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Two options that I know of to convert midi to wav with your choice of sounds are vst instruments (supported by cubase, for example), and soundfonts (don't remember which software I used).
So if you can find either a vst instrument or a soundfont that sounds like a PC speaker you can use those with a software that supports the format.

Advice #2 is relevant.

This thread bemuses me.

I want to try and tackle this from a different direction, and provide a more compelling reason to change the meaning of bemused: the original meaning has more popular synonyms- confused, puzzled, perplexed.
On the other hand, there is no word for "detached amusement", and there should be. So in that sense the language is evolving by becoming richer.

Edit: oh, pretty much what Baron said...

You're asking for the holy grail.
There is a very fine line between a funny dialogue and a tedious one.
I think the best way to tackle it is to let people who you think have the "right" sense of humor to enjoy the game play it, and see their reactions. You'll be able to spot which jokes work and which don't.
But even that might not be enough, as I can find a dialogue funny on a Monday and not funny on a Tuesday, depending on my mood at that day.
So good luck with that..
One last thought- I think the beginning of the game is very important, if you find the first jokes funny, you'll probably be more inclined to laugh at the rest of jokes too, even if they're not as good.

Yay, I managed to avoid relegation.
Congrats Vincent for being the league champion!
And Stupot+ for hosting, it was fun!

[12-Jul Brazil 2 - 4 Netherlands]

The following predictions are not formulated through any conviction but rather through contrarianism:  the only way I can win is by betting against popular opinion and hoping I get reeeeeeeally lucky!   

Taking your idea to the extreme:

12-Jul  Brazil 2 - 4 Netherlands
13-Jul  Germany 0 - 4 Argentina

Scantily clad female mounties driving motorbikes in ass-less chaps down the frozen, empty highways of post-apocalyptic Canada; demonic canine and sadistic avian antagonists frolicking about the Schmendersons' apartment; 1001 ways to win (and lose) beer; and a sure-fire roadmap to commercial AGS success: what's not to covet? 

This should have been in the promotional poster.

[interfaces]

AFAIK in C# (if we take one for analogies) "internal" structs are those that cannot be used by external module. Here we have a struct that may be used externally (in scripts) but cannot be created with "new" by scripts.

Exactly, therefore Internal is not a good candidate in my opinion.

That would be confusing indeed. In C# static classes mean they cannot be instantiated (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/79b3xss3.aspx). So either support that or define private/protected constructor.

But static implies you can have only one, this is not the case here, you do have instances.

Protected or internal constructors are an option but would not be friendly to the AGS scripters who has no access to the inners of the built-in types, and so will have to learn by compilation errors.

The "builtin" keyword might sound like a good option, but I think that having to invent a new keyword should ring an alarm that maybe we're doing something wrong here, maybe we're thinking we're dealing with a new beast that was not seen before, but that's not the case.
And I think the term that is missing here is interfaces.
Interfaces can be used but not instanciated. Replacing our built in types with built in interfaces (only in the API that's exposed to AGS script, the engine will use the same types that will just implement those interfaces) will give greater readability to the fact they can't be instanciated, and will also give some other extensibility benefits. A user will be able to provide a different implementation to the character interface, and it will work out of the box with modules that use the character interface, for example. And if we have sub interfaces like a position interface that is implemented by the character, object and gui interfaces, it will make the code much more flexible (the tween module could be much simplified, for example).

[8-Jul Brazil 0 - 1 Germany 9-Jul Netherlands 1 - 0 Argentina]

What a terrible round for me! 0 out of 4!
And to think I was one goal away from getting the correct results for each of those matches...

Oh well...

8-Jul   Brazil 0 - 1 Germany
9-Jul   Netherlands 1 - 0 Argentina

[Jul-04 1700 France 1 - 1 Germany Jul-04 2100 Brazil 1 - 1 Columbia Jul-05 1700 Argentina 0 - 0 BelgiumJul-05 2100 Netherlands 1 - 0 Costa Rica *Wildcard*]

Going for even more draws...

Jul-04        1700 France 1 - 1 Germany
Jul-04        2100 Brazil 1 - 1 Columbia
Jul-05        1700 Argentina 0 - 0 Belgium
Jul-05        2100 Netherlands 1 - 0 Costa Rica *Wildcard*

[Jun-30 1700 France 1 vs 1 NigeriaJun-30 2100 Germany 3 vs 0 AlgeriaJu1-01 1700 Argentina 2 vs 0 SwitzerlandJu1-01 2100 Belgium 1 vs 0 USA]

Jun-30 1700 France 1 vs 1 Nigeria
Jun-30 2100 Germany 3 vs 0 Algeria
Ju1-01 1700 Argentina 2 vs 0 Switzerland
Ju1-01 2100 Belgium 1 vs 0 USA

Congrats to Cat for winning the group stage.

Congrats Cat, but note that the fight is not over until the cat lady sings!

Awesome trailer, I feel teased (but in a good way)!

[Jun-28 1700 Brazil 2 vs 1 ChileJun-28 2100 Colombia 1 vs 0 UruguayJun-29 1700 Netherlands 3 vs 1 MexicoJun-29 2100 Costa Rica 0 vs 0 Greece]

Nice one CaptainD!

Jun-28  1700 Brazil 2 vs 1 Chile
Jun-28  2100 Colombia 1 vs 0 Uruguay
Jun-29  1700 Netherlands 3 vs 1 Mexico
Jun-29  2100 Costa Rica 0 vs 0 Greece

That's great news!

There was a discussion about it here that you might want to brush up on.

Other than scintilla, the natives dll is probably the biggest hurdle. Like CW said, it has to be re-written in managed code.

Also, there's a utility somewhere on mono's website that loads all the code and searches for mono compatibility issues.
I used it a few years ago and fixed some of the issues (search for mono in the code), but you will find more if you use it...

[Jun-23 1700 Australia 1 - 2 SpainJun-23 1700 Netherlands 2 - 1 ChileJun-23 2100 Cameroon 0 - 2 BrazilJun-23 2100 Croatia 0 - 0 MexicoJun-24 1700 Costa Rica 1 - 1 EnglandJun-24 1700 Italy 1 - 0 UruguayJun-24 2100 Greece 0 - 1 Côte d'IvoireJun-24 2100 Japan 1 - 3 ColombiaJun-25 1700 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 - 0 IranJun-25 1700 Nigeria 0 - 0 ArgentinaJun-25 2100 Equador 3 - 2 FranceJun-25 2100 Honduras 0 - 2 SwitzerlandJun-26 1700 Portugal 3 - 1 GhanaJun-26 1700 USA 1 - 1 GermanyJun-26 2100 Algeria 0 - 1 RussiaJun-26 2100 South Korea 0 - 2 Belgium]

Jun-23 1700 Australia 1 - 2 Spain
Jun-23 1700 Netherlands 2 - 1 Chile
Jun-23 2100 Cameroon 0 - 2 Brazil
Jun-23 2100 Croatia 0 - 0 Mexico
Jun-24 1700 Costa Rica 1 - 1 England
Jun-24 1700 Italy 1 - 0 Uruguay
Jun-24 2100 Greece 0 - 1 Côte d'Ivoire
Jun-24 2100 Japan 1 - 3 Colombia
Jun-25 1700 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 - 0 Iran
Jun-25 1700 Nigeria 0 - 0 Argentina
Jun-25 2100 Equador 3 - 2 France
Jun-25 2100 Honduras 0 - 2 Switzerland
Jun-26 1700 Portugal 3 - 1 Ghana
Jun-26 1700 USA 1 - 1 Germany
Jun-26 2100 Algeria 0 - 1 Russia
Jun-26 2100 South Korea 0 - 2 Belgium

[Jun-22 1700 Belgium 2 - 1 RussiaJun-22 2000 South Korea 0 - 0 AlgeriaJun-22 2300 USA 1 - 1 Portugal]

Predicting the future is not my thing, I guess, but I'll keep on trying:

Jun-22 1700 Belgium 2 - 1 Russia
Jun-22 2000 South Korea 0 - 0 Algeria
Jun-22 2300 USA 1 - 1 Portugal

[Jun-17 1700 Brazil 2 - 1 MexicoJun-17 2300 Russia 2 - 0 South KoreaJun-18 1700 Australia 0 - 4 NetherlandsJun-18 2000 Spain 2 - 2 ChileJun-18 2300 Cameroon 1 - 2 CroatiaJun-19 1700 Colombia 2 - 1 Côte d'IvoireJun-19 2000 Uruguay 0 - 1 EnglandJun-19 2300 Japan 0 - 0 GreeceJun-20 1700 Italy 3 - 1 Costa RicaJun-20 2000 Switzerland 1 - 1 FranceJun-20 2300 Honduras 0 - 2 EquadorJun-21 1700 Argentina 3 - 0 IranJun-21 2000 Germany 4 - 1 GhanaJun-21 2300 Nigeria 0 - 2 Bosnia-Herzegovina]

Jun-17   1700   Brazil 2 - 1 Mexico
Jun-17   2300   Russia 2 - 0 South Korea
Jun-18   1700   Australia 0 - 4 Netherlands
Jun-18   2000   Spain 2 - 2 Chile
Jun-18   2300   Cameroon 1 - 2 Croatia
Jun-19   1700   Colombia 2 - 1 Côte d'Ivoire
Jun-19   2000   Uruguay   0 - 1 England
Jun-19   2300   Japan 0 - 0 Greece
Jun-20   1700   Italy 3 - 1 Costa Rica
Jun-20   2000   Switzerland 1 -   1 France
Jun-20   2300   Honduras 0 - 2 Equador
Jun-21   1700   Argentina 3 - 0 Iran
Jun-21   2000   Germany   4 - 1 Ghana
Jun-21   2300   Nigeria   0 - 2 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Go Netherlands!


As for Argentina, I find it hard to believe they'll take the cup on Brazilian soil, with all the people booing them. If it will happen, it will be devastating for the Brazilians, I think.

There's also one in New York.
Planning to go there sometime soon...

[Jun-12 2100 Brazil 1 vs 0 CroatiaJun-13 1700 Mexico 3 vs 0 CameroonJun-13 2000 Spain 2 vs 2 NetherlandsJun-13 2300 Chile 2 vs 1 AustraliaJun-14 1700 Colombia 1 vs 0 GreeceJun-14 2000 Uruguay 3 vs 1 Costa RicaJun-14 2300 England 1 vs 1 ItalyJun-15 0200 Côte d'Ivoire 2 vs 0 JapanJun-15 1700 Switzerland 1 vs 2 EquadorJun-15 2000 France 0 vs 0 HondurasJun-15 2300 Argentina 1 vs 3 Bosnia-HerzegovinaJun-16 1700 Germany 2 vs 3 PortugalJun-16 2000 Iran 1 vs 2 NigeriaJun-16 2300 Ghana 1 vs 1 USAJun-17 1700 Belgium 4 vs 0 Algeria]

Jun-12   2100   Brazil 1 vs 0 Croatia
Jun-13   1700   Mexico 3 vs 0 Cameroon
Jun-13   2000   Spain 2 vs 2 Netherlands
Jun-13   2300   Chile 2 vs 1 Australia
Jun-14   1700   Colombia 1 vs 0 Greece
Jun-14   2000   Uruguay 3 vs 1 Costa Rica
Jun-14   2300   England 1 vs 1 Italy
Jun-15   0200   Côte d'Ivoire 2 vs 0 Japan
Jun-15   1700   Switzerland 1 vs 2 Equador
Jun-15   2000   France 0 vs 0 Honduras
Jun-15   2300   Argentina 1 vs 3 Bosnia-Herzegovina
Jun-16   1700   Germany 2 vs 3 Portugal
Jun-16   2000   Iran 1 vs 2 Nigeria
Jun-16   2300   Ghana 1 vs 1 USA
Jun-17   1700   Belgium 4 vs 0 Algeria