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[PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REPEAT ALL THESE STEPS IF YOU WANT TO PLAY AGAIN]

Rejoice! I have found a way that allows anyone to play old AGS games on todays computers!
(Note: when I say old, I mean comes with 'rundos' 'runwin' 'setupdos' and 'setupwin'.)
The simple solution is Dosbox!
1. Download Dosbox off of its site.
2. Download CWSDPMI (Warning: some sites that host this file may contain viruses, trojans, etc.)
3. unzip both
4. If you got the installer version of Dosbox, install it.
5. Place CWDPMI.exe in the AGS games folder.
6. Run Dosbox
7. In the command prompt that appears, type: "mount I C:\AGS\" Without quotes (Where 'I' is a fake drive you want to mount, and 'C:\AGS\' is the directory of the folder of the AGS game.)
8. Type "I:" without quotes (Where I is whatever drive letter you mounted)
9. Type "setupdos.bat"
10. in the dos setup choose autodetect for  the sound and midi categories then choose a resolution in the final category. Save and Exit of course.
11. You should be brought back to the command prompt.
12. now type in the name of the games executable (e.g. Night of the hermit: "Hermit.exe") and press enter
13. Have fun!
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REPEAT ALL THESE STEPS IF YOU WANT TO PLAY AGAIN
If you want to play the game again, and you have already done the aforementioned method,  You can just do this...

1. In the command prompt that appears, type: "mount I C:\AGS\" Without quotes (Where 'I' is a fake drive you want to mount, and 'C:\AGS\' is the directory of the folder of the AGS game.)
2. Type "I:" without quotes (Where I is whatever drive letter you mounted)
3. now type in the name of the games executable (e.g. Night of the hermit: "Hermit.exe") and press enter
4. Have fun!

P.S.
Thank you for taking the time to read this tutorial and I hope It keeps those old AGS games away from the recycling bin!  :'(

I took the time and finally beat the camel puzzle on NDRSS, then I saved and quit. The next day I started the game up again and realized my save was corrupted. Does anyone have a save game file near this point? I REALLY don't want to have to go through all that again.

Here are two main characters for the game I have just started, I figured I might as well start right by asking for some critic.

Mel the Apple
Paul the Pear

[The Ultimate Adventure Game List]

I think that all of us adventure game enthusiasts would love to discover another old gem, a game you have never heard of but is great fun. I hope to make a list in this thread of all the adventure games we know and enjoy. Hopefully, some of us will discover new games we havent played yet!   P.S. I will modify this post so everyone will the the games in this list
The Ultimate Adventure Game List
Lucasarts
Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Loom, Zak Mckracken and the Alien Mindbenders, The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island II: Lechuck's Revenge, Curse of Monkey Island, Escape from Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, The Dig, Sam and Max hit the Road.

Sierra
Kings Quest Series 1-7, Space Quest 1-6, Police Quest 1-3, Leisure Suit Larry 1-6, Gobliiins

Telltalegames
They a lot of games still just go to their site telltalegames.com

Random Companies
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Beneath a Steel Sky
The Neverhood

I didn't know of those lists... For anyone looking at this page please use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graphic_adventure_games , or http://gamesolutions.efzeven.nl/commercial-e/ , they contain many adventure games. P.S. Thanks to Leon and Babar for pointing out these sites

I am making a game with a Lucasarts-ish GUI. I am now trying to revamp the status bar (Status bar= Look at toast, Pick up socks etc..). I thought what if the the status bar was right next to the mouse. This would save some of the eye-strain caused by looking up at the mouse and looking back down to see if the hotspot under it has changed. This may have been done in another AGS game I don't know, but I wanted some opinnions on which you all thought was better.

You know how in Monkey Island when you go all the way to the right of the screen in the voodoo ladies house, it scrolls to the right and the once dark part of the room becomes light. I am wondering how to do that in AGS.

In night of the hermit I know that the magnet with the bush doesn't work on the windows version. I know that I have to switch it to dos. However, I have Windows 7 now and it doesn't work with dos. Will I never be able to finish night of the hermit again?  :'(

Correction: I Can't even START Night of the Hermit with windows seven.

I have imported many backgrounds into my game, but everytime I import a background, A grey area appears around bottom and right sides of the room. It doesn't appear in the game, but I'm wondering if I should be concerned.