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Are you using those blue CD's? Because you shouldn't, they're inferior. If you've had the empty CD-ROMs for a long time they may likewse have deteroriated. Note that some CD players are obviously more fault-tolerant than others (in particular, older ones tend to be less so). So if you have a slightly faulty CD and a slightly faulty (or simply old) drive the combination may fail even if the CD plays elsewhere, or the drive plays other CDs.

Well, it's easy to try Linux if you want to give it a shot. Download a Live CD for Ubuntu, for instance, and burn it; that gives you one CD that you can use to boot the computer from, no installation necessary, and run Linux to see what it's like.

Sure, that would work. And I'm willing to bet you can code a Quake engine in AGS if you try hard enough

Third it's a monopoly which can only be bad! If IBM had done the same then we all would be screwed!

So you're saying Microsoft is not a monopoly?

I assure you ... if Macs had the user-base that PCs have, they'd be just as virus prone.  Run a mac if you want, but put an Antivirus program on it.

Not quite. It's as much about design decisions as it is about popularity. There are a couple of brain-damaged decisions in earlier Windows versions that make it so virus-prone.

I would probably change to a Mac or Linux if it wasn't for the fact I would be back to stone age gaming speaking,

That's a good point, but WINE runs most windows games without problems (although admittedly it doesn't run the newest flashy games)

And from all the persons I chat with and who are using Linux, I have yet to not hear one of them saying "I'm re-installing Linux" every 3 months and hear one of them say "I've finished to config Linux, everything went flawlessly"

Try Ubuntu. Yes, people bitch a lot, but people likewise always bitch about bugs in Windows.

Hopefully, in the following years Bill will retire and the next dude taking over will notice there is absolutly no company that are willing to change all their hardware just for an OS,

Are you aware that he already has? Steve has run the corp for several years now.

I don't care that the hell it's doing, but there's no way in hell it should need 2 gigs of ram to do it.

On the other hand, most Linux versions still run on a 486...

The best thing with Linux (at least, the thing I love the most - after aaxine, of course) is human-readable configs.

Oh yes, absolutely and wholeheartedly. Windows has the annoying habits of (1) hiding the configs from you since a poor user is not supposed to understand them, and (2) modifying the configs by itself! My network card kept disappearing because the Windows Restore function destroyed its own config, and that is soooo annoying.

The longstanding fallacy of copy protection is that a hacked copy is almost always better than the original. For instance, with old games you had to look up word X on page Y of the manual, which gets annoying if your room is as cluttered as mine. A hacked version lacks the restriction and is therefore more convenient to the user.

While I'm not going into the ethics of it, it is a psychological fact that people really appreciate convenience. If you make it difficult for people to use a paid version, they can and will get a hacked version.

Nice work, CJ!

No, I'll sort out any spelling mistakes

No no no! You have to spell each game correctly, and spell the author's name correctly, and must also correctly guess their age, mother's maiden name, and social security number, or your vote won't count. It's the only way to have a fair election

But knowing this so long... why haven't anyone made something new and good?

Mac OSX?

That's about UML, not C# (besides, most indie developers don't do UML).

It's true that memory leaks can be a source of bugs if you don't fully understand allocation, but so can exception handling. Did you know that Visual Studio C++ has excellent tools to locate and fix memory leaks?

And C++ libraries also have higher level abstraction of hardware acceleration. It's a matter of good tools, not which language you use. Performance-wise, C++ beats C#, hands down.

I got this message after I submited the games:

I got the same. Did it record my entry or should I repeat it?

[I'd disagree with this heavily. Once you became fluent in C#, you could make a game many times faster than in C++.

I don't think that's true at all. Once you've got a decent graphic/sound library around (and there are several of those freely available on the internet), the rest is just game logic. C++ has all the Class tricks available; return code vs. exception handling is really a matter of taste and despite what people think you can screw up equally in both; and pointers are a plus if you know what you're doing, and can be ignored if you don't.

Of course! META is full of spelling usefulness and useful spelling. Would you liek some help finding that, or some find helping that?

* No-one ever saw Window's source code.

Actually, the microsoft site got h4xx0red and the source code released to the internet. Try googling it.

I haven't tried it, but I note that while it is free, to actually use it to create Xbox games you have to pay a $49 subscription to microsoft. And if you don't actually want to create Xbox games, there's plenty of other solutions that are in fact free. So it seems they want to boost Xbox popularity by having indie games created for it, and yet they want the indie developers to pay for the games they create.

Sorry, I appreciate your hard work, but this just has 'sloppy' written all over it. Are you aware that there are actual tools that let you take sprites from LucasArts games? You seem to have done a screen capture to low-quality AVI and cut frames from there, causing fuzziness and blinking backgrounds and such. Also you really shouldn't be using "U R here" spelling in a game like this. It's not that I mind fanfic games per se but they can kind of be expected to be held to the standards of the original.

the inventory favorite of all time: A RUBBER CHICKEN WITH A PULLY IN THE MIDDLE! :o

Monkey Island, of course.

- a box of matches that will never go out ... (out of matches I mean) ...

Zork.

- a bubble (you know, like when you use soap and water to blow bubbles) ...

Trinity.

- a flower that makes people love you ...

Leisure Suit Larry, kind of.

- a coin that will buy any princess (or prince)'s heart ...

Spellcasting 201, kind of.

- a ring that makes you see ghosts ...

Nethack

3: A spoiled egg

4: Rotten cabbage 

King's Quest VI, both.

3: A spiked helmet

Infinite Monkeys.

- blood-splattered plushy bunny

Space Quest IV, the Duracell thingy in the beginning. Come on, the entire city is splattered in lots of things.

a frog

King's Quest IV.

jelly beans

A Boy And His Blob

a point

Adventure. Hah, so there!

some space

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has "no tea" as inventory item, which is arguably the same.

a black hole  :o

Fantasy World Dizzy has a hole inventory item, which happens to be black.

a clove of garlic

Too many vampire games to mention, including QfG4. Why do people keep bringing this one up?

an owl

King's Quest V. You do carry Cedric at some point.

A spider-web

Ultima 4 through 7. Also, KQ3+

The Mona Liza painting (the one in New Adventure of Zak McKraken is fake)

The Da Vinci Code, the video game.

Robin Hood's hat

Conquest of the Longbow, well duh.

A badge that says "Ask me about -----" (Guybrush won't take the Grim Fandango badge from dead Manny in CMI)

Cobb, in MI1. Okay, you can't take that either

A hole (like the ones in cartoons that you can just rip off a wall and put them somewhere else)

As above, Fantasy World Dizzy.

A laptop

Space Quest IV

Neptune

Surprisingly, Cadaver.

A plutonium fuel rod

Did you mean an inanimate carbon rod?

The Triforce, from Zelda.

Actually you collect a full Triforce in both Zelda 1 and Zelda 2.

A tree (not a tree seed, an actual tree)

IIRC, Monkey Island III.

Please do something about the storyline. It could stand a LOT of improvement.