Public Commander Keen Forum

Happy birthday to you,
but, my friend, your handwriting is atrocious.

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That looks like EGA colors mapped to VGA display mode.

Please enlighten me so I do not have to watch the whole thing

"half a hot dog" my arse. Clearly a dick reference; not appropriate for a kids game. This isn't a game, it's just a cartoon drawn with a wonky, incorrect art style, with something resembling a "game" tacked onto it. Seriously, this is something an 8-year-old would come up with if you asked him to ma...

The “Minecraft enchanting table” is making the rounds on the Internet.

It’s just the SGA.

I play a lot on real hardware, and I haven't had issues with the conveyor belts on anything from 286 to Pentium III. DOSBox will be about the speed of a 386 on cycles=3000, and maybe a fast Pentium/MMX or Pentium II on cycles=max on an average modern PC. Edit: actually, I'm not sure if I've tried it...

It'd be great if we could band together and buy the rights to Keen, but that's unlikely to happen.

I've been trying to start development on a new Keen-inspired DOS game for years...

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.

There's something about, for example, an original IBM PC that transcends mere nostalgia.

Benvolio, may I help you with your dream? In other news, I have discovered that Netkeen will not run on a 286. Just hangs the entire system. Very sad! Beats me whether the 286 has enough power to do netplay though. Next project: Netkeen that runs on an 8088/286 and has a null modem serial connection...

What happened? You ok?

Every day should be women's day. If there was a men's day I would stubbornly refuse to celebrate it due to my fragile male ego

I am highly in favor of keeping the IRC chat alive. I actually just now headed over to this thread to see if I could connect!

Let’s go to a new network! Freenode?

I'd like to add to this discussion by saying that on the hardware of the time, the levels took so long to load that save-mashing was prohibitive.

(see my thread on the 286 I got for how I know this now)

Update: I got the sound working. All I needed was the initialization tool. I also got the hard drive working, sort of. It's a 43 MB drive, but there is an area that is bad - so I made an 11 MB partition that goes just up to the bad area, to get around the problem. Man, that drive is slow! The loadin...