Public Commander Keen Forum

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...

To be honest, the DOSBox emulation is very, very good. I cannot tell the difference unless I am listening on a good amplifier and speakers or good headphones, and even then it's subtle. A lot of the time, people would use clone cards such as the ESS Audiodrive, or various Crystal cards, which would ...

Hahahahaha, I did not notice the post count. Nice!! Thanks for linking to my old thread. I'm going to update the image links there so they work again. Edit: done. Now the old thread has the original images again. Unfortunately I had to get rid of the other 286 about a year ago, in order to make spac...

I thought I made a thread about this before but I cannot find it. So here you go - a thread in which you can post pictures of Commander Keen games, old and new, running natively without DOSBox on retro PCs. Could even be old pictures from back in the day as well as new pictures from the present day....

Touche

Do I get a day?

Definitely Crystalus. It took me forever, as a clueless kid, to finally figure out how to beat that level.