Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Eventually, I'll probably put on something like some see through braille labels on the function keys so I can find them easier. Everett Elam wrote: Hm my f4, f8 and f12 keys all have dots on them! Dunno why toshiba did that, but I love it! Why don't ya buy some of those stick on dots

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Cara, With me I am so used to full sized keyboards when I am on my laptop I have troubles locating keys like specific function keys, page up and down, etc. They all move, and on my notebook they are all crunched together in such a way my fingers often touch not one but two keys or so. The

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-22 Thread Everett Elam
: Friday, December 22, 2006 4:57 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day Hi, Eventually, I'll probably put on something like some see through braille labels on the function keys so I can find them easier. Everett Elam wrote: Hm my f4, f8 and f12 keys all have dots on them

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, If your notebook soundcard supports them you can turn them on via the button on your system tray. I use Windows+b to jump to the system tray, arrow to sound effects, and after right clicking on the button, I go to properties and environment is the first page of the dialog. I can set the

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Laptops are nice and portible, but I really don't like the keyboards on them. Especially, for games. just last night I was on the road when I decided to play Lonewolf. Since there is no gaps on my keyboard between the f4 and f5 keys, every time I wanted to open the torpedo doors,

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Interesting. Most Soundmax cards have an onboard ac97 chipset. Most ac97 chipsets have effects, and support 3d audio. At least the newer ones do. shaun everiss wrote: sigh I only have a crappy soundmax card. I have an amd desktop and its got realtech synths. But its not my desktop. The

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread Everett Elam
ah nice - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 6:20 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day Hi, If your notebook soundcard supports them you can turn them

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Oh, I believe Windows XP will be around for a good while yet. It was based on Windows NT technology, has the top of the line multimedia features, and since service pack 2 has been very reliable and stable. Just because Vista is the new kid on the block now doesn't mean businesses,

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread Cara Quinn
That's funny, I like laptops for the opposite reason! I love the smaller keyboards! Smiles, Cara At 07:39 AM 12/21/2006 -0500, you wrote: Hi Shaun, Laptops are nice and portible, but I really don't like the keyboards on them. Especially, for games. just last night I was on the road when I

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread shaun everiss
Interesting. my card has a microphone setup, and a noise reduction. I have line in, phone vol, mono out, wave out mix. I must have a real old card. THe card is really not much of one. Its a basic effectless card. I play midi through an old emulated not really good yamaha software synth I

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread shaun everiss
this is interesting, every system that ms releases so far they try to get rid of the old ones as soon as. win 2k and me came out at the same time. vista will be out but xp will still be used to sp3 and maybe sp4. This means that for a majority of us we will have nothing to fear for a good number

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread shaun everiss
I like the keyboards on laptops, some games it works fine. Actually I have a usb board here but am to lazy to plug it in most of the time. At 01:39 AM 12/22/2006, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Shaun, Laptops are nice and portible, but I really don't like the keyboards on them. Especially, for games. just

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread Everett Elam
!; - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day Hi Shaun, Laptops are nice and portible, but I really don't like the keyboards

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-21 Thread Sarah
it! I stuck some of those on my cell phoner's case so I'd be able to feel the numbers! R!; - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
and you can stay as far back or forward as you wish. The systems I have now run xp and the coppies I have are lagit. when the next system fails, I will attempt to buy a system in bits,load it and install xp on it. My laptop is an oem model, so there may be a chance I will be using the vista os,

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
Well I will always have a laptop as supposed to the desktop. I like to carry my system arround with me. At 06:44 PM 12/20/2006, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi, Mine is my baby as well. Just today while I was away I took mine with me to work on Montezuma's Revenge and began rebuilding level 1 which will

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day You mean, why do laptops cost more then? Because their components are smaller and you pay for convenience. * x-sight interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-12-19 08:18]: lol that's pretty

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-20 Thread Cara Quinn
and gaming was Judgement Day Tom, they're wonderful machines! I have an Averatec as well, (a 3250) which I take with me traveling all over the place and love love love it! smile I use it for everything!... It's my baby!... :) Smiles, Cara At 05:40 AM 12/19/2006 -0500, you

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-20 Thread Everett Elam
Amen! - Original Message - From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day Well I will always have

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-20 Thread Everett Elam
Hm where do you turn those on? Mine does fine, but I thought those only existed in wmplayer? - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-20 Thread Everett Elam
Hm are all your versions updated to mindgrid audio or are there older ones? - Original Message - From: Cara Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 2:28 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Oh, that explains why your laptop is such a junker. Anything owned by schools tend to be beaten up, broken down, junk piles. Either that they are out of date, not that helpful in the real world, and, well, just not worth your time. Smile. x-sight interactive wrote: that didn't offend me at

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, braille writers still have there place for labeling up Christmas Cards and things like that, but yeah they are pretty outdated. I remember when I was in college around 97 or so they wanted me to braille my answers up on the braille writer. I firmly told them no, and told them I'd type

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Damien, My current gaming notebook is an Averitec 6200 series laptop with 512 MB of ram, a 60 GB hard drive, 4 USB 2.0 ports, an AMD 2400 processor, 15 inch wide screen display, DVD/CD burner, a wireless lan card, a standard lan card, and an AC97 sound card. It all came with Windows XP SP2

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Cara Quinn
Tom, they're wonderful machines! I have an Averatec as well, (a 3250) which I take with me traveling all over the place and love love love it! smile I use it for everything!... It's my baby!... :) Smiles, Cara At 05:40 AM 12/19/2006 -0500, you wrote: Hi Damien, My current gaming

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread x-sight interactive
@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day Hi Damien, My current gaming notebook is an Averitec 6200 series laptop with 512 MB of ram, a 60 GB hard drive, 4 USB 2.0 ports, an AMD 2400 processor, 15 inch wide screen

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
You mean, why do laptops cost more then? Because their components are smaller and you pay for convenience. * x-sight interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-12-19 08:18]: lol that's pretty weird. why, do desktops seem to cost more then? hmm. i know with desktops you can get 500gb hard drive, 1gb

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread x-sight interactive
: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day You mean, why do laptops cost more then? Because their components are smaller and you pay for convenience. * x-sight interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-12-19 08:18]: lol that's pretty weird

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Bryan Peterson
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day oh so laptops cost more than desktops? gee, just that tom said that his desktop's not as good as his laptop, which gave me the impression that a desktop cost more than a laptop. regards, damien - Original Message

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread shaun everiss
speeds on laptops but i know you can get dual-processor ones nowadays. regards, damien - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Bryan Peterson
Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day not to mention that except for math our standard heavy braillers vertually have no place, there are electronic

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Everett Elam
: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day Hi, Well, braille writers still have there place for labeling up Christmas Cards and things like that, but yeah they are pretty outdated. I remember when I was in college around 97 or so they wanted me to braille my answers up on the braille writer

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Everett Elam
Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day Tom, they're wonderful machines! I have an Averatec as well, (a 3250) which I take with me traveling all over the place

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Damien, No, desktop systems are still quite less than most laptops. Most laptops cost twice as much as a desktop with equal features. I've hand built my own desktops in the past with the top-of-the-line everything for the price of some lower end notebooks. Although, that has been a while,

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Mine is my baby as well. Just today while I was away I took mine with me to work on Montezuma's Revenge and began rebuilding level 1 which will be completely different fromversion Alpha 1. Well, same general layout, but more in keeping with the original design James North had for the

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, that is right, and in addition to size most laptops have specially designed parts for that specific laptop. Take the motherboards. They are especially designed for that laptop case, and that style alone. Some parts like hard drives are pretty generic, and are a little more than

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Damien, You misunderstood what I meant. I hand built my desktop back in 2002, and it was pretty good for back then, but is lower end for now days. My laptop was made in 2005, and is in keeping with most of the newer laptops and desktops out there. Not has high-quality as one I could buy

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, yeah, you could do that. The nice thing I have found with building your own desktop for say $600 is you can uupgrade what you want when you want. Like for example most of the gear on my desktop has been updated now and then. The only thing that is lagging behind is the processor speed. I

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah. Let's start stearing this topic back to gaming. Braille writers doen't have anything to do with gaming. Smile. shaun everiss wrote: not to mention that except for math our standard heavy braillers vertually have no place, there are electronic ones and some are as small as a palm

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, mine has an AMD 64 chipset on it, and it really cranks. I was trying judgement day on it,it and my laptop really rocked with the game. FYI turn on your adio environment effects like slight echo and it makes the explosions and stuff sound wild with jd.

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-19 Thread shaun everiss
sigh I only have a crappy soundmax card. I have an amd desktop and its got realtech synths. But its not my desktop. The game runs fine here but I'd like the fx my card does not have these. At 07:23 PM 12/20/2006, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Shaun, mine has an AMD 64 chipset on it, and it really cranks.

[Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, What mottle do you have. I have generally found Tosheba Sattlelights to be pretty reliable. However, yours seams to be the exception that breaks the rule. No offense based on your description your Tosheba is a pile of junk. My current laptop gaming/work machine is an Averetec 6200.

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-18 Thread x-sight interactive
, 2006 3:08 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day Hi, What mottle do you have. I have generally found Tosheba Sattlelights to be pretty reliable. However, yours seams to be the exception that breaks the rule. No offense based on your description your Tosheba is a pile

Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day

2006-12-18 Thread Everett Elam
interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Toshebas and gaming was Judgement Day that didn't offend me at all; the college gave it me. if i had my way, and the money, i'd be buyin' my own laptop lol. yeh