Re: [Audyssey] Question on Jim Kitchen's trivia games

2012-03-19 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Keith, It sounds like you found somewhere my trivia2.zip file. That was the dos version with files such as cars.trv. The windows version uses files with the tgf file extension. So I would recommend that you install my wintriv2.exe file. The wintriv2.exe file can be found on my free

[Audyssey] Question on Jim Kitchen's trivia games

2012-03-18 Thread Keith S.
Hi, I installed the trivia basic package of Jim's Trivia games (contains a car and a general trivia file). When I placed other expansion packs into the folder to play, such as an arthurian legend and a lord of the rings pack in, the extensions for the files were different. I believe the ones

Re: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello

2010-11-04 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, Yeah, waver is just a simple little wave file player program. You could put a copy of it in any folder with wave files. One thing that I like about the program is that you can pick and play a series of wave files. The function keys are F1. say special keys F2. search F3. search

[Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello

2010-11-03 Thread Charles Rivard
What the heck is waver? Thanks. --- Shepherds are the best beasts! - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: neoph...@inthecompanyofgrues.com Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:46 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New here; saying hello Hi

Re: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello

2010-11-03 Thread dark
...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:17 PM Subject: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello What the heck is waver? Thanks. --- Shepherds are the best beasts! - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j

Re: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello

2010-11-03 Thread Charles Rivard
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here;saying hello Waver is Jim's wave file player which, mmm, plays wav files, including the ones in Jim's games. I believe it comes packaged with the monopoly download and you can access

Re: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello

2010-11-03 Thread Muhammed Deniz
. muhammed - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:17 PM Subject: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello What the heck is waver? Thanks. --- Shepherds

Re: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello

2010-11-03 Thread Hayden Presley
10:49 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for Jim Kitchen - Re: New here; saying hello Waver is Jim's wave file player which, mmm, plays wav files, including the ones in Jim's games. I believe it comes packaged with the monopoly download and you can access it from

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-19 Thread Jim Kitchen
To: Charles Rivard Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Charles, The waver program is a small simple wave file player program. Here are what the function keys do. f 1. say special keys. f 2. search. f 3 search next

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-19 Thread Jim Kitchen
- Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Hayden Presley Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:36:26 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Hayden, Well you see, I bought a digital recorder

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-19 Thread Muhammed Deniz
, 2010 2:36 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Hayden and Thomas, Thanks, I might look into some of the VB6 and Windows Media stuff, but not a priority for me. As I said to Charles, Windows Media Player does a pretty nice job for lots of the sound file formats. I have

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-19 Thread Muhammed Deniz
@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Jim, What is the brain program exactly for? Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Keao Wright Sent

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-19 Thread Muhammed Deniz
original- De: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com Para: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Data: Quinta, 18 de Março de 2010 20:18 Assunto: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Jim, No, DirectSound can't but I believe DirectShow can. The thing to keep in mind with mp3 files

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-19 Thread Keao Wright
Wow, thanks. I had it and most of the games on this netbook computer for a while. - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Keao Wright Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 1:54 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Keao, Thanks

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Charles Rivard
: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Josh, I plan to stick with VB6 for creating my games. I have been writing games in Basic for 30 years, Visual Basic for 10. Don't see any reason to start all over learning a new tool when the one that I am using still works. And I may be wrong, but I

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Muhammed Deniz
, 2010 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hmm. I'll bet no other developer of games for the blind has put out more than that, have they? By the way, what's Waver? --- In God we trust. - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Josh Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Waver is a simple wav player program Jim Kitchen created that randomly selects and plays wav files in the Kitchensinc directory. A bit of a strange program, but kind of fun to listen to once and a while. Too bad he didn't make a version for playing mp3s. Cheers! On 3/18/10, Charles

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Charles Rivard
Jim, that's a hint. He he he. --- In God we trust. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Charles, Waver is a simple wav

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, The waver program is a small simple wave file player program. Here are what the function keys do. f 1. say special keys. f 2. search. f 3 search next. f 4. spell file name. f 5. go to replay. f 6. go to play. f 7. test play. f 8. play all.

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Unfortunately DirectX 8.1 does not support Mp3 files. Not that I have ever been able to figure out anyway. I mean it will start to play them, but does not play the entire file. BTW Waver can do more than just play the kitchensinc wave files randomly. Here are what the function

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Keao Wright
] question for jim kitchen Hi Charles, The waver program is a small simple wave file player program. Here are what the function keys do. f 1. say special keys. f 2. search. f 3 search next. f 4. spell file name. f 5. go to replay. f 6. go to play. f 7. test play. f 8. play all. f 9. play random

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Jim, What is the brain program exactly for? Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Keao Wright Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:31 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Hayden Presley
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:19 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Jim, that's a hint. He he he. --- In God we trust. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayden, Hmmm...I don't know about that, but there are several possabilities as far as creating a VB 6 program that plays mp3s. One way is to use the Windows DirectShow com library which has all kinds of video and audio codecs support for multimedia. Another would be to use FMOD Ex, which also

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, No, DirectSound can't but I believe DirectShow can. The thing to keep in mind with mp3 files instead of loading them like a game *.wav file you should stream them. DirectSound doesn't really have that kind of support. What I'd do if I were you is use FMOD Ex 4.28 which is a com library,

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Matheus r.c. souza
Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com Para: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Data: Quinta, 18 de Março de 2010 20:18 Assunto: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Jim, No, DirectSound can't but I believe DirectShow can. The thing to keep in mind with mp3 files instead of loading them like

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yep. Sure could if Jim was willing to rewrite waver to use something like FMOD instead of DirectSound 8. Not only could it play mp3s, but it could be turned into a media player that supports wav, flak, mp3, wma, ogg, etc just by converting it over to that library. Over the past couple of

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Liam Erven
: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi, Yep. Sure could if Jim was willing to rewrite waver to use something like FMOD instead of DirectSound 8. Not only could it play mp3s, but it could be turned into a media player that supports wav, flak, mp3, wma, ogg, etc just by converting it over to that library

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Liam, That's for sure. The licensing is the one issue I haven't figured out yet. As much as I like FMOD it has a pretty heavy licensing fee for commercial games. Especially for games $30 and up which requires a royalty license. Those are very expensive, but that kind of fee is a one time fee,

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Charles, You know if you set Windows Media Player to shuffle mode. Exit Windows Media Player. Now use Windows find feature to find all of the mp3 files in a folder or your entire computer. Now press control A and enter. You can even do compound searches such as *.wav *.mp3 HTH BFN

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Hayden, Well you see, I bought a digital recorder and a nice microphone. I stuck the microphone in my ear and recorded the sounds of my brain. And of course the more Coke I have the higher the number. Actually it is just a simple random and possible multi wav file player program. I

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Hayden and Thomas, Thanks, I might look into some of the VB6 and Windows Media stuff, but not a priority for me. As I said to Charles, Windows Media Player does a pretty nice job for lots of the sound file formats. I have a folder full of music, my game sounds, adult sound files etc etc

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-18 Thread Anne Walker
Pacific Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen Hi Hayden, Well you see, I bought a digital recorder and a nice microphone.  I stuck the microphone in my ear and recorded the sounds of my brain.  And of course the more Coke I have the higher the number. Actually it is just a simple

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-17 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Josh, I plan to stick with VB6 for creating my games. I have been writing games in Basic for 30 years, Visual Basic for 10. Don't see any reason to start all over learning a new tool when the one that I am using still works. And I may be wrong, but I do not believe that a game engine

[Audyssey] question for jim kitchen

2010-03-16 Thread Josh
Hi Jim, when philip's game creater tool comes out are you gunna switch to that for making games? or are you gunna stick to vb6? Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com my blog is at http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net (updated frequently). Tired of Microsoft Windows and paying thousands for screen-readers?

Re: [Audyssey] Question for Jim about Simon

2008-12-08 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ari, Thank you very much. I'm glad that you enjoy my Simon game. You know for memory, you could also play my game of concentration. I hate to say this, but the things that you asked for are totally contrary to the object of the game of Simon. - Original Message - Hi Jim I enjoy

[Audyssey] Question for Jim about Simon

2008-12-07 Thread ari
Hi Jim I enjoy your Simon, but I would please like to know if you could do these suggestions if it can be done without too much trouble. 1. Can you make it so that a person can start from the round from where you failed, or that you can set from which number of objects to remember to begin?

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim

2008-03-02 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Jeremy, My problem would still be reviewing the board so as to figure out what move you wanted to make. You know just like you want to do while playing Clue, Headache or Parcheesi etc. - Original Message - ah, it is somewhat, you draw cards that tells you how many places to move,

[Audyssey] question for jim

2008-02-29 Thread Jeremy Gilley
Have you ever thought about making a game from the old board game called SORRY? Jeremy Gilley If you are interested in making money while staying at home, then please join me and my team at: http://www.mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/115703 - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen [EMAIL

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim

2008-02-29 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Jeremy, Sorry is similar to Headache and Parcheesi isn't it? I played all of those games as a kid and would very much like to make computer versions. Clue would be another board game that I would like on the computer, but I haven't been able to figure out a good way to review the board

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, Sorry would be a pretty easy game to make. All you need is the cards four sets of colored pons and the game board. Jeremy Gilley wrote: Have you ever thought about making a game from the old board game called SORRY? Jeremy Gilley If you are interested in making money while

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim

2008-02-29 Thread Jeremy Gilley
me and my team at: http://www.mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/115703 - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeremy Gilley Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:56 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question for jim Hi Jeremy, Sorry is similar to Headache

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, In the game of Sorry if you want to take one of your pons out of home you need to draw a 1 or a 2 card. Jeremy Gilley wrote: ah, it is somewhat, you draw cards that tells you how many places to move, there are places where you can slide down several spots or if you draw a card you can

Re: [Audyssey] question for jim

2008-02-29 Thread Richard sherman
Hi, I happen to have the game of sorry. if anyone wants the directions, email me off list and I will see about getting the rules scanned in and assist with specifics for getting a game programmed. Rich Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward Sent: Friday,

[Audyssey] Question about Jim Kitchen's Trivia Game

2007-07-20 Thread Kelly Sapergia
Hi, Does anyone know how to turn off the music in Jim's Trivia game? I find it hard to hear the speech when a song's playing. Thanks. Yours Sincerely, Kelly John Sapergia For a mix of New Age, Ambient, Easy Listening, Smooth Jazz and Global Fusion music, listen to Northern Lights,

Re: [Audyssey] Question about Jim Kitchen's Trivia Game

2007-07-20 Thread Bryan Peterson
I've been wondering that myself. It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you with no place to go. J.D. Fortune, Pretty Vegas - Original Message - From: Kelly Sapergia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 5:55 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Question about Jim

Re: [Audyssey] Question about Jim Kitchen's Trivia Game

2007-07-20 Thread Jimmy Odin Kristoffersen
Hi. I do not think you can, but the music stops shortly aftter you starts the game. Regards. Jimmy - Original Message - From: Kelly Sapergia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:55 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Question about Jim Kitchen's Trivia Game Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Question about Jim Kitchen's Trivia Game

2007-07-20 Thread shaun everiss
Subject: [Audyssey] Question about Jim Kitchen's Trivia Game Hi, Does anyone know how to turn off the music in Jim's Trivia game? I find it hard to hear the speech when a song's playing. Thanks. Yours Sincerely, Kelly John Sapergia For a mix of New Age, Ambient, Easy Listening