Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2015-08-07 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Hi Josh, In Windows 8 and above, setting the User Account Control notification level slider to 0 does not automatically disable UAC entirely as it did in Windows 7. To fix this, you need to go into Local Security Policy. 1. Go to the Run dialog and type secpol.msc. 2. Navigate to Security

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2015-08-07 Thread Josh K
thanks but i noticed that i now get a notification saying please restart the compute to turn the security policy back on. so is this security policy change only temporary during my current windows session? follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 8/6/2015 4:25 PM, Gavin Grundlingh wrote: Hi

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2015-08-06 Thread john
K joshknnd1...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 14:43 To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games hi in windows10 when I try installing a game into c:\program files x86\kitchensinc\ it says cannot write output files. this is because in windos10

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2015-08-06 Thread Dakotah Rickard
to (all of jim's games are simple zip files - location really doesn't matter in the slightest). -- From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 14:43 To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] jim

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2015-08-06 Thread Jacob Kruger
Message - From: john jpcarnemo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games You may be able to do it by disabling user account control. If that doesn't work, you'll have to install them

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2015-08-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Yes. There is a very simple solution to all of the above problems. Install the games to your local user data folder and said problems will go away. Cheers! On 8/6/15, Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com wrote: hi in windows10 when I try installing a game into c:\program files

[Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2015-08-06 Thread Josh K
hi in windows10 when I try installing a game into c:\program files x86\kitchensinc\ it says cannot write output files. this is because in windos10 and 8 and above it won't let even administrators write to those folders. well if i try copying files into those folders it lets me but only after

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games on windows 8

2015-05-13 Thread Paul Lemm
Hi Greg, Many thanks for checking that for me. -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Greg Wocher Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 1:02 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games on windows 8 Hello, Yes

[Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games on windows 8

2015-05-12 Thread Paul Lemm
Hi, Does anyone know if Jim kitchen's games will work on windows 8? Regards --- 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

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games on windows 8

2015-05-12 Thread Greg Wocher
Hello, Yes they will work on Windows 8and 8.1. I just installed them on my Windows 8.1 laptop. Greg Wocher On 5/12/15, Paul Lemm paul.lem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if Jim kitchen's games will work on windows 8? Regards --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org

[Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games adjust rate of speech

2015-05-03 Thread Phil Vlasak
Here are the generic keys in Jim Kitchen's games: Special key instructions. Escape Key. exit game. F1. repeat current prompt. F2. repeat special key instructions. F12. change voice. control key. adjust rate of speech. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-14 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yes, it sure would take allot of work and allot of time even to change one thing in all of my games. The code would be easy but then you have to compile, package, up date the web page, up load the files and announce it all. Instead I plan to keep having fun working on Dungeon

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, I'm sorry, but neither of my Windows XP computers have a c:\Users folder, and I doubt that VB6 has a way of finding that since as you said VB6 was out for like Windows 98. The only folder on my computers that seem to know my name is C:\Documents and Settings\Jim kitchen BFN

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Willem Venter
Hi jim. The equivalent folder to c:\users\ on windows 7 is c:\documents and settings on windows xp. On 9/13/12, Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net wrote: Hi Thomas, I'm sorry, but neither of my Windows XP computers have a c:\Users folder, and I doubt that VB6 has a way of finding that since as

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Trouble
That is because xp don't have the folder structure that vista or win7 64bit ops do. With just about everyone switching to 64 bit ops with new computers. Your games and VB6 coding is being left behind just like dos. Tried to tell you this many times for years, but landed on deff ears! At 05:10

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, The directory tree is a bit different in Windows XP. Documents and Settings is the equal of c:\Users today. I just googled the issue and yes VB 6 can accurately locate the App Data directory on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7. The reason is because Windows XP etc is a decendant of

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm and not to mention that a lot of devs are still using old codebases or at least a few of them are publically using them. The good thing is that you can run a 32 bit os which does mean even for win8 users that we still can go 32 bit if we want but this may be the last one. For those on

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Willem, Thank you again very much for the information. BFN - Original Message - Hi jim. The equivalent folder to c:\users\ on windows 7 is c:\documents and settings on windows xp. Jim Correct in Thought, Statement, or ActionTRUE!! j...@kitchensinc.net

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Thank you very much for the information. I have looked at all of the VB6 stuff for directories and did not see what you found on google, but that's ok because I sure on the Green Mother's Earth am not going to rewrite Awesome Homer, Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It,

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Sherman
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 7:05 AM, trouble wrote: With just about everyone switching to 64 bit ops with new computers. Your games and VB6 coding is being left behind just like dos. end quote. Not trying to start a war of any kind here. but did you know that all of Jeremy kaldobsky, also

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Willem Venter
Hi Richard. I really hope that we will be able to play all the VB6 games for many years to come, as many of my favorite games are written in vb6. Not only Jim's kitchensinc games and the games you mentioned are vb6, but also GMA games, bsc, LWorks, and many other games. I can actually think of

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Willem, Same here. I really hope that the games written in Visual Basic 6 last a good long time. So far we've been lucky and still get them to run on the Windows 8 betas. However, I am concerned long term because the issue is one of maintaining them as ops improve and change. Already we can

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Sherman
HI, Thanks for expanding on my thought there. I meant no disrespect to any other programmer who currently uses VB6. Just those 2 games which are one of the few multiplayer ones out there came to mind and used them as an example. I take my hat off to all the programmers out there. I am old

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
we almost need some sort of vb 6 converter that would 1. convert all vb6 games to something like vb dotnet and compile them with the right code. In the case of jims games just converting them to bgt may be all we need to do and if we can get something that can convert the games to bgt that

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Trouble
I really don't have to think that hard. If you don't already have VB6. Your going to be hard pressed in finding it or any support for it. Even Microsoft won't give it any 64 bit support, and states it is only 32 bit throughout its life cycle.

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread shaun everiss
well I have the sp6 runtimes and if I get instructions to install those on 64 bit is all ok. as long as the runtimes are avalible and we have the right dx runtime files to register we should be ok as long as we don't need even more files and as long as those files can be previded for games by

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Richard, Well, in my experience emulators are a bad idea because they often aren't accessible. However, virtual machines are becoming quite popular and are very accessible.Plus it makes it possible to run any operating system inside a virtual machine. For example, my laptop is running Ubuntu

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-13 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Oh, I think it will be at least 10 years before we see the end of 32-bit. Most apps and PCs out there are still 32-bit and it will take years for that technology to be replaced by newer 64-bit apps and hardware. Just look how long it took to go from 16-bit to 32-bit before 16-bit apps

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-12 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, So if I put a 32 bit application in c:\program files\something it would not run? And all 32 bit applications must be in c:\program files(x86)\something I thought that you said that Windows 7 64 bit actually want applications to be installed in c:\something\users\something BFN

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-12 Thread Willem Venter
Hi jim. The directory in the c:\users directory is supposed to keep setting so if multiple users use the same program they can have different settings. 32 bit Programs installed to the program files directory will still run, but windows recommends that you keep 32 bit programs in the 32 bit

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, I'm not sure if you installed a 32-bit app to c:\Program files\Something if it would run or not, but I do know Windows 7 reserves c:\Program Files exclusively for 64-bit applications. Microsoft, for reasons I'm not sure of myself, have created a c:\Program Files (x86) directory

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-12 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, May I ask, when you say save the record scores, log files etc of my games to the Application Data directory, does that mean to c:\program files\kitchensinc\data Or is there some folder some where named Application Data directory? if it is c:\program files\kitchensinc\data then it is

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-12 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Willem, Thank you very much for the information. Really appreciate it. BFN - Original Message - Hi jim. The directory in the c:\users directory is supposed to keep setting so if multiple users use the same program they can have different settings. 32 bit Programs installed to the

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, No. With Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 every user gets their own personal application data folder. This is a special directory where programs are suppose to save their files to. On XP it would let you get away with writing files to c:\Program Files\Kitchensinc but as of Vista and later

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-11 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Michael, The thing is, I did not put out a new version of Monopoly or the trivia game engine just to include the new files. There were changes to the games themselves. But anyway if I combined all of the files and put out wingolf11 and announced it, people would ask what is different in

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-11 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Thank you very much for the answers to my questions about the Inno installer. I had not looked at the Inno documentation, my assumptions were based on how I saw it used by others. Truthfully I do not think that it is that big enough of a problem for me to repackage Awesome Homer,

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, That's precisely what I'm talking about. I have both Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit here so I can test it out. It should pick the correct instalation folder based on if the app is specified as x86 or x64 in the Inno Setup script. While I'm thinking of it the other advantage of Inno

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Simple, just compile a new installer. Once the Inno Scripts are written it is a painless process to change version number and a couple of things like that in the script, open it in the Inno Setup IDE, and then hit compile. Five minutes later or so Jim gets a brand new setup file. For a

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
jim I can probably help with inosetups if you want. However I have only used the generator. So I could compile everything into a script but I couldn't do anything else. At 02:00 p.m. 11/09/2012 -0400, you wrote: Hi Shaun, Simple, just compile a new installer. Once the Inno Scripts are written

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-11 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Really I very much like my idea of just the self extracting zip files thus by passing the whole Windows add slash remove programs and registry thing, and then just a batch file to remove the game. And as you yourself said, you would not develop something for a system that you

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-11 Thread shaun everiss
actually the innosetups can be uninstalled unless you tell them not to. that is you can uninstall a program from its menu by default or going to its directory manually and running uninst0.exe At 07:04 p.m. 11/09/2012 -0400, you wrote: Hi Thomas, Really I very much like my idea of just the

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Fair enough. Although, there is a very good reason why Winkit does not install your files to c:\Program Files. The reason is because that directory is reserved for 64-bit programs only. The c:\Program Files (X86) directory is for 32-bit programs and is there for reserved for backwards

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-10 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Thank you very much for the offer, but I don't fancy repackaging my thirty some games. Just curious but wouldn't Inno want to create a Kitchensinc folder each time? And doesn't it want to make a sub folder for the sound files etc? And doesn't it write to the registry? And

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-10 Thread Willem Venter
Hi Jim. I would love it if there was a single installer that installed all your games in one go, like winkit does with the menu system and VB6 files. Your games are small enough to not make a difference on most computers, even if a user wants only a few of the games. And you get many high quality

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-10 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Will, Yeah all of my games do compress to somewhere around 74 MB. But I have to tell you that I get asked allot how to get rid of tiny little programs like reader, waver, my brain etc. I guess that some people really do not want things on their computer that they do not want. And then

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-10 Thread Michael Gauler
Hi Jim, that's ok. But could you think about doing something different? Since you released your last version of the golf game, lots of golf courses were released. But there are a few of them grouped together, as well as the fix for the golf course maker. Shouldn't that fix be included in the

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, No, it is not necessary for Inno Setup to create a Kitchensinc folder every time it installs a program. If it already exists it can be scripted to simply update the existing folder. If it does not exist it can create one. As far as where sounds go again its not necessary to put them in a

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, UgThe setup program that came with VB 6 absolutely sucked. I hated that setup installer program. Inno Setup is much more screen reader friendly and a million times easier to use. Tell you what I'll make all the setup installers for your games, donate them to you, and then you can

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-10 Thread shaun everiss
and what about all the new games? jim would have to create installers for each game. I do know the codecguide guys use updaters for their klite codec pack so maybe there are updating modules though i never have researched them at all. At 11:30 a.m. 10/09/2012 +0200, you wrote: Hi Jim. I

[Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-09 Thread Orin
Hi all, Just curious if anyone has ever installed the Game menu program with life, and that's fine and it's working. However I unzipped Dungeon Master and it doesn't show up in the game menu. I even tried running as administrator and it didn't show up. Any idea on how to fix this? Thanks. Orin

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-09 Thread Liam Erven
Subject: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7? Hi all, Just curious if anyone has ever installed the Game menu program with life, and that's fine and it's working. However I unzipped Dungeon Master and it doesn't show up in the game menu. I even tried running as administrator and it didn't show up

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-09 Thread Sharon
list Subject: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7? Hi all, Just curious if anyone has ever installed the Game menu program with life, and that's fine and it's working. However I unzipped Dungeon Master and it doesn't show up in the game menu. I even tried running as administrator and it didn't

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Orin, Yeah, my winkit install goes in one folder and then the rest of my games unzip to a different folder when one is running Windows 7 64 bit. Below is what one lady wrote about the problem. Hello all, I just found out something I hope will help you Sherry, ok you no how in windows 7

Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's games and Win7?

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, You know, there is a very simple fix for that problem. Why not bundle all your games using a setup utility like Inno Setup, and it will detect things like this which would save people problems like this in the future. If you want I can create some Inno Setup scripts for you to build

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Damien, Yes in some of my games pressing the alt key is sort of an Easter egg. It is also meant to keep one from using alt f4 to close the program as my games were not designed to be closed that way. I have now learned how to manage what happens when one presses alt f4. So far that is

[Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2007-02-01 Thread damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive
hi. do any of you notice when you press the alt key on cassino, sapi just goes mad? or if you press alt+f4 on a game? does anyone know why this happens? jim perhaps? or anyone who may know ... does it do it on the bg games as well? thanks. regards, damien'

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2007-02-01 Thread shaun everiss
Jim did tell us once, well me once. Its just an easteregg I think. There is this other program thats not for release, I suppose if you asked for this program he may give it to you. At 10:05 a.m. 2/02/2007, you wrote: hi. do any of you notice when you press the alt key on cassino, sapi just goes

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2007-02-01 Thread Josh
what other program is that? Josh - Original Message - From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games Jim did tell us once, well me once. Its just an easteregg

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2007-02-01 Thread shaun everiss
, February 01, 2007 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games Jim did tell us once, well me once. Its just an easteregg I think. There is this other program thats not for release, I suppose if you asked for this program he may give it to you. At 10:05 a.m. 2/02/2007, you wrote: hi. do

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2007-02-01 Thread shaun everiss
Jim did tell us once, well me once. Its just an easteregg I think. There is this other program thats not for release, I suppose if you asked for this program he may give it to you. At 10:05 a.m. 2/02/2007, you wrote: hi. do any of you notice when you press the alt key on cassino, sapi just goes

Re: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games

2007-02-01 Thread Willem
: [Audyssey] jim kitchen's games hi. do any of you notice when you press the alt key on cassino, sapi just goes mad? or if you press alt+f4 on a game? does anyone know why this happens? jim perhaps? or anyone who may know ... does it do it on the bg games as well? thanks. regards, damien