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Update for anyone who is unable or unwilling to use the Discord client: There is a plugin for the open source Pidgin instant messaging application that allows you to communicate with Discord servers without running the full client. Though you do still need to sign up for a Discord account first. It'...

I assumed that first post was some kind of subliminal brainwashing attempt.

#derp Let's try the Discord hosted one...

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In Keen 4-6, this was possible because every single sprite frame had its own hitbox. KEENGINE doesn't support that. I had planned to add something like this in the future, but it would make it much more difficult to add or modify the sprites, since you would also have to edit all the hitbox setting...

Feature request: Make point items collectible while sliding down poles. Also, at first I thought there was no lives system but just noticed it uses the original lives mechanic. Checked the help text and discovered the quickload key. I will use that emulate infinite-lives/per-level scoring. Wine 4.0...

So I happened to upgrade to Wine 4.0 for an unrelated purpose and gave this another try. Now it runs properly. Very nice engine overall. The camera and physics are surprisingly comfortable. Sound effects and music create a sufficiently Keenish atmosphere. Level design is interesting and flows well. ...

Graphics look excellent, particularly the foreground stuff. I'm getting an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION error under both WINE and Windows 7 VM. log.txt (same thing for both): KEENGINE: Planet Cloudius IX - KEENGINE Version 0.62.3 ====================================================== Date: 19 Apr 2019...

I was just innocently youtubing and then Diorama and Diary of Dreams merged into some kind of https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... uAM8wC2CCq

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Tue Apr 09, 2019 0:44

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Mon Apr 01, 2019 17:32

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Ah, yes. The familiar loading screen of the Commodore 64 cassette version of Keen Dreams. It would always hang right there after 5 minutes and had to be loaded again from the start several times. It had a great soundtrack, pity it had to be cut from the PC version.

It's kinda fun for a while building up a massive fishing fleet and forestry industry until someone wipes out my villagers because military units are boring.

Current PC's are the antithesis of the very reason I enjoy retro systems. I anticipate only nostalgia factor associated with them in the future... kind of like Windows XP machines today. Agreed. Though it makes me shudder to imagine it, there will be a generation coming of age in 10-15 years who gr...

80s PCs might seem unremarkable to today's audiences but if I buy a collection of them now then open museum in 2040 or something it will surely be a hit... You could probably do that with current PCs people are throwing away, given how suddenly 2000s era PCs have polluted the retro/vintage scene ov...