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1.2: Best Galaxy/Dreams Mod:
Cranmore's Redemption

1.5: Best Galaxy/Dreams Level:
Concealed Ruin from Foray in the Forest

2.2: Best Narrative:
Cranmore's Redemption

Thanks for your detailed feedback, Soul Monster. I had announced in 2020 that I had already fixed most of the crippling bugs and that I was going to release an updated version at some point . I had always wanted to release the update to this particular mod either on Valentine's Day or on Halloween. ...

Some of the patches in the original release of Valo Keen were using the wrong registers, which meant the code didn't behave as intended and instead caused some memory corruption when the patched code was executed. And on top of that, the original patch file replaced parts of the game's startup scree...

Could somebody please explain the guidelines for the level images uploaded to the KeenWiki? From what I've seen, the level images appear to respect the tile's foreground setting, meaning that items hidden inside the walls are not shown. Since I am preparing new versions of the level viewers anyway, ...

Hello everybody. It's been a while. I thought today was the perfect day to share my updated version of

Valo Keen a.k.a Keen's Valentine Bash

with all of you. Have a happy Hallowee... er... Valentine 's Day.

Yes, but v1.8 also supports FITF - if all the required files are present. We decided not to release the whole modding package for FITF right away. It would potentially ruin the fun.

I've been getting the missing sprites layer problem I was aware of the missing sprites problem in GalaxyView and I fixed that problem a while ago, but I haven't had an opportunity to upload a new version. If you look at your v1.8 log file carefully, you'll see that it says "Sprite section = DE...

A late warning for those of you who received a physical copy of the game: The INSTALL.BAT file may end up deleting the self-extracting archive file from the floppy disk! I would recommend replacing the contents of INSTALL.BAT with the following batch script: @echo off if not exist KEENFITF.EXE goto ...

I suppose this is related to the fact that the CPU speed may change when DOSBox is running in max cycles mode, which would mean your code might also run into problems if the turbo button is toggled while the game is running on a real DOS machine. I don't think this implication will hold true. The w...

So excited this finally came out! have been looking forward to this for such a long time. Just one question, is the gravis gamepad not supported? I can't seem to configure it as a 4 button controller like in other galaxy mods. Sorry, FITF doesn't support the Gravis Gamepad. That code was missing in...

Nisaba, you did a great job! Thank you for the kind words, but I'd say you deserve all the credit for putting it all together. Literally. I wish I could just erase all FITF-related memories from my brain and experience it all again for the first time, like most of you Keeners out there have experien...

About the problem Dave216 reported: I think this might have been caused by Keen touching the blocking part of the level entrance on the world map, i.e. a tile that has the value 0x8018 in it instead of 0x0018. This might have caused the game to mark level 0x8018 (=32792) as "done" instead ...

I think that my Reconstructed Commander Keen 4-6 Source Code is the most reliable source of any information regarding enemy behavior and such. I know that it's probably not easy to understand, especially for people who don't know much about programming in C. You could refer to other sources that are...

If you use uGrab to import your modified images back into the EGAGRAPH file, the bitmaps don't need to have a palette. uGrab will convert true-color bitmaps to the default palette (using the light green color for transparency). So as long as you save your edited bitmaps as 24-bit (true-color) bitmap...

I found a potential bug in your 70 Hz code. In BENCHVS.CPP, you use the outp() function to write byte values to a port. Borland introduced a bug in Borland C++ 3.1 that will break your code. The instruction that will cause problems is the following line in SetTimerIntr(): outp(0x40, interval >> 8); ...