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Maybe you were thinking of Valo Keen?

If you want to play some of the more complex mods on a real DOS system, you should make sure that your system provides EMS and/or XMS memory in so-called Upper Memory Blocks. Any 386 or above can emulate EMS and UMBs via EMM386.EXE and some mods absolutely need this. Just start one of the original K...

This patch-mod thing is really just a proof-of-concept. This monster of a patch file literally just patches every single byte of the Foray in the Forest v1.0 code into Keen 4, overwriting pretty much all of the original Keen 4 code. I didn't rewrite the whole FITF code in patch form, I just wrote a ...

As I wrote earlier, the data in the EGAGRAPH file of the Keen 6 Apogee Demo is mostly identical to the FormGen Demo, except for the three chunks I mentioned (exit screen and the two flashing arrow images). The recorded demos are also part of that file, so the demo data in the Apogee Demo is identica...

In Keen Vorticons it was a side effect of how the code worked. It is definitely a feature in Keen 4-6, there is extra code for the added pogo height on the first bounce.

I just found another bug in The Ruin of Roib: If a piece of the exploded Slop touches a Robo Wreck, Keen will be killed. So try to lure the Slops away from any Robo Wrecks before you shoot the Slops. I suspect that it's Keen 58 where things have taken at least some efforts. I'm a bit confused. Are y...

I think source code mods should be their own sub-category for the engine they are based on. So for the "Galaxy" engine, there would be Keen 4, 5, 6, Dreams and Source mods. For the "Vorticons" engine, there would be Keen 1, 2, 3 and Source mods (if we ever get to see a release of...

Look like I forgot to include the Icon images for GalaxyView, sorry.

Also, the images troublesomekeen posted don't load in Chrome.

Please allow me to ramble about what I think where the recently discovered Apogee Demo of Keen 6 fits into the timeline of the other releases. Here I go... First, the obvious: The AUDIO.CK6 and GAMEMAPS.CK6 files are identical across all three known demo versions of Keen 6 (FormGen Demo, Apogee Demo...

Here's my Keen Day present for all of you: K1n9_Duk3's Keen Day Package 2024 This contains new versions of some of my Keen-related tools: GalaxyView VorticonView uGrab K1n9_Duk3's Patching Utility Also included is an unofficial updated version of "The Ruin of Roib". This version should mak...

This is very interesting. I would love to take a look at this, but Chrome doesn't like that "mega" site. Could somebody please re-upload the game files to another site? I'm not really all that interested in the raw image itself, i just want to take a look at the game files and maybe add su...

Pandakeen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 23:29 Here's a suggestion for next year's Keen Awards: I think the nominations thread should run year-long instead of only at the end of the year. That way people can nominate stuff as soon as it comes out and not have to try and remember every cool thing that released in a year.

Yes, please.

I hope that somebody is going to address the problems and produce a fixed version. All these problems can be solved without cutting any content, don't worry.

Your Keen Dreams project has several issues: 1. You created an EGAHEAD file with 3-byte entries, but the code expects 4-byte entries. The game will not be able to load any of the graphics correctly. I guess this is because uGrab beta 1.011 cannot create EGAHEAD files using 4-byte entries. I guess I ...