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'Mio min Mio' feat. Christian Bale?

Correct (and Christopher Lee as Count Dooku evil knight).

It's "Kin-dza-dza!"


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A small hint, to make things more interesting:

Spoiler

This movie was made outside England, but it featured two well-known British actors, one being very young at that time, and another in his middle ages.

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Everyone in my country knows that, so I'll pass
Wait, that was a hint, was it?
It would actually be interesting to see how well this movie is known in other parts of the world.

Nope, that's Heroquest

Too fast! But correct.

That would have been my guess. I have not played Friday the 13th, but I recognised the god awful graphics / colour scheme from one of the AVGN's earlier videos.

Same as me .

Next:
[imgzoom]http://imageshack.com/a/img37/7305/9rzs.png[/imgzoom]

I think that's "Friday 13" game.

Idk what the game is, but my first thought when seeing the picture: The Mask of the Red Death .

(Actually i'd argue that directX should be removed entirely in favour of opengl but whatever)

Offtopic, but there's an OpenGL renderer by JJS, it is used for mobile ports only, can work on Windows too. The only reason it's not in the selection list is that it's incomplete, works only in windowed mode with predefined dimensions.

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Here's a table of the plugins I could find on forums.
Marked most needed to be opensourced/reimplemented (commonly used in games) with red font.

Plugin	Author	Status
SpriteFont	Calin Leafshade	Open source
AGSBlend	Calin Leafshade	Open source
Lua For AGS	Denzil Quixode	Open source; not fully compatible with 64-bit builds (AFAIK)
Sockets for AGS	Wyz	Closed source
AGSSpeech	SteveMcCrea)	Closed source; depends on C# wrapper
Text-To-Speech	Tzachs	Project dead?; depends on C# wrapper
D3DVSync	Calin Leafshade	Closed source?; Win/Direct3D only
AGS Plugin API for C#	smiley	Open source; C# (Win only?)
FMOD For AGS	Calin Leafshade	Open source
AGSSteam	monkey_05_06	Closed source
Fire plugin	SteveMcCrea	Closed source
AGS Joystick	Wyz	Closed source
Flashlight	a-v-o	Portable reimplementation by JJS
Snow/Rain	Scorpiorus	Portable reimplementation by JJS
Razerblade	DKH	Closed source; Win/Direct3D only
Direct3D/Theora	AJA	Closed source; Win/Direct3D only
Character 3d	Besh	Closed source
AGS 3d	SteveMcCrea	Closed source
agsCreditz	AJA	Source
ags_theora	scotch	Closed source
Custom Properties Helper	helios123	Closed source
TCP/IP plugin	a-v-o	Closed source
AGS_TimerHelper	helios123	Open source
CharacterD3D	Besh	Closed source
C# Runner	Tzachs	Open source? (link dead)
PlayVideo Proxy	helios123	Open source
AGI Graphics Emulation	scotch	Closed source
OtherRoom	SteveMcCrea	Closed source
Wii Remote Control	scotch	Closed source
FileNet	Dorcan	Closed source
AGS Shell	scotch	Portable reimplementation by monkey0506
Log Writer	fjeronimo	Closed source? (link dead)
AGS Parallax	Scorpiorus	Portable reimplementation by JJS

I feel a need to bump this, just to make people read this suggestion again.

Since we have a number of ports now, it might be important to encourage people to either write plugins in a portable form (not dependent on OS or OS-specific libraries), or provide alternative versions for other platforms. Or let other ppl convert their plugin DLLs. In fact, this may be so important I'd suggest mention this somewhere in one of the sticky topics.

[error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/humble/ags-geminirue.git/info/refsfatal: HTTP request failed]

If I instead try using the terminal, I get a different error after using git push:

error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/humble/ags-geminirue.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed

I suddenly realized you said push. This probably means you are trying to push your branch to Edward's repository instead of your own...

EDIT: actually nevermind this, see updated section below.

Spoiler

The command should be (assuming you used same names as in my example few posts above)

Code: bash

git push origin humble-ports

Just tested this on my own repository.

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UPD:
Ok, I found what was also wrong in previous commands. We should set proper connection between local branch and remote branch, so that your local is connected with your remote, and not with Edward's remote.
Anytime after you created a local branch, you can change the connection with:

Code: bash

git branch --set-upstream humble-ports origin/humble-ports

This will make your local branch connect exactly to the appropriate branch in your remote repository (and not to Edward's). Also you will not have to use extra options with "push" (e.g. after this you can use just "git push").

There might be a way to do this using your gui application (probably somewhere in the repository settings).

[error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/humble/ags-geminirue.git/info/refsfatal: HTTP request failed]

! [rejected]        humble-ports -> humble-ports (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:JanetGilbert/ags.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
hint: its remote counterpart.

Error like this indicates that there were changes to remote that are not found in your local branch. Don't know how it happened to be. Maybe you have two local repositories, or something like that?
On usual occasion this is solved by making a "git pull" before doing anything else.

If I instead try using the terminal, I get a different error after using git push:

error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/humble/ags-geminirue.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed

Which address do you use in git command? It should be just "https://github.com/humble/ags-geminirue.git" instead.

I lack English words. Or rather not sure which of the numerous variants I know would fit for this particular case. Might be there's a strictly-defined scientific term for this?

I am looking for names for two math functions.
1) One calculates the "positive difference" between X and Y where X is supposed to be larger, that is:
- if X is larger than Y, the result is X - Y.
- otherwise result is 0.
So it is not simply "Difference" (because difference can be negative). So far I came with "Surplus", but not sure.
2) The opposite, "positive difference" between X and Y where X is supposed to be smaller:
- if X is smaller than Y, the result is Y - X.
- otherwise result is 0.
What can it be... "Lack"? "Deficit"? Hmm...
Duh, I don't need second function.

While all your proposals would be great to be pick of the month, I too want to travel back in time and resurrect a graphic novel master piece:
Barn Runner 1 - The Armaggedon Eclair.

Well written, great drawings, a sci-fi story reminiscent of R.Scott's cult movie with added tons of humour and twists like a pretzel!

Seconded! 

Thirded!

"Redneck" "Redguard" .

Yes, right. Something like this, I recon:

(Go to your local repository folder and type those commands to command line; alternatively run git bash in that folder)

1) this registers Edward's repo at your local repo:

Code: bash

git remote add humble-geminirue https://github.com/humble/ags-geminirue.git

2) this adds information about Edward's branches current state to your local repo:

Code: bash

git remote update humble-geminirue

3) this copies his remote branch into yours local one (new branch named "humble-ports" will be created):

Code: bash

git checkout -b humble-ports humble-geminirue/humble

Now you have a local branch, which is a copy of Edward's, in your local repository and can push to your remote repository, or do what you like.

Depending on whichever git UI application you are using (if you do) those steps can be performed by using menus, but without knowing which program do you use, I can't tell more.

This is really a git question, I suppose, but is it possible to get the repository exactly as Edward left it so I can compile Wadjet Eye's other games for Mac and Linux? I have my own fork of the repository which is not really compatible with anyone elses (for iOS) and I don't want to overwrite or merge it.

First (and fastest) you can just clone Edwards repository (https://github.com/humble/ags-geminirue.git).

If you want to have that as another branch in your current repository, go to your "master" branch, find commit (f021439669696b3f94d194e2317108b56059ff4a), fork new branch from exactly that commit and then ask Edward to make a pull request on top of that branch. This will guarantee that you'll have exactly the code that Edward has.

There's an alternative way to do this without asking Edward and arranging pull request. Unfortunately I do not know how to do this in git generally, I always used "GitExtensions" UI program for this (but I may find out).
Idea is to add another one remote source for the local repository on your computer. You will need to "register" Edward's repository as a known code source, this will let you to "see" his branches. Then you just merge his "humble" branch into your "master", or another new branch, if you like to keep that separate.

I will probably be able to give more explanations, but only after you clarify how do you work with git: do you work with git's command line (git bash), or use any program with GUI? or else?

Edward just made a pull request so we could finally see the code.
https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/pull/109

It is not 100% compatible with current engine, there are few differences and at least one feature duplication, but I am sure we will sort everything out in time and merge it.

3. Copy his new code over and make a one big commit.
Then, continue with pull request as usual.

Even if there's no history it can be useful to commit the changes in multiple steps, which may be doable to some extend if unrelated changes are in different files.

Aye, that's true. In fact one can split changes in one file into separate commits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085162/how-can-i-commit-only-part-of-a-file-in-git (does not work 100% time though).
This all depends on whether the author is going to bother doing this .