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No luck on any of those I'm afraid but thanks for the tips! I'd never heard of the WayBack Machine - that's incredible!

Thanks!! That's very useful information on its own

Haha, this game is long, long dead in the water and that's a good thing. I'm actually embarrassed to remember almost everything about it, as we usually are with things from our younger selves. But, it was a lot of work and its a memory of the effort I put into games back then So I thought it'd be nice to have that memory available to show others a different time in my life.

It was recommended I ask Peder Johnson as he apparently has an archive of such things.

Hi dudes,

To anyone who I used to hang out with here (quite awhile ago), I was wondering if by any chance, you might happen to have stored away somewhere some old copy of the demo of a game-in-production-that-I-never-finished called "Gift of Aldora"? A few years back I had a HD die with no backups, and I have no copies of it myself.

I guess it might be called gift.exe or gift.zip or giftofalsora.exe ... I cannot remember, I'm afraid.

I suddenly remembered it and thought it'd be great to find a copy if there's one still floating around somewhere. If so, please shoot me an email at kinoko AT kinokofry.com

Thanks! It's a long shot but worth a try.

Hey guys, if anyone remembers the old, old AGS game, Cirque de Zale, my best pal Patrick Alexander and myself recorded a longplay/Let's Play of us playing it. Patrick plays so I can talk about making the game and this and that, so if you're into such things:

Cirque de Zale Longplay

Thought you might be interested! We made it as entertaining as possible at 3am in the morning.

Haha, what? I swear they were fine. Okay, fixed again and if they're still broken after this, I'll know something's adding a "http://" for no reason.

Fixed, thanks.

[Craig:]

I recently put out a call on my website but I figured I'd post it here too. I have someone trying to recover all the data/comics/artwork lost on a broken HDD and it's, of course, the worst problem you can have. He needs a specific drive. A VERY specific drive.

I thought I'd post it here too in the hopes of widening the scope of my search. If any of you have a techy kinds of friends and think they might be able to help/be interested in a new HDD, I'd appreciate it! Though I realise it's an odd thing to ask I have no expectations, but I'm trying everything I can as this is probably the last thing I can do.

Craig:

From the sticker on the top of the drive: Samsung HD501LJ/JP1 Rev. A; SEC-HD501LJ(B); 2007.9; P/N: 40141XXXXXXXXX T166S.

If someone has a drive matching those numbers, we may be able to use it! Send an email to info@dataretriever.com.au with 60413 Donor Drive in the subject and either a clear photo of the drive label or a complete listing of all info from the drive’s sticker. If your drive does indeed match and we can use it (it needs to be 100% healthy â€" we can confirm this after receiving it), we’ll swap you a brand new 1TB internal hard drive â€" free upgrade for your trouble! All you have to do is post it in and then once we confirm it is suitable, we’ll mail you your new, bigger hard drive. Thanks for your help.

I'm also offering a set of prints and a free copy of the KinokoFry book I'll be able to make if this data gets recovered.

If anyone can help, I appreciate it!

I'd love for some of you to get involved with my recent comic project:

BEC

The basic idea is that I will draw comics of other people's great ideas about how to make the world better. And this is something -everyone- has. How we can live more sustainably, something great you've learnt that you think other people could benefit from knowing, a great approach to life you've come to realise, etc.

The response to this has been amazingly positive, and I've already received so many amazing ideas. Those of you who know TED will see my inspiration. My intention is for this to be a fun and accessable way for us all to share ideas with each other.

I know this is a smart forum and I reckon a lot of you have a lot of great insights to offer.

And if you don't have an idea ready to burst out of you, there's really great discussion of ideas on the Shruggenbee forums. I like this a lot because it gives these ideas a chance to get fleshed out.

Anyway - I hope this is a thing you might be interested in!

If you do have an idea to submit, please email it to me or start a thread on the forums, cause that's where I look when I'm looking to write the next comic.

Thanks!

I have no idea if it was my email that made them take it down or perhaps some freak occurance of concience, but I'm happy I didn't have to take it further.

Selling freeware games and eBooks... ugh.

Hey guys

Someone recently let me know Cirque de Zale was being sold on some Australian auction site.

http://www.oztion.com.au/vshops/item.aspx?itemid=8264931id=

How ridiculous. Honestly.

I can only assume they are some kid, but at the same time, they've got a LOT of other things for sale and seem to have a history on the site. The fuck? I really can't make sense of it and Oztion (jesus, what a stupid name) is not making it easy for me to get it taken down.

Right now I'm writing to the seller, but if they don't do anything, I'm going to have to sign something or other and physically send it in. What a ludicrous pain in the arse! Just so I can stop some idiot from charging money for an old, shitty game which is freely available over the web.

Anyway - they seem to be selling a great number of games. I see Yahtzee's stuff among others. Might be something some of you should look into as well.

This is small fry but it really bugs me. This is just the wrong attitude and I hate being made to go to all this effort just to stop something so ridiculous. As if anyone would buy this stuff. Would they?? People are clearly surprising me.

I think it's a fantastic trend and I wish more game creators did it. I love donating to creators of great games as both a thankyou for what they've given me already and incentive to create more.

These days, 95% of the games I play are indy games and that number wouldn't be much different even if I could afford a bunch of consoles. More often than not, it's where the games I really enjoy are and I want to support that creativity.

Pardon my stupidity...if I am remembering things correctly here...you moved to Japan before you went inactive right?

I must've missed that Japan was an alternative to the engagement. I apologize if I've dragged up any bad memories.

So anyway, since you spent so long living in Japan I'm curious if you kept any type of blog or diary of any sort whilst there...my youngest sister is obsessively into anime and has expressed multiple times that she dreams of visiting Japan...she would be very interested in reading anything you may have written about your experiences there (keeping in mind that she's 15 years old ).

Hmm. I didn't keep an official Japan Blog or anything. But if I wrote anything about Japan in my early days, it'd be on my LJ: http://kinokofry.livejournal.com

Though I have NO IDEA what I wrote there anymore. It'd start around July 2005 if you wanna hunt for it.

Who am I pawning and how much will I get for them?

"-were- making" is the important part

Ghost: She just became princess of a small dungeon.

Monkey: Wha? Marriage? ... I guess you must be referring to when I was engaged about a million years ago. I honestly forget about that, and I forget that I was active here while that was happening.

Anyway, no, that definitely didn't go through. I went to Japan and ended up living there for several years Have been through much, much, much since then.

LF: I'm glad, thankyou!

Snake: I ain't forgotten ya You or your cool-arse avatar.

Tuomas: Exactly. I'm still hoping to hear that one of the meet-ups is gonna be held in whatever country I happen to be in. I'm still gutted I missed out on Greece.

Stupot: Argh! Yes, that makes me very happy There are some damn good bands out there that could do with some extra loving. The Blue Hearts are/well, were just amazing.

Timosity: Oh yeah? I've become a Victorian now

Mods: I am totally famous now. I'm posting right now from my diamond-studded jet plane.

Well, you know, strange things happen in them. It's the point

Hey all you people! This is great, I'm glad to see this place is still pumping.

How are you all? All of you. Every single one. HOW??!?!?!?!

I just uploaded the thing I came here to figure out, a French translation of Cirque de Zale. Er, if any French speakers wanna play it... have at: http://kinokofry.com/misc/cirque.zip

EDIT: Babar... that attitude will get you nothing. I -was- just about finished the game but you've insulted me so much, I just deleted the whole thing. Years and years of tireless work.

Welcome back? Will you be here tomorrow?

Aww. You make me feel like I'm saying "no" to breakfast the next morning and telling you I'll call

I don't know, probably not because I just haven't used AGS in years and I'm busy all the time. I find it hard to remember to check much beyond Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal. (See? I'm already too social on the internet

But I can try to check in more often.

and I got the calender! YAY! (It's quite lovely, btw)

Oh, great! God, I would have killed a random postman if a second one got lost.

EDIT:

Quiet, Vincent.

Mr Flibble, I remember you. Mind you, you may still be right. I suspect I remain quite VIVIDLY in most minds -_-

Hey guys!

I was just passing by Seriously, I had to go to the tech forum for something and I thought, "Heck. What's going on in my old hangout?"

Is there anyone still around these days that I know/knew me? If not, uh, guess this is kinda awkward. Go back to your business I guess.

*shuffles to the corner with a glass of terrible beer*

[hopefully]

My gosh, what a response! You guys are awesome

As it turns out, the place has told us now, "We will arrange so that both of you can use the internet connection." so hopefully things will be alright.

But this is still very helpful, and if anything goes wrong, I will be turning to your advice.

Especially yours, CJ. It's so clear, now!