Public Commander Keen Forum

Just as a curiosity, and to test the memory handling in the new executable, I've uploaded an unofficial version of Uncharted Isle with prototype levels, including several that would crash the game previously due to the memory they take up. Level 2 in particular (Board_03) is a good stress test, it s...

This is an unofficial version of Uncharted Isle with various prototype levels in it, including versions of several levels (level 1, 2 and the final level in particular) that were larger or more complex than their counterparts in the final version, required more memory than typical Xargon levels, and...

Here is Version 1.001 . I can't tell you how great this is. I've tested the new game exe for ep 1 with Roobar's test level, as well as one of my problematic old levels - each of these levels would instantly crash the game upon loading from the map or in-game editor - and now they each appear to wor...

Good to know. I might supplement this list later to include things like complete remakes of games that share no code or files with the dos versions, remade engines like commander genius and that moddable remake of lemmings and links to significant modding tools and prototypes of the original games. ...

Those screenshots do look like something on the NES, good thinking with the color palettes. I don't think I ever encountered an NES game where the jumping had a similar feel to that of Keen 1-3. Not sure if that would be an NES limitation as well, or just that ID had a very unique idea about how the...

Did some more playing around. You can completely swap out the dialogue from episode 1 with the dialogue file from episode 2 with no problems. The first several conversations I checked out all played fine with the issue that there are several story characters that exist only in episode 2 and not epis...

Looks like they had a habit of hyperbolic promotion of future projects. A classic example being the "Fight For Justice" blurb. Hehe, I thought about that when I was thinking of the mention in this ad. Its a little wild to say "its coming soon from a major publisher!" when 0 work...

Roobar wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 10:05 Nice list! Here's a list with a few more Duke 2 mods: https://github.com/lethal-guitar/RigelE ... st-of-mods

Thanks, do you know if they all need rigel engine to work, or if they would work in dos with the original or a patched exe?

I've been exploring possibilities of modding this game. There are a few hacky ways that it might be able to be done to an extent already, for example: -the between mission story dialogue is written in plain text in files such as Dialogue.dat / Dialogue2.dat, etc. The plain text can simply be modifie...

Lots of updates to the list since earlier today. Also nominally added Keen mods to the list by pointing to the release forum here and the Keen wiki to cover things at a high level. Could be good to have in here in case I share the list in places that are not PCKF and people don't already know about ...

Hmm, that looks like a potentially useful resource of information. Since I've just been reminded of it, there's Supaplex, including custom levels made for it as currently available from Elmer Productions' website. 2012 Biomenace test level mods by NY00123 (download link broken, download unavailable...

Thanks! I'm trawling the forums and some other places right now and have a 4 page list with links in progress. Will upload it here soon. EDIT: List now uploaded in first post. Anyone, please feel free to tell me what I'm missing. I thought I'd seen more Hocus Pocus / Crystal Caves / Secret Agent stu...

Welcome to my giant list of mods for early 90s Dos shareware games, most of which are by Apogee, Epic and ID Software. This list intentionally excludes the thousands of mods that exist for 90s fps games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, etc. which are far t...

Wow that sounds very intriguing. Looking forward to checking that out. I still have some of my draft levels that could be unstable and basically require the full 640k conventional memory. Would be happy to test things. This would just be a cherry on top, but as a convenience, i don't suppose there c...

Wow I feel the need to try out everything shown in that video.