That hasn't been the case with iTunes tracks in over six years. You can do
whatever you want with them. Anything that plays MP4/AAC format can play them,
and they can be easily converted to any other format you want, including
directly in iTunes. It must've been a very, very long time
Dark,
You haven't needed the iTunes program for a number of years now. I know for a
fact that iTunes files can be played in Windows Media Player, edited in
Goldwave, and I almost completely sure they'll play in Winamp. Keep in mind
though that this is for music and podcasts only, movies and tv s
Great news.
Glad developement is still progressing and I look forward to trying the new
version of change reaction.
all the best,
Dark.
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To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 2:19 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] News from Draconis E
Hi.
Last I checked if you downloaded a track in itunes, you couldn't use it
without the itunes program at the least, if this has changed I would indeed
be interested to know, since it is the chief reason I do not buy or use
itunes since I want the freedom to listen to any music or books I buy
Hi lisa.
the manual can be found in the program group on the menue as normal, or by
going into the program folder and finding the readme text file. If I
remember rightly, to use a turbo you use ctrl with up and down arrow when
using your hook, though it has been a while since I played the game
Hello all
I have some questions that I was hoping someone can answer
for me. They are a bit on and a bit off topic questions. See I'm trying to
make a sound pack for some games I have in mind, but first I need sound
files.
First it was like 2 or 3 years ago that a friend sho
Right now, the problem with consumer grade 3d printers is size. I
could get a setup for ... I think about $2500 to $3500 U.S. That would
include a 3d scanner. I could then take and modify another set of
generic dice with a 3d modeling program.
The trouble I see is two-fold.
The printers are going t
Just to sort of close this particular thread maybe and merge it with
the other, I'm considering the pros and cons of obtaining a 3d scanner
printer as opposed to having molds cast.
It's a tough call.
Signed:
Dakotah Rickard
On 4/22/13, dark wrote:
> Hi Decota.
>
> Well it's probably going to be
Greetings gamers,
We have a few notes to pass along.
The new Draconis Entertainment website has arrived at DracoEnt.com! We’ve
dramatically simplified the interface, making it much easier to use. We have
all new product pages for Mac and Windows, new scoreboards, and a Help Desk and
Knowledge
Dark,
Several points I want to make here.
Hardware locking of software, or effectively the same, is common in other areas
as well. SNES cartridges didn't work in Nintendo 64's, 64's cartridges didn't
work in GameCube, etc. If your console died, you either needed to get another
console that wor
HI all was wondering i am playing and loving treasuremania1 and wonder if
someone can remind me how to use the terbos nd how to access the manual lightt
tech interactive put this game out. Thanks.
Lisa Hayes
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If
Know one ever has to make there games free.
It's there choice and who knows, they may resurrect them or parts of
them some day.
I agree with Charles
On 4/23/2013 1:51 AM, Charles Rivard wrote:
Good quality games for free? I really doubt it, nor would I demand it
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Hi Jim.
it's a while since I played your battleship game, and it's possible that was
a previous version, but when i first played I do remember being stuck
because the game didn't say which was easiest or hardest, it just said a
difficulty 0 to 9, which was a little uncertain, particularly beca
Hi Dallas.
such limits are not actually just on audio games. Avg antivirus and pc
tuneup programs limit you to two machines, and supernova limits you to three
(though with supernova you get an extra license each month).
the issue however, is that as Tom said, neither AVg nor Dolphin are likel
No more then you do. Just keep checking every now and then.
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barnes
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 1:25 AM
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Subject: [Audyssey] The Nightjar question.
Hello.
I remember about tw
Hi Michael.
i disagree about making free games. charging for a game is not! a put down,
since developers do need to perchice their sounds and music. What a company
like bavisoft would need would be good customer service, talking to their
customers, and obviously to have a good game to sell fre
I personally tend to prefer to go in a diagonal search pattern myself at the
beginning of the game, starting with b2, then c3, d4 etc, just so that I can
more clearly gather which space I've covered in the grid, though as gabriel
said once a ship is discovered, that does change.
Beware the Gru
Hi Tom.
I do agree on that score, and were justin to come back and start
developement i would give him the reasonable bennifit of the doubt, heck,
I've always found bsc very good with key replacements and the like in the
past, and if we! were to miss out on any future work he does, we'd! be th
Hi tom.
I agree in principle, the hardware keygen system hurts the legitimate
customers, and ultimately doesn't stop the pirates, just makes piracy
harder.
That being said, i do usually have confidence that if a games company closes
it's doors and packs up, they will offer something to poste
Thanks JIm will give this a go.
Lisa Hayes
www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes
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To: "Lisa Hayes"
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] JIm's battleship.
Hi Lisa,
Another strategy is an x pattern. That is go from upp
well it depends on the dev.
mr-y
and gma will just give you codes.
At 09:09 PM 4/23/2013, you wrote:
Hi Tom, Its not only that, but the simple fact is, hardware based
registration, is something I've only seen in this community! nowhere
else, have I seen game dev's, nor even just app dev's, screw
Hi Lisa,
Another strategy is an x pattern. That is go from upper left (a1) to lower
right (i9) and then from upper right (a9) to lower left (i1) Then maybe
straight down the center, and then straight across the center. Remember that
the smallest ship is 2 spaces, so you don't need to cover
Hi Dark,
Sorry, I thought that when the game says "Press the number for a difficulty factor
from 0 hardest to 9 easiest" that it would be understood that 9 easiest meant
easiest for you to win.
HTH
BFN
Jim
As easy as 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716 ( PI )
j...@kitchensinc.n
Hi Tom, Its not only that, but the simple fact is, hardware based
registration, is something I've only seen in this community! nowhere
else, have I seen game dev's, nor even just app dev's, screwing their
users over, by forcing them to buy a new version, simply for use on
another machine. that's ju
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