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by Fleexy
Thu Oct 14, 2021 15:16
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Welcome to the migrated PCKF!
Replies: 236
Views: 182488

Re: Welcome to the migrated PCKF!

The forums are now updated to phpBB 3.3.5 and, as of yesterday, PHP 8 . The latter upgrade should make pages load faster, but as a relatively new major language/runtime release, it may have some incompatibilities with large applications like phpBB. Please let me know if you notice any strange behavi...
by Fleexy
Sun Oct 03, 2021 16:41
Forum: Unofficial Keen Games
Topic: How to play mods?
Replies: 3
Views: 5019

Re: How to play mods?

Welcome to the PCKF! You are right that play.bat launches the mod. While I don't know exactly what is necessary for the drag-and-drop method to work, I suspect the problem with launching from within DOSBox is the current directory. To run something in DOSBox, you first need to "mount" the ...
by Fleexy
Fri Oct 01, 2021 16:52
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Everytime I open PCKF I get this
Replies: 3
Views: 3879

Re: Everytime I open PCKF I get this

Sorry about this. An intermediate Let's Encrypt certificate expired a couple days ago. Some browsers were able to determine the updated intermediate certificate automatically, but some weren't. My server should now be explicitly providing the full updated chain on both PCKF and K:M. Please let me kn...
by Fleexy
Sun Aug 01, 2021 15:19
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod
Replies: 158
Views: 155306

Re: Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod

Hmm, I haven't used D-Fend Reloaded, but if it's a DOSBox frontend, you might be able to change the screenshot hotkey in the DOSBox keymapper (Ctrl+F1 in raw DOSBox). You could also change the Jump button's key in the game's Configuration section, though that might make playing more difficult. At th...
by Fleexy
Sun Aug 01, 2021 1:30
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod
Replies: 158
Views: 155306

Re: Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod

Hmm, that should be all the files you need. (I just downloaded the newest version of the mod and it seems the extraneous subfolder has been removed, so you're not missing anything.) Running play.bat should do the job of making sure all patches are applied. The amount of options for raw DOSBox can be...
by Fleexy
Sat Jul 31, 2021 18:22
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod
Replies: 158
Views: 155306

Re: Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod

You need to add the Keen 5 executable (KEEN5E.EXE) into this mod's folder, yes. But running that original Keen 5 executable will not apply all the necessary modifications, so you need to run play.bat to run the game. The technical details are that this batch file invokes the patching tool CKPatch , ...
by Fleexy
Sat Jul 31, 2021 15:19
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod
Replies: 158
Views: 155306

Re: Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod

Welcome to the PCKF! Since this is a modification of a Commander Keen game, and the Commander Keen games are DOS programs, this also must be run under DOS. Most people play in the DOSBox emulator. First, though, make sure to copy in KEEN5E.EXE from a copy of Keen 5, which is not free software and is...
by Fleexy
Tue Jul 20, 2021 18:06
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Orbatext: A Level Name/Entry Text Fitter
Replies: 3
Views: 1474

Re: Orbatext: A Level Name/Entry Text Fitter

I happen to be working (very, very slowly) on a simple level pack and this utility looks like exactly what I need to do the patches, thanks!
by Fleexy
Sun Jul 11, 2021 16:37
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Corrupt A Wish game
Replies: 1253
Views: 471631

Re: Corrupt A Wish game

If it's actually you, I can grant that. Unfortunately the automated password reset email system is frequently broken and verification has to be done manually. Please email [my username] at keenmodding.org from the email account used to register your old account and I'll send you a new password. If y...
by Fleexy
Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:05
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Commander Kylie
Replies: 139
Views: 114592

Re: Commander Kylie

Welcome to the PCKF, monochameleon! It's great to see someone new producing Keen content. :) Sorry I didn't see and approve your post in time for the stream. (This review requirement for new users' posts cuts down on what would otherwise be an avalanche of spam, unfortunately.) From now on the syste...
by Fleexy
Sun Feb 14, 2021 22:48
Forum: Official Keen Games
Topic: No sound in Commander Keen 1
Replies: 1
Views: 1708

Re: No sound in Commander Keen 1

Welcome to the PCKF!

Are you playing in Commander Genius, or the original game in something like DOSBox?
by Fleexy
Thu Jan 28, 2021 23:29
Forum: Keen Awards
Topic: Keen Awards 2020: Nominations
Replies: 24
Views: 16193

Re: Keen Awards 2020: Nominations

By Grandy02's suggestion I moved all the voting threads into a new temporary forum. Hopefully I configured the subforum permissions correctly - please let me know if something is broken.
by Fleexy
Thu Sep 24, 2020 15:40
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Commander Keen in: Break the Targets!
Replies: 14
Views: 5166

Re: Commander Keen in: Break the Targets!

The original post was edited after being approved, which caused it to vanish back into the pending-approval state. Welcome to the PCKF, Trevor_trev! Your account is fully activated now, so weird things like that won't happen again. :)
by Fleexy
Sun Sep 13, 2020 17:05
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: [v2.11.3] Abiathar: The superior Keen Galaxy editor
Replies: 224
Views: 210910

Re: [v2.11.3] Abiathar: The superior Keen Galaxy editor

I've started graduate school! Unfortunately that means I've been extra MIA here. I'll try to make more of an effort to check in periodically and see what's going on. Nisaba requested a feature and K1n9_Duk3 brought some issues to my attention, so I have some changes to release. UPDATE v2.11.3: more ...
by Fleexy
Thu May 28, 2020 23:12
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: The PCKF skin before the migration
Replies: 5
Views: 8531

Re: The PCKF skin before the migration

Thanks everyone for reminding me of this. People are discussing new themes in another thread , but in the meantime I went through and just changed a bunch of CSS colors to get a green-and-yellow theme reminiscent of the phpBB 2 forum. (While I was at it I finally fixed admins' and mods' names being ...