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Sorry to be so offtopic (BTW the code does look elegant!
But I do question the wisdom of resetting the lock at every mistake. That's just frustrating, and the player already has the numbers, right? So why not make use of the fact that this is a game and magically put/keep the numbers correct?

Sorrry to reopen this thread after such a long time, (is that not done? If so: sorry, I won't do it again)
But, I'm now stuck elsewhere in the game:

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My probe has the umbrella, how do I manage to get hold of it?

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BTW I totally dig this game!

Have yet to test this, but would like to say thank you for this! Ultra-cool!

I found MI1 to be aesthetically superior to MI2, esp. the early chapters of MIO2 looked a bit yucky, but it was cool that they usedmore than MI1's 16. I've never played CMI, but from what screenshots I've seen, your style is nicer (although I understand the comment of MI1 having more refined use of colour. Having said that: This effort gets a lot of applause from me, please bring it to fruition! And well done so far!

There's just one thingy I've noticed so far (debatable whether this should go in hints & tips or here:)

After having accidentally shot at the fortress 1x and then the 3 boats, and made the gaff, the pirates' remains don't come floeting near the ship - have I mucked up my sequence of actions?)

Also, I'm not sure solo saxophone tunes would fit a heavy sci-fi game... but then again, maybe?...    It's just that for some reason I imagined Kenny G's kind of sax pop. Now, if it was some really dark and strange modern jazz.. that could be an interesting combination.

Still, the post is taken and bits of the soundtrack I heard are pretty damn good!  8)

Grim, to my knowledge, I haven't published yet anything for the soundtrack, so what "bits" are you talking about?

No offence, DutchMarco, but I really would have hard time trying to fit sax sound there, althought I haven't seen much of the game yet.

Fair enough guys, no offense taken, guess you're right about the sax not fitting into an SF game, although I could imagine it working - not that I'm a good enough player to pull it off!

I read in he titles of some posts that you are looking for a musician. I have a tenor saxophone, which I can play a bit as well , if you'd like to, I could record some tunes for you (simple tunes, mind; and the recording-sound-quality won't be so great either).

This game is brilliant! So is Merrick's voice! (and the talk-anim of the professor in the introduction!

But I must admit, I'm rather stuck at the UV-light, now.

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]Do I need an item to throw at te light switch? The carrot and blood won't work.

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This photo clearly shows why (Northern) Ireland is not yet at peace: http://www.sonores.de/mittens2011/Mittens_2011_in_Ireland.html#2 The cannons are pointing the wrong way! How else would they keep the locals subdued?
But surely the water in Turcany was at better temperature? http://www.sonores.de/mittens2011/Mittens_2011_in_Ireland.html#12 But seriously, this looked like another brilliant Mittens, glad you guys & gals had such fun!
It's great to see you all again, even if it's only on photos...
And guess who's behind the bar again, helping himself to cheap booze below the counter? http://www.sonores.de/mittens2011/Mittens_2011_in_Ireland.html#25 Mark, you weren't at work you know?

Darn, I've already seen the film, so I know how this game goes But I'm excited about this prroject! Please do bring it to fruition! (don't let it stall like what happens to so many ambitious projects)

Right,

So I restored Windoze to the situation of over a month ago, but now my google results aren't hijacked by bidvertiser, but by groupon And I've found this:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/212500/groupon_to_google_no_thanks.html
Google has bought up several businesss I have listed in my C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts-file, referring them to 127.0.0.1 (effectively blocking access to them - that's how much I dislike them.): Groupon and DoubleClick. So this google is on it's way to becoming my most despised company in internet history (they have competition to that title, but they're busy buying up that competition. Surely not because they want to eliminate these companies? That'd be too good to be true)

Harumpf I have both Symantec AV and Sygate Firewall, I'd hoped (and expected) they would've helped prevent something like this. Would it help if I removed Firefox and reinstalled? Now, how would that Malware have gotten installed? Because I don't recalll having done anything that could've let it in.
Thanks for the tip, anyway.
Running full scan now, w updated virus defs.

Not my music either I'm affraid. To be totally Frank (takes quite an effort, being Marco, not having seen Frank since graduating from college) the singer is the weakest link (his voice sounds too generic Indie, which is not at all my genre). The guitarist could really teach me a thing or 2 about accompaniment, kudos! I did like the song Spooks. Also, on one of the songs you started with quite confusing timing, and that's a compliment!

BTW, FYI, my 2 favourite songs are Yoo Doo Right and Chain Reaction by Can (so I'm difficult to please). But keeep it up, you've got something worthwhile going here!

Ps I wrote he compliment about your guitarist before reading that he hijacked the mix, which is a bit naughty of him.

Am I the only one who experiences this? I search, get a neat, perfectly normal page with results, when I  li k a link, I get taken to , for instance, http://www.satellitedirect.com/?hop=ppccrash while the link is listed in google's results shown as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripstop . This happens both on a laptop and desktop (using Firefox 5, FWIW). If I copy and paste the link I do get to the desired site.
Sample of the search result (I manually added the red lines and ?):

Let me explain: I've just come back from a visit to my sister who lives in Norway, and of course we've travelled a bit- like proper tourists, And at one Fjord, we stopped for lunch at a kro (Norwegian for road-side restaurant) where they served kummle, a local dish that looks like this:

The flavour wasn't awful (don't let the looks deceive you!), I bravely finished the dish, but I now understand why the Vikings set out on rickety boats for other worlds, and the fabled (though back then not yet so much) Haut Cuisine!

Oh well, at least I'm immune to the cold now! Didn't really need it: in Hol, we had temperatures of about 15°C, which were very nice (it felt much warmer than it actually was).

True, just thought I'd mention it in a thread that makes fun of the one actually decent OS by Microsoft besides XP

Which one would that be?You're not talking about DOS, are you? In all fairness, DOS was not a decent OS - no multitasking/-threading, poor security, etc. Good gaming though. And I solved teh problem by using a search in Explorer², the program that makes file management in Windoze pleasant. So a workaround that was't much of a puzzle (the bigger puzzle would have been to install Linux, and write a bash-script to do that - a much more challeniging puzzle, but with hopefully more satisfying outcome).

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I reserved the right to type "xcopy /?"After all, xcopy is/was a DOS-tool, so if it doesn't display sufficient documentation with that command, it should just get hold of some "man" pages.  or learn to live with it.

(duh, don't I mean that I should  learn to live with... nah.)

You don't need to put it in a batch file. You could do that command straight from the command line.

Wow, I never knew there was a command called "for", I'll keep that in mind, could come in handy!

I'm not sure what language Calin is suggesting (oh, he tells me it is a dos command), but the way I do it, is using winrar, and then setting it to "Do not store paths" in the advanced options. After it is all archived, you can unrar it wherever you want.
Probably more convoluted than Calin's method, but it works .

Thanks you all!  Yeah, I guess Calin's command would be what you'd put in a batch file, I hadn't even thought of that! Instead of going by WinRAR (which is quite a cumbersome method), I used Explorer² by Zabkat (brilliant program, BTW!), I searched for all files with a given extension, and from the resulting resultset I copied all files , by mouse, but in one go into a new dir. Not the ideal approach (to me that would be command line), but it worked.

Thanks anyway for your advice!

Forgive me for asking this question, but I didn't know where else to ask.

I want to copy a whole bunch of files with a given extension (say, *.txt) from a dir structure into a single directory, leaving out the directory structure.
Say,the files are in D:\aa\aab\*.* and aa\aac\*.* etc and I wanted to copy all *.txtfiles to c:\yaddayadda. I tried xcopy, but it does copy all the aab and aac directories, which I obviously don't want. I don't know how else to do this / what tool to use. BTW I'm on XP, not Windoze 6 or 6.1 (aka 7).

Since these are 40 files I don't want to do this by hand.

Yes, awesome graphics, even the updated/smoothed versoion of Bernard looks good (always risky business, restyling a classic)good to see they've kept some original bits, like Bernard, Dr Fred, the clown, the hamster.

can't wait to play it! Hope it's as good as the expectations are getting to be! Oh, and I'd prefer to play it in English, but the German version will do too. Now, the original had really good speech, Hope that this fanversion will too (that'll be difficult, making the voices sound the same)