Gaming Hacks (a book AGS is mentioned in)

[Gilbert]

The AGS section is too short to give some details. Also:

Of course, the 16-color mode provides that true-retro feel.

16-color mode? When?

[Etcher Squared Games]

Has CJ seen this thread yet?

Perhaps he should read over the book and send in updates to the author.
Perhaps they meant 16bit mode, but that's not retro.

The Space Quest I generation of games was EGA right?   
Or did AGS used to support a 16 color depth?

Yeah unfortunatly it's very short on AGS stuff.  It was really a joke to myself to see if AGS was even in there.  But AGS appears to be the only adventure making software on there.

[Gilbert]

AGS never supported 16 colour modes (you can of course, use only 16 colours for your graphics).

I can get away with the agsforums.com links not working part though, since I assume this book was published before the move.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Nevertheless, they should have linked to www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk, which has always been the official address, and which redirects...

[Gilbert]

They had put in that link, the problem is, if you're referring to a specific page you have to put in the exact url. You can try using http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk, click a page from the left menu, watch the brower's url firld and you'll know what I meant. A better choice, of course, is not posting those direct links, but write explicitly like "click the download page from the left menu".

[Pumaman]

Hehe that's pretty cool. It is a pity about the direct links to pages on agsforums.com that no longer work, but it's no biggy since I'm sure people can work it out for themselves from the front page.

Has CJ seen this thread yet?
Perhaps he should read over the book and send in updates to the author.

I don't think there's any point. It's a book, it has been printed, it's too late. The only point of correcting the author would be if the book was going to have a 2nd edition, how likely that is here I don't know.

[magintz]

Yes but after printing thousands of copies how bad would it make them feel to have all these errors

Anyway nice to see AGS is making more of a public apperance.

[PsychicHeart]

yeah, i mean if more people get to see it, more people will get in to gaming and hopefully it won't be such a "geeky" thing. You'd be surprised how many people think that it is really really hard to make a game, even an amatuer game.

[magintz]

The more people interested in adventure games the better, which means more commercial adventures and more amateur ones too

[PsychicHeart]

i foresee the return of the adventure genre!!!!

[Mr Jake]

I don't.  For a start, if I was reading that book I'd skip over AGS and get straight to the pinball tables

[PsychicHeart]

it does give AGS a pretty good rap though.