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Joe versus the giant boxer standing right outside his window?

Bruce Lee? Well, one of his movies. Dunno which one. But haircut looks familiar
Alright, let's guess.
Way of the Dragon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WWWG3libBk

Meanwhile in Soviet Russia... (quoting the "best commentary" )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPK_ij0llc8&feature=related

"The Booth".
Well, certainly it is one. This way or another.

What is "Geronimo!" ?
EDIT: Whoops sorry, nevermind, found this out.

Wow, Julia Roberts looks really different! That must be one weird-ass Snow White movie...

I cannot be THAT "Mirror Mirror"... should be some different one.
Maybe this?: http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v32845

I can't believe after all those weird movies you guys keep guessing you can't guess this one...

Ewww... hmm.
"Cocoon".

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.

Alright this is rather a blind shot (to be honest I had to google the title, 'cause I forgot it):
Blast (1997).

TentaclesJaws? 

Lowlife's lowrider.

Clearly you need a hint to get this one, so here is a hint in the form of a riddle:

Spoiler

What do you save when you save the cheerleader.

[close]

A dumb chick?
A team spirit?
Free cemetery plot?

I don't know, lol I keep thinking though.

Alright, I do not quite remember that movie series, but the woman on background looks familiar, so my guess is:

Resident Evil 2

The big lebowski when he gets drugged at the guys house?

Damn, that was easy after all? Correct.

No

And no, it is not Tron Runner, or Bladetron.

No.

I really (really) hate question marks in the answer. Admiral is correct, your turn.

Sorry! I won't do that again

Well, I never participated in this, so I'll just post some random weird pic. Don't know if this will be easy or difficult.

Isn't that "Admiral"?

I feel a bit confused about this though, how well is it may be known outside of Russia?
I mean, are there any rules on movie popularity?

This is a problem the engine would run sooner or later, since it wasn't made with having portability in mind.

Unfortunately my only suggestion is rather for the future versions of the engine - to implement totally virtual controls that could be rebound from game setup, for example.

It would mean that bigendian platforms will be actively maintained again, so this riddle would get solved.

Just FYI, I made an experiment and simply put Steve McCreas's "big end" read and write functions into use by disabling ALLEGRO_BIG_ENDIAN macro there. They seem to work nicely for Windows version (functions they use are actually std file routines, which are redefined for big-end case only).
I had to write my own implementations for little-endian getshort and putshort, however, but later I found they were already written in wgt2allg unit.
At the moment there are only few places where I cannot just plain "merge" Steve's code into default code, namely in compress.cpp and also in wfnfontrenderer implementation where you (or tobihan?) used psp_get_char function in little-endian version. I mean, it should certainly be possible, but I haven't tried yet.
Also in some cases there was big-end read/write functions prepared for a struct, but for some reason they weren't actually used; GameSetupStructBase struct for instance.

I guess CJ and Steve were couple of steps away from implementing endianess-independent code to the engine, but just did not finish this job.

Have anyone ever mentioned such idea as using the winner of previous competition of different type as a reference? By winner I do not mean AGSer but the piece (art, music etc) that won the award.

Consider: someone makes a great background in the "Background" competition, and for the next "Music" competition participants should write music for that background. Or "Writing" competitors should write a story that takes place or somehow connected to the location on the background.
I a while a piece of music or writing could be taken as a reference for making background pic.
Same for sprites, animations etc.

Found similar suggestions:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=27157.msg583545#msg583545
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=27157.msg554968#msg554968