Public Commander Keen Forum

Initially as the games are new, ID Software had paid Tom Hall and others for crrating Commander Keen. Then they hope that renevue from sold copies exceeds the money which ID paid to programmers for making Commander Keen in order to get profit. But it's only hope - there's no legal right to profit. H...

So I have no problem if $4.99 was used to support the community. If it was so I wouldn't have any problem with $5. As soon as I get somewhat more money I'm even willing to donate a bit for authors of best ever mods - Terror of Outer Space and The Eight Accumulators as sign of thank for fun - same wi...

There are two very different ways to estimate the value of Commander Keen. Based on the fun Commander Keen deserves some price, IMHO it's about $20 to $30. But based on the ideology that perpetual copyright shouldn't be allowed, all Commander Keen games should be GPL. I have no problem if Keen can b...

Why change Keen? It makes no sense.
Let Keen think that SAVEGAM3.CK4 is overwritten but some externa, utility keeps the old version reachable fou used but not for Keen.

Why not? The rights are only commercicial good. They will sell it if someone is going to pay them enough money for it. The only question is "how much money". I use absurd example to make it. Commander Keen 6? It would be funny as well but again only for those who care about formalities. Mo...

Why not? The rights are only commercial good and not something sacres. They will sell it if someone is going to pay them enough money for it. The only question is "how much money?". Surely if Mark Zuckerberg offered them $1.000.000 they would be glad to sell these right.

So... at last I could sleep a bitt so now I'm writing some details. The reason for my idea "purchase the rights and free it from copyright completely is not because I want the price of Commander Keen on Steam to fall from $4.99 to $0.00 if Steam allows free games at all. These $5 don't matter b...

I have tens of USB sticks and I want them all to have some very very best files. But not now. It's about 4 AM and still can't sleep.

I think so, too. But it's only an example of symbolic price. So if the price of these rights was negligible compared to my wealth (only the relation matters, not the absolute value), I'd do it in order to counteract the perceived perpetual copyright issue which I don't like. I think there's too litt...

What I want is that absolutely every storage device has copy of Commander Keen. I mean I copy Commander Keen 4 and 6 to every single USB Stick which I have. So the risk to get bored and have no access to the best mean against it - Commander Keen - is very low. The ideanis to make a small folder with...

No, this suggestion isn't for my sake. I don't care at all if Commander Keen costs $5 (AFAIR) or it's free. $5 is almost nothing for something which you pay only once and then use forever without annoying DRM. The fun is worth $5, I can easily afford this price. It's only about your ideology. Would ...

It could happen that you overwrite your savegame to find out that you didn't want to overwrite it. But compared to all modern hard drives and even flash drives the savegames are so tiny that everyone could afford keeping several versions as backup. For example some utility could be set to keep unlim...

Could such game be easily made by some game constructor? Since I can't do it at the moment, all that I can do is giving my idea for free for the case that someone is interested in it. Allegedly the European laws are so that the ideology "after my car comes the flood" is established. I don'...

Who knows, maybe someone wants idea for a Keen mod. This "Pegman war game" might be done as Commander Keen mod as well. Would anyone want to implement it? I think no one wants it but who knows... maybe I'm not the only user who understands that the attempt to censor vehicle registration pl...

The only reason why we have some historical documents from the past is the fact that there used to be some non-private things which may be kept indefinitely. Now the historical preservation is something which is no longer supported in Europe in replace with rendering entire public space private. Sin...