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Thanks Anarcho. Since them I played quite a few games and I only saw the bug creep out in Casablanca, so I guess it really is game dependent.
Maybe an issue for a FAQ somewhere?

Y'all can also use VDMSound instead of Dosbox.

The point was running the AGS-DOS interpreter under Linux, not Windows. VDMSound is a Windows-only application used to emulate a sound card for DOS games, if I understand correctly..

As far as I remember I had some "success" running my unreleased game using DOSBox under Window$, but it was too slow to be playable. That game was made with V2.6SP1, using 320x240 8-bit mode.
If you can't start the games in 320x200 try setting them up to run in 640x400.

They don't work at 320x200, 640x600 nor 800x600. I'm using windowed mode. Other non-AGS games are reported to work with dosbox at those resolutions.
It is in fact interesting that it worked at 320x240.

Also, a VESA complaint VGA card is required to use the DOS engine, not DIrectX.

As strazer mentioned, running AGS under dosbox gives video mode-related problems. I tried running univbe under dosbox, but it fails becase it can't find a supported card. I wonder if the resolution issue is a bug in dosbox or AGS. If it were in the former we could at least expect to be able to run the old AGS DOS interpreter after the due fix, otherwise I might just forget about it and give Windows a chance. There are just too many good, free games to make it worth running the beast temporarily.

AGS v2.7 can only play games compiled with AGS v2.5 and up. And the Linux version doesn't work with games using plugins.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that while this is true, some games developed with versions between 2.5 and 2.70 don't work properly with the later because of incompatible changes in the engine, so they need to be run with the original interpreter they were developed for. Thus, another kudos for your historical archive, I'll let you know if I manage to get it to work with dosbox.

As for the WINE bug, keep an eye on this entry at WineHQ.

I was in the watch list for that bug already, but thanks

I have a list of older AGS releases here.

Excellent! Just what I was looking for!

I'm sorry if this question has been asked a thousand times, but neither the forums' search feature nor google.com helped me find the answer:
Where do I get older releases of AGS, mainly the DOS version?

I use Linux, but my "modern" system can only successfully run the latest released AGS for Linux, so no luck running older games with it. Wine has some mouse-handling bugs that make the Windows interpreter completely unusable, therefore I have to resort to dosbox and the DOS interpreter, but I can't find it anywhere. I don't even see the DOS interpreter inside the AGS 2.7 archive available for download currently.

Your help is very much appreciated.

I seem to have triggered a bug that causes games get saved in the save game dialog. When you load it, you find yourself in the save game dialog again. This causes weird stuff when saving many games, as the game seems to remember some games and some not (not very sure about this one, though). I've seen this with AGS 2.70 (v2.70.864) for Linux, within two different games.

First time happened a few days ago playing Emily Enough; it only happened towards the second half of the game. Now I see it happen with Two of a Kind, which I just began. Here I can reproduce it every time in the initial room, before moving or anything; I just save the game at the very beginning.

Once it happens, it seems to stick; in other words, next time you save the game, you'll find yourself in the save dialog again upon loading the savegame.

It didn't happen to me with Apprentice 1 and 2, or Soviet-Unterzögersdorf and I haven't played other games recently.