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Sure: http://fabulousfurlough.blogspot.com . Looks like he stopped blogging in 2020, though.

In my search for this release I came across a blog of Fabulous Furlough and an interview with the guy... Indeed they are in their 60's, I guess. But they gave me a lot of fun when I was young. Games were VERY expensive and I guess all of us had quite a lot of pirated games back then...

Nope, just a simple KEEN6.NFO file with not a lot of content: Commander Keen VI: Aliens Ate My Babysitter by Apogee Software Cracking: Simple Doc Check Graphics: VGA/EGA/CGA Controls: Keyboard/Joystick/Moose Sound: Squeaker/Adlib Cracking Notes: Ooh, Apogee resorts to COPY PROTECTION! Wow.. Here's Y...

And got it! The Keen6C release in that archive is the one! No cracktro. Only a KEEN6.NFO file, a (BBS) LEGAL.NFO file and a DAMNSPAM.DOC document for Spam Land, the Humble Guys Member Board. For those interested (probably nobody but me ;-) ), the correct file is KEEN6C.ZIP, located in ibm0050.tar (s...

Thanks for the tip! Indeed the Fairlight release is the most common cracked one out there. Luckily that huge archive has an index, so I could just download the zips that seem interesting. There are a few that are just listed as "KEEN IN ALIENS ATE MY BABYSITTER", without the 6 or VI. Might...

Thanks for the suggestions. I only have an external USB floppy drive. I tried bad copy, but it can not even read the file table of one floppy and of the other one, it tells me only the .NFO file is recoverable. I don't remember if it had a cracktro, to be honest. I'm pretty sure other THG releases h...

Hey all, I'm new here and don't know if my question is actually allowed, since it's a question about a very specific pirated version of Commander Keen VI: Aliens ate my Babysitter. As a kid I had Commander Keen 4 & 5 original, but I had a pirated version of 6. It was a realease by release group ...