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That was a total shot in the dark that I made simply because manifest class thought it might have been KQ3, and I figured that this was clearly not an AGI game, and I knew that KQ4 was an EGA SCI game.

If you didn't know this already though, there WAS an AGI version of KQ4.

One of those monster games in the series including Movie Monsters? Possibly including the word Stomp in its title or whatever.

Alright. It IS The Movie Monster Game. I originally thought it was the earlier game as I couldn't immediately recognise the shot (and that I've only played the latter game).

I'll just give up this round to whoever likes to pick it up.

Yeah, or Mad City in the Japanese version, or Crocodile Dunddee if you want to talk about the slight relation with the last entry .

Your turn.

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Sort of very slightly related to the last game.

For 2, backgrounds in rooms are already compressed and I think it couldn't help much further unless the editor allows lossy compression (such as JPEG). Actually I think it could be cool to have optional lossy compression (chosen for individual bgs by the users themselves) as it could save space on bgs that don't really need perfect reconstruction(such as photos).

For sprites, as far as I remember they are not compressed by default (unless that's changed recently), but you can enable compression (just checked, it's currently at General Settings --> Compiler --> Compress the sprite file) for sprites. It's not spectacular as it only uses a RLE scheme for performance reasons, but depending on the nature of your sprites it may help a lot if the sprites contain large areas of the exactly same colour (such as cartoony line arts or there are a lot of transparent areas) or may not help much for more "complicated" images (such as photorealistic ones).

Hmmm. Is it possible that there is a strayed pixel of the area somewhere below the supposed area?

Gex?

As far as I remember, our forums do not provide any upload space for things like avatar images, so you need to upload them to some image hosting sites(or, your own web space, in case you have it) that allow hot-linking, and then put the online link to the image in your profile.

First check whether you reference the image in your local storage (such as "C:\My Image\myavatar.png"). No one can see it if this is the case. Even after the image is uploaded to an image hosting site, further check that the site allows hot-linking and that the url is that of the hot-linkable image, not that of an "image page" the site provides for you to view the image in a web page.

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Monster Truck?

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I've definitely seen the box of this game in the past, and the shot is probably from Apple ][ even. I just don't know what game it is. Maybe I'll do some investigation (not image search, of course).

Edit:
Okay. After googling "Apple ][ cartoon bear" it immediately gave me the name of the series:

Spoiler

Stickybear

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Which actually was a popular edutainment franchise consisting of a number of games. I'm too lazy to do further research to find out which specific title this would be, so anyone can work from here and find the answer for the win.

I remember playing this "game" a lot BiTD, having much fun in designing the car's body and fascinated by seeing the wind blown through it. That "map" screen was something that I recognised immediately, but I've only played the Apple ][ version.

Anyway, since I was having a round not long before, I'll pass this to whoever hijacks this thread first.

Test Drive?

(Or probably not. I remember another game where you could design a car, checking wind flow and whatever, but I couldn't remember its name.)

Found it. It is literally called Car Builder.

Thank you, thank you!

Correct! (And there're some "connections" with the last game, right? )
Thought this won't get long already.

OK.

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As I think photobucket is disabling image hot-linking for non-paid users now I try to use imgur.com for this. Can anyone see the image? (I cannot, as I'm using a very old browser, and hot-linked images haven't shown here for quite some time now.) If you cannot see it, just paste the url of the image found by quoting my post and paste it in a new browser tab, which usually works. Sorry for the inconvenient.
Thank you Frodo! I thought that all the options, including the hot-link was listed on the right like Photobucket.

Thank you!

Martian Memorandum?

Haven't watched western TV shows for ages, but that actor looks a bit like Lucifer to me, at least from the TV Ad that I've seen.

Not that I'm any good in recognising faces.

Is she pregnant?