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Amerigo had to sail the coasts noting positions of the stars to know where he was and make semi-accurate maps. He was just as much an adventurer as any crewman of Colombus was.. except he knew he wasn't going to sail off of a cube.

I completelly agree with you. I was only trying to say that Colombus get the merit because of his image. I'm not saying that it were just.

Even if Amerigo were sitting in his desk, discovering America using his intelligence would have been even more meritory in my opinion that finding it by accident trying to arrive to India.

Maybe my POV is difficult to explain (because of my english) but I hope now it's more clear.

I use the iconpro it's easy to use and it works.

I found it in the CD of Visual Studio 6. I've searched the web and all the samples could be downloaded at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcsample98/html/vcsmpiconpro.asp

As it's free available, I think I can send you just the program (200KB) instead of make you download all the samples, I hope Microsoft lawyers don't care. So PM me if you are interesed.

Generally speaking, I don't think it really matters in the end what anything is called. As long as we know what we're talking about.

For practical comunication yes. But, the language is a representation of the culture and the way people thinks. So the name of things is not trivial and could have misterious reasons.

By the way, I think Columbus didn't realised he arrived to a new land (his objective was to reach the India), and was Amertico who discovered it was a different place. But Americo was sitting in a desk drawing and thinking and was not an adventurer so he has less charisma than Columbus.

And about the replay option, why there's only one option to choose? What does it mean?

There is a spanish translation. But I use the english one for several reasons:
-It's released first.
-It's easy to ask for help in the forums (without the need to translate your error messages or the menus into english in order to ask for help)
-The manual isn't complete yet (the spanish version).

Maybe it's just me, because I have programs in different languages (English,Spanish and Catalonian) and if you ask me in wich language is each one I won't be sure because I'm used to the interfaces and didn't realize(I'm used to computer terms in english).

Maybe it can be useful for begginners (or people with lack of specific vocabulary), but it could create several problems if there are not complementary actions (translate the help files, create a mini-community for the users of the specific language and update frequently).

If you say you are going to spam me, I'll spam you right back!  What's wrong with that?

Is this part of any preventive war looking for mass destruction weapons?
Come on, the revenge has no sense (an eye for an eye makes everybody blind) and preventive revenge is even worse.

So I stuck it on Kazaa

About the use of Kazaa: I dind't use kazaa so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it has not file identifications, so if you used emule or BitTorrent you could give a link to your file without having to deal with the file hosting problem or the thread-blocking one, and everybody could access to it(downloading could be slow as it require you to be online, but it will be accesible). I hope this could help to solve this(and similar) polemic situation(s).

I think the joke didn't cross any limit.

If the message appeared when you try to save (and didn't let you) ruining all your day progress, I would understand it has produced a damage and your complain. Or maybe if AGS were an antivirus, the disabling joke for a day could bring problems.

I bet some people are gonna leave AGS because of this

If somebody leaves AGS because He doesn't know how to change the clock, this will be good for him, because he has not (IMO) the knowledge needed for using a development environment like AGS is.

By the way I'm going to propose several solutions:

- Change AGS licese to be "accept-dissabling-one-day-joke-ware".

- Create a separate distribution without jokes (and only for developing serious adventures...).

- Add a change clock tutorial to de tuts section.

- Complete the "Create my game" function (you will lose a day but the next day you could make a whole new game).

-Try not to offend so easy, be openminded and try to see the intention behind the other's acctions.

he'll fake a virus or something

I think next AGS version will format your HD and kidnapp your girlfriend (the last part only in beta versions)

After a research and reading your comments I think I'll try AVG.
Thank you all for your comments.

When I bought my motherboard I recived a CD with the Norton antivirus but the update period finishes in 2004. So I began to look for a free antivirus and I found AVG:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
Before I decide to download it I want to know if anybody knows if it's good or could tell me any one better(and also free).

I played with this stuff some time ago to create a character of one friend.

This helpers use the Microsoft Agent technology (more info: http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/)

First, you should create the character (a .asc file) whith the Microsoft Agent Character Editor and then create a program (I used python for this) or use an existing program (you can use your characters with MS Office).

[I've found a bug]

If you don't want to add annoying links, or any other element (manual button, or any sound) just delete them (related images/sound files) from their directory and erase their references in the list.txt. Then compile again.


I've found a bug (I'll fix it in next version):
The compilation process inserts all the files listed in list.txt into the generated executable, but I forgot to include the config.txt reference in the list.txt.
So you have to include it manually (open list.txt and append "config.txt", not the content just the name), in other case you'll have to keep the config.txt in the same folder as your generated menu is.

Nice proggy, Pau!

I'm glad you liked it. I hope it will be useful for your games.

Never noticed it before.

I don't like the massive promotion, so I just anounced it the first time and put a link in my signature. Well, when I saw this thread, I couldnt't resist to talk about my little creation.

[explorer]

Although, I don't like that it launches Internet Explorer instead of the user's default browser.

That's because Microsoft pays me a lot of money in order to impose ie over Netscape.  

The explorer is the only one I have (I used to have Mozilla too but I didn't reistalled after formatting my HD....) so it's difficult for me to test.

Try to open the startup.tcl file with the notepad and replace the line
"exec explorer $webpage &;" with "exec start $webpage &;"

If it works it will be possible to launch manuals in any format (html,pdf,doc...) as far as you have the needed programs.

Please tell me whether it works and say what is your windows version(because the command start maybe it's not present in all versions, but I think it should be) and I'll fix it in the next version.

PS:"I'll accept gits" is obviously a typo, it should say: "I accept goats".

Yes, there is one.
http://www.agsforums.com/hosted/menucreator.zip

When I read this kind of emails I ask to myself: why they want we to send emails one to each other?

The only answer is that it is a mail adresses collection system in order to send us lots of spam (Credit debts, mortage....). So the best way to stop this is make impossible to collect the adresses. How?
When you send mail to several people use the BCC: (Blind Carbon Copies) line instead of the TO: or the CC:

But the main problem is not technical, it is that people (not very advanced PC users) usually believe everithing is written in the screen: If a pop up window opens and says "you must download and execute this for your security" they will do. I think it's not a problem of lack of intlligence, it's a problem of a lack of internet (and computer) education and critic view.

This happens also with TV, but there is no chain sistem, so we don't care if our neigbour buys the huge air sofa he doesn't need becouse a doctor said it's good for his health on TV.

I've seen 'Bowling for Columbine' and there is a list of criminal actuations of the USA goverment like giving suppot for dictators against democratic goverments (like in Chile), giving money to the taliban...
You won't see that on the newspaper.
So this is like a crusade, but the motivation isn't religion, but money.

This kind of actuation, make grow the hate against USA in other countries.

The worst of all is that the guilties (governors) get no problems, but the innocent (people) get killed, and the revenge of them (with terrorist attacks or hollywood-like wars) affects people again.

I think it's not a problem of religion, it's money. That's only an easy (and fake)explanation to say muslims are mad and want to explode themselves just for fun and the USA (as a universal judge) must fix it.

There's somthing I can't understand. Why the concept art is 1000 times better than the screenshots?  Maybe is just me, but I saw the concept art and get astonished I wish my backrounds were like Lucas concept art.

It's a great resource.
It's the first time I see real design documentation. Very useful, because it is not just theory, real games were made using this documents.

I can help with the plot and the programming.

Tell us more about your project.

It doesn't seem anyone is interested though.

I'd PMed you but I get no response.
(just in case: Have you seen the state of your messages at the top of the page? ).


Pau

I'd be interested to know whether anyone else is creating backgrounds as vector artwork before converting to bitmap...

I use Moho. It has a lot of facilities for animations (it's main goal) but it's also good for drawing. See their gallery at their web: http://www.lostmarble.com



Pau