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but let's hope (as AGA said in his PC Zone 'article') AGS gets the attention it deserves and receives full-page reviews, CJ interviews and all
(hopefully in a magazine with a 'target audience' of more mature readers)

You want to see CJ in Playboy?  :o :o :o

where will he put his onion rings?

Another important lesson for n00bs is: don't expect anyone to read anything marked "newbies read this" or similar... because they don't.  

I'm not sure that you need to be 100% proficient with scripting before you try to use it... after all, how do you learn if you don't try until you have already learned?

I believe that saving your game as a template backs up everything, so maybe you can do that and then zip the agt file?

Personally, I keep all my original copies of sprites separate form the game anyway. This is kinda automatic if you use a layered format for your originals, anyway...

It sounds like you accidentally copied something over your file. You may be able to use a data recovery program to find the old copy of the file (this is generally easier if you do it straight away). Look for undelete programs on download.com.

Check sourceforge: there's already about 300 open-source monopoly projects, some of which are actually working. Not that I want to stop you, but there's no point re-inventing the wheel.

On the other hand, AGS Pokemon would be cool... check out that old photoshop phriday

And... That MCGuffin stuff has no sense for me...  

McGuffin is a movie term for the thing that everyone is after
In ROTLA: The Ark of the covenant
In Last Crusade: The Holy Grail
In FOY: The fountain of youth
In Broken Sword: The Sword of Baphomet

So... It's flight against the nazis, not "fight"... No typo there!

except that it should be "flying", not "flight"

Wahey! Any game with my name mentioned in the credits somewhere must be good I'll offer you help with scripting, puzzle design and proofreading too if you like! Just a couple fo things: the last line of the letter might be better as "What can possibly be more dangeorus than fighting in the Battle of Britain?"

and "Sword of the King" sounds more dramatic than "King's sword" to my ear. And Indy-related stories don't necessarily have to have the name of the Mcguffin in them, anyway. "The Last Crusade" didn't, and neither did Temple of Doom, really.

but I'm really looking forward to this. It might be nearly as good as the Sphinx game!

This is one of the main niggles with the scripting langauge: inconsistent naming of functions!

ObjectOn/ObjectOff
EnableHotspot/DisableHotspot
RemoveWalkableArea/RestoreWalkableArea
character[XXX].room=player.room/character[XXX].room=-1;
EnableRegion/DisableRegion
GUIOn/GUIOff

and then you need to work out if speeds have bigger or smaller numbers as faster...  

Actually, Yufster is stating something pretty close to the views that George Whitfield had:

All of us are sinners
The wages of sin are death
therefore we all deserve death

What Yakspit says about atonement is true: a lot of the Law books of the old testament are saying that the atonement for sin X is Y... death of a lamb, death of a cow, etc. etc.

The message of Jesus was actually to toughen up the law: all sins deserve death. And Jesus said that he came not to abolish the law but to fulfil it. Thus he died in our stead. So our death is no longer required.

So we can just do what we like, then, eh?

Well, Jesus also said "Repent, or you will perish". I beleive that Jesus has made just one qualification for entry to heaven:

Be sorry for the bad things that you have done and ask him to bear the punishment. Obviously, this implies actually believing in him.

Now, you can take the gamble that you'll be alive on your deathbed to repent of all those things. Myself, I try to repent daily, becuase I do bad things every day. But it is hard to repent when you know that you're just going to go and do it again tomorrow. Maybe even after you die then Jesus comes to you and says "Bet you're sorry now, eh?" and most people (there's always SOME who wouldn't) would say, "Ooops, sorry, please forgive me" and go to heaven too. That's a deity's prerogative, as Jonah found out.

Now, I could take advantage of God's grace in all this, but that would imply that I've missed the point and also it would be mightily ungrateful. For every extra sin I commit, Jesus has to bear an extra load on the cross for me, so I'll do my best to try and reduce that burden.

One of the problems that Luther had with the Catholic church at the time he posted his theses was that they had gone back to the idea of paying out specific amounts of good works, prayers or purgatory for each sin, which is exactly what Jesus came to abolish.

So, the bible reads to me like certain sexual acts are a sin. To others, it reads that such laws were cutural or metaphorical or mistranslated, or whatever.I hope they sincerely beleive that, and are not just looking for an excuse to do what they want. But if they beleive in Jesus's grace, I think they'll end up in heaven. It's God's opinion on it that really matters and I trust him to do what is good. So really, what then for gay marriage? I don't think that Christianity was ever meant to be a set of laws for a state to follow, but rather a moral guide for those whithin any state that believed in it. So let states do what they wish, and hopefully they will follow their consicence to try and eliminate inequalities, unfairness and hatred. The US isn't heading in that direction just now.

And there's a pic of someone looking out  a window in 6DA too...

fenestrophilia!

SSH: Do I draw people hanging out of windows a lot?

*cough* Time Out intro *cough*

And what is it with Ghormak and stick people?  

All of the Irish people I know think that Ian Paisley is a right pillock, but that doesn't stop him getting votes, either...

My ex-flatmate is married to a girl who's sister is married to Ian Paisley Jr., though...

Maybe you could look at SetObjectView in the manual, too?  

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In other news: I ultra, ultra respect Peter Thomas, even though his views go against every single one of mine, when it comes to Gay Rights. He's seriously the only christian with such views, that I have ever respected. He seems to be willing to examine his own beliefs and he's not rude or anything. I just thought I'd mention it because, a lot of christians in his shoes would be screaming the details of how ****we're **** going to burn in hell.

Yufster, are you in a gay marriage? m0ds will be so disappointed!

also, out of interest, do you not respect my views on gay rights, or did you not realise that I'm a Christian, or something else?

But explain this: the light we see coming from some stars are millions of light years away, which means the stars we see at night are from light that has been travelling way longer than the earth has been in existance.

Look, if you accept that God can create the universe then making a few photons half-way between distant stars and here is hardly difficult for him. Being omnipotent means that you can do anything... of course, why he would do that is much harder to answer, but then I'm not qualified to psychoanalyse anyone, let alone the creator of the universe.

God COULD have made the world 5000 years ago and stuck some fossils in the ground. God could have kept the flying lizards out of the way of the humans so they didn't get eaten by them. If you try, there are plenty of plausible explanations for such questions. If you try, you can make some explanations sound silly, and no doubt many of them are. The closest thing we have to contemporary accounts are all poo-poohed by scientists as being mysitcal nonsense, but then all the scientists are doing is extrapolating from the scant set of facts that they have.

Maybe we should concentrate on the problems of the future rather than bicker over those of the past.

Farlander has a point: windows always need some kind of lintel or arch structure to stop the tops falling in.

Also, what is it with you and people hanging out of windows, Eric?

Finally, your greatest fault is not doing all my artwork for me. I wish I could draw half as well as you.

Like, actual physical evidence of creatures that have existence longer than we have.

No, they are physical evidence of creatures that no longer exist. Proving that they date from millions of years ago is more difficult...

http://www.barahome.co.uk/Barahome/Christian/fossils.htm
http://www.wasdarwinright.com/Fossils.asp

As I said, there are thousnad of web sites on both sides of the srguments all over the place. You will be able to find some that counter the ones I have above. I can then find some that debunk those counter arguments, etc. etc.

The person who has the last word in this argument wont be the one who is right but rather the one with the most stamina for keeping the thread going. So, lets talk about something else!

farlander, maybe I'm just not getting your post the way I'm meant to, but the bible does NOT incorporate 5,000 years of history. It postulates the existance of an earth only 2,000 years old. Not a day more (okay - maybe a day or two, but you get the idea)

Ummmm.... that would mean that then earth began after Jesus was born... I think 5000 is closer to the mark

These debates, agruments and counter arguments have already been played out a million times on Usenet, etc. Why don't we just recognize that no-one changes their minds with these arguments anyway so lets just leave it and elope to get bisexually married, as Yufster's teacher suggests.

Do you still use the bible as a book of history? Cool, let’s play, I’ll use the Bible and the book of the law of the Jewish, the Misna.

Was Jesus judged by Jewish? I say no:

(Extract of a homework I did for my class of Philosophy, years ago…)
no point in me replicating that...

Conclusion: Someone (Paul?) invented a Jewish trial for making it suitable for the roman population, while all the historical facts aim to a roman judgement.  It was clear that Paul could not export a Jewish religion to Rome if its most important figure was a person who fought against the Roman Empire.

That's one conclusion. Another is that the enemies of Jesus were so desparate to get his bumped off that they burst through all normal procedure. Anyway, the bible mentions that Pilate tried Jesus, so what's with this supposed denial of Jesus beging tried my the romans?

http://www.giveshare.org/library/sanhedrin/index.html

If the Americans are worried about a falling birthrate, then banning sex education in schools seems to usually help generate a few teenage parents...