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Hey guys!

Haven't dropped by here for years I think! Glad to see it's still such a living community and nice to see a few familiar names among the posters. Big hugs on ya all!

Actually I just accidently wandered by and thought I'd drop a line. Brings back memories Would be kinda nice to try and make a little new game... But, nah, too many other things going on right now. Drop an e-mail if you need some music for a game though. And if the next Mittens is somewhere close I might just make a cameo...

Best wishes to you all, oldies and newies!
- Anton/Vargtass/MachineElf

Hey guys!
Don't know if anybody really noticed me missing for two weeks but now I'm back from this year's probably best experience (sorry Mitteneers, but you're just second now...) - The Samothraki Sance Festival. Five nights (and more) of great psychedelic dance and world music, wonderful people (about 8000 of them!) and the best atmosphere ever. The site was on Samothraki, a pretty large island in the north east of Greece, not far from Turkey. There were long pebble beaches (is that what you call beaches with small rocks rather than sand?) to wash off the worst of mud in the salty mediterranean water and about 45 minute walk (climb rather...) from the festival were wonderful waterfalls in the mountains with fresh water pools (best water we ever drank in Greece).
The festival itself was 6 days of music 24h/day. Dancing with thousands of people in the sunset to great psychedelic music is one experience you don't easily beat.

Enough rambling. I just wanted to tell everybody how great time I had and that I really recommend everybody to some time try to visit a dance festival. Even if you're not into goa/trance etc the experience and the people is so great you should do it at least once in your lifetime (though you'll probably end up going to more once you've started). So, even if I probably won't attend Mittens next year I hope to meet you on some festival somewhere in the world!

On monday I fly to Greece to dance my ass off for 6 days at the Samothraki Dance Festival. Is anybody else going there?
Can't wait 'til I get there!

Since none of my "beta testers" actually ever said anything about the game (I'm not even sure everybody's addresses worked, hm...), I thought I might just post this here. Not sure if I will finish this. It's kinda experimental, just to see what actually is possible in AGS.

Play it and give me some feedback, and I might just finish this! Some functions doesn't work yet and it might be buggy and unbalanced, but that's for you all to find out.

Download here:
http://homepage.te.hik.se/student/au22bf/pbem.zip

Features:
Play-By Email! (make your move, then send file by e-mail to opponent)
Team building
Team enhancing (xp system)
Replay the opponent's moves
1600 lines of code (which I just may make public on demand)
Ugly graphics

Enjoy!

This might not be the right thread, so someone might kill me for this, but I just uploaded all songs from my old band's last two 'albums' to Soundclick. They are a little old and not really what I do anymore but I thought I'd share them with you as I'd hate them to be forever forgotten :)

Listen and enjoy:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/1/comamusic.htm

During Mittens I recall we discussed some program that would help playing old DOS games. Unfortunately I don't remeber what program it was. I don't think it was ScummVM nor was it Moslo or similar.
Does anyone know what program it could've been or at least know of such program? My system isn't too good at playing those oldies anymore... Especially not if I want sound and music as my soundcard is never ever supported in DOS.
Help, please? :)

--- EDIT:
I don't think I'll need any more beta testers for now, but if anybody really, really want to, just send me a PM...


--- Original message:
Haven't really announced this one but I'm making a play-by-e-mail game in AGS. I'm almost there, it actually works although not always the way I want it to (...), but I need more people's opinions.

Warning! This is not an adventure game, people who play it may suffer from injures if not prepared!

Ok, so who's up to try out the probably first over-the-net multiplayer tactics game made in AGS? :)

PM me your e-mail and I'll send you a zip.
What I want you to do is basically check it out and get a feel for it. Is it at all fun to play? Is it worth finishing? How can it be improved? Is it balanced enough?

Isn't the modulo operator (% in C and C++) implented in AGS? Why? Even if most people will probably never use it but I think it would be useful.

(Sorry for posting so much here the last few hours, but I've just gotten around doing a little advanced stuff with AGS again...)

I found a little nasty bug in the editor.
If you have the GUI editor running, and then open the global script you can still use parts of the GUI editor by switching to the editor window in the task bar.
This caused the editor to hang up after closing the script editor.

It's possible to import functions to room scripts, but is it also possible to declare a function in the top of my global script so I don't have to care about the order I write the functions?

example:
// top of script:
function addition (int,int);

//further down:
function addition (int para1, int para2)
{
return para1+para2
}

This would sometimes be pretty helpful...

Can anyone explain to me how the File I/O in AGS really work?
There seem to be no way of reading a specific line in a file or even reading more than one thing from a file, or am I getting this all wrong?

An examle: Say I have a file called bice.dat that looks something like this (I guess the file format looks somewhat different but never mind for now):

"This is a string
5 10
15
-- EOF --"

Now I'd like to read the first line into a string and the numbers into three different integers. Would this be possible in any way? And how do I make a file that actually look like this?

If anyone wonders I'm once again trying to expand the limits of AGS a little, this time by making a little play-by-email game...

This is a song me and a friend (who wrote most of the lyrics and criticised a lot...) made for a project in school.
It's actually a kind of experiment, I wanted to make a classical boy band production, so consider this both extremely ironic and dead serious at the same time...

So here are Backdoor Boys with their number one hit: Another Day! Enjoy
http://lab.hultsfred.net/bs/files/Music%20Engineering/13-Backdoor%20Boys%20-%20Another%20day.mp3
I'll be glad for any kind of criticism!

To hear the rest of the tunes from the project (all by people in my class) follow this (in Swedish but you're probably smart enough to download the songs...):
http://lab.hultsfred.net/bs/wiki/ow.asp?MeSkivan

When trying to run Ratracer's TUM (The -something- Machine) I get the following error:

"Illegal exception"
"An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x004B036A ; program pointer is +0, ACI version 2.54.522, gtags (0,0)"

I have no idea what this could mean, has anybody else experienced this with this game. It's version 1.1 of the game btw.

Maybe this has been discussed here earlier, but what's the deal with http://www.lucasfiles.com/ ?
Is Lucasart positive to fan games?

Hiya guys!
Zup? :)
Haven't been around much, communities haven't been high prio the last few months... But here comes summer which means no school and all friends leave town so I might just be around a little.
I see a lot have happened with AGS, must download the latest version and play around a little...
So, any gossip for me? :)

Cheers!