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[MdaG]

Originally posted by 4ORE5iGHT@Jun 4 2005, 12:57 PM
sorry. How do you redirect it to the DOTT folder?

Thanks.

Just to verify, will this make the F1 key work?

Just start scummvm and select "add game". Choose the folder where you put the files from the CD.

I can't remember if it's the F1 key or F5 key. In any case it worked for me...

[MdaG]

Originally posted by A. J. Raffles@Jun 4 2005, 12:58 PM
No, but they might stop for a moment to think whether shoelaces would really important enough to justify breaking a law. After all it's not like you couldn't live without them. You'd still be free to wear other types of shoes like slippers, sandals or wellies, after all.
Similarly, computer games aren't vital, so it isn't as if you didn't have a choice. So saying you were basically forced to download a game illegally is rather a lame excuse in my opinion.

I agree, but it has to be within certain limits. While I fully support copyright I don't like patents. Did you know that Microsoft owns the idea of notifying others while typing to them in a IM-program. This is used in MSN. I think that's absurd. Silly even. Owning an algorithm should not be allowed.

[4ORE5iGHT]

LOL. I can save games now. THey are just automatically put in the scumvm folder in program files. And the key to load menu, has changed from F1 when playing in DOS, to F5 in ScumVM. WHich is great btw.

Just interested A. J. Raffles, but what is your view on emulator games?

For example, GBA Roms, its legal to own them for 24 hours. After that its illegal, but not illegal if you have the real game that you went out and purchased.
There is nothing stopping somebody "forgetting" to delete the roms from their pc?

Im not trying to say that Im being forced to download this game, but can you argue why I shouldnt?

Companies try to make moeny out of everything. Only when it isn't feisable, they leave things as they are.
They didnt care about online music for a while, only when they started losing moeny, is when they took notice.
In the end they found a way to make moeny from it again. They offer higher quality music files that would be different from those being distributed through P2P software. THerefore people have a choice between the two.
And its said a lot, but I do download singles, which if I like, I get the album ,as I ve never been into buying singles, for half the price of an album. So they are getting more money out of me, than without file sharing programs.

Plus, everyone who uses the net on a daily basis, I know has done some "illegal" things. So, borrowing a friends copy of an album and liking it, and burning it.
Has anybody here never done something like that?

Sorry Im going a bit off-topic, but this type of debatings fun
The law is flexible, which is why we have courts. If it was solid set in stone, we would all be in jail now. Maybe except from you A. J. Raffles.

[A. J. Raffles]

No need to get personal, 4ORE5iGHT, I wasn't trying to be holier than thou. In fact, you misunderstood me. I'm not saying most software companies aren't acting greedily and only care about making money from their games. But that doesn't change anything about the fact that it's their right to do so and the law is clearly on their side. And if they choose to hold on to the rights while at the same time making it as hard as possible for people to get and play those games, it may seem outrageously unfair to us, but that still doesn't give us the right to obtain and/or distribute those games illegally. The legal situation is pretty clear in that respect; just because few people (if any) are prosecuted for possessing an illegal copy of a computer game, that doesn't necessarily mean the law is "flexible". The excuse that "everybody does it" certainly wouldn't hold as a justification in court.

About the emulator games, I wouldn't know. I've never played any as far as I know. But again, even if a law is completely ludicrous, that doesn't give us the right to break it at will.

On topic again: wasn't it F5 which brought up the save menu in all Lucas Arts games anyway?

[MdaG]

Originally posted by A. J. Raffles@Jun 4 2005, 08:54 PM
On topic again: wasn't it F5 which brought up the save menu in all Lucas Arts games anyway?

That's what I thought too.

[PsyHam]

Anybody else upset that LucasArts has redone their company store and it no longer offers the Sam&Max/Day of the Tentacle/Fate of Atlantis/etc. compilations? When did this happen? Does that mean that eBay is now the only place to find these games?

[MdaG]

Originally posted by PsyHam@Jun 6 2005, 01:25 AM
Anybody else upset that LucasArts has redone their company store and it no longer offers the Sam&Max/Day of the Tentacle/Fate of Atlantis/etc. compilations? When did this happen? Does that mean that eBay is now the only place to find these games?

You can still get the games relatively cheap in the stores at least here in Sweden.

[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by MdaG@Jun 6 2005, 09:59 AM
You can still get the games relatively cheap in the stores at least here in Sweden.

They haven't been translated into Swedish, though, have they? What a shame. It would have been such a great excuse: "No, I'm not playing computer games. I'm working on my Swedish vocabulary."

[MdaG]

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You can still get the games relatively cheap in the stores at least here in Sweden.

They haven't been translated into Swedish, though, have they? What a shame. It would have been such a great excuse: "No, I'm not playing computer games. I'm working on my Swedish vocabulary." [/b][/quote]
Hehe, nope and thank God for that. I absolutely hate it when they translate things from english into swedish. It sounds so corny. Luckily they seldom translate. Most swedes speak/read english.

*edit*

I once bought a translated (one of the few) version of the Longest Journey. It was HORRIBLE, listenening to the dialogues in that game. It was like watching a kiddie show. *shivers*. Luckily Xplosiv released an english version of the game for ?4 that I recently bought. It's nice to hear the dialouges as they were meant to be heard.

[kOS]

mdag , you are writing !

ps. the same with polish translations, they are really bad