Do you play Keen on original hardware?
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Do you play Keen on original hardware?
At my grandparent's house, there is an old Magitronic DOS computer. It's so old, it doesn't even have any extended memory. 640KB of RAM means it can't even handle Keen4. The /other/ Keen PC is in a landfill somewhere, sadly. It had a CMOS failure and that was back when I didn't know how to fix them.
Forum, do /you/ have any old computers that you play Keen on? Do you, like me, still have in your possession one of the computers that introduced you to Keen? Tell us about it!
Forum, do /you/ have any old computers that you play Keen on? Do you, like me, still have in your possession one of the computers that introduced you to Keen? Tell us about it!
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I use the powers of the almighty DOSBOX
I run Keen fine in windows without dosbox but it has no sound.
I use the powers of the almighty DOSBOX
I run Keen fine in windows without dosbox but it has no sound.
It does it in windows XP as well. That's the PC speaker.VikingBoyBilly wrote:i played keen once on my sisters computer and the sounds were coming FROM the PC. As in, from the computer itself, not any speakers
And you really haven't played keen until you played it this way.
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I've got this old laptop that was my dad's work computer in the early 90s. It originally booted Windows 3.1 but he installed Win95 in...1995, presumably. It's my go-to computer for running DOS games, only I can't get stuff onto it easily because no other computer I own takes floppy disks and I don't want to burn CDs each time I want to transfer things.
I had a really old 486 some years ago and LOTS of floppies with games. It didn't have a hard drive, so the Windows 3.1 it ran on had to be started from a floppy, too. Ah, the good old days of playing Keen, POD, pinballs, Duke Nukem 3D, Prince of Persia... But then, it had a hardware failure, so we bought a new computer. I still play nearly all these games via DOSBox though. Three cheers for DB!
I always used to run it native, but these days I use DOSBox for convenience...
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THe first computer that I ever played Keen on was my family's old Acer 2-hundred-something. It died whan I was 4, so we just used the new windows 2000 computer after that. Then Keen got lost for a while. Now It's back with DOSBox!!!
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Well, emulation of course (thanks DOSBox team!). But back in the days, I used to play it on 486 DX 60 mhz (or was it 66 or 80 with turbo? I remember it was even clocked to 100 mhz to compete with the newly Pentiums). I was having an EGA monitor.
Before that (and at the same time) I had a 286 with a VGA monochrome monitor. I may have played Keen on a 286, but wit the EGA monitor, I don't remember. Hell, I don't remember which keen was my first one: 6, 4 or 1.
Before that (and at the same time) I had a 286 with a VGA monochrome monitor. I may have played Keen on a 286, but wit the EGA monitor, I don't remember. Hell, I don't remember which keen was my first one: 6, 4 or 1.
This. It was a shock of nostalgia when I switched to PC Speaker mode a while back.PandoricaShark wrote:PC Speaker mode is the best mode and the one I remember from my CHILDHOOD.
It's an option if you want to use it.
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We had a 486 DX 10MHz clocked to 33MHz on Turbo (I love turbo buttons on PCs) back in the days when that was a lot...wiivn wrote:Well, emulation of course (thanks DOSBox team!). But back in the days, I used to play it on 486 DX 60 mhz (or was it 66 or 80 with turbo? I remember it was even clocked to 100 mhz to compete with the newly Pentiums). I was having an EGA monitor.
Before that (and at the same time) I had a 286 with a VGA monochrome monitor. I may have played Keen on a 286, but wit the EGA monitor, I don't remember. Hell, I don't remember which keen was my first one: 6, 4 or 1.
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Games for older machines assumed slow processors, so they didn't bother using a seperate timer and just worked on CPU cycles. Therefore, run them on a faster machine and they're too fast to play.wiivn wrote:Was it that big difference? What was the point of the turbo anyway? Who would want a slower processor? I can see it as a slow down cheat in a very few games maybe.
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