I seem to have triggered a bug that causes games get saved in the save game dialog. When you load it, you find yourself in the save game dialog again. This causes weird stuff when saving many games, as the game seems to remember some games and some not (not very sure about this one, though). I've seen this with AGS 2.70 (v2.70.864) for Linux, within two different games.
First time happened a few days ago playing Emily Enough; it only happened towards the second half of the game. Now I see it happen with Two of a Kind, which I just began. Here I can reproduce it every time in the initial room, before moving or anything; I just save the game at the very beginning.
Once it happens, it seems to stick; in other words, next time you save the game, you'll find yourself in the save dialog again upon loading the savegame.
It didn't happen to me with Apprentice 1 and 2, or Soviet-Unterzögersdorf and I haven't played other games recently.
Unless there's a specific problem with the linux engine that we're not aware of -- this should just depend on how the game has been scripted. The game's script should turn off the Save Game GUI before it actually saves the game to disk, otherwise you'll get the effect that you mention.
Has anyone else had this problem playing these games?
The save/load GUI script for Emily Enough is crap, it was a last minute effort that I pieced together without much of a knowledge base. If you experience problems with it, it's most likely the script, not the linux engine.
Thanks Anarcho. Since them I played quite a few games and I only saw the bug creep out in Casablanca, so I guess it really is game dependent.
Maybe an issue for a FAQ somewhere?