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No, under win98 it runs fine (it doesn't exit, so there's no error message), I've created it all in win98 (25,000 lines of code) so far and it's a new problem (the only one I've found) since changing to XP.

Besides, MacGyver can make anything out of anything, you could beat the game with only 2 or 3 inventory items...

Which would make a great game, and probably a worthy MAGS competition!  

That would be a cool idea for MAGs, have a MacGyver month.

One of the most bullshit episodes I saw (after I was joking about "imagine if he did this one day" type thing) he was locked or hiding in some shed, and with the equipment in there, a toothpick and a lavalamp, He made an aeroplane and flew to safety.

Well it wasn't really that equipment but he did fly out in a home made plane. I used to love that show, even though it was so predictable.

I never got to set rules for mags (i think? it was going through some changes at the time) after I won last february, so I think MacGyver can be for February this year. Well I don't really get to say, but hint hint to the winner.

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I've recently upgraded from win98 to XP and I've noticed one strange thing that happens which I'm not sure if it's a bug or not.

note: It's my project, not some random game.

When I skip a particular cutscene by pressing escape (that's what it's set to do), it exits out of the game back to windows without displaying an error message. If I let the scene run through it works fine.

This only occurs in XP as I copied the same files to my other computer with 98 and tested it and it works fine. (although I have no idea about ME or 2000)

I have many cutscenes that I can skip by pressing escape, but for some reason it's only 1 particular one that this happens.

It did happen at 1 other point but I can't get that one to happen now, and I tried starting the game again a few times to get up to the spot where it regularly happens (every time) and it still just exits the game without any message.

I'm running it with a P4 2.6GHtz with 512MB memory. in game when I press ctrl-v it says it's 2.60.693

I don't know if anyone else has had any problems like this with XP,
Any ideas would be appreciated.

Edit: I just tried running the game through the editor with ctrl-t and after the game exited it gave this message:

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AGS Editor Error
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There was a problem running the game engine. It may have crashed, in which case a message should already have informed you. Otherwise, make sure ACWIN.EXE is in the editor directory.
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OK  
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I didn't get a message that informed me before that one and ACWIN.EXE is in the editor directory, so I'm not sure what the problem is.


~Tim

One of the most impressive trailers I've seen here, although I expected as much, and it didn't dissappoint.

I'm not big on Wizard type games, but Apprentice was excellent for a short game, and I expect this to blow it away.

Excellent work, can't wait, but I will anyway

I'm using Powerarchiver to zip at the highest compression, but it's probably more the fact that I could have done it as an 8bit colour game, but wanted some of the high colour features, It does have about 100 backgrounds and over 3500 sprites so far, I'd say it's the sprites that compress really well, but they too haven't got many colours. But still, the compression still impresses me.

I'm looking forward to the one's I'm not waiting for, one's I have no idea that exist, but they're more exciting cause they come from nowhere, have no hype, and are from more modest people, and usually kick arse, but are also very rare, maybe there'll be some this year.

Yes what everyone said is right, Just an example of how good compression can be, my current project in 640 by 400 high colour is 47.6MB uncompressed but when I zip it up, it gets reduced to 3.82MB, much easier to distribute a file this size.

[Lardass Hogan]

Lardass Hogan winner of the pie eating contest
and his fine young friends

definately, I can't believe I missed that one

and also one DM mentioned, Christopher Walken's character in True Romance, Especially that scene.

spoiler below:

Cliff: You know I read a lot. Especially things that have to do with history. I find that shit fascinating. In fact, I don't know if you know this or not, Sicilians were spawned by niggers.
Coccotti: Come again?
Cliff: It's a fact. Sicilians have nigger blood pumpin' through their hearts. If you don't believe me, look it up. You see, hundreds and hundreds of years ago the Moors conquered Sicily. And Moors are niggers. Way back then, Sicilians were like the wops in northern Italy. Blond hair, blue eyes. But, once the Moors moved in there, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin' with the Sicilian women, they changed the blood-line for ever, from blond hair and blue eyes to black hair and dark skin. I find it absolutely amazing to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, Sicilians still carry that nigger gene. I'm just quotin' history. It's a fact. It's written. Your ancestors were niggers. Your great, great, great, great, great-grandmother was fucked by a nigger, and had a half-nigger kid. That is a fact. Now tell me, am I lyin'?

That was mainly Dennis Hopper' dialog, but you can imagine what Coccotti (Walken) did next



I was looking in IMDB at Christopher Walken's profile and it's huge, but then I looked at Christopher Lee's and it's more than twice as big, These guys have done shitloads of work over the years. I'm not sure but I think Christopher Lee has been in the most movies of all time, or the most Box Office movies of all time, I think atleast the latter.

Yeah, I got the same error as Gilbot, I don't know if it's temporary or not but I'll try again later.

[Savvy]

I think it's just a non event and there is nothing going on in the media at this time of year, so why not make some story out of nothing (it's the same with Jackson being in the news [as if anyone has a clue if he's guilty]).

For fucks sake, eventually the kid has got to deal with crocs as it will be inevitable in his family, so why not start from scratch, sure the kid won't know shit at one month old, just waiting for some more milk. Steve is just bringing up his kid the same way he was brought up, that is exactly how it usually works.

He did nothing wrong, he's not as stupid as he comes across (obviously, cause he's still alive) He understands the dangers, therefore he's got more idea than anyone observing especially a biased media. He's probably one of the most croc Savvy guys in the world, therefore I'd rather be in Steve's arms in front of a croc than in Jacksons.

I saw an interview with him last night and basically he said the only mistake he made was letting cameras see the event, and I agree with that completely.

EDIT: It's silly to compare ways that people die eg. by dogs or whatever, You take a risk every time you get in a car or walk down the street. You could get stung by a bee or wasp, struck by lightning and as been mentioned there are a lot of worse parents out there.

obviously there are more dogs out there than crocs, but it depends specifically on your current location, I'd say Steve's kids will have to deal with crocs more than most kids, therefore the time spent learning about their behaviour is crucial in upbringing.

If you ever go to Africa, don't worry too much about Lions or crocs, It's the Hippo that kills more humans than any other animal, maybe people should take the game "Hungry Hungry Hippos" more literally.

[never]

I think the term RTFM should never be used, there are more subtle ways to hint to people to use the manual. The way I prefer to do it is to give an answer first, to get the person on the right track (and sometimes that is just enough) and politely suggest if they need any more help, what to look for in the manual, and if it doesn't help just ask for more help.

I know it can get frustrating when people ask the same questions all the time but that doesn't excuse a RTFM just because you're pissed off, If you find yourself typing RTFM just take a step back and think before posting. Someone else will probably come up with a more friendly way to phrase it.

As MrColossal mentioned about TK,

TK, I know you like to help people and do a good job generally, but I notice too many RTFM, but you're not the only one guilty of it, I have seen it from a few others, I'd say just take a leaf out of Scorpiorus's book and don't let frustration let you down.

just remember people are at all sorts of different levels of understanding and sometimes things need to be described a little easier, just cause you know what you mean doesn't mean someone else will. And language barriers may be the cause on some occasions.

but in general I think most people are quite friendly, even TK

Hehe, Passion pop and Goon, I think a cask of goon ends up cheaper, but if you're an alcoholic, the cheapest stuff you can get in the biggest bottles with the highest alcohol percentage are things like Sherry and Gin. Now you know why your grandmother is always happy.

Layabout, A Queenslander that doesn't like rum??

fair enough, I hate the stuff too, but I have a few mates that drink it like water, silly alcoholics.


I might write some of these beers down so if see them round I can try them out.

www.web1000.com

Lots of space, I think unlimited bandwidth, free.

It's also really great for hosting websites - no ads or anything, they just put ads on the 404s.

The catch? No web-based upload/download system - you have to use FTP (which really isn't all that bad).

Except it only works in the US & Canada

some of their sites work elsewhere but not all, and a lot of people that have used it, have had problems with people downloading from it, so it's not as good as it seems.

I also used to use it, and for no reason without explanation my site was deleted, I emailed to see why and got no reponse.

Also if you use it make sure you choose an option somewhere that's for a non adult site or the 404 errors will give links to porn sites. Most Eurpeans won't be able to download from the site either even if they can see the page.

SQ3 & LSL3

but really:

All SQ, LSL, MI, QG, MM & GF and all the ones I missed

They're all my favourite and all win

Timosity, Jack is a name that Tyler says to "narrator" in a certain time in the Fight Club Film(before the car crash), but I´m not sure if this the name of the character... I think Tyler calls narrator "Jack" because of that article that narrator reads about an organ of Jack talking in first person.

Someone has read the book? This is a little out of topic, but I wish to know the name of the fight club narrator for sure.

Thanks.

I wasn't sure about the name either but at www.imdb.com it says the narrator is Jack, that's where I got it from, whether it is right or not, I'm not positive but it probably is.

I'm well into the next stage of this at the moment, I'll be needing more beta testers when I've completed it, which will probably be sometime early this year, a couple of months or so, so if you are still interested when the time comes you can beta test.

[Col. Ives - Ravenous]

Col. Ives -  Ravenous (played by Robert Carlyle)
I loved this character, so evil and very well played.

Jack - Fight Club (played by Edward Norton)
Great movie, the character, well both of them really were a good journey through the mind.

Ford Fairlane - The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (played by Andrew Dice Clay)
Mr. Rock 'n' Roll detective, A character with more one liners than bond or Arny, and more girls, an absolute cult classic.

Danny Zuko - Grease (played by John Travolta)
When I was about 8, I thought I was a member of the T-birds, except we renamed them the Randy Roosters & the Pink Ladies were the Horny Hens, I was a dirty little kid, well nothing much has changed.

Clarice Starling & Dr. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs (played by Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins)
Don't really need to say much about this one.

Frederic - The Pirate Movie (played by Christopher Atkins)
This was a favourite movie of my sisters and I when we were kids, along with Grease, I'm sure some of you have seen it, it's a really bad pirates of penzance spoof musical comedy. You may remember Christopher Atkins from 'The Blue Lagoon' with Brooke Shields. This Movie was filmed in Australia and I've been to the castle/mansion that was in the movie down in Werribee near Melbourne.

Spud & Begbie - Trainspotting (played by Ewen Bremner & Robert Carlyle)
Two great characters from this movie

Ishmael Boorg -  Kingpin (played by Randy Quaid)
He plays this role so well, so innocent. It's a great movie, one of my favourites.

Archie Leach - A Fish Called Wanda (played by John Cleese)
He's also played many other great roles, but this is also a great one.

Melvin Junko - The Toxic Avenger (played by Mark Torgl)
well this is sort of a joke one anyway, but he was still a hillarious character, Melvin the mop boy, bigger nerd than Roger Wilco.

also Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read - Chopper  played by Eric Bana & Roger 'Verbal' Kint - The Usual Suspects played by Kevin Spacey which have already been mentioned. And many more.

I've probably had less beer in the last year than every year since I was 16

I like mixing around with the beers I drink, I like most beers, even VB or Tooheys New, but I'm sick of them, I don't mind Carlton Draught or Extra Dry, but I prefer to drink Cascade Premium, or Boags. The odd Coopers is great too. The odd Toheeys Old aswell (a stout)

Hahn premium light, or Cascade premium light are good for light beers compared to most.

The above are all Australian beers, I don't drink many imported beers, but I do love Guinness & Kilkenny.

I don't really like drinking spirits,

but having shots of black sambuca can top off a good night.

I wouldn't mind experimenting with brewing my own beer this year.

Hehe, this is silly, everyones replies are legit,

Also there is really no competition between engines, people are free to use as many or as few as they like. And many use SCI & AGS

Phil Roberts, I'd suggest you get to know the community around here before you start making silly statements, then you would understand that it's a pretty tight knit group, and you'd probably become friends with people here.

There's pleanty of room for both engines and I'm sure both will gain more members over time than losing members, I can't see what your point is or what you are trying to achieve.

It seems like your saying "hint, hint, I think you should stop making this engine soon cause no one will use it cause another exists" it just seems a very odd statement with very little research behind it.

Quite a few people here use both, they both have advantages in different areas, They are both cool products. At the moment I'd say AGS has a lot more features, but it depends whether you've donated money to Brian to get SCI studio 4 (I haven't so I'm not sure of the features), When that's finished and released publically it might gain a few more members hence lift the community out of a stale dribble.

The free support and community at AGS can't be beaten by any other engine, and the engine tries it's best to be backwards compatible with operating systems, SCI get a bit screwwy in Win98 after a while and has to be restarted or the computer reset.

As for the graphics studio, It doesn't have nearly the features of a proper paint program, I can't see any reason why that would be an advantage for promoting an engine.

I used SCI for a while a few years ago after using AGI, then discovered AGS, it seems to be a natural progression, I still have a softspot for SCI, and occasionally Anonymously post in their forums, but it hasn't been updated publically for a year or something, and it's not something I would pay for when I can get AGS for free that gets updated every few weeks, Thanks Heaps CJ.