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So I tried to sell my new cellphone today (Megashaft Windoze will never be my kind of OS, not in mobile form or whatever; eyeing Android now) so I put up an asking price of 299 euros, one ady I saw in te mail that I had an offer for 310. Whahey! thought I, so I contacted this guy, sent him an e-mail ( in Dutch), and got answer in English (this raised suspicion a bit) and the buyer said he wanted to buy it for a friend of his who had helped him with hospitalization in Nigeria (!). Oh well, for that kind of money you give someone the benefit of the doubt, right? But I was definitely in cautious mode now.

So the guy said he'd pay me through Paypal, and include E50 for shipping. (which costs only E17.76 for a foreign shipment)Ever more luring into actually shipping the damn thing!

I received 2 mails from "service@paypal.com" <assignedaccountmanager@accountant.com>
claiming the Paypal transactions were completed, of course, I saw nothing of the sort in my Paypal-account. So I wrote the 'buyer' (calling himself Justin Qilliams, jwhills41@yahoo.com) thatso long as I hadn't erceived any money, I wasn't going to ship anything.  Now, this is when the real fun started:

I started getting e-mailswith 'Justin' claiming he had genuinely paid the money, but Paypal wouldn't book it to my account until I gave Paypal a shipment confirmation,And he'd take legal action unless I was wiling to protect my good name and my Paypal account (which he'd have Paypal block), and I promprtly also received 2 mails by the "FBI Investigation department" <investigationcomplain@cyberservices.com> (I thought the whole FBI was about investigating and it was the CIA that also had a department beside that, one for shooting magic bullets from grassy knolls).

But I wasn't going to rigorously cut this path off, so I offered him the chance of coming by my house in person, collect the phone and pay in cash, if for some magic reason Paypal had delayed transferring his moneys to my accounty, then either I would transfer it back to cancel/withdraw his transfer.to get his money back. I even said it was now up to him to make sure taht Paypal didn't follow those ridiculous rules about not transferring money immediately as is the Paypal-norm (I think, but I'm not telilng this guy I'm not 100% sure about that) but they'd have to transfer the money immediately to my account.

The moment it arrived there I would imediately send him the phone, and not a second sooner. But the guy wouldn't let up (well, maybe he just has, I haven't received any mails anymore after that), he continued to believe I was stupid enough  to fall for his transparent ploys.
So ehst have I learned from this? I really hate it when people take me for an imbecile, I'm insulted that they think I'm stupid enough to fall for their nonsense. Don't get me started about how this applies to politicians as well... (you already know what I'm talking about, so fill in the gaps yourself) I know I've got to be angry with this guy, and trust me, I am. But I can't help but laugh at him for the stupidity that he has portrayed, It just wouldn't dawn on him that I owwould not fall for this scam.
Maybe the light first dawned on him when I adressed him in my last mail as "Justin (Or whatever your real name is),
And he actually repeatedly ended his mails with an ultimatum, like this:
"Am waiting within 30 minutes".

I hop you all got a good laugh out of this, I certainly did (and a good cry and similar frustrations as well).

Oh, and if anyone is interested in buying it, here's the add (in Dutch)
Link To Purchase

I've tried to play this game, but my mouse cursor keeps disappearing. It started in the intromenu,but then smoehow my mouse appeared again, so I could click the start game-button, then when I got off the opost coach, the cursor was gone again. I'm now sticking to 64/x//400 windowed.

I was running it at 640x400, full screen (my PC can't do 320x200 FS)

Oh and I've found a bug with the savegame-dialog parchment: the text I'm typing appears in a strange place (see blue arrows):

Just watch this, you'll laugh out loud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEjUAnPc2VA

So it's not entirely adventure game related, but this film could have been the script of an adventure game.

Since the iphone runson macOS, you'd need to be able to run ags-games on a mac. it would then be not too difficult to create a runtime environment for the iphone, much.like wtherr already is such an environment for linux. I myself would prefer if such efforts would be directed toward windoze mobile since I have recently ordered an HTC-phone with said os. although having ags games available to mac users would be real nice toward them, but then again, Miez also.has a "normal pc". so he can play games if he wants to.

Trust me, I have my reasons for asking and I sldocthink there are some here, who might be able to help me out with this. I'm looking for the Welsh translation of
"New Wales".
Anyone? I know Wales is called Cymru  I believe it's supposed ta be pronounced as kuhmree. I might need some help with the pronounciation though, send me a sound file with an example (pm me for my mail-address) and I may even ask you to read my podcast story.

Hi guys-n-galls, I seem to have worked my way into stuckedness again, Ican't get into Atlantis. They've taken Sophia in there and I can't align the stones properly:

I think they're aligned properly, but apparently they're not!

I could really use some help here!

One thing I find helps well is to write the puzzles into your storyline from the get-go.

I guess you've got to have a sort of knack for it (not that I'm boasting that I have such a great knack for it), but as Eggie already mentioned, you've got to decompose the storyline for it. Of course no hero can save the princess without having to slay the dragon first, decompose how you should slay the dragon, what with, where to find those tools, etc. Once the dragon has been slain, find a way to ecologically-friendly get rid of the corpse, then find a way to get inside the villainous mage's castle, of course that presumes that the hero already has knows where the castle is.

Thought I'd share this with you, even though it's not a game, and it's not even about Indy himself! But the author hsa made a sterling attempt to get close to the atmosphere, using some supernatural (religeous) twists on the Indy-theme to make it different (enough). So here's where you can find it:
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/ancient-rising-1
(BTW you did realise I was writing about an audiobook, right?)

And yes, the warning about the synthetic voice starting at chapter 12 is very prudent (and fortunately not needed fo most books there, being fully narrated by humans), but still worth a listen!

Oliwerko,
Just a quick tip to upload the file to my ftp-site ooijer.serveftp.com, PM me about it and I'll put it in the webserver space so it will be downloadable  as http://home.ooijer.com/ags/Into the Dawn.mp3.
In fact I've just put the fie up there just now!  so anyone can use that link - without having to see all sorts of banner-ads (this makes me think: I should spproach Google)
P.s. I'll give you some crit - after a quick listen: Seems a bit monochromatic in the sense that you've inly used one instrument(during the first half), the 2nd (after  ± 2:00) sounds nicer, though it's still heavy on the keyboard+synth -sound types.
On the upside, it does make me think back to my Amiga days though (which is considered a good thing in these circles incl. me) It does have the right kind of moodiness for a background score, apart from Amiga, it makes me think of SQ.

Happy Birthday, Santa!

Ha, The pronounciction is like GroSvenor, yet you type GroveSnor, which is a bit weird.

ANyway, thanks for the hint!

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I'd not have thought of the gravel in the driveway, good puzzle!

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But Now I'm stuck with this one: EDIT: not anymore

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trying to get downstairrs at night, after the scream, Rick wants to Help Sarah first, but I don't know where to find her

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I guess, I'm really sad, I can't even get into the grosvenor house (Calin, you've made a typo - it's  should be GroSvenor insted of groveSnor). But how do I get in?

I've foud this sit, www.jamendo.com where you can download w lot of freely distributable music under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ license. This should be a cool resource for games-music! (and leisure-music too)

You need to do this process twice.  

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Use camera on the bull head, and also use camera on the bull tail.  Then both lines will cross, and give you a new 'X'.  That's where you need to dig.  

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Hope that helps.   8)

Cool, thanks. I've already found the bull's tail, but I have no idea where to found the bull's head you speak of.
Duh! Never mind, I've found it now, right next to the tail (obviously, otherwise the lines  could never cross)

Hi All,

Yes, I know, why play that old thing again, well, because it's cool! But it's also difficult, and now I'm enormously stuck. I'm on Crete, (in the team path btw), and I've released the X which marks the spot (see pic) But where does it end up? I can see it flying off teh bottom of the screen, butI don't see it landing anywhere.


Could anyone help me with this? I've got a walkthrough but it doesn't help me with this. I tried exploring that area to see if an X was stuck on the ground, but I couldn't walk reach the area where I thought it would be or it wasn't in any other position I've looked.

There seems to be a perfect atmosphere..wondering have you got any musician, I'd love to compose for this,that's why!

If you feel like you'd like to compose some music for it then that would be cool. I am having problems with the music for a particular scene. The music has to be tense and upbeat to show urgency but it cant be modern and contemporary sounding. Modern music would break the atmosphere i think. If you reckon you could give it a go, feel free to try.

As for the music, I just bought a saxophone (well, "just", I bought it after Mittens + holiday. I'm still not very good at playing it, but if you give me a music score, I should be able to record  a decent-sounding sample. BTW it's an Alto, and I've bought a Vibes sax-partner (no, not a sex-partner, still without one I'm affraid) and the Vibes let's me record music as well, almost like a DI would work for a guitar. I'm saying this because film-noir makes me think of saxophone sounds wafting through the rain from inside the bar where the main charcter meets the floozy. Oh, and I must say that I think it would sound killer when played as background music to your voice.

[EDIT: IP address has changed: it's now ftp://195.241.178.132]

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce my very own little contrribution to the AGS-community: several Gigabytes of storage space on my FTP-server: ftp://77.163.184.124 EDIT: IP address has changed: it's now ftp://195.241.178.132 I'm also trying to get the hostname ftp://ooijer.serveftp.com up and going again, but I'm having problems with No-Ip.
Note that this FTP-serversi running on my NAS (Network Attached Storage device) is running in my own home, so chances are that I'll power it down sometimes (though I try to keep it running for long periods of time). Oh, also, I'll change ISP in November, so my IP-address will change then. I'll let you all know.
Note that you'll see 2 directories when loggin in: AGS And upload. Upload and AGS. both are RW-access. (I thought about setting AGS to RO but changed that. So please upload straight into the AGS-directory and ignore upload if at all possible (that's just a legacy-dri, actually). Now, even though I have enough space free now, I do reserve the right to free up more when space becomes scarce, so do yourself a favor and keep backups, this space is only for sharing, not backing up (even though I do use a RAID-5 cluster of disks), I use it as a backup device for my own, personal data
Oh, and tryo to use this only for distributing AGS-games, (or maybe a Ben Jordan-movie or somesuch) don't post any "BJ in the girls dorm"kind of movies please, also, please keep things legal-ish I don't want to get in any kind of trouble, y'all hear?
Oh, and also, pretty please, try not to slurp up all my bandwith all day(s) long or whatever.Summary: Please be kind.  

Having said all this: here's a summary of the details:

ftp://77.163.184.124 ftp://195.241.178.132 (I tried setting up a domain name but for some reason, this doesn't work any more - used to though, keep trying ftp://ooijer.serveftp.com)
UID: ags
Password: ags
(Login required both for up- and download)
Send me a message when you've uploaded a game there, I'll put it in the HTTP-directory so it can be downloaded from home.ooijer.com without cumbersome log-in)
There's a 1GB quota set for this user, I don't know if this is for both up- and download, but keep in mind, for most games this should be no problem)

Oh, also note, that I haven't setup the HTTP-server as I'D like it (as in: with access to the FTP-uploads), so you'll have to use the FTP-site for both up- and download.
The server's been offline for a while due to anISP-change but it'ds back now.

I'll have to cancel this offer for the time being- I'm fighting my routers to get that cursed port forwarding to work - I'll keep you all posted when it's OK again!

Update! I've now set and verified this domain name to work: ftp://ooijer.serveftp.com, so no need to depend on the IP-address anymore. (all other comments still apply)

I just found the links my Italinan collague found on thee interwebs for me, they look rather cool so I thought I' dtoss them in the thread:
Search term used: Una casa vacanze per 20 persone. (accomodation for 20 persons)

<http://www.interhome.it/Casa+di+vacanza/Italia/Cilento/Paestum/IT6090.800.1/IT-IT.html?lCode=IT-IT&dtCheckIn=2010-07-03&duration=14>
<http://www.interhome.it/Casa+di+vacanza/Italia/Lucca_Pisa/Orciatico/IT5249.800.8/IT-IT.html?lCode=IT-IT&dtCheckIn=2010-07-03&duration=14>

Ah yes, I apologise for the large list, But in my defense I must add that I divided the options by sleeping capacity, so if we can decide upon how many people will (most likely) be Mitticians this year (I'd say ±25 would be a safe guess) we could narrow down the choice. And I must say that the Italian villa you refer to looks awesome, the only downside I see (and it's quite a big one in my eyes) is that it doesn't have one common room, but several, they may be close by, but I still have teh feeling that his would be sub-optimal, so this fact alone has demoted this evnue to the bottom of my personal list. But that's just me gibbering. As enticing as an Italian holiday looks, (I don't seem to have the links ready anymore, which my Italian colleague mailed me (I'll have a look in my work e-mail), those were some very nice residenzas (I hope I haven't insulted anyone Italian with that word!) my current favorite would be the Elderschans (the one Dualnames screamed "Wow" at) Though any of the British castles are high on my list too! Though oddly enough you have to look carefully so as not to pick the ones which only sleep 2. A whole f-wording castle for 2? That's insane! Ah yes, that would be British aristocratic excentricity for you, mah dear.

Oh BTW mods, I havent' seen any mention of animals, only that there don't seem to allow pets.

The secret was...
a great way of selling the game to curious and gullible people like you!

The secret to capitalist consumerism: make surepeople want to buy something, even though they don't know why they want to/what good it's for.

That's the long explanation for: it was just a catchy title.