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Mercer Island. She was gonna buy a 3 million dollar house on Mercer Island? That's a rather short bus ride away for me. Heh. Could egg the living @#$% out of it if she'd actually gotten it...Ã, 

I don't understand why you would want to do that?

I was just shit-stirring. Look at the smiley -> 

Jesus was like a totally awesome guy I'm sure.

The bad influence John Lennon has had on people for the last 25 years is nothing on the bad influence Jesus has had on people for the last 2000. 

PS. I wish Mark Chapman had shot Paul instead... or the Pope. Shooting the Pope would be pretty cool.

The albums he has made had pr0n covers with Yoko Ono.

For anybody who might of been offended by the cover of "Two Virgins" I've made this new improved version:

I was hoping he would at least smash the TV or something 

I think the biggest single file I ever downloaded on a 56k modem was "The Dark Eye" off the Home of the Underdogs site.
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=273

335mb, took about two days I think. Disaster struck though, and there were a few bytes corrupted in the download. Not wanting to download the whole thing again I somehow found the corrupted part of the file, cut off the end, tricked it into re-downloading that section and appended the end of the original download back on again.
Well, that's my geeky dial-up war-story.

Thanks for posting that for us. Looks like an awesome deal, I think I'll buy it.

So this friend of my dad's friend pretends to be a 13-year old girl on chatroom so he can keep tabs on his daughter.
Hooray for that kind of thing!

Hey, I have a friend who's dad used to get up to that sort of stuff too. He's in jail now for some reason

I think it's pretty obvious: he needs to check out what he gets up to when he's Mr Hyde.

Apparently the Australian team got a witch doctor in Mozambique to put a curse on Rhodesia (the team we had to beat to make the 1974 world cup)
The Australians won the game, and didn't or couldn't pay the witch doctor, so he put a curse on the Austrain Team.

Ever since then the team hasn't made the World Cup, even not losing a single match in Qualifying and not making it. They've had some very strange results and bad luck which almost seems like they were cursed.

This is where it gets interesting, A semi underground famous guy in Australia John Safran, went to Mozambique during a tv series he made for SBS ' John Safran vs God' (very interesting series) and got the curse reversed during some ritual thing with a witch doctor, So the team is no longer cursed.

Holy crap, I'd forgotten all about that! Now I remember watching that episode last year. It's quite a coincidence, that the team should suddenly be doing so well you gotta admit  :o

There's a brief episode guide here for anyone unfamiliar with the show (the curse was in episode 7):
http://www20.sbs.com.au/johnsafranvsgod/index.php?action=about

As I recall he seemed to be quite thorough in the curse breaking ceremonies, I think there was an animal sacrifice and everything.

Might be a bug introduced by playing it on newer, faster computers? Are you playing the game in Dosbox?

A jump and run game:

Sidey in Pixel Land.mp3 (677kb)

How about a competition to come up with an idea for a competition? The person each week with the absolute worst idea wins and gets to set the overall theme for next week.

Some lyrics maybe? 

Buttmaggot

If I wanted that old FM synth sound I'd just take the output from AdPlug and encode it to Ogg Vorbis, obviously not as size efficient as having a plugin or something but it probably wouldn't need a really high bitrate at least.

Sounds like a MOD = sounds a bit like an ancient lo-fi sampler or an old Amiga computer. With some pretty extensive sampling and editing you could probably create a MOD file that sounded a bit like an old FM soundcard synth. However, considering they're two completely different ways of generating sound it would take a lot of work to make something sound convincing.

I guess you've tried this already, but you can't just switch to it by bringing up the task manager (ctrl-alt-del)?

It's funny because I remember when you had to pay big on a soundcard to get wavetable music in games, and now that it's standard in Windows there's a lot of people nostalgic for the crappy old FM sounds  :

The only way I can think to get your games music to sound like that in AGS would be to use pre-recorded mp3/ogg files. You could take the MIDI files you want to use and render them them out with something like AdPlug (http://adplug.sourceforge.net/) for that authentic old Adlib FM synth sound.

Now all you need to do is convince all your tall friends to take up smoking and you'll be sorted.