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Hmmm.. I guess the rules then eliminate me. Honestly I can't draw for my life. I even just tried stick figures, seriously. My attempt was to make a decent playable game. One room is doable because, well, its just one room. My art method would be to construct 3D scenes using 3D objects that I either downloaded or bought and creating the scene by rendering what I create into 2D. But this eliminates me because of the pre-made content. So, I guess I am out. Maybe I will still make what I wanted to make and release it in the spirit of OROW but not for OROW.

One Room? I am going to do this. For Once in my life, I will make an AGS Game. I already am thinking of puzzles and a small story. For my own satisfaction, I have to do this.

Generally moderators tell/warn the individual several times publicly AND "PRIVATELY" before bannning them even once. And I do remember him getting plenty of public warnings, he just never got it. Question is, why do you care so much that you started a thread for it? Just wondering.

It took a while for Matt to grow on me. After all, he replaced my wife and I's favorite Doctor, David Tennant. But we came to really really like him. He is our second favorite Doctor of all 11 /possible 12 doctors.

I too have been hearing the rumours flying around of females for the lead part, particularly that Olivia Coleman is in the lead. While I do like her (She rocked in Broadchurch), I just can not stomach a female Doctor. As you said, I have the utmost respect for women and Catherine Tate did a fantastic job as Donna Noble. As far as actors to appear on the show, she is my second favorite after David Tennant and right before Matt Smith. However, as far sexuality, personality, likes, routine, background, etc... the Doctor is a man. I know a regeneration rewrites your genes/dna in every way possible and only leaves your memory/morals in tact. But, I just do not think its a good idea for him to regenerate into a woman. What would River say???

As for replacements, there are a few actors I thought of that could replace him, but one really stands out to me: Andrew Scott (Moriarty in Sherlock). He just has the right Doctor feel.

Is JJS doing that or are the Allegro people going to do that?

Anyone know where I can find a copy of Doctor Who: Time Snare 1 & 2? Been searching everywhere I know of. Even archive.org.

SDL is ok. However, I feel that SDL has been abandoned or at the very least, slowly upgraded. I know that SDL supports porting easily (Easier than Allegro anyway) to other OS. But Allegro is feature rich and powerful and it can be made to work with MacOS and other OS. It is supported after all, officially. With JJS and CW and everyone else working on this, I think we will see Mac support much sooner than we think. I think the trick is to actually try and upgrade AGS to Allegro 5. However, that may break a few ports such as the PSP port. But again, I am sure it can also be remedied.

I could do that. The trouble is... Finding a friend that uses Paypal. Believe it or not, in this technologically advanced world, not many of my friends are keeping up. lol. Oh well. If anyone thinks of a service that does this, let me know. Thanks.

Well I am starting to think that Paypal just doesn't like my bank because I tried two accounts from them and it wont work. I would open up another "hassle free" Checking account somewhere else, but truthfully, its not really hassle free and if I am going to sign up for a new checking account, try to confirm my bank account with paypal and then transfer my money from Paypal to my bank account, I may as well then just request the check as it would all take a few days less then. But thats the thing, I am trying to get a hold of that cash within the next couple of days and I figured that there would be a service that would help. I know there are e-currency exchange services, but they seem shady and they do not seem to transfer from paypal to US bank accounts. Also, they charge a ridiculous fee($40 to $80).

OK, that was a loaded question, but let me explain... Recently I sold some items on Ebay and I was paid for them. However, my Paypal account does not have a bank account attached. I tried to attach 2 different ones I have and it wont let me. It gives me some service code error. I called Paypal and after pushing several digits to finally speak to someone on the phone, I spoke to someone and they tried manually entering my info. Of course, they tell me that my account numbers are wrong and it has to do nothing with them. Pure lies as I am well aware of what my account numbers are. I have a CC with Paypal, but they cant transfer to a debit credit card or any credit card in general. Even I have applied for a paypal debit card and am waiting for that to come in, but it will take more than a week. I can ask them to send me a check which will take 5 business days, plus I need to wait for the bank to clear and deposit it.

So, with that explanation, is there a way I can send Paypal cash to my bank account? I kind of needed to access that cash within the next couple of days. At first I thought I could western union myself the cash and pay with Paypal, but they do not use paypal as a source of payment. So are there any services where I can transfer money to a bank account and use Paypal to pay for that transfer, this way I could basically transfer the money to myself?

Sorry, Paypal Customer service was of no use and I figure I would ask the fine AGS community for their thoughts or idea's or if they know of a good service that does this. Thanks!

Oh. Well that can be helpful to many then. Do you know what it was called or have a link for the fine folks that would like to use it? Thanks Monsieur OUXX.

Awesome, I am in. Thanks SSH.

JJS.at/daily has update iOS builds.

Yeah, just tried to copy and paste the blogid into a new edit form and it tells me I do not have proper access to view that page (The new article page).

Same here with 'geddon. Cant seem to locate a post area. Even on my Dashboard... I can post to my other blogs, but not to the AGS Blog.

man i have bearly seen season 8, i am waiting for it to show up on netflix

You will have to wait a long time. They haven't even started filming it yet

Here are my thoughts... They did a bang up job with the finale. I am not too thrilled with Moffat as a writer. I think he is cocky and I liked Doctor Who because it was British. However, and I am allowed to say this because I am American..., I feel that Moffat Americanized D-WHO a bit too much and got rid of a lot of the camp. I get that he wants to draw a larger audience and it probably helped the show from not being cancelled, however, I miss the Eccleston/Tennant time frame. I like Matt Smith, he is a GREAT doctor. Definitely one of my favorites, although David Tennant is number one in my book. But I just am not enjoying it like I was for the first 4 series/seasons. I want Russel T Davies back.

Going back to the Finale. I think it was great. I was happy to see all 11 doctors and even the scene with the Doctor stealing the Tardis which was never televised before. It was great. Clara's story, while not my favorite of the companions story, had a great resolve. However, I am convinced that she is River Song in some form. Don't know how or why, but just too much of her feels like River Song to me. I like Clara. She has a fun personality and she cares for the Doctor, so she is very enjoyable to watch. She is no Donna Noble, but thats ok.

As for River, I think she gives balance to the Doctor and I am very happy they introduced her to the series. I wish there were more with David Tennant, but thats ok. I liked how they resolved the post-library episode of River, but I am sure we have not seen the last of pre-library episode River.

Though the episode was 15 minutes long, it went by very quickly. That means I enjoyed it. My wife and I watched it 3 times the day it was released on Amazon. (Watch the Amazon episode as the BBC America and Itunes version removes the David Tennant scene). The whisper men were ok. Everyone said they would become a new favorite. While they weren't that bad, they are no way near being my favorites. While the relationship between Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax is an unusual one, I enjoy having them be in the series and would hope they keep having them. I wouldn't even mind a spin-off of the characters. My favorite parts of the finale all really had to do with Strax, from the part where he didn't realize that River was a woman, to the part where he said this:

Strax: Do not worry, we have the advantage, they are unarmed.
Jenny: So are we!
Strax: Do not divulge our military secrets!

Or something along those lines.. Either way, it was funny.

As for John Hurt.. My only gripe with the episode was this part: "INTRODUCING JOHN HURT AS THE DOCTOR". What was that text supposed to be about? We know he was the Doctor. It was unnecessary and seemed to be another trademark Moffat move. I will admit, in a non-campy way, Moffat is a brilliant writer and I love most of his stuff. I mean, have you watched Sherlock??? But he is just too cocky and tends to ruin or convert anything that wasn't his by Moffatizing it.

Back to John Hurt. To me, I believe he represents the 8th Doctor with Paul McGann. He is the only Doctor in which we do not know what happens throughout his history. In fact, he was only in the TV Movie after immediately regenerating from Sylvestor McCoy. I just think of the first few episodes with Christopher Eccleston where he has no idea what he looks like, hinting that he had just recently regenerated. I do not believe then that John Hurt represents the 9th Doctor. So there is a whole gap between 8 and 9. I believe Doctor 8 had at some point forsaken his name and destroyed the Time Lords/Daleks during the Time war. The time war hadn't begun until after the 8th Doctor had come to be and before the he regenerated into the 9th Doctor. People are talking about a possible regeneration between 8 and 9. Its possible, but I just don't think so. Matt Smith signed on to Series 8 and that will be his last most likely, having him regenerate into Doctor 13 then if John Hurt was the real 9 which would mean that the series could end or they would have to come up with a very good explanation for a 13th regeneration. Plus, take a look at the clothing that John Hurt was wearing. It was nearly identical to what Paul McGann wore in the tv Movie.

I think there is a RestartGame function, but I believe it just sets the game to the launch point, but not really restart the engine itself.

I believe that if you replace the target Android SDK to be 14 or higher, it will show a soft key menu button, which would then allow you to pop up the keyboard. That has to be done in the Android Manifest file of the source code. I will try re-compiling the sources I have to see if that would do the trick.

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Actually, JJS, if you change the Keycode_Back to perform this this:

Code: AGS

if ((key == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) && ((ev.getFlags() & 0x80) > 0)) // FLAG_LONG_PRESS
				{
					ignoreNextActionUp_Back = true;
					openOptionsMenu();
				}

in dispatchKeyEvent in AGSEngine.java, it should allow you to longpress the back button on screen and pop up the menu which has all the options we need: Toggle Keyboard, Exit Game, F Keys, etc... That would then allow the game to work on Nexus 7/10, ASUS and Kindle devices or other devices without hardware keys.

This would actually be incredibly useful for commercial games. The problem with the current winsetup is that it confuses customers, since most of the options don't even apply for specific games. This is no big deal for AGSers because everyone knows what all the buttons do already.

You and Dave were exactly who I was thinking about for this. It would be a huge benefit to commercial developers. As was said, not every option on winsetup applies to all games. Not to mention that it is a bland screen when it comes to commercial properties. But as was said, anyone can really develop a customized winsetup app (In Java, VB, Visual C#, etc...) externally from AGS and it could work. The CFG file after all is a plain text file and nothing more.

Janet, as for your last point... Again, you can do it from within the game. Take a look at the File scripting commands in AGS. Specifically ReadRawLineBack and ReadStringBack to edit the config file from within a game. The unfortunate thing about editing cfg files within a game is, that changing those settings would require a reboot of the game as most of those options are graphic/hardware related. For Game Translations, I just recently learned this, you can at the very least change THAT in-game using ChangeTranslation, Game.TranslationFileName and IsTranslationAvailable. In the game/global functions scripts there are other things that could qualify as "Settings" that you might also want to take a look at. Just a thought.

As far as CW is saying, yes. And after testing acwin.exe --setup without winsetup.exe in the directory, CW is right about that. But again, you can still make your own setup to edit or create the cfg file and it would work the same.