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"The Night of the Hungry Trunk" (1978)

There's also a way to run many older AGS games using new development version of engine. It now allows to run games from v. 2.5 and up, and you may select Direct3D renderer for them (there might be still a problem with certain plugins, that require DirectDraw), as well as scaling filters.
Not all versions are fully compatible, but I know that numerous old games were successfully tested.

You may get the preliminary release here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?spm2y64et0r2dfz
Unpack the archive, then copy "acwin.exe" file to your game's directory.
To start the game - run acwin.exe (NOT game exe).
You won't be able to use winsetup.exe to set new settings, because winsetup.exe will run original game's setup. To configure game new way you should run acwin.exe with "--setup" parameter from command line.
If you don't know how to use command line in Windows, just download this batch file, copy it to game's directory too, and run anytime you want to change game settings:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?66373m22i8pa6b8


Please tell, if there are any problems.

NOTE: I should underline again, this unfortunately won't work if the game uses plugin, that requires DirectDraw (meaning, there will be no difference).

EDIT: explained how to run setup having acwin.exe.

Iceboty, you are correct.

Since the movie is very obscure, I did not expect year of release and similar detail, just the title.
Don't know if there's any reason to hide this, but okay, let's put this in a spoiler:

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This is "L'homme qui rit (1971 TV film)". Can't say the movie is exceptional, but the character makeup and play are pretty disturbing, if not frightening (at first), that's why I liked it.

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Iceboty V7000a, if you like, you may take your turn now.

The Story of Adele H.

No.
But, you kind of got the idea of what I meant.

Sweeney Todd

No.

Les Miserables?

That's a name of the musical. But not the title of the movie I guessed .
Oh, well, you might be very close now. Question is, will you go in correct direction?

I must confess that it would be pretty difficult to find another screenshot that would give any insight on what it is (at least not as good as this one). Well, maybe I'll try a bit later.

So, two hints:

Spoiler

Iceboty V7000a was right, his mouth is cut, and that's a pretty good direction

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Although an old and obscure movie, it has a certain connection to pretty well-known musical of the recent past

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Okay, no interest here? Should I tell the answer?

Ah, OK.  I read "pull to central repo" to mean that you'll send a pull request to master, and then merge your changes into it, having us all collaborate on master.  You're meaning that you will pull to a new central repo for sharing work?  Sorry to misunderstand!

No, I mean making a new branch in the central repository, like "develop_allegro5" or "feature_allegro5".
I don't want to merge any WIP to master now, when the beta release is being prepared.

Also, I learnt one may add contributors to personal repository. We may use that too.

I am doing the work in a separate branch in my private repository, but since we will have to share the code, I guess, I'd better pull that to central repo.
I just need couple of days more to finish the changes I am doing right now.

Ok, although I would be fine working with you in a shared branch, like you guys did with refactory.  Git is practically made for that sort of thing 

But that's what I propose to do. Aren't we mean same thing?

Is this a one-person job, or are there specific areas we can help with?

Well, I have wrote graphic classes, and now trying to make the "Common" part of the source at least compile; then I will move to the "Engine" part.
I'd be very glad if someone could do the audio part, it's something I almost haven't invenstigated.
If you would have any suggestion on other parts and what I do, I will use them too ofcourse.

I am doing the work in a separate branch in my private repository, but since we will have to share the code, I guess, I'd better pull that to central repo.
I just need couple of days more to finish the changes I am doing right now.

I am trying to keep both versions of the engine (with A4 and A5) sharing same source, just using different precompile definitions and few distinct *.cpp.

Well, I am doing a preliminary convert to Allegro 5 now. I think I forgot to mention this on forums... I told this to Janet Gilbert and JJS & BigMC via emails.

He just said Allegro 5 is lacking pixel drawing and palette manipulation features. Is pixel drawing really a problem? Do you think SDL provides everything, so that it would require less code to be moved to AGS itself?

I know nothing of SDL, so don't know if it's less coding... I just see there's already a Mac port that probably could be used to make few releases, like Wadget Eye wanted to.
Palette manipulation may be a problem if we care of supporting 8-bit games. I know there might be some solutions for A5 too, but don't know how difficult it will be to implement them (and how effective they would be). Not sure what he meant about pixel drawing though (I ignored that part); if he means setting certain pixels, or setting raw bitmap data, Allegro 5 supports that pretty well.

My guess is Lisztomania.

No.

Something I totally missed, there was a Mac OSX port made by Nick Sonneveld using SDL: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=45708.0

Notice, it is said that Gemini Rue was successfully run with that port.

What is its status? Why was it discontinued?
Also, he mentions a reasonable argument about using SDL instead of Allegro 5. May anyone on comment that?

I don't know whether it's the quality of the image or whatever, but it seems to me that his mouth is cut open across the horizontal direction

You are right (and sorry for image quality, I know it's pretty mediocre).

BATMAN

No .

What, no activity here?
Ok, a hint: this character has no relation to pirates, at least not in usual sense.

Well, Eric can guess the movie, and has his turn back.

So, is noone going to post more screenshots from obscure movies from ages ago I have no chance of guessing and/or knowing?!

Duh!
Guess the movie, selmiak

Maybe put "homepage" icon/graphic with a link on top of the forum board?

Here's the riddle: guess, how many times today I got to AGS site main page, instead of forums main page?


Answer: MANY!!!!!!!

Okay, sorry, it is not really a bug report, but I was so used to click on leftmost "Adventure Game Studio Forums" tag to return to main forum page, and now I have to watch myself and click exactly on "Forums".
Bah, just somewhat annoyed, nevermind.