NVDA Blog

On the NVDA Mailing list, the main developers of NVDA announced that there is an NVDA Blog which tells of the latest happenings with NVDA wich for those who don't know, NVDA is a free and open source screen reader for Microsoft Windows. For more information, you can go to the home of NVDA by clicking
here.
To go to the blog, you can click
here.

New Version of Sound RTS Released

There is a test version of Sound RTS which has just come out a couple of days ago. You can get it from the
Sound RTS
website.

New features in this update :
List of 6 items
• better voice
• the food limit is 80 divided by the number of players (instead of 20 for each player)
• bugfix: in a multiplayer game with more than 2 players, if one player looses, his remaining units won't stay in the game any more.
• private server (will not be registered in the list)
• connection to any server using its IP address (without using the list)
• when a server is full, it is removed from the list; it is added back to the list when a game is over
list end

I hope you have fun.

Montezuma's Revenge Patch Available

A couple of days ago, USA Games released a pat for Montezuma's Revenge which includes new sounds and bug fixes. You can get it from the
USA Games
website.

Duck Hunt Version 1.1 Released

Today Liam from
L-Works
released Duck Hunt Version 1.1 which has several improvements. First of all, there are three different modes, there is the one duck mode, the two duck mode and the clay Pigeon mode. Also there are bug fixes. I would say the Clay Pigeon mode is the hardest.

Sindero GPS Version 4.0 Released

A new version of the Sindero GPS Software has just been released from
Sindero Group.
There is a podcast up on
Blind Cool Tech
about this new version and all the new changes and features it has. The direct link to download this podcast is
http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1087SenderoGPSVersion4.mp3

Duck Hunt

Liam from
L-Works
has produced a duck shooting game using the sounds from the original duck hunt game that was for the old game consoles. There isn't a page for that on the L-Works website but there is a download link. The link is
http://www.l-works.net/dhsetup.exe

Sound RTS

A couple of days ago a new audio game came out called Sound Real Time Strategy which is commonly known as Sound RTS. It is a game simular to War Craft in which you have to recruit peasants and footman and other important people in the midevil days so they can help you defeat other armies. This is a free game with a multy player mode where you can have up to four people playing at the same time. The only two bad things about this game are the sounds and the multy player mode. The sounds are in low quality and the multy player mode is not very stable. If you are interested in giving it a try, you can go to
http://jlpo.free.fr/soundrts
this is a very addictive game when you understand how to play it.

New Beta Version of Skype

From the PC-Audio List I got the following e-mail:

Skype version 3.5.0.158 beta is now available and one place where you
can download it from is at
www.majorgeeks.com/Skype_d4245.html.


Here are the changes in this version:

feature: Add video to mood and chat message
feature: Video snapshot
feature: What's New Guide
feature: Support for Firewire Digital cameras
change: Change SkypeMe status to Online for users under 16
change: Updated all language files
change: IE Plugin updated (2.2.0.98)
bugfix: When menu was opened it needed 2 clicks to answer a call on
tray notification
bugfix: Latvian installer did not work
bugfix: Installer did not remember custom install location
bugfix: Profile phone number text was cropped
bugfix: Autoredial attempts were wrongly counted
bugfix: Skype contacts were shown as SkypeOut contacts when sending SMS
bugfix: Accessibility: Not all buttons in profile were selectable via Tabstop
bugfix: Multiple device indicators were overlaying sometimes
bugfix: Status icon was shown wrongly on some machines
bugfix: Unable to copy emoticons while writing chat message
bugfix: Chat did not open from right place when person has extended
keyboard navigation enabled
bugfix: Selecting text with double click did not work as expected
when there were links in message
bugfix: Skype sometimes crashed on call transfer
bugfix: Duplicate entries in contact list
bugfix: Contact groups scrollbar visible when groups not expanded
bugfix: Voicemail event count does not decrease after listening to it
bugfix: Sound error not played on some actions
bugfix: German match case option in chat shown in black
bugfix: Cyrillic characters were shown wrongly on some places
bugfix: Chat messages were shown with too much indent
bugfix: Long usernames displayed wrongly in Events Panel
bugfix: Skype displayes blanks under Audio Settings
bugfix: Name not shown on tray alert on 1680x1050 resolution
bugfix: Call forwarded icon not displayed
bugfix: Changing participants view was not possible in chat window
bugfix: Add to SkypeOut did not work as expected on some rare cases
bugfix: Options accessibility has usability problems with screen readers
bugfix: Chat window content was too wide
bugfix: Chat controls did not appear instantly
bugfix: Video calls should be better on relayed connections
bugfix: Video calls with integrated Intel video cards had green flicker
bugfix API: It was not possible to select default audio device

Regards Steve

Sound Effects Website

Someone found a cool sound effects website that I checked out and I thought that it was wonderful because a lot of the sound effects are very high quality and you can use them for free and comercial games. You can sign up for free and upload sounds that you have made that are high quality. The best thing is that it is very accessible. The website is:
http://www.soundsnap.com