Author: Elizabeth Schwartz
Date: 14:48:10 02/15/01
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Thanks for the fast response! I think it is very cool that you are hanging out here and listening to us On February 15, 2001 at 15:04:06, John Merlino wrote: > >1) As far as I know, each tutorial is broken up into pages, and the tutorial >will not proceed to the next page until you press the "Next" button. But, yes, >the tutorials are intended to be used with sound, as the visual cues (moving >pieces, drawing arrows, etc.) match up to certain points in the text and would >be useless if they were not timed to the audio. They would be useful if you could step through them reading the text as you go. Take for example the "Defense" Section. For one "page", the pieces might move four or five times. If you stop to read the text, by the time you're done reading the pieces have all moved around. This is an accessibility issue for visually impaired users, as well as us slow folks. It's a shame to *require* sound when you've got all the text already there. >2) Almost all of the tutorials have "Chapters", which are subsets of each >tutorial. In the Curriculum tree, anything that is indented is a chapter of its >"parent" tutorial. This allows you to jump into the middle of some of the longer >tutorials. But, no, there is no way to actually bookmark a particular page. This is what makes the tutorial almost impossible to use. Take the "Defense" section. There are 67 "pages". Suppose I've done 30 of them. To find my place I have to hit "Next" 29 times - and each time I have to wait for an audio segment to load and interrupt it. This really ruins the tutorial. There's so *much* material that you can't do one section in a single night. I need to study some, then go review and play, then go pick up where I left off. But, this is impossible! Some of the sections have *two hundred* pages and it takes many minutes to recover your place *EACH TIME*. F'rinstance, there are 172 "pages" in the "Forks" section. I'm never ever going to get to the end of this in one session and I'm never going to have the patience to hit "next" 170 times to pick up my previous place. So, it's really unusable as it is. Also I've jumped around a bit and have absolutely no idea where I am in each section. I've got to use *pencil and paper* to keep track! >3) The chessboard selection in the Classroom should be nearly identical to the >selection in the Game Room. Obviously, some piece sets were not intended to be >used with some boards (a 2D set on a 3D board, for example). Which board and set >combination would you like to use that the program will not allow? I haven't hit anything that's not allowed, It's a matter of *finding* them, really. I am still trying to find a board that fits in the library when I have the Annotation and Pieces Captured windows below the board. I admit this is just a personal preference thing, not on the same order as the tutorial interface. > >4) This is a new one on me. Nobody else reported problems with sound on NT. >What is your sound card? Oh, it's definitely a problem with my laptop, not your game. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply otherwise! Compaq Armada's are famous for cruddy sound. The driver distributed by Compaq for NT is awful. It's an ESS 1879 chip. Fortunately I found a better driver on the ESS website which cleared things right up.
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