On 13 Dec 2013, at 16:05, Draconis wrote:
> First, ignoring Mac as a viable platform for blind gamers is a poor strategy.
> One year on, and Mac sales are still far exceeding Windows sales, even in
> comparison to back in the hay day of audio games, some 10 years ago or so. It
> isn’t just abou
Apologies. I simply have to take this bate. :)
On 14 Dec 2013, at 14:06, Dallas O'Brien wrote:
> hi. erm, actually, premium hardware? really? lol. they give you a
> machine that has a dual core, at double the price of a quad core
> windows computer. lol. just look at my Toshiba machine I hav
Regarding the development cost of Windows apps: as a Mac user I feel that
Visual Studio Express is, while certainly useful for .net development, somewhat
annoyingly crippled for Win32 development. It doesn't have MFC or resource
editors, for example. You can somewhat work around this, though n
Yeah, numpad commander is your friend on OS X. I can manage just fine either
way--not sure what's so hard about the VO keys, myself--but the numpad
commander definitely makes the Apple wired keyboard worthwhile for me. I gave
up the Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad in favour of just the wired ke
Mmm, yeah, definitely agree that Toshiba had a good run. I don't believe
they're up there nowadays though, as they've mostly thrown their consumer
products to the wolves and that includes all the gaming machines. Now the new
hotness appears to be Lenovo, at least hardware wise. But I no longe
Thomas and all,
Just to let you know, I've reported all the ones I've received to Linode, which
our illustrious friend has been using to forge mail. I hope that they hang it
upside down by its naughty bits until it begs for forgiveness.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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Just FYI, that thread wasn't actually started by Thomas. It, too, was a
forgery.
BTW, Linode seem to have figured out that there might just be a problem and are
taking the necessary corrective steps.
Here's one definite positive for forums: you can erase the history of these
creatures. While
On 15 Dec 2013, at 04:38, Ulysses Garcia wrote:
> If it is Linux-node-related, I heard that the system has had major security
> flaws costing them tons of bit coins. Still, how would someone from Linode be
> smart enough to know what everyone was doing? I have not been hacked because
> I rarely
On 15 Dec 2013, at 05:13, Ulysses Garcia wrote:
> A question...If you are going to use technical jargon to explain your point,
> could you also explain those terms for those who are not familiar with
> networking and put it in a concrete manner so that we are all on the same
> page and it will
Yeah, Apple are very good with repairs in my experience. They replaced the
same optical drive in my oldest Mac Mini, twice, with just seventeen days left
on the warranty. For desktops, they'll come to your home, and if you don't
have packing material, they'll also send along the box with the c
Interesting discussion.
Thanks Teresa for that article, though I tend to agree with Dark in being of
the "No pseudoscientific BS, please" persuasion. :)
As for violence in games, well, at the risk of being controversial, recall that
Ancient Rome was famous for, among other things, training peop
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, shaun everiss wrote:
I say this to be telling everyone my opinion.
Everybody is entitled to their opinion, as the popular saying goes. What
follows are some of my own.
And I am trying to be as nice as I can.
I think this needs work. JMO. :)
To be honest I do not agr
For those who need them, the lyrics are here:
https://frontalot.com/index.php/?page=lyrics&lyricid=47
I bought Get Lamp, which gives you this (the complete song) as video which I
demuxed back to audio, so I have an awesome high-quality rip of it.
There's also a live "Bootleg" recording linked fr
On 1 Apr 2014, at 20:06, mattias wrote:
> any audio game about the Greek mythology?
> i find one a while ago on adiogames.net but can't remember the name
You probably mean Time Adventures by Code Factory (commercial, no longer sold).
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On 6 Apr 2014, at 20:53, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Yes, redistributing the unlock code generator would be software
> piracy. The reason is that it was redistributed only by purchase only.
> It was never declared officially as abandonware, and the only way to
> obtain it was through a $75 purchase. Ther
On 7 Apr 2014, at 15:28, Thomas Ward wrote:
> That said, when I assumed leadership of Audyssey I agreed to be on the
> up and up when moderating the list which means regardless of how I
> feel personally I can't allow piracy even if it is done to someone
> whom I think did the wrong thing and misu
If you have a yahoo.com email address, or if you run a mailing list, this will
be important to you.
Summary: if you subscribe to mailing lists using a yahoo.com address, you might
like to think about changing to another free email provider, because your mail
may not be read by all of the list r
FYI, a temporary version of the site is now available at:
http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/
My reflector list has been broken by this, but it's not worth fixing if
it's going to be temporary.
HTH for now.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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If you wan
I’m sure they’re working on it. Although, as a sysadmin, I have to admit that
the commitment could be a wee bit better. :)
(Says me, still with my home page off air, because lighttpd is too undocumented
to configure.)
It runs PHP, PunBB, and a database backend, which makes sense. It’s also a
It's probably much easier and simpler to just get the Infocom app, then pull it
apart to extract the z-code. See:
http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=10566
Rename the .ipa file to .zip, then extract the contents. Of course, we're
working from the assumption that you're doing this lega
In all likelihood the OP is going through a proxy that is restricting access.
Tell Firefox to stop using the proxy.
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Sabahattin
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Running a virtual machine on a Mac from an external drive using Fusion is
totally possible, however I can tell you that USB 2 will give you a nasty
performance hit. So if you have USB 3 or, better, Thunderbolt, then you should
use it.
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This whole discussion reminds me eerily of the IPv6 transition problem,
currently in progress.
IPv4, the current addressing system for the Internet, has a limited capacity of
four billion addresses, now mostly exhausted worldwide and increasingly being
traded on "Secondary markets" (a euphemist
The extent of Win8.1's support for older interfaces is to restore the Start
button. But the button, when pressed, still opens the Metro interface. A slight.
FWIW, I was (and in many ways still am) impressed by Win8 from a purely
keyboard-centric, productivity point of view. But the loss of hiera
On 12 Sep 2013, at 23:21, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Let's give you an example, and I am truly interested to get your point
> of view on this. I know you bought Raceway and Montezuma's Revenge
> through preorder sales. You'll be getting copies of them when it is
> released. However, imagine that PC you
I just tried Self Destruct. On my minimal XP VM, the keygen.exe program was the
only one on the system, and likely will be on yours as well. Simply launch the
shortcut provided and when Windows gives you the option, "Fix" the broken
shortcut and it will magically work.
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(Where is the Self Destruct keygen on Vista?) Should be in the same place,
"C:\Program Files (x86)". Windows should still be able to fix the shortcut if
you run it. What does it say instead?
Re-run the installer as admin. Does that help?
The game works flawlessly on XP even with the missing sho
I already have a Postfix and Mailman setup on a public IP address under my
control that comes up clean. If the list has nowhere else to go, and you don't
mind the "Best effort no guarantees something really bad could happen at any
time" conditions, I'd be happy to look into virtual-hosting the A
Mailing lists and forums are just different, and serve different purposes.
While I can confidently claim to prefer mailing lists for lots of technical
reasons, and have on more than one occasion in the past declared my hatred of
forums on this list, I strongly suggest people actually have a goo
On 18 Nov 2013, at 00:08, Charles Rivard wrote:
> As for the fact that you get messages from people that they just woke up and
> stuff like that, I blame that on the authors, not the method of
> communication. Just like when people send garbage Emails, it's not the fault
> of the Email client.
(Snip lengthy and detailed description of how to get software 3D emulation
using a dangerously unreliable method.)
Or you could just install Windows XP into a VM. :)
Since this seems to come up once every fortnight or so, let me just assure
everyone that the latency imposed by virtualisation is
This is excellent and I'm really enjoying it.
When you buy the iOS version you are getting the Glulx gamecode plus a custom
interpreter program with accessible notes, map, and journal.
This is truly a finished, commercial product in the fashion of the new school
of puzzle-solving IF. Great fun
Who found the archives on mail-archive.com? I remember putting them there for
my own good, I'm glad it's turned out helpful!
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Resent in case it was lost after a week.
Hi all,
Matt and I (AGRIP) were contacted by the Youth Development Officer at LOOK,
with regard to this year's QAC Sight Village, and offered the chance to help
with a gaming workshop for the Kid Zone that they plan to run, to involve
youthful people in
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