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Here's a weird shareware disc of Commander Keen. I found the cover art to be of particular interest. It's $4.99 with $3 shipping and BRAND NEW, which isn't bad at all. Might make a good collectors item, although it's just a shareware floppy.

There's 3 in stock.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apogee-Commander-Ke ... 3f0794d327

Don't know what the weird dragon thing is all about.
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Re: Possible collectors item

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Paramultart wrote:Here's a weird shareware disc of Commander Keen. I found the cover art to be of particular interest. It's $4.99 with $3 shipping and BRAND NEW, which isn't bad at all. Might make a good collectors item, although it's just a shareware floppy.

There's 3 in stock.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apogee-Commander-Ke ... 3f0794d327

Don't know what the weird dragon thing is all about.
This is what.

This is very what.

What with the game series being listed as 3D hunting and the general first appearance of such odd cover art I am fairly suspicious.
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Dragon thing appears to just be seller art.

Nothing all that special about dodgy shareware disks, although that is some interesting bootleg cover art. Doesn't specify what episode, probably 1, although there's an off chance it's 4. (I know the cover has screenshots of 4 on it, but that means absolutely nothing. Back in the day, we picked up a disk with 1 on it that advertised itself as 1, yet had screenshots from 4 on it. Kinda weird for a game subtitled "Marooned on Mars" to have screenshots from a tropical setting on it.)

All in all, why would you pay money for what is, basically, bootleg cover art?

EDIT: Hmm, it does say "Secret of the Oracle" on it.
EDIT 2: current seller seems as moronic/unscrupulous as whoever released it.
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Since ebay have a habit now of making a page unavailable if the auction's finished:
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I don't think it's anything suspicious.
The thing you need to realize is that this is not an Apogee/ID disk. It's a "Shareware Wizard" disk.
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A+ for the completely unrelated picture accompanying the box! :P
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This could be worth getting, just for the possibility that they've modified the code in some way (it does say "just type wiz").
I wonder if they had permission to use the picture of Keenboy, or if they just stole it.
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The "just type wiz" probably refers to a .bat file they've set up for install.
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I've bought from that guy before, he's legit. Actually, he's one of the better sellers if I remember (quick, good communication and packaging). Also, I've bought some Wiz Software disks in my day, and TerminILL is right about the .bat file thing.
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This version has been posted before on the old boards. Notice the polished version of the BWB rocket
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It actually looks like a 3D model.
Imagine that, a 3D model of the BWB back in '94.
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Flaose wrote:Actually, he's one of the better sellers if I remember (quick, good communication and packaging).
In that case, why don't we ask him directly?
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Post by Scarlet »

I looked and looked and looked but couldn't find my original keen 5 floppy. :( I found one of the copies I made of it though, back many years ago.
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Post by jayo »

tulip wrote:'original cd', lol, you certainly belong to a younger generation...
I got Monster Bash on a floppy disk! Mine was the shareware part one that was a bonus with Goodbye Galaxy! I later did a registered download of the 3 episodes for $10.

100 is too expensive! I just downloaded it, albeit illegitimately and just got scans of the box and mannual! Good enough for me!

I recently got a copy of Reader Rabbit 1 in the box. It was on floppy disks, so I took it to a computer shop and they put it on a CD for $15 or so. A bit steep, but what can you do?/

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DHeadshot wrote:Since ebay have a habit now of making a page unavailable if the auction's finished:
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I don't like that live Keen! Those sort of things disturb me!
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