Hi Thomas,
Other than web based, I do not know of a single blind accessible game that puts
text on the screen that gets read automatically by all windows screen readers.
It has never worked that way. That is why we have always used recorded speech
and or sapi5.
BFN
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Hi Thomas,
A similar thing happened to me. Many years ago I quit smoking. Apparently my blood
pressure went through the roof. My aorta tried to explode. It came darn close to
doing so. I did get a life flight helicopter ride to Cleveland. And I now take
eleven blood pressure pills every
Hi Imbar,
Welcome to the Audyssey list. I hope that you might stop by my web site and
check out some of my games. They are all totally free. I have;
Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, coupling, Craps, Draw
Poker, Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, Life, Mach
Hi Thomas,
Yes, that is so sad about Miss Elisabeth. She was so beautiful. And all of
the other accidental deaths of the wrestling super stars. You know like Chris
BenWa.
There was also Bo Bo Brazil, Jimmy superfly Snooka and even The Big Show that
use the head butt.
TGIF and BFN
Hi Thomas,
Oh, I didn't know that your wrestling game was going to be a text game. You
know that I prefer games that speak automatically. Just get tired of using the
review cursor for everything. I also didn't know that you were so much into
having it be cross platform. You know because
Hi Thomas,
Besides Monday night RAW, Friday night Smack down and Thursday night TNA also
on Thursday night on WGN from Chicago it is WWE super stars. And Sunday Night
on Sports Time Ohio it is P W O. That is Professional Wrestling Ohio.
BFN
Jim
I think that I am going to move to
Hi Thomas,
Today if one is going to write an open source blind accessible game maybe it
should use the most popular easy to use available tool. I'm thinking that
would be BGT. You know personally I am into VB6, but that is not so easy to
find. I have not looked at BGT myself because I have
Hi Thomas,
Can't forget about Gorilla Monsoon and for some reason I am thinking that I
heard that the Junk Yard Dog passed away. It's not always about our age
though. There was Miss Elizabeth and I was watching the pay per view when Owen
Hart had his accident and died. I'm sure that there
Hi Thomas,
Yes besides the original T N A wrestlers a bunch from WWE, ECW and WCW are
there now. Hulk Hogan, Rick Flair, Nick Foley, Sting, Curt Angle, Kevin Nash,
RVD, Ken (Mister!) Anderson, Tommy Dreamer and Micky James etc.
You know they just came out with a new video game that has Hall
Hi Thomas,
Yes! GLOW was the best. Of course I had sight back then. But I was going to
ask you to include the T N A Knockout division. You know Madison, The
beautiful people, Taylor Wilds, O D B, Awesome Kong etc etc.
And I am training up to be the referee. grin
BFN
Jim
I saw a
Hi burakyuksek, Muhammed and Shane,
I'm sorry, but I can not share the program that creates the Audyssey thread and
babble reports. Well I could, but it wouldn't do you any good. The thing is,
I wrote the program specifically to create the reports from the Audyssey
archive file on my
Hi Thomas,
Yes, I thought that Mach 1 and you say Raceway are first person type games
because it is as if you are looking through the windshield of the race car.
And as I said, I believe that the Top Speed game is a third person type game.
At least to me the point of view is that of from
Hi Dakotah,
I have always liked the sound of a banjo.
Hope that your wife is not still mad at you for your great little April Fools
Day joke.
You'll have to let us know what she thinks of you getting pregnant next year.
grin
BFN
Jim
A low yield atomic bomb is like being a bit
Hi Thomas,
Don't know if this is actually a third person, but to me the point of view in
Mach 1 and Mach 1 tts is that of through the windshield and to me the point of
view in Top Speed is that of from above and behind your car just like in Pole
Position.
BFN
Jim
So what if I'm a bit
Hi Hayden,
If you don't believe that there were 40 messages about compiling help files, I
can send you the archive file and you can look for yourself. I do not write
the babble and thread reports, a program goes through the archive file and does
the counting and creates the reports.
BFN
Hi Ken,
Wow! I'm glad that was only a game. Maintenance would have a fit fixing up my
apartment. grin
BFN
Jim
Why did the bird cross the kitchen? Too eat, too eat!
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Hi,
Today only, you have won a free game.
To down load your free game, please visit the below web site.
http://www.kitchensinc.net
BFN
Jim
What is a free gift? Aren't all gifts free?
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Seamlessly upgrading
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27 From, Lori Duncan.
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21 From, Pitermach.
16 From, Darren Duff.
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15 From
Hi burakyuksek,
All of my games have always been totally free. So to win a free game is just
an April Fool's Day joke.
In case you have forgotten my April Fool's Day joke from last year, it went
like;
[Audyssey] A new file
Hi,
I have put a new file up on my web site.
File name WinNoah.ark
Hi Phil,
Darn you! now you have spoiled the surprise of the next free Kitchensinc free game.
grin
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Games we'd like to play.
Kitchen Sink.
Have you ever wanted to hear the real Kitchen sink?
Now you can with Jim Kitchen's sink game.
You get to turn his hot and cold
Hi Ken,
Cool! I no longer will have to do dishes! Because of your game every one is
going to be doing my dishes for me.
Oh wait, I do not do dishes now, because I have a counter top dish washer on
the counter next to my kitchen sink rather than a drain board.
Still though, A cool game idea.
Hi Thomas,
Right if you are playing a text adventure game with some text adventure tool
kit engine, but if you are writing a game yourself you can build in all of the
sapi5 speech review that one would need. Like spelling out names, places,
things etc etc like Qo'nos for example. It just
Hi Hayden,
Wow! that's pretty amazing that you got Scansoft Jill from one of my games since I
myself do not even have that voice. grin
I do have
ATT Crystal
ATT Audrey
ATT Charles
ATT Claire
ATT Anjali
ATT Lauren
ATT Mel
ATT Mike
ATT Ray
ATT Rich
Cepstral Emily
Cepstral Frank
Cepstral Linda
Hi Thomas,
Yes, my second game for Windows was Trucker. I put text on the screen and Jaws
would read it. Too bad that Window Eyes and other screen readers would not.
So then I started making games with recorded speech. That is allot of work and
not as flexible as using the sapi5 text to
Hi Thomas,
I'm just wondering if you know, when I paste a dropbox address into Internet
explorer and it is a .mp3 file it does not down load and save the file, but
instead it plays it in a plugin window. Just wondering if that is a JFW thing
or an Internet Explorer thing.
Thanks.
BFN
Hi Thomas,
Thanks, I will check Internet Explorer for the option to always down load
rather than play the mp3 files.
BFN
Jim
Ever wanted to download pizza?
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Hi Thomas,
As I said trucker was the second dos game that I converted to a Windows game.
At the time I was using VB4. I dropped a text box on the form and put text to
it. When I did, I highlighted the text and held it highlighted for half a
second. That was why Jaws saw and read it
Hi Trouble,
Yeah, on a web site etc I can right click on an mp3 file and down load it. But
when I paste a drop box link into Internet Explorer that is not an option.
BFN
Jim
A small object that is accidentally dropped will hide.
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Hi Valiant,
No, I do not have iTunes installed. But I just checked and do have the Quick
Time player from some where. Thanks for the information. I'm just not sure if
I want to uninstall the quick time player. Not sure if something might use it.
But again thanks for letting me know why
Hi Ken,
Thank you very much. Yeah in 1999 I was still doing dos. I still liked that
you could put text to the screen in dos and every single dos screen reader
would read it automatically. Do wish that we could do that in Windows. But we
can do so much more with sounds in Windows and we do
Hi Ken,
That's cool that the text adventure tool kits now also allow sounds. One
reason that I do not use a text adventure tool kit is that one would want to
have good creative writing skills when creating a text adventure game.
BFN
Jim
I wouldn't even write Email without a spell
Hi Ken,
ATT Crystal reads my Email to me in a continuous manner without me even
touching my keyboard. That is one Email after another until it reads them all. So
I read every Email in my Email box. Like while I'm eating breakfast, drinking
coffee or whatever. I can skip a message if I
Hi Thomas,
Firestar, thanks. Also with Thundar the Barbarian and Oocla the Mock, Princess
Aerial was pretty hot for a cartoon character.
BFN
Jim
I can't believe my computer's on fire.
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Hi Rich and Frost,
Oh yeah, The Herculoids. Thanks! I knew that it was something oids.
BFN
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Hi,
Jim kitchen wrote:
Begin quote.
And what was the name of the family in with the Super Friends. You know with
the dragon with Lazar eyes and tail, Gleep and Gloop
Hi Thomas,
These may have been in the seventies, but maybe you know anyway.
What was the name of the super hero that was with Spiderman and Iceman? Fire
something. Forgive the pun, but she was hot!
And what was the name of the family in with the Super Friends. You know with
the dragon
Hi Thomas,
Thanks, at least it is not me this time. Sure would be nice to have direct
access to what must be a humongous amount of information though.
208 File(s)477,147,762 bytes
BTW while looking at the folder, I found a matching chi file for each chm file.
Like you said,
Hi,
In my Visual Studio (VB6) folder there are 208 chm files. Here is one of them.
File Name: kb.chm
Size: 111.12MB
Download Link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/174c1f
Ok, so I click on the kb.chm file. It says knowledge base, type in the key
word to find. Well really I would like to
Hi Thomas,
Thank You! the f6 key thing sure makes a world of difference with the chm
files. I don't know why it never dawned on me to do that. I mean I have used
the f6 key in the VB6 help system, but never thought to do it in other windows
helps.
Thanks!
TGIF and BFN
Jim
Computer
Hi Hayden,
I don't know if you have ever programmed in VB6, but it does not look at all
the same to me as other chm files. In the VB6 IDE you just put your PC cursor
on the command word that you wish help for, press the f1 key and then the f6
key. It is all integrated into the IDE.
TGIF
Hi Jason,
Really I would not know where to easily find the rosters for all the major
league baseball teams. I took a quick look at mlb.com and did not find them
there. And then there would be the thing of needing to up date the files all
the time. Sorry, I'm just not really into doing all
Hi Rich,
Thank you very much for the file link. Don't know why, but I have never been
able to work with chm files.
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Hi,
Just found this in an old top tech tidbits newsletter. Checked the link and it
still works. I don't know what version though you are
Hi Charles,
Yeah, and I was thinking, depending on how you looked at the braille upside
down the O, R and W would look the same in the same way that the L and K would.
And I guess the Y as well.
BFN
Jim
And you know Flipper, he lives in a world full of wonder.
j...@kitchensinc.net
Hi Charles,
In braille x is the same right side up or up side down. Because of spacing I
can't think of any others. You know like the l would be, but it would be 4 5 6
instead of 1 2 3. B would be 5 6 rather than 1 2. A would be 6 instead of 1.
K would be 4 6 rather than 1 3 etc.
In
Hi Lelia,
No, I didn't think that you were complaining about the trucker game. You just
had a trip that was not profitable. So I thought that I would share some
information.
Thank you very much for saying how much you enjoy trucker and pong. I
appreciate hearing it.
Have fun and BFN
Hi Lelia,
It is only if you are carrying Freight that you are penalized if you are late,
so oranges might have been the thing to carry.
Cargo:
You can select from three types of cargo to haul for each trip:
1. U.S. MAIL -This contract will pay $.0475 per pound, or $1,900.00 for a
40,000 pound
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Confusion about getting past the first level in MOTA. 97.
Creating Adventure Games 85.
Serious pause bug in MOTA 78.
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, Arianna Sepulveda.
15 From, william lomas.
14 From, Jim Kitchen.
14 From, Karl Belanger.
14 From, Orin.
13 From, Mich.
13 From, Tom Randall.
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Hi Charles,
On the history channel they say that allowing allot of developers and not
keeping standards on the games that were produced and distributed for their
game consuls was the main down fall of Atari.
What you said seems to make sence to me, but what do I know.
- Original Message
Hi Trouble,
I agree. I mean the PC seems to work pretty well now for accessible games and
getting them distributed. Plus if you were going to build a system that did
anything other than just play games, you would have to figure out what OS and
what software and you would never make everyone
Hi Lisa,
You've got that right!
BFN
- Original Message -
It's not finding our eye sight again that sucks. grin.
Lisa Hayes
www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes
- Original Message -
From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net
To: dark Gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Friday, February 11
Hi Dark,
Back in the nineties there were FidoNet echos (mailing lists) named things such
as NFB Talk, Blind Talk, Blink Talk etc, and of course there was the Blink Link
BBS. Those were the places along with the Audyssey magazine that we shared
knowledge about and the accessible games. So
Hi Raul,
Right, not designed specifically for the blind. Audyssey issues read;
Welcome to the twelfth issue of Audyssey. This magazine is
dedicated to the discussion of games which, either by accident or
design, are accessible to the blind.
So I guess that it is somewhat up to each of us to
Hi Yohandy,
When I was younger like in my late teens and early twenties video games were
just coming out. So I was still playing pinball and now video games like Pong,
Space Invaders, Missile Command, Pole Position etc. I of course played the
heck out of them both in the arcade as well as
Hi Nicol,
baseco2 is a commercial for Alka Seltzer which is a remedy for an upset
stomach. Tablets that fizz when you put them in water. Then you drink it.
baseco4 is a commercial for two candy bars. Almond Joy has nuts, mounds don't.
baseco5 is a commercial for Cracker Jack. candy coated
Hi Ken,
Not actually close enough to Cedar Point to hear a trumpet. I'm just the other
side of Cleveland. I love Cedar Point though. You know the best roller
coaster park in the world. I sure do wish that the Roller Coaster Tycoon
series of sim games were accessible.
They often call
Hi Ken,
Oh! thanks, I thought that my cow was in trouble. Now I know it's just you on
a trumpet. And don't worry about your cat, that's just me on a violin.
Actually I have no musical talent at all. That's probably why I spend so much
time writing code. At least with that, if I stay at it
Hi Alfredo,
The program that I wrote to tabulate and create the Audyssey thread and babble
reports automatically writes the first line of the report documents as
Audyssey babble report for January 2011
and
Audyssey thread report for January 2011
You know so that when I open the document the
Hi Jeremy,
I could not agree more, or have said it better.
BFN
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The entire issue of which language to use comes down to a single question, is
this work or art? If a developer works for you then have every right to
dictate how the project will go, and that would
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BGT problem! 41.
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Mysteries of the Ancients Levels 40.
Screen reader support in BGT
Hi Nicol,
If you listen very closely you might be able to tell if the pitch is a ball or
a strike. The last split second before the ball goes over the plate is the
thing. If the tone is a very low or very high tone, it will be a ball,
otherwise it will be a strike. I would recommend trying
Hi Charles,
Friends have let me drive since I have been totally blind. Truthfully it was
not at all the same without the visual feedback. I would rather play my racing
game with it's audio feedback. Sure would like to give that computer driving
program with the vibrating feedback a try.
Hi Willem,
I debug as I go. That is I write a couple of lines of code or a new section
and I press the f5 key to test run the program. So I know right away if the
code was written and works the way that I wanted it to. That is one reason
that I like to work right in the VB6 IDE.
BFN
Hi Ken,
I am sorry, but my tag line program is written to work with my Email program.
That is the Email program that I wrote for myself. So the tag line program
would not work with any commercial Email programs.
Sorry about that.
BFN
Jim
If it doesn't say Kitchen's Inc on it. Someone
Hi,
Yes, I know that I have been doing everything wrong for over 20 years. I know
this because people such as James, Thomas and Shaun have told me this over and
over. And yes I am very lazy because none of the below games have ever used
option explicit, but hey I am not working on beta 28
Hi Ken,
The first thing that I did when I started writing in VB6 was to get rid of the
option explicit. I had never needed to declare variables in any Basic before
and I did not want to start.
May I ask what you mean by you'll slip by with bad errors if you do not use the
option explicit?
Hi Phil,
Thank you very much for the info and the URL. Jacob sent me the sound clip. I
definitely have got to get me one.
Thanks again.
TGIF and BFN
Jim
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Hi Hayden,
I guess that I am so against option Explicit because to me it is just extra
work and extra code and extra space for something that to me is just that.
More later to Ken.
TGIF and BFN
Jim
We waste more time by 8:00 in the morning than other companies do all day.
Hi Damien,
May I ask, why do you want to port Heli over to BGT when it is a perfectly good
game in the language that the creator wrote it in?
TGIF and BFN
Jim
Program in hieroglyphics, the original GUI.
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Hi Ken,
Ok, I can see how the option explicit might come in handy for making sure that
you do not miss name variable names. And I can not say that I have not been
frustrated a few times when I have miss typed a variable name a time or a
thousand over the years, but I still do not plan to use
Hi Dark,
Yeah, Kathy the umpire in my baseball game got us tickets to see Michael Reiss
do a stand up. She also got us the tickets to lunch and chat with him first.
It was pretty darn cool that he sat next to me for the lunch and chat. I told
him about my games and that I was working on
Hi Jacob,
Wow, cool. I need one of those Homer Simpson bottle openers. I've got a Homer
Simpson pizza cutter that says several different things. Was bought a dancing
Homer, have the entire Simpsons family and just allot of stuff that either I
have bought or has been bought for me. Lots of
Hi Muhammed,
Yes, Homer as in Homer Simpson, The Simpsons. As Thomas said Homer is in just
about every one of my games. Most often it is just Woo Hoo or Doh when good or
bad things happen. But there is Homer on a Harley with Homer, Marge, Bart,
Lisa, Maggie's car horn and even Otto the
Hi Peter,
Angry Birds, guess I would be too if someone loaded me into a slingshot and shot me
at a pig. grin
Thanks.
BFN
Jim
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Hi Ken,
Thanks for the description of the game of mahjong. Doesn't sound like the
easiest game to create and play via sound. I might have to look into it though
after Awesome Homer.
BFN
Jim
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Hi Ken,
Thank you.
You know to tell you the truth I am not positive exactly what or how the game
of mahjong is played. Is it similar to my game of concentration only with
visual tiles instead of prizes on the squares?
BTW my Aid has been playing this game on her new Droid. You load a bird
an old game for the apple
Hi Ken,
Well there was also the TV show Get Smart with the same phone booth thing.
That was back in the sixties. A spy verses spy thing. Control verses Chaos.
BFN
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A phone booth where the floor falls out?
Do you think that J.K. Rollings
Hi Ken,
Thank you very much for sharing. I have not yet looked at the code, but
definitely plan to. I have never actually seen VB6, DX8, 3d code. Looking
forward to checking it out.
Thanks again for sharing.
TGIF and BFN
Jim
I like Visual Basic 6.0 because I can not C.
Hi Peter,
Thank you. Glad that you do also like my Simon game. Thanks for saying so.
Geez I had forgotten that my dos version kept track of the time etc. I was
told though that it was not really Simon because it did not repeat and build on
the same sequence.
I also used to have a dos game
Hi Thomas,
Guess I'm still good to go then since I do not use the DirectX 8.1 3d mixer,
just panning and volume.
BFN
- Original Message -
Hi Jim,
Actually, DirectX 8.1 doesn't really support 5.1 and 7.1 hardware
based mixing. DirectSound 8 was actually written for 4.1 stereo sound
Hi Thomas,
Yeah, here was what I was told. And I have passed it along to many and it has
fixed them right up.
Hello all, I just found out something I hope will help you Sherry, ok you
no how in windows 7 we have to program file folders? One is just called
program files, and the other is
Hi Nicol,
You are very welcome. I am really happy to hear that you like my Simon game so
well.
Like you, I like the cartoon and gun sounds the best. But piano, guitar and
phone are fun as well. And then the numbers and letters are challenging.
Thanks again for saying how much you like my
Hi Shaun,
DirectX 8.1 which I use does definitely have the advanced 3d ability. So it is
not a limitation of VB6 and DirectX 8.1 but of me. I do not have a 5.1 or 7.1
surround sound speaker system and wouldn't have the place to set them up
correctly even if I did. So I am perfectly happy
Hi Hunter,
Hey now, what's with stealing my idea for a game? You know I told you that my
new game Awesome Homer was all about Marge getting kidnapped by Gonk the ape
and you as Homer must rescue her.
Just kidding with you Hunter. I wish you much luck in writing your first game.
BFN
Hi Thomas,
The only problem that I know of is that Windows 7 has two different program
files folders. Other than that lots of people are playing my games just fine
under Windows 7.
I am wondering what market I might be concerned with. I have been enjoying my
hobby of creating computer
Thank you Kai,
The Jaws alt + delete key will be useful.
Thanks again.
BFN
Jim
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If you want
Hi Thomas,
Yeah that is one reason that I am sticking with VB6. I have always programmed
in the Basic IDE. You know whether it was the T I extended Basic, the Atari
extended Basic, BasicA, GW Basic, Quick Basic, PDS7 or VB6. It just works for
me.
BFN
Jim
C. E. O. Kitchen's Inc.
Hi Thomas,
Yeah you know I was trying to agree with you. But I do like different tools
for different tasks. Like I have Word for reading docx files that I receive
from the lawyer etc and I like HJ Pad for the spell checker. But like when I
write a simple batch file or check a simple text
Hi Thomas,
I know that you and I have a totally different method of programming etc. You
know like I like to program in the VB6 IDE. So I do not use Note Pad or any
other text editor for writing my code. I write it in the VB6 IDE and then test
run it right off. And I use HJ Pad for
Hi Kai,
In VB6 and DirectX 8.1 I can look for up to 10 buttons. That is button 0
through 9.
For n = 0 To joyCaps.lButtons - 1
If js.Buttons(n) 0 Then
So this looks for which of the 10 buttons has been pressed.
I do have some trouble in using the second stick on a game pad. Don't know
Hi Thomas,
I know that in my games I need to reset the sapi5 voice engine before changing
engines. That is going from an ATT voice to a Neo Speech, Microsoft or
Cepstral. Otherwise the voice is all very distorted and fuzzy.
So I do the below code whenever changing to a new voice. nov being
Hi Davy,
Yeah, you know, I was thinking that the 10 buttons may just have been the
number of buttons that the code found on the joystick (steering wheel) that I
had plugged in at the time. It may find more or less depending on what stick
or pad I plug in.
BFN
Jim
Just one little typo
Hi Hayden,
Well you know that I am always working on some new game or new version of a game. I
just don't usually mention it. You know so as not to be a tease. grin
But some figure that talking about up and coming releases is a good form of
advertising right?
BFN
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Hi Alfred,
No, not me. I am not the list owner or even a moderator of this list. I just
create the babble and thread reports. And of course try to participate on the
list.
I do believe that there was a robot set up to send the automatic messages to
the list.
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Hi Thomas,
I have a standard 3 button ps2 mouse on both computers. Never use them. They
are both behind the monitor which I also never use. Now if people really
wanted it, and I could find code for VB6 and the mouse, I would think about
adding it. But in my current game, the arrows to
Hi Philip,
Oops. oh yeah, you are right. I forgot. Even almost all of my games do have
some human speech. Mostly Homer Simpson for emphasis etc where a synthesizer
just will not do. I guess for information I like synthesized speech, but for
other things human is better. Maybe part of that
Hi Thomas,
I never cared for the hardware dectalk. I had the very mechanical Accent SA.
And I still run a Triple Talk on my game development computer. But it sure
would be cool to be able to do to sapi5 voices what you can do with the dectalk
express software. You know the code that you
Hi Bryan,
So you never play games that use your screen reader and would not want the Jaws
API in BGT right?
- Original Message -
We'll have to agree to disagree. I personally can't stand synthetic speach
in games unless the characters represented happen to be machines. That's
Hi Philip and Thomas,
Guess that maybe I am lucky in that I have some really nice sapi5 voices. Like ATT
Lauren, Crystal, Charles, Mike etc as well as Neo Speech Kate and Paul. But seriously I
like most of my sapi5 voices much better than Eloquence. I write allot of personal
applications
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