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Renaming a file to .jpg doesn't magically convert it. It's a .bmp.

Scid has it now.

Pea-creepers and golden plums. Lots of them.

This is a very fun game, although I think I've found a way to unbalance it. I just scored 9318582 points.

I'm not really sure why I'm posting this, considering how utterly uninteresting it is, but meh... it's only about 6 KB, so it won't clutter up your cache all that much.



Sometimes a map is just too much work.

http://konterbande.org/ags_255.zip

moip

Love it. I haven't found out how to finish it yet, but I hope you won't kill me for reporting bugs:

Spoiler

The empty memosphere inventory item isn't deleted when you use it, so you end up having both the empty and the full.

Also, the walk animation gets messed up if you go into gun mode and leave it by right clicking instead of clicking the gun button again.

And you can use the computer before activating it.

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On that note...

Interesting coincidence that this happens to be today's entry.

Notepad.

Seriously, your best choice is just to learn HTML and CSS. Every editor, be it Dreamweaver or Composer or whatever, just gets in the way and confuses you.

Well, I could rattle off a list of disadvantages to IE (starting with "smart tags" and lack of tabbed browsing) but I'll let it be for now.

That's what the FAQ said, and that's what I did, but I only received the automated response telling me that they got the mail etc. so far.

evil, of course I can get in through a web interface, but they're all crap and unpractical. And it should be obvious that none of the servers let me in, because a g-line is a ban from the network, not the individual server.

Erm, Trapezoid... I think what you tried wasn't Mozilla, it was in fact IE. It's the only explanation I can think of.

Apparently too many people from my university have been using Quakenet:

-81.91.66.213- *** Looking up your hostname
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-81.91.66.213- *** Checking Ident
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-81.91.66.213- *** Found your hostname
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PING? PONG!
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clones.
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Closing Link: Fuzzpilz by euroserv.fr.quakenet.org (G-lined)

Any recommendations of proxies or something of the sort to get around this?

Solution: don't use IE. Which is also the solution to many, many other problems. Get Mozilla or Opera, you won't regret it.

Welcome to the zoo.

I'm pretty sure the Flash plugin for IE is based on OCX... does anybody who has worked with OCX know if it would be possible to use it together with Allegro? The sound would probably cause problems. Maybe CJ can allow plugins to do whatever it is AGS has to do before and after it plays movies?

What I mean is that it doesn't help the artist at all if the label decides to keep them around. In the worst cases, you can end up owing the record label a lot of money even if they made millions of dollars in profit (that's actual profit, not gross sales!) from your music. I'm talking about the major labels here - it would be wonderful if they suddenly disappeared from the face of the Earth. There are just too many things wrong with the way they work.

Note that if you buy music from major labels, the artist usually doesn't get anything much at all. These labels are really not worth giving your money to. Downloading the music instead of buying it doesn't harm the artists in these cases - if it harmed anybody, it would be the record companies (looking at all statistics, even the ones brought forward and intentionally misinterpreted by the RIAA, you'll see that it apparently doesn't - although they'd certainly deserve it), and your best choice would be getting the music off a P2P network and giving donations directly to the artist or something.
I'll shut up now before I go on a more detailed rant...

To do the really neat stuff as in the intro of Maniac Mansion PC or something (or the old Russian game Perestroika, does anybody else remember that?), you'd need direct access to various hardware - you'd have to install fairly complicated interrupt handlers and so on. Doing that well is high programming art (unless you want the crap produced by e.g. QBasic's play instruction). Doing it well in a program running under Windows is (probably, I'm not entirely sure) impossible. I think it would work if CJ wrote a device driver for this (which might have to replace the standard system speaker driver), but I really don't think it's worth the effort for either the designer or the player.