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Two characters can occupy the same coordinate just fine, but this may play havoc with their display priority.

This begs the question why you are putting two characters in the same spot to begin with.

One solution is to use FollowCharacter() to display one character on top of the other.

Another is to put one a few pixels below the other, and adjust the sprites to compensate.

Another is to give one character a Baseline a few pixels lower.

What do you mean, it flaked out? Did you do a disk scan on your hard drive? Is the installer program still there?

If not, I believe your best bet would be to download it again - the music is about 60 megabytes all by itself, which is about 2/3rds of the download.

We do have a few loose soundtracks for download on our website (see signature) if you want to listen to them on your desktop, rather than in-game.

Bubble Bobble!!!

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Is there any way you can defend yourself?

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In particular, is there a weapon in the room?

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Pick it up quickly.

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I like the way it looks, but I don't like those tiny buttons stuck away at the right end. They're somewhat confusing and rather inconsistent.

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Monkey Island II. Leisure Suit Larry III. And probably Leather Goddesses of Phobos.

Not sure, but I'm pretty certain euros have been mentioned in at least one game.

You are correct. Future Wars has them, and that was several years before the advent of the Euro.

A walkthrough book for the game itself! The most useful inventory item ever!

Space Quest IV has one.

for those of you who believe the abbreviation "xmas" is "wrong" because it takes the "christ" out of "christmas" - please review this page:

I've never even heard of people objecting to that

Alas, the download stalls during the later stages. I'm unsure wether this is Firefox or my sucky ISP's fault.

Hm, that is odd. Have you tried both the regular and the mirror link?

Firefox is usually quite stable with downloads. If your ISP connection is flaky, I'd suggest getting a download manager like GetRight.

How about vacate? Or secede? Strand? Repudiate? Ooooh... how does abnegate sound?

Hm...

Preserve
Initialize
Relinquish

I think dkh's S is better, yes.

I wouldn't call this GUI "clean", though. Primarily, the way the "use" button is crammed in-between in slanted fashion is not clean at all. Then, I wonder what those three small buttons next to "use" are for, and I think the black square boxes are unnecessary. They are intended as checkboxes, yes? A better way of indicating which button is active is by using a "pressed" graphic, or recoloring it. Also, I note that the load/save/exit buttons cannot truly be active like the other three can.

How does this look:

Code: ags

  (---examine---) (----talk-----)    <  ,---,  ,---,  ,---,  ,---,  ,---,   >
  (----take-----) (----use------)    <  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |   >
  (save-) (load-) (about) (exit-)    <  `---'  `---'  `---'  `---'  `---'   >

And what did Sinterklaas get for you?

Didn't I just say so?

I hate these moany Mary's who complain that the religion is taken out of it... if they wanna turn it into a religion thing, then that's fine by me, but they should let the rest of us have our own time for giving and sharing and being with families and stuff.

Perhaps you should inform those moany people that Christmas is originally a pagan festival of the returning light, and predates christianity by several centuries...

We don't do presents for christmas, but as is Dutch tradition I got some presents for Sinterklaas.

- a plant
- a chocolate initial
- the King's Quest collection CD
- a massage bug
- a smiley-face piggy bank
- some WOW cards (surprisingly, since I don't play WOW)
- a Simpsons DVD
- and two books

Any place we can find a larger version of the image?

Unfortunately, no, considering ATOTK plays in 320x200 resolution to begin with.

[Seasons greetings from Theylinn!]

Seasons greetings from Theylinn!

Also, bear in mind that while many older games had the backgrounds in 320x200, the resolution was still 320x240 to support a 40 pixel UI at the bottom!

"Many" older games? Like what, exactly? Every lo-res Sierra and LucasArts game works in 320x200, as does Future Wars, Shadow of the Comet, etc etc etc. The sole exception I can think of is FOTAQ.

Heh.

As I recall, the only reason people used that (in addition to AGS) was the font editor

Well, for starters, there's preciously little public domain on Wikipedia. Nearly all of it is licensed in some particular fashion - GFDL or CC-BY-SA usually.

Christmas merry I wish, hmmm?