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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:52
- Forum: Release Forum
- Topic: The Great Galaxy-Mod Bug Hunt 2020
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28375
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 14:43
- Forum: Release Forum
- Topic: Level Viewer for KEEN VORTICONS and GALAXY (and more...)
- Replies: 94
- Views: 94466
Re: Level Viewer for KEEN VORTICONS and GALAXY (and more...)
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.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:25
- Forum: Release Forum
- Topic: Level Viewer for KEEN VORTICONS and GALAXY (and more...)
- Replies: 94
- Views: 94466
Re: Level Viewer for KEEN VORTICONS and GALAXY (and more...)
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...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 16:13
- Forum: Release Forum
- Topic: Foray in the Forest
- Replies: 45
- Views: 37858
Re: Foray in the Forest
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 ...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 17:29
- Forum: Official Keen Games
- Topic: Anyone know what could cause the microstuttering in Keen 4-6?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8040
Re: Anyone know what could cause the microstuttering in Keen 4-6?
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...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:38
- Forum: Release Forum
- Topic: Foray in the Forest
- Replies: 45
- Views: 37858
Re: Foray in the Forest
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...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 16:47
- Forum: Release Forum
- Topic: Foray in the Forest
- Replies: 45
- Views: 37858
Re: Foray in the Forest
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...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:25
- Forum: Release Forum
- Topic: Keen Is At It Again! - My first Keen 1 mod
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8127
Re: Keen Is At It Again! - My first Keen 1 mod
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 ...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 16:46
- Forum: Official Keen Games
- Topic: Are the games' physics documented anywhere?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6786
Re: Are the games' physics documented anywhere?
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...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:12
- Forum: Other Keen Stuff
- Topic: Best image editing program for editing graphics for a Keen mod?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6187
Re: Best image editing program for editing graphics for a Keen mod?
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...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:32
- Forum: Official Keen Games
- Topic: Anyone know what could cause the microstuttering in Keen 4-6?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8040
Re: Anyone know what could cause the microstuttering in Keen 4-6?
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); ...
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 16:42
- Forum: Official Keen Games
- Topic: Anyone know what could cause the microstuttering in Keen 4-6?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8040
Re: Anyone know what could cause the microstuttering in Keen 4-6?
About the audio stuttering you reported when setting your display to 60 Hz: I think this is caused by DOSBox itself and has (alomst) nothing to do with the code you are trying to run in DOSBox. It's just a side effect of your display driver forcing DOSBox to refresh at 60 Hz instead of 70 Hz or what...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 15:51
- Forum: Release Forum
- Topic: Recreated Keen 4-6 Source Code
- Replies: 58
- Views: 53578
Re: Recreated Keen 4-6 Source Code
Before I start, please let me remind you that Turbo C++ is not the product you should be looking for if you want to create mods based on my reconstructed source code. Turbo C++ does not include Turbo Assembler (TASM), which is required for building an executable from this source code. You should rea...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:42
- Forum: Official Keen Games
- Topic: Anyone know what could cause the microstuttering in Keen 4-6?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8040
Re: Anyone know what could cause the microstuttering in Keen 4-6?
I also noticed the same microstuttering on occasion, especially while playtesting Foray In The Forest (which will run at up to 70 fps by default). I'm sorry, but I have to report that your version does not always work correctly. I tested your precompiled KEEN70HZ.EXE in DOSBox 0.74.3 with the cycles...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 15:26
- Forum: Unofficial Keen Games
- Topic: Foray in the Forest (development thread)
- Replies: 186
- Views: 187866
Re: Foray in the Forest (development thread)
That's okay. We stole it from BioMenace.Multimania wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 14:06 And I've just stolen the scorebox toggle feature for Omnispeak.