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#181
General Discussion / Bugtracking software
Tue 10/11/2009 00:09:52
Does anyone know a freeware bugtracking software package like JIRA, suitable for about at least 35 clients/users?
#182
I removed this rep_exec function from the room script because the game was running abnormally slow
(which didn't solve the slow running problem anyway but whatever):

function room_RepExec()
{
}
function repeatedly_execute_always()

{
 if (!cBird.Moving)
 {
   if (cBird.x == 190)
   {
     cBird.Walk(400,  163, eNoBlock, eAnywhere);      
   }
   else
   {
     cBird.Walk(190,  163, eNoBlock, eAnywhere);
   }
 }
 if (!cKeen.Moving)
 {
  if (cKeen.x == 190)
  {
    cKeen.Walk(400,  190, eNoBlock, eAnywhere);
  }
  else
  {
    cKeen.Walk(190,  190, eNoBlock, eAnywhere);
  }
 }
}

Then I tried to run the game but this error occurs:

Error: prepare-script: error -18 (no such funtion in script) trying to run 'room_RepExec' (Room 1)

Can't figure out why this happens... ???
Anyone?
#183
Stuck at
Spoiler
where to find the brain for the bionic man
[close]
#184
I know there is a bubbles option for character thoughts but
is there bubbles option for character speech supported?
I ask this because after searching around I have noticed that
it might be/have been on the "wish list" if I'm not mistaken...
[Like here for example]
#185
Is it possible to let an animation run during a dialog?

NPC1 needs to walk from point A to point B and back, like a loop.
But when the player character starts a dialog with let's say NPC2,
NPC1 stops walking and wait (or freeze) until that dialog has ended.
After that, he continue walking again.
Is there a way to keep him moving during the dialog?

So, somehow the walking animation is blocked until the dialog has ended...
#186
General Discussion / Deat at A Funeral Movie
Wed 07/10/2009 17:03:41
Anyone seen Death At A Funeral"?
Awesome movie!!

#187
Lately a friend of me went to my bathroom for a pee but came back within a few seconds complete out of his mind.
He tried to tell me that he found a snake in there.
I didn't believe him, thought he'd  had to much beer.
So I went to the bathroom and to my surprise there was a snake (it wasn't snake from the ags forum) coiled on the floor in the corner.
It looks pretty dangerous because of the colors, black red and yellow. Al I now about snakes is a basic rule: do they have sharp colors like red and yellow then they might be poisonous, so caution was advised...

I got to get rid of that snake if I ever wanted to be able to sleep in my own house.
He (that friend) was scared like hell of that snake so he definitely wasn't going to do something about it.
So I tried to catch the snake. It first crawl quickly away but ended up in my bedroom. Darn.
After that it had became pretty angry and start using his little rattle on his tale.
He clearly didn't like to be hunt down...
It crawled into a pile of clothing that was lying there ready to get washed.
At that point I decided to not go further because it could 'jump' out of the pile and bite me.
So I decided to go sleep in the living room and I blocked the small passage under the bedroom door to keep the snake in that room because they have the nasty habit to seek for body heat and go sleep against your body.

Next morning I went back to the room, keep the small passage under the bedroom door blocked while being in the room so the snake couldn't escape into another room. I found the snake, still in the pile of clothes and with a stick removing cloth by cloth there was nothing left then 'run' again for the snake.
Then I managed to catch it behind his head while distracting him with my other hand.
I put him in a box, closed and locked it and went to a reptile/snake shop and gave him away for free. The guy there could tell me it wasn't a poisonous one but this snake was an impostor/imitator, having the looks of a poisonous snake so they will not be attacked easily by other animals.
So, what would you have done, call an expert or something to remove the snake and miss the thrill or try catching it by yourself? At least I did not miss the action and excitement...
Quite an adventure.  8)

So, what would you have done?
#188
I want a NPC (a bird) go from the start position in the room to coordinate B and go back to coordinate A
33,163 is coordinate A, 190,163 is coordinate B
the bird should do this constantly
Somehow the character isn't moving at all.
What am I doing wrong?

Code:

function room_RepExec()
{
cBird.Walk(300,  163, eNoBlock);
cBird.Walk(190,  163, eNoBlock);
}
#189
Hints & Tips / Awakener
Tue 29/09/2009 15:58:27
Stuck...
Spoiler
only have the holy cola bottle as inventory item
[close]
#190
Critics' Lounge / Critic my beachdude
Mon 28/09/2009 15:11:13
This is my very first attempt to draw a person, to draw anything actually.

Original size [45x100]:


400x [180x400]
I just resized it 400% so it's a bit blurry, don't know how to do it the right way...


Comments and ideas please...
I think his left leg and feet are somehow wrong and his right hand is a bit to big...
#191
Hints & Tips / Ardent Fever
Thu 24/09/2009 16:07:30
stuck at:
Spoiler
how to get moisture for the overheated computer
[close]
Spoiler
not be able to open the panel near the lab to get computers connected to talk with each other
[close]

#192
General Discussion / Vista can't find drive
Mon 14/09/2009 21:57:12
I had XP Pro installed but now I tried to install Vista. I used the option to move the XP installation to somewhere else so it created a partition called Disc X. After this I couldn't chose the option upgrade anymore so I had to chose New Clean installation. (I wanted a clean version in stead of an upgrade) It runs until it can't find a disc for the driver. (Disc X is also not usable) So what now? Anyone?
#194
General Discussion / The REAL Monkey Island
Mon 07/09/2009 13:20:38
The Real Monkey Island...

Maybe some of you know, maybe not, but Monkey Island does exist in real life!

Geography:
It lies in the land of the rising sun, japan.
Just in the bay near Tokyo lies several islands.
One of them is called Sarushima Island.
Among the other islands, Sarushima Island is the only natural formed island.

Here a picture of Sarushima Island from the air, you see the forest covered island, with a nice beach at the right:


Geo History:
A long time ago Sarushima Island was called "Toshima Island".
At that time there were more islands among Sarushima Island:
For example Kasajima Island, Hirashima Island, Takogaijima Island and more.
All together there ware 10 islands.
Thats probably the reason that they called one of them "Toshima Island".
Toshima means litterly "10 islands".

From the days of the Meiji period, all the other islands are lost because of several projects of government and industry, leaving only Sarushima Island still existing today.

History:
In April 1253 Nichiren, the priest that the branch of Nichiren Buddhism has founded, wanted to sail from the country Kasuza to Kamakura, but he fell into a storm. The priest began to pray and sing to the Holy Dragon god of the sea. Miraculously the huge dragon appeared and the water was calm again. However, the captain had no idea where he was and got off course. The legend goes that at that time a White Monkey on the bow of the boat appeared and led them to an island, this island was therefor called Sarushima Island (and in English: Monkey Island). When Nichiren came to the beach he saw a fisherman whose feet were hurt by the spines of the sea snail. He sang a prayer, and ever since then the sea snails had no longer spines And even now, as you will find on the beaches, you'll only find shells of the sea snail without spines...

The island has for a long time been used for military purposes mainly to defend themselves from the Western visitors. At that time the island got another name: Fortified Island".
There were lot's of canons and walls around these canons. Remains are still on they island. These walls has been build in the mini jungle of Tabunoki trees and therefor not visible from outside the island.
Because the emphasis of war was now laid on fighting in the air instead of at sea the canons were of no use anymore. The island was left in peace again. But in 1942 there were build 5 new constructions and anti-air guns were placed upon these. But at the end they were dismantled by the Allies.

Map of the military structures on Sarushima Island:


Nowadays:
You can still pay a visit to go see the fortifications. Lot's of tunnels are going through the island and form connections with nearly each part of the island. These tunnels are cemented in the French style and still intact.
Nowadays couples walk through it, hand in hand, making it also know as the "tunnels of love'. A bit odd when you consider that it is built for war...

One of these tunnels:


Sarushima Island aka Monkey Island has now changed into a tourist spot.
Have a look at this tourists map with hotspots of Sarushima Island/Monkey Island:


Sources: translated from adventure-island.nl
#195
I was wondering, does anyone know why Mediafire adds a "connection: closed" to the download url?

Example:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jodzzjmntyyConnection:%20close

Should be:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jodzzjmntyy

??

Thanx
#196
Is there any option to get back the information like the Rules and Guidelines from
the 1st MAGS (which seems to be 2001-06) until the MAGS from 2003-03.

This forum only host MAGS information from 2003-04 until recent...

So, I'm not asking for the games but just only for the information like Rules and Guidelines

Anyone, please, please, please, please?
#197
Hints & Tips / J.J.Gun and Sepheret Island
Mon 03/08/2009 13:53:43
Can't figure out how to get the
Spoiler
girl and the short man together because I need that boat
[close]
Once in the hotel I also can't go back to the shop of abdullah/Samantha. It's impossible or I overlook a door/entrance or something.
My inventory still contains only the stuff I started the game with.
In short: stuck.
#198
Bill Tiller, the artist behind the backgrounds for The Curse of Monkey Island [MI3] and The Dig now comes with a new pirate game:
Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island. Check these screeny's or read the preview.

It also seems that he once tried to pull of a redo of MI1, but didn't got a go. Quoting Bill Tiller:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Back in 1998 I wanted to re do the Secret of Monkey Island with the CMI art style. I made this image to get the idea off the ground, but Lucas management wasn't interested at the time. I'm glad the new Lucas Arts president has seen the light. Anyway I just thought I'd share this with you all."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, looks like pirate games seems to be hot this year...
#199
I'm a member of a webpage with adventure previews/reviews and interviews.
We now may ask some questions to the TellTale team who's responsible for Tales of Monkey Island.
It's pretty hard to make up good reasonable questions regarding this game so far.

Now I know there are quit some monkey island lovers around here, so are there any
AGS-ers who would have some good questions about TT's Tales of Monkey Island?

Thanx so far.

[Arj0n]
#200
Has anyone other great extensions to recommend?
I use the following extensions for firefox (v3.0.10):

01.       AdblockFilterset.GUpdater{0.3.1.3}.xpi   -- Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G
02.       AdblockPlus{1.0.2}.xpi   -- Ads were yesterday!
03.       BabelFish{1.84}.xpi   -- Fast Multilanguage Tooltip Translation
04.       CustomizeGoogle{0.76}.xpi   -- Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam
05.       DownloadStatusbar{0.9.6.5}.xpi   -- View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
06.       FEBE{6.1}.xpi   -- Backup your Firefox data
07.       Forecastfox{0.9.9}.xpi   -- Get international weather forecasts and display it in any toolbar
            or statusbar with this highly customizable extension.
08.       GooglePreview{3.21}.xpi   -- Localized description in *.properties file.
09.       IETab{1.5.20090207}.xpi   -- Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox.
10.       IMDbPreview{0.5}.xpi   -- Preview movie & actor posters when hovering over their IMDb links.
11.       ImageZoom{0.3.1}.xpi   -- Adds zoom functionality for images
12.       NetVideoHunter{0.4.2}.xpi   -- Download flash videos (FLV) and music (MP3) from any Youtube-like videosharing site.
13.       ShowLocation{0.4.8}.xpi   -- Show the server location of the current web page in the status bar.
14.       SkipScreen{0.1.05262009}.xpi   -- Skips unnecessary pages on sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more.
            Wherever there are unnecessary pages and superfluous links, Skipscreen will be there.
15.       TinyMenu{1.4.10}.xpi   -- Replace the standard menu bar with a tiny menu popup.
16.       UndoClosedTabsButton{3.0.3}.xpi   -- Add a toolbar and/or tab bar button to undo closed tabs
17.       UnitedStatesEnglishDictionary{3.0.3}.xpi   -- English United States (en-US) spellchecking dictionary
18.       UpdateNotifier{0.1.5.4}.xpi   -- Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes.

SkipScreen is my latest addition, GREAT for sites as e.g. rapidshare: no more waiting!
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