Re: [Audyssey] Giving Away Free Games was Announcement AboutBSCGames

2013-04-24 Thread shaun everiss
well we had to fight for those, but yeah, looking for work as you would usually do won't get you in if you go via the front. and if you go by the official book it doesn't work either necessarily. The only way I have found is do a lot for free or low pay as long as others see your work or you ha

Re: [Audyssey] OT: rant about jobs: was Re: Giving Away Free Games was Announcement About BSC Games

2013-04-24 Thread shaun everiss
thats true ken, legally I need to have a job. by law all disabled here need a job or to be looking for one else no benifits though these are small. However as I mentioned before government agencies are just crappy you are a number and thats it. Since the system is crappy though its easy to crac

Re: [Audyssey] another community project

2013-04-24 Thread shaun everiss
wow I will check this out sounds interesting. At 08:39 PM 4/24/2013, you wrote: I'm starting another community project. Right now, I have a very rudamentary soundscape explorer. It has no game play elements as of yet. What it does have is an external map file so I can create whole worlds, not

Re: [Audyssey] More on hardware keys was: Re: An Announcement Regarding BSC Games

2013-04-24 Thread shaun everiss
yeah cloud based activation is the way to go anyway. At 09:53 AM 4/25/2013, you wrote: That's one of the major reasons why I don't use the Shark anymore. Once you buy Window-Eyes you can install it on as many machines as you want/need to. True you still have to renew your SMA from time to time

Re: [Audyssey] Giving Away Free Games was Announcement AboutBSCGames

2013-04-24 Thread shaun everiss
maybe devs could get others to handle their list mail. its just a thought, ofcause said person would need to eventually get payed. I'd do it for anyone that wants it. free at first but if I expanded obviously I'd need to be payed, something like 10 bucks an hour or whatever or well games, testi

Re: [Audyssey] BGT Version 1.3 Released!

2013-04-24 Thread shaun everiss
on the subject of bgt, a new game on audiogames forum appeared which is a side scroler, you are a computer program trying to stop evil programs. something like tron its in the new releases section the link to get it is. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58851737/aac.zip At 03:08 PM 4/25/2013, y

Re: [Audyssey] More on hardware keys was: Re: An Announcement Regarding BSC Games

2013-04-25 Thread shaun everiss
well in a way much that its a pain that all the agencys want you to use expensive jaws and everyone that uses the agency wants jaws for everyone because its what you use in a job, if we didn't have overly expensive software ever we wouldn't need opensource and nvda would not exist. At 09:19

Re: [Audyssey] looking for the handheld bopit game

2013-04-25 Thread shaun everiss
I am not sure if you guys have warehouse and farmers or anything like that. I have the bopit standard and the bopit xt but I can bearly get past 60 on the advanced level. At 03:21 AM 4/26/2013, you wrote: HI list I would like to buy the handheld bopit game. If memory serves the game was manufa

Re: [Audyssey] New Version of Soundscape Explorer

2013-04-26 Thread shaun everiss
ken for those of us that don't program as such is there a binary of the game? I couldn't find one in the initial package. At 12:31 AM 4/27/2013, you wrote: It's a community project. Right now it's extremely basic--pardon the pun. You just walk around and listen to the environment. You can add t

Re: [Audyssey] the play room

2013-04-26 Thread shaun everiss
there is actually a new version out. At 04:39 AM 4/27/2013, you wrote: Try completely uninstalling the old and installing the new from a fresh download? That usually works. In the process, after uninstalling the old one, make sure the folder is also gone. HTH. --- Shepherds are the best be

Re: [Audyssey] New Version of Soundscape Explorer

2013-04-27 Thread shaun everiss
aah ok. At 03:10 PM 4/27/2013, you wrote: Hi Shaun, If you redownnload it you will find an executible in the package. There wasn't one in the initial release, but there is one in the latest release. :D On 4/26/13, shaun everiss wrote: > ken for those of us that don't progr

Re: [Audyssey] One more vb6 question: native form key handling versus direct input

2013-04-27 Thread shaun everiss
hi ken. hmmm I just had another look at the net. ms being ms since they don't support things, will not allow conversion anymore. right now for small projects you can get 2008 vb express and after you have that you can convert to dotnet 2008 then to dotnet 2010. vb express though for 2008 will p

[Audyssey] Fwd: BlindSoftware.com support email not working

2013-04-27 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. this just in from bsc, their email system is having issues. Delivered-To: sm.ever...@gmail.com X-Received: by 10.68.253.196 with SMTP id ac4mr63075768pbd.57.1367064623056; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 64.

Re: [Audyssey] why worry? - Re: Please No More Contact Requests

2013-04-27 Thread shaun everiss
where would I pull a vm of xp, and what is the best vm software. I will be getting a new i5 with 4gb ram and whilst I will have access to a native xp unit with win7 who knows what I will do. being 4gb ram I will probably go 32 bit first and then decide when I upgrade the ram not sure though.

Re: [Audyssey] News from Blastbay Studios, and a call for opinions

2013-04-29 Thread shaun everiss
hi philip here are my answers. At 07:19 AM 4/30/2013, you wrote: Hi all, I am slowly but surely nearing the finish line for my current game project, and before I release it I would like to ask the community at large some questions. Your input will greatly help me when deciding what to spend

Re: [Audyssey] My First Impressions of Change Reaction 2 for Windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
win7 aint that bad I have a win7 unit here. true it takes a bit of getting used to, xp is the better os interface wise, however 7 is better than 8. In fact I have it in 32 bit mode with the vb6 libs loaded and have no issue at all. At 06:48 PM 4/30/2013, you wrote: I can't stand Vista or Windo

Re: [Audyssey] My First Impressions of Change Reaction 2 for Windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree with you on that. I have xp here which I will continue to use for ever more. I however have gone anead and got a new laptop one of the last toshibas with win7 which I am slowly building up in the event I can no longer use xp. Its likely I will continue to use xp but eventually not on a

Re: [Audyssey] Windows 7 and games was Re: My First Impressions of Change Reaction 2 for Windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
rdpress.com On 30/04/2013 09:18, shaun everiss wrote: win7 aint that bad I have a win7 unit here. true it takes a bit of getting used to, xp is the better os interface wise, however 7 is better than 8. In fact I have it in 32 bit mode with the vb6 libs loaded and have no issue at all. --- Game

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
Well I have both. so yeah I can do whatever I want. eventually I will get a vm this new box can run vms via hardware aparently. At 12:24 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Well were you live you might be able to get another xp box, but here in the states those are memories. The shops and stores sense win7

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree with you dark. In fact if the right arrow on the keyboard did not break ocationally and the cpu lock every so often I wouldn't have got insurance by getting another unit. Though this unit is better it has its own keyboard and sound issues and itself it issues, the speakers are a bit s

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
Hi tom. Don't take this wrongly but I know several devs jim kitchen, aprone, I think gma maybe a few more that still use 6. If all devs dropped 6 and went to whatever I would have no issue with upgrading! Yes I realise some of them are upgrading but not all. You guys need to realise that the on

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
thats true tom which was one reason I was gunning for an upgrade. At 01:03 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Hi, Not only that, but the problem for people wanting to maintain XP after 2014 is hardware support. After next year most hardware manufacturers will no longer be providing drivers for sound cards

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm draconis you got me thinking on that one. I may have one of those it even has an old analog card. its my grandpas right now but he hardly uses it. its a single core though, so won't run everything but if I ever needed it I could use it for gaming. As for keeping it off the net that would be

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree james. there is nothing at all wrong with xp bar security but really nothing wrong at all. even 7 after you got used to it I don't have classic shell on here yet, but maybe I will get it maybe not. even 7 is still ok. I can not get the idea of 8. its 7 with a completely fwoofy interfac

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I will be happy to ditch xp once all devs stop using vb6. till that time I couldn't give a stuff! At 01:42 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Hi, on top of all this, there is one simple thing to look at. Look at the main gaming industry. There are a lot of games out there that do not support anything les

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I agree dark. I have a couple of really good toshiba laptops the xp one is a bit flaky in the hardware which is why I am moving to 7. However now I have it I have no compunction to use it full time. In fact I won't be doing that. My plan is to eventually set the system up as a mirror backup of

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
well I wish ms would put the old style progress bars back in thats about the only thing I miss on 8 and in fact ie9 and up. At 03:04 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Hi Dallas, Correct. One of the things Windows 8 brings to the table regarding accessibility is Microsoft Narrator is vastly improved over

Re: [Audyssey] My First Impressions of Change Reaction 2 for Windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I agree. the laptop was for a christmasp reasent for last year I would have never upgraded otherwise. a year before that the new reader upgrade I got was another present. Money is one thing I don't have enough of. Due to a couple family members kicking the bucket I have a sizable ammount of cas

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree draconis. uia is really good, why ms didn't use it earlier is beyond me. do they know how much strife we users have had to deal with drivers, morror drivers dcm chains, and drivers overlapping forcing reformats. At 03:32 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Hi Tom and all, I agree entirely, which

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
as a user I aggree but as a hacker and a tech its not how the system works. I just went to 7 I really couldn't give a stiff but 7 is better and less mangled than 8 at least on 32 bit I can use my old software still. I have had experiences with the os so know what I am in for. At 04:17 AM 5/1/20

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree I think we should have a choice to run whatever interface we want but use the core engines. even if it means we don't get extra features. At 04:49 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Which is also why there needs to be better reasons to stop using xp than currently, aprticularly given the buggered

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I have to much windows software to ever really switch to a mac without running windows in a vm but yeah it may be that I will eventually have to get a mac even if that does mean I just use it for windows. a At 04:59 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Fair enough, well that is likely a reason for me to pos

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
Well I still use eudora 7.1 and will continue to use it even if I have to turn off uac to do so. there is no advantage to me to even concider the upgrade of my mail I have no need of searching or anything like that. At 05:13 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: As a blind person, I still very much prefer pu

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree with you john. to all the rubbishers of 7 the search box is faster than xp start menu if you know bits of what you want. I use it all the time. it makes my job doing support to be a lot better. At 05:49 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: The search box is really intuitive; but if it doesn't fin

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
well while win8 is really bad maybe win9 will be better maybe if win8 has a service pack it may be bettr. Vista was not really good till a sp was done. At 05:51 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Hi Charles, That's true. One that I will strongly consider as a software developer. However, as I also pointe

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
yeah xp rtm is really bad I had that happen to me immediately to. sp1 and in fact sp2 and up are better but its true. At 06:22 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: hi, you forgot about the ability of windows 8 to perform all maintenence tasks together directed by one process so unlike win7 windows 8 will d

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
Yeah sometimes people me included forget that everyone even a lowly pirate has to be a user first. At 10:15 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Hi Charles, When it comes to this issue of developers verses users I think you are forgetting that audio game developers are users too. Since we intend to use an

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
yeah I aggree the ribbons and searchboxes I took a while to get used to but now I can't do without them in some situations. At 10:54 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: wow, I just read through all of this. personally, I agree mostly with Thom and Josh, and while I definitely understand that there are tho

Re: [Audyssey] soundscape explorer quiery

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I've dabbled with it here myself a bit though I have been recovering from a tooth opperation and a bad headcold over the last few days. At 11:08 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote: hello i have downloaded the soundscape explorer game and tried to runj it after unzipping it. jaws says form1 dialog and i hea

Re: [Audyssey] Piracy rate?

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
well if the piracy was international you would have some issue tracking it. On a serious note though do we really want to be like the big nasty companies, I mean we can but lets face it all it does is get more enemies all round the place. I know there are a few serious pirates that just do it b

Re: [Audyssey] Piracy rate?

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree with you there. And now the mpaa wants to screw over the blind on movies. Ofcause the big issue I have with some stuff dvds mainly is you have to basically pirate the dvds to listen to them on a computer and make an mp3. Eventually I think there should be a way when you buy dvds to get

Re: [Audyssey] Piracy rate?

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
It depends, charles. the big guys well they are the big corps, most of it doesn't go to the devs the devs are told by the bosses what to do. There is no point actually looking at it after that point, they don't care, in which case you do what is expected, its prity clear cut where you go becaus

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-04-30 Thread shaun everiss
Again I aggree with you draconis. That was why I eventually decided to get a box with no more than 4gb. I was running with half that. I can now use and continue to use 32 bit software even though its not the best to do so. On the subject of dosbox frank has told me that he does not know much c a

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
I understand where you are coming from. Yes I got jaws training and earlier keynote gold dos training within keysoft. Everything else I have done I have done with trial error and reformat. True I looked at a few manuals but hardly mostly relying on shortcuts I found in programs. windows has been

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
Thats a good point dallas I am playing tactical battle and on this xp unit I am having issue with big maps lagging loads. on this 64 bit unit even though its only running a 32 bit os for now thats not as bad. At 06:48 PM 5/1/2013, you wrote: It would also mean, that you can create games with ve

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
well I am still storing files and folders on the drive root like I have always done. ofcause uac is disabled right now on my personal and things are as normal. At 06:57 PM 5/1/2013, you wrote: Hello Yes that is the one thing I like about 7 is the search option. The only thing I don't like

[Audyssey] bavisoft

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. is it worth it even trying to install the bavisoft games on win7? I have a new system and am slowly moving things over. Ofcause I still use this old one quite heavily. is there any worth in loading g or chillingham on the new box? I may as well know before I do that. --- Gamers mailing list

Re: [Audyssey] Fantastic article on game piracy, everyone should read

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
well josh I just read the article and I get it where he is coming from. To be honest I am not going after the little guys although some may get in the way but thats just bad luck more than anything, the big companies that price through the roof and licencing unfairly are my targets. They don't

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
well thats a good point for vms keeping your host os secure is fine. At 03:16 AM 5/2/2013, you wrote: Hi Dark, if you can get to an Apple store you can try a Mac to your heart's content. :) Also, if you run a virtual machine, you do not need virus protection. YOu back up your VM and if someth

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
I aggree with you on that tom. I am still working on xp and 7 on 2 laptops. I have not done to much gaming on the 7 box though as I have spent most of my time sorting out files. At 03:40 AM 5/2/2013, you wrote: Hi Dark, Since you insist on appraising Windows 7 totally on the basis of benefits

Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
Hmmm I would aggree with ou tomas but really, my issue is that ms just banged changes on us. If it was slowly done then maybe it wouldn't matter. At 04:04 AM 5/2/2013, you wrote: Hi Dallas, Agreed. It is sort of amusing because as you said Microsoft has stuck with the XP look and feel for so l

Re: [Audyssey] bavisoft

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
them because I got another computer with xp on it. - Original Message - From: "shaun everiss" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:30 PM Subject: [Audyssey] bavisoft Hi. is it worth it even trying to install the bavisoft games on win7? I have a new system and am slowly mov

Re: [Audyssey] bavisoft

2013-05-01 Thread shaun everiss
them because I got another computer with xp on it. - Original Message - From: "shaun everiss" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:30 PM Subject: [Audyssey] bavisoft Hi. is it worth it even trying to install the bavisoft games on win7? I have a new system and am slowly mov

Re: [Audyssey] New Game Controller for Pc

2013-12-11 Thread shaun everiss
e all the PC games are now. Cheers! On 12/10/13, shaun everiss wrote: > Well all I know tom is that whenever I have gone shopping with my > friends to stores that used to be full with games years ago its > mostly console games now. > The computer games still exist but are less. >

Re: [Audyssey] Civilization games on PC or iPhone

2013-12-11 Thread shaun everiss
Well as part of a development team doing the deathmatch series, and catchfish among others I can tell you that with a 1 man band or even more than one it really does make things hard. First, if anyone looses energy or interest or has writers block or gets injured somehow, then things just stop

Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Quality online games for the visually impaired - help us spread the word

2013-12-12 Thread shaun everiss
Wow. I have not heard anything out of rs though they really have not released any standalone since shoot da me. And that game was not that good. Their online client is what gets the most attention though I seem to like the quentin c gameroom more though thats just me. Not much has been from th

Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Quality online games for the visually impaired -help us spread the word

2013-12-12 Thread shaun everiss
sertainly does simon. I had no idea that rs was doing this or was getting interest even if it was to a not really correct place it can still be counted as interest. and any interest is still a point in the right direction. At 04:27 AM 12/12/2013, you wrote: we are not recommending them, as I

Re: [Audyssey] game availability and popularity - Re: New Game Controller for Pc

2013-12-12 Thread shaun everiss
Probably, but there is so much drive there charles. There is still drive to get high end cpus, cards, and other things. People that are djs on my midi and game station I listen to are still inthralled in display cards, trying to get the best and meanest without burning their systems to molten sl

Re: [Audyssey] Space Attack

2013-12-13 Thread shaun everiss
Yay for arcade machines At 08:04 AM 12/13/2013, you wrote: I've been holding on to this little jewel far too long. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96692612/SpaceAttack.zip This is a Space Invaders clone I wrote for Pac Mate and have just ported over to windows. No, it's not like all the ot

[Audyssey] top tech tidbits exerpt

2013-12-13 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. just got this item on tidbits. 10) Speaking of games, the AbleGamers Charity has released its "AbleGamers 2013 Holiday Gift Guide":

Re: [Audyssey] Civilization games on PC or iPhone

2013-12-13 Thread shaun everiss
a bit myself, and I can't find any limitations that would convince me that using Pure Basic or VB 6 would be any better. In fact, I can think of several good reasons to stick with BGT unless there is something absolutely essential to the game that it misses. Cheers! On 12/11/13, shaun everi

Re: [Audyssey] Space Attack

2013-12-13 Thread shaun everiss
there is a file called space attack demo.exe you start the game with that. At 01:27 PM 12/13/2013, you wrote: So far, I don't see how to start the gam using Windows. Maybe I missed it, but it isn't in any of the .txt files, and there doesn't appear to be an .exe file. --- Be positive! When

Re: [Audyssey] BGT, Mac and More

2013-12-13 Thread shaun everiss
Well davie, when danny and I were working on the deathmatch series danny found out we all did that there were limitations with bgt. Sertain things need to be written a sertain way. And the way we were expanding the deathmatch series was just really going outside of bgt's limits. deathmatch1 i

Re: [Audyssey] To Developers: Switching from DirectSound to OpenAL Soft

2013-12-14 Thread Shaun Everiss
No but the people I work with for the deathmatch series do use fsl on purebasic which does have open al intigrated. The environmental and other effects do have a few echo issues, but over all are ok. I am not sure about anything else which is not purebasic. At 06:20 a.m. 14/12/2013, you wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] Star Tradors

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
what about a pc version for windows for whenever it would be good if there was one. I have only played smuglers 5 and not completely. At 01:01 AM 12/15/2013, you wrote: Hello Richard. You have actually preempted me here. The other day I mentioned talking to a developer about game access,

Re: [Audyssey] Feeling sad!

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
linsy all you need is your name I think and emailing gmagames for the key or is it posgames for the key. the gmagames engine just needs a name and user id from your computer you just need to tell the game to do a key replacement, and then email it at pcs who wrote that. At 01:48 PM 12/15/2013,

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
Well mac software may be a bit more officient. though I have only heard this from the point view of those musicians and such that use it. SOme of those that are able to use macs will happily bash down windows units for not being as fast. On vertual machines windows probably is not the best to ru

Re: [Audyssey] BGT, Mac and More

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
well tom the team I work with use free sl with purebasic and it uses open al. Compaired to direct sound it just blows things away. Complete 3d environmentals for effects and such. It does mean fully using non 3d devices for 3d things. However as is found with sfml, the panning does not work the s

Re: [Audyssey] BGT, Mac and More

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
could not do that say Visual Basic 6 could do. Cheers! On 12/11/13, shaun everiss wrote: > Well davie, when danny and I were working on the > deathmatch series danny found out we all did that > there were limitations with bgt. > Sertain things need to be written a sertain way.

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
Well I have 2 toshibas now a core2 with xp and an i5 with 7 and 8 upgradable. Both are responsive and yes the right arrow is broken now but still the unit works. On my new one my i5 it works like a dream the keys are almost but not quite touch enabled and sertainly I don't have to even pres the

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
Well before this topic gets to old, aparently its only 20 bucks for those that want to develop for windows phone 7 and up right now to join the program. So in theory to make win mobile whatever accessable should be affordable to those that can. I mean 20 dollars is about the price of a game. A

[Audyssey] the joining of teams

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
And on that note I have always wandered how much power we would have if we joint a few teams or just a few devs together though they would probably have to be using the same stuff to develop which could be a problem. At 11:36 AM 12/15/2013, you wrote: Hi, This is where developing games for

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
Hi kara well I am just a user that is interested in more information. One thing I have found about anything else is that when you get a system you seem to stick to it and protect it with your life. I have always used windows and have invested a lot in it over the years. Though if I started agai

Re: [Audyssey] Moderator Notice: Recent Mesages

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
Yeah probably, this list is good for what it is. But if you really want something spaciffic the audiogames.net forums are also good. Every so often we are getting over run with zombies. Hay where is aprone in all this, seriously, I need my marlin. At 05:52 PM 12/15/2013, you wrote: Didn't somet

Re: [Audyssey] business games

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
Not that I know, and not many offline games but I will attempt to do something about this as long as you have specs for what it supposed to do. I just need to put it in my groups folder and see when there is space it can be worked on. I am not promising anything though but I can always put it i

Re: [Audyssey] business games

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
what do you mean. I am interested. I have played ulsas and monopoly so I do have a general interest. you build a company how and what with etc. Is this a board game or is it something else. it could be interesting concept to do since the group I work with has only one series of zombie type games,

Re: [Audyssey] business games

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
well you can build a company on smuglers5 but I have never got used to the trading system. At 12:11 AM 12/16/2013, you wrote: and even starmule and trucker too. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
I agree with the tosh. I found that out the hard way when I busted the internal keybard playing games. I suggest for anything that requires hitting the keys buying a crappy keyboard with nothing on it. I have a logitech kbd120 which has no frills and I sit it on my lap and bash to my heart's c

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
Toshiba do have suppliers but you need to pay to get things fixed and a lot. I generally back up my registry and when I get it back I do a system restore to make sure it is not broken. An interesting note at least it was one of those as it happened a few years back. But I had to send the system

Re: [Audyssey] The Psychology of First Person Shooters

2013-12-16 Thread shaun everiss
I agree. I'd never do that. though you do wander if games ever became as real as the world outside them that would be a problem. I like playing some of those game to blow off steam but I wouldn't just get a gun and start shooting. At 09:22 AM 12/16/2013, you wrote: The decisions you make in li

Re: [Audyssey] The Psychology of First Person Shooters

2013-12-17 Thread shaun everiss
well I find that playing some of these games just gets rid of the anger I would have had if I didn't. So it must work for others in different ways. At 05:45 PM 12/17/2013, you wrote: A recent interesting article I read (there's a link to it on the wikipedia entry for Doom), actually stated that

Re: [Audyssey] BGT, Mac and More

2013-12-17 Thread shaun everiss
. There are a number of other IDEs around that can be setup to work with Mono as well. So there is no need to use Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, etc if you want a cross-platform .NET IDE and compilers. Cheers! On 12/15/13, shaun everiss wrote: > well after all that the programmer reali

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-17 Thread shaun everiss
inventing or recycling nonsense about it that isn’t true, which is done far too often on this list. On Dec 15, 2013, at 8:41 PM, shaun everiss wrote: > Hi kara well I am just a user that is interested in more information. > One thing I have found about anything else is that when you get a syst

Re: [Audyssey] BGT, Mac and More

2013-12-17 Thread shaun everiss
On 12/15/13, shaun everiss wrote: > well tom the team I work with use free sl with purebasic and it uses open > al. > Compaired to direct sound it just blows things away. > Complete 3d environmentals for effects and such. > It does mean fully using non 3d devices for 3d things. > H

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive Update

2013-12-18 Thread shaun everiss
Well if it helps I still have all your sounds and old audio from ages back. I use your old timer program as part of my training for timing various things. Its really not that flashy but gets the job done and I have found nothing better than it. I do hope there will be a place where we can get y

Re: [Audyssey] BGT, Mac and More

2013-12-18 Thread shaun everiss
:37 AM 12/18/2013, you wrote: Hi Shaun, If using OpenAL the sounds have to be in mono not stereo. As far as the issues with echo etc sounds like an issue with FSL. As Cara pointed out OpenAL itself does not do that, and it could be the implementation at fault here. Cheers! On 12/16/13, shaun

Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive Update

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
it's saddening, maybe it's the best all around. Kind regards, Damien C.S. Pendleton. -Original Message- From: shaun everiss Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 4:21 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive Update Well if it helps I still have all yo

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
I agree dark. a simular discussion is going on the nvda list. I have 7 but a lot of the games that are for the blind are old. I have used xp for ages, and it still works. 7 is a good system as far as its better than vista. 8 though I don't know its ok but there are som many visual things now. And

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
I agree allex. There are people I know in enterprise companies that simply don't update or secure their systems as far as ms goes or with minimal security because of the fact that any update has potentual to stuff something and since time is cash they only update the most critical and even th

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
Well personally once ms gets it right I just hope they stay right. they got it right with xp. some what with 7 after that its if you like it then fine but if not well. At 08:50 AM 12/20/2013, you wrote: Well Dallas, your supposition doesn’t hold up to much scrutiny, since Apple has, and does, ma

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
Well I hope this does not come off to strong, but the reason I am still hanging on to xp is because some games, missippi, and the gma games gtc, lonewolf and sod really don't work that well witn 7. There is also the vb6 issue that will probably eventually come up. Now if the games we have that a

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
True charles but most people do have at least a core2 and at least 2gb ram. Most people should have at least dotnet 3.5 if not 4.0 installed and anything over that is for touch devices and such anyway. At 05:32 PM 12/20/2013, you wrote: If you can take advantage of more modern tools to develop

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
for the Internet, e-mail, newer games, etc. That is the only way to have your cake and eat it too. cheers! On 12/19/13, shaun everiss wrote: > Well I hope this does not come off to strong, but the reason I am > still hanging on to xp is because some games, missippi, and the gma > games

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-20 Thread shaun everiss
t until the next time the evil empire releases a new operating system that forces them to change. Cheers! On 12/19/13, shaun everiss wrote: > Well personally once ms gets it right I just hope they stay right. > they got it right with xp. > some what with 7 after that its if you like it then fi

Re: [Audyssey] Shadow Line... again

2013-12-23 Thread shaun everiss
thats some battle man At 12:44 PM 12/21/2013, you wrote: Hey gang. It's been ages since I've posted... just haven't had much to say lately on the subject of gaming because of how busy I've been. But I've definitely been keeping an eye on the list... anyhow, I just beat one of the Japanese audio

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-23 Thread shaun everiss
Well I don't know exactly how this would need to change in practical terms but there needs to be some serious canges. I won't mince words, and I am going to be blunt. I am not saying that any of this is easy in fact it may be darn hard but it needs to happen. 1. Visual basic 6 is a pile of c

Re: [Audyssey] Fw: New Game! "Choice of the Deathless" -- You're not the bad guy. You're just his lawyer.

2013-12-23 Thread shaun everiss
Played the trial of this dark, really rocks. Now if only there was a way to buy this accessably for the pc as well as other choice of games. At 06:58 AM 12/21/2013, you wrote: New Game! "Choice of the Deathless" -- You're not the bad guy. You're just his lawyer.This came today from choiceofga

[Audyssey] usagames down

2013-12-23 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. havn't heard messages from the list for ages, checked the blog and found that usagamesinteractive.org has no dns entry, went to usagamesinteractive.com and have no dns. pinged usagamesinteractive.com and no host. I need to know if its my isp or are you having some issues. shaun --- Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

2013-12-24 Thread shaun everiss
I agree with you draconis. You devs all of you should be looking at upgrading if you are not allready. I like old xp but I'd prefur to play games in 7 and 8. More games for xp? Well maybe that was when there was vista but seriously, I don't think people should keep making games in vb6 anymore or

Re: [Audyssey] usagames down

2013-12-24 Thread shaun everiss
website domain renewed and it comes up fine here. If you have any more issues do let me know. Cheers! On 12/23/13, shaun everiss wrote: > Hi. > havn't heard messages from the list for ages, checked the blog and > found that usagamesinteractive.org has no dns

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