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Renaming it uppercase might work!  thank you.

I just can't understand why some developers feel that it's not worth it to make applications cross-platform..  Windows and windows, i've given it up!  There's just one reason why people should stick to Windows:

*Number of applications and commercial games

But what happens when there's more than 30% using Linux on their desktop? I mean regular consumers.  That's not impossible.. and i'm sure that will happen in few years.

Things tend to change, are you with the change or not?  I am..

It seems like speech pack for King's Quest 2 doesn't work on ags linux engine.  

Hey if allegro can't handle video or mp3, or any other audio/video formats on linux,  you should try libsdl
http://www.libsdl.org/index.php

"Simple direct media library"   It's used on many media players and games..  so why not give it a try? It's also included in every linux distro these days, so it'd not be problem to AGS to depend on that library too.   :

But anyways, you developers have done great job..   Thank you.

Thank you..   this should solve my problem..

 : Could somebody help me?  I have latest Wine emulator installed on my Mandrake 9.0 , i also have Windows 98 on it's own partition and it's accessible through Wine. (It can fetch, load dlls, fonts.. )

The only problem is that most of the text on AGS editor are shown as rectangles instead..    so it's entirely unreadable.

I don't want to boot to Windows everytime, because AGS editor is known to work well under Wine.   But this one little problem, makes it impossible to use.

Has someone had similar problems? Could someone provide me some info what font configuration might work?   This is the font section:

[fonts]
;Read the Fonts topic in the Wine User Guide before adding aliases
;See a couple of examples for russian users below
"Resolution" = "96"
"Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
"DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-"
"DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-"

;; default TrueType fonts with russian koi8-r encoding
;"Default" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
;"DefaultFixed" = "-monotype-courier new-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
;"DefaultSerif" = "-monotype-times new roman-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
;; default cyrillic bitmap X fonts
;"Default" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"
;"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
;"DefaultSerif" = "-cronyx-times-"
;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"

; the TrueType font dirs you want to make accessible to wine
[FontDirs]
"dir1" = "/mnt/windows/windows/fonts"
;"dir2" = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
"dir2" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
;"dir4" = "/usr/share/fonts/TT"

Got any ideas?  This font thing is pain in the butt!   Please  :o

PS. There's a winelib that is used to port windows applications to linux, hey.. hey hey..   ?? Is it possible to do that to AGS? It'd be great to get native versions of the editor..

I had no problems installing Mandrake on computer that has Intel processor, but
I had the same problem installing it to computer with VIA C3 processor. (x86FREE failed to install..).. But i read the instructions how to prevent it, i just had boot from floppy which had different kernel that is compatible with the processor that is other than Intel. Then i had to type something like lt2, so it installed with the current kernel. Then it worked without any problems.    And it's said on the mandrake website that the default kernel works only on Intel pentium class computer, other processors like AMD, VIA C3 have to be installed with different kernel.

I'm not argueing which one is better, i just want discussion.. And what i say is only my opinion. (Seems like people here don't get that... I'm not trying to change anyone's opinion. ) but what i say about Microsoft being barbaric and its OS being mostly unstable is true...  Microsoft licenced that Unix kernel thing, and now sent warnings to Linux companies that they're using a kernel that has stolen code.  They say the end user is responsible for using the stolen software and this might lead to court. Microsoft said the the reason for licencing it was that they want to improve compatibility...  =)
I think UNIX was open-source OS, until Microsoft... hah hah ..
And what do you call that? Aren't they desperate? They're even paying for Mexico to use their software, coz they were going to use Linux.  That is funny thing..
:

 : I'm running Mandrake too. To me.. it's working very well... havn't notices any BAD bugs.

Being a market leader doesn't mean that it's the best OS, Windows has been the only option for consumers the past ten years... but now when XP license is so expensive .. and hah you can only use it on one pc, if you have more than one, you have to buy more licenses, isn't that true? No wonder Linux is becoming more popular every year. So people who use pc only for writing few documents a month and surfing on the web or for a programmer, Linux is more than good. Those who want to play games and make sure that every device work properly, then it's Windows.

There're many people saying pc = windows, windows = pc ..  isn't it logical?  If you buy a computer you get windows automatically, it's like compulsory hardware just like your keyboard and mouse. What if they told you that you get the same package   250 e off if you want it with Linux (7 cd's + one dvd ) instead of Windows (1 cd). But they don't do that, do they?

 : Well the reason why i changed from Win98SE to Linux was unstability... Even if i installed it over and over again, there comes a point when i had to run defrag and scandisk to keep the system running.

And it never ran smoothly, even if i had 256 mb of ram, it didn't use it efficiently. It's said that 98 is 20% faster and more reliable than 95, hah.. yup 95 was crap.. i was confused when i got the first illegal operation and that famous blue screen...  Hah on 98 nothing really changed.. in fact it should have been just a free update for 95 users.  
Yup ... i was happy, but then i discovered WinME, hah  it's a good thing i didn't upgrade...  coz it's just the same like 98 with some new features, but basically it's just an expensive update to 98. Then what about WinXP.. sure, it's better than any Windows OS ever, it's more stable and so on..  But it didn't take long for me to crash it. Hah.. i just started the browser.. and BOOM.. had to reboot again.  

That's a quick history of me and my windows.  Now.. in linux..  i've used it for a month now..  it has never crashed.. or become unstable... i'm impressed...  It's only a matter of time when people discover this better alternative...    

Heyy.. and do tell me one good reason, why to change back to Windows? Yup .. i know one good reason, the compatibility.. yup yap yap..  but it's going to change too.. manufacturers are beginning to support Linux OS.. and it's not going to take long when there's Tux penguin in every scanner package.. along with the good old Windows symbol.

  :o I'm not preaching about anything, i'm just suggesting. I know you and shawn do all this on your sparetime. Yes 95% of desktop computers use WIndows, but that is going to change in the near future.

But i guess i shouldn't have posted that previous comment since you live in the present, not in the future. Maybe i should do the same thing, live in present -> Move back to WIndows.

Not many games use plugins, but that tends to change like everything do.  

I think there's many experts who'd want to help you, it takes time to do everything alone. But then again, you'd have to reveal the source code.. and that's the thing that you don't want to do, right? To prevent people from hacking other people's games? Yup but who'd want to hack any ags game, they're not that good. :

Thank you, great job so far..

The problem is the plugins, you can't use Windows dlls in Linux, so they also have to be ported to Linux.

Shawn (the one who made the linux version of the engine)  said that and he also added, that he's looking forward porting the whole editor to linux later this year.  I suggest that the current well known plugins should be integrated to the linux version..  so there'd be no problems running on Linux.  

The windows version should also have an ability to compile the game to Linux, now that it only has ability to DOS and Windows compilations. Linux users wouldn't have to download the linux engine separately and make sure that some filenames are correct..   and if the game uses plugins, then it does not work at all...  So there should be a way to make AGS cross-platform.. that it'd work in any Linux or Windows platform.  One answer is JAVA, it works on any OS, but it's also very slow..  and since AGS wasn't built in java, then it's not the answer.

Hmmm.. tricky business..  But we should all change our view, programs shouldn't be created only for Windows, they should be cross-platform. The only obsticle is Microsoft, they make sure that developers stay in their stable. They didn't put JAVA support to XP and so on.. They're just afraid of losing the way of making more and more money.  :    :o

  Has anyone tried running AGS under Wine on LInux?  
I wish Chris let someone port AGS to Linux..     : Does anyone know
when is this miracle going to happen?  :'(  

hmmm..  looks like fun.

I'd say that all of those games look very promising and you shouldn't drop any of them out.

Heyy and remember that if you come up with a cool plot, it might be old and used and it might not interest the players. So think hard when u plan everything ok?
I'm very picky what it comes to playing any game, commercial game or not... i've had hard time playing some game that thinks "Hey im kool keep on playing me", but really in whole the game might be just another copy of previous game's storylines. Hmmm.. maybe movie industry suffers from a lack of imagination and so do the game makers.. even writers..  

  How do i download this!

Tripod does not allow direct linking to files, and there's no index.html .
heh.. how was i supposed to get this great game!

Please .. next time.. if you use free website providers, don't link to the files directly, only through the html page on YOUR SITE.. think again..