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I just added a walkthrough:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=18845.0

I just added a walkthrough:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=18845.0

A very special dog - Walkthrough
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Lew's go out for a walk
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-> WALK through the left door and LICK Paul twice, he leaves the room
-> TAKE the line from the sofa, WALK through the north door and enter the kitchen
-> BARK at Norah and she tells you to bring her the line
-> TAKE the line to Norah and she follows you as you WALK outside
-> WALK out by the front door and then to the right until you reach the traffic lights
-> BARK at the button, Norah presses it, waits for the green light and starts crossing the street

Save Norah after her being overrun by a red car
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-> LICK Norah and BARK at her, but she won't regain consciousness
-> WALK back to the house and BARK at the front door in order to enter the house
-> WALK through the right door, BARK at Paul and he follows you
-> WALK back to the traffic lights where Paul calls the ambulance

Find the red car
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-> TAKE the red lacquer from the street, SMELL it and you follow the trace
-> SMELL the red car in the garage, a man comes in, and offers you some poisoned meat
-> BITE the man, he leaves the garage and you have to get out quick or else he kills you
-> TAKE the rope from the wall and using it you now can TAKE the chest
-> TAKE the chest to the window and you place it beneath
-> TAKE the poisoned meat and TAKE the chest in order to jump out of the window
-> WALK left until you reach the police man and TAKE the poisoned meat to him, he follows you now
-> WALK right until the police man reaches the garage and walks towards the house

Visit Norah at the hospital
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-> WALK back to your house, BARK at the front door in order to enter the house
-> WALK to the kitchen and TAKE the cloth, then WALK to the bedroom
-> TAKE the cloth to the basket in the left corner, now you have a basket with cloth
-> WALK back to the traffic lights and cross the street
-> WALK left, enter the baker's shop and you get some cake, now you have a basket/cloth with cake
-> WALK right and up the street heading north, you reach the entrance to the hospital
-> TAKE the basket/cloth with cake and he will leave the door
-> WALK through the hospital's front door and you visit Norah's room


THE END

I just added a walkthrough:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=18842.0


@mollilamb
If you manage to finish a game after being stuck, why don't you post a short walkthrough yourself next time?

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Prologue: The Birth Of A Dragon
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-> FLY out and then right until you see chains hanging from a stone and TAKE them
-> FLY further to the right until your reach the wizard, TAKE the stick and then TALK to him
-> FLY to the right until you see a shield (cave riddle) and TOUCH it
-> the solution of the riddle:
     - "No, it isn't hard to say, what's the darker side of day!" -> the NIGHT
     - Now click the pictures below in sequence to the first letter of their names
     - Needle + Island + Grass + Horse + Tower -> in numbers counting from the top left 7 + 5 + 3 + 4 + 9
-> you will get a crystal ball, WALK left and GIVE it to the wizard
-> you will get a treasure and be transported to the dark forest


Chapter 1: Journey Through The Dark Forest
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-> FLY right until you see the grim reaper and TALK to him
-> FLY back to the tomb stone and USE the chains on it
-> FLY back to the grim reaper and TALK to him about Archibald Grombindag's grave
-> the grim reaper will vanish and you may continue on your quest, so FLY right and enter the dark forest
-> after talking to the two guys (which will happen automatically) FLY further right (a bee will follow you)
-> FLY right until you reach a house and knock the door, but they won't let you in with that bee following you
-> FLY back to the two guys, TALK to them, buy an insect spray and use it on the bee
-> FLY back to the house and KNOCK the door once more, after getting in TALK to the witch and you get a compass
-> EXIT the house and FLY right (if you find a telescope you may get it, but it is of no use)
-> after reaching the exit sign USE the compass on it and you are given the "dark forest riddle"
-> the solution of the riddle:
     - "When you have nothing more to loose, think again and read the..." -> NEWS
     - click the compass in sequence to the first letter of each direction
     - North + East + West + South -> for those who were very bad in school: press UP + RIGHT + LEFT + DOWN
-> FLY north and take the left path and you will reach the Dungeons of Minestrola


Chapter 2: Deep In The Dungeons Of Minestrola
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-> GIVE your treasure to the knight and he will let you pass through, FLY right to enter the cave
-> FLY to the upper middle corridor and TAKE the magic book, EXIT the room
-> FLY to the bottom left corridor and USE the stick on the lever
-> FLY to the crack in order to enter it, TALK to the imp and you will get the shoes, now EXIT (don't bother taking the gargoyle, you won't need it)
-> FLY back to the upper middle corridor
-> GIVE the shoes to the old man and get some jam, now EXIT and FLY to the upper left corridor
-> GIVE the jam to the troll and he will open the gate for you
-> EXIT and FLY through the right corridor and you get to a new basement
-> FLY to the bottom right corridor and try to open the door, then EXIT (don't bother taking the ritual mask, you won't need it)
-> FLY to the upper left corridor and TALK to the strange creature selecting YES to play his game
-> the solution of the game:
     - it doesn't really matter which questions you ask
     - at the second question you may ask "Is it green?" or "Is it a living creature?" to get a hint
     - choose "Is it a dragon?", you will obtain the key for the locked door
-> EXIT and FLY to the bottom right corridor and USE the key with the door, you will enter the room
-> USE the crack in the wall (upper left) and get a potion
-> USE the potion with your magic book and learn it is an invisibility potion, EXIT to the corridor
-> FLY to the right corridor,  USE the potion on yourself and become invisible
-> FLY further right and you enter the evil wizard's lair


Chapter 3: The Final Fight
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-> TOUCH the evil wizard in order to start a magic fight
-> the solution of the fight:
     - think backwards !
     - if you read the wizard's spells from right to left you may understand what they mean
     - now choose the matching answer (they can be read from right to left as well)
     - if you didn't figure it out by yourself, pick the following answers: 1 + 3 + 1 + 4


THE END

@desimaui

You can use any Walkthrough written for black cauldron.
The puzzles are all the same in the remake.

I found this one very helpful:

http://www.gamewinners.com/faq.php%3Fgame=b/BlackCauldron%2DEdge.txt

But feel free to search any other WT by Google.... You will get a lot of hits!!!

@Scorpiorus 

Thanks for the information!
I hope your post is as helpful for all the other people experiencing this problem as it was for me.

Thanks for your big help !!!  8)

@Scorpiorus

Thank you very much !!!
It worked perfectly.... 

I think to understand why it works:
with the first agsgame.exe you only start the ags application itself, and with the second agsgame.exe you tell ags what game file it should run... it seems that this is due to the structure of the self running ags games which includes the ags runtime as well as the game file itself....

Tell me if I got this wrong...


I'm very glad that the problem is solved AND I understood why it didn't work...
Because, despite of a lot of statements I found on other forums saying that batch files don't work properly on Win XP, I experienced them to work allways well. And I knew it was a AGS relates issue because all other applications worked very well with batch files.

Thank you.... 

PS: I found out it works not with all AGS files... most of the RON games don't work with it, but I don't care any more...

@henk

You can download it at:

http://ron.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=122

It's part of a whole games collection, called RON.
You can find more at the http://ron.the-underdogs.org/ homepage.

Have fun!

MI5 Bob - Walkthrough
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-> EXIT and TALK to the kid, then EXIT once more
-> ENTER Richy's Records and TALK with Claudia, then EXIT
-> ENTER radio station (huge blue building) and TALK with Paul, then EXIT
-> ENTER the alley and TALK with bum, then EXIT
-> ENTER Realiser (red building) and TALK with Mika, GET the tape dispenser, then EXIT
-> TALK with the two stoned guys (in front of Yahtzeebrand store)
-> ENTER Yahtzeebrand store, GET tick tacks (on shelf) and TALK with clerk, then EXIT
-> ENTER Italian restaurant (to the far right) and talk with Italian chef, then EXIT
-> WALK all the way to the beach (EXIT the screen to the north by the alley between dominatrix pizza and Realiser)
-> TALK with death, EXIT the screen to the left
-> PICK UP torn up photograph (blue spots in front of the beach hut)
-> USE the tape dispenser with the torn up photograph and repair it
-> ENTER beach hut and show photograph to big wave Dave, you obtain a shovel and a beach magazine, then EXIT
-> EXIT the screen to the right and GIVE shovel to death, then EXIT the screen to the right
-> WALK all the way to the bum and give him the t-shirt, then EXIT
-> WALK back to the hospital and use grog on door, GET the empty pill box, then WALK back to the Realiser
-> USE empty pill box with tick tacks and give the full pill box to Mika, then EXIT
-> ENTER Yahtzeebrand store and GIVE beach magazine to the clerk, then EXIT
-> WALK back to the kid you spoke with at the beginning of the game and give him the apple pie
-> WALK back to the two stoned guys and give them the spoon
-> ENTER Italian restaurant (to the far right) and give pepper shaker to the Italian chef
-> USE dictaphone with the spaghetti covered in cabbage, then EXIT
-> ENTER radio station (huge blue building) and GIVE dictaphone to Paul, then EXIT
-> ENTER Richy's Records and GIVE the CD to Claudia, then EXIT
-> WALK back to your boss and give him the CD, then EXIT
-> WALK to the right and ENTER your apartment (building left of the Italian restaurant)
-> USE the remote control with the TV

THE END

@Pumaman
I use Windows XP with SP2 installed and neither the batch file, nor command line as you mentioned do work on my computer.
Thanks for your help.

@Gilbot V7000a

The problem with shortcuts is that they only work with absolute paths,
e.g. c:\games\agsgame\game\agsgame.exe. The problem is that everybody using this shortcut has to copy his game files in the above mentioned directory. When using batch files I can run an application whithout caring about it's absolute location, I only neet to know where it's relative position is. So if for example the batch file is in c:\games\agsgame\ I can use the change directory command (cd game) to change to the rigt directory and then start the game (agsgame).

Walkthrough - Intergalactic Life 2.0
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-> GET the credit card (little square at the right of the mouse hole)
-> exit the cabinet (USE the exit at the far right of the mouse hole)
-> USE the credit card with the pink toilet paper and obtain a pink credit card
-> USE the pink credit card on the clerk and obtain a pair of scissors
-> TALK to the clerk and select: "Can I enter the backdoor please?"
-> USE the box to get a donut
-> USE the donut with the chicken
-> exit the backroom (GO up the stairs)
-> exit the shop (GO south)
-> GO east until you exit the screen
-> GO to the church
-> GET the coin (yellow spot at the far left of the church)
-> USE the scissors with the bush (directly to the south of the location you took the coin from),  you will obtain the red hot chili sauce
-> GO west until you exit the screen
-> GO to REALITY-ON-THE-NORM
-> GO west until you reach the alley
-> GIVE the coin to the bum and you will obtain a book
-> GO east and enter the store
-> GIVE book to the clerk and you will obtain some cheese
-> enter the cabinet (USE cabinet door, it looks like a freezer though)
-> USE the cheese with the hole and you will get a mouse
-> exit the cabinet (USE the exit at the far right of the mouse hole)
-> TALK to the clerk and select: "Can I enter the backdoor please?"
-> USE the mouse with the hole and you will get some pills
-> USE the pills with the chicken and you will get a key
-> exit the backroom (GO up the stairs)
-> exit the shop (GO south)
-> GO east until you exit the screen
-> GO to the church
-> GO east until you reach the house
-> USE the key with the door and obtain a DNA mask
-> GO west and enter the church
-> GIVE the red hot chili sauce to the doctor and obtain a can of fuel
-> enter the door (USE door)
-> go to your space ship (USE red thing outside)


THE END

@ Scorpiorus

I tried the start command already and it didn't work.
I tried a simole path like D:\ and it didn't work either.

Maybe there is no solution at all? It's only strange that I seem to be the only one with this problem!

THX

@Gilbot V7000a

Did they run when you launch the game directly from explorer?
> Yes, they did run perfectly.

Note that some XP systems has a glitch, that affects batch files, making them unable to run the applications in the desired directory.
> I have read about that in various forums, but in my case the problem occurs ONLY with AGS games and only with windows executables. The DOS based AGS games work fine with batch files.

For the command line part, did you change to the correct directory before running the programmes?
> Yes, I did.


@Scorpiorus

And what does your BAT-file look like?
> I tried a lot of different settings, but even the most minimalistic didn't work.
For example, if the game file is called 'agsgame.exe' I have a batch file with only agsgame.exe inside and it is in the same directory.


THX for your help

I have encountered a strange problem regarding AGS.
I use often batch files, but they seem not to work with the windows versions of AGS games on my Windows XP.
There is no error message or else when the batch file wants to start the AGS game.  It simply doesn't start at all. The same problem occurs when I try to run the game from cmd.
But it seems not to be an XP problem at all, since all other programs execute fine through batch file commands.