NETKEEN: Multiplayer Keen Game

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Fleexy wrote:No, the router seems to steal the incoming data. I've tried. Also, 3 other computers share the same public IP. >:
It's called port forwarding.

If you don't know what that is: forwarding a rule is basically telling the router that when a specific port is opened on your IP, it redirects and opens that port on the computer you assign it to. So if you forward the port that NETKEEN uses to your own computer it will work.
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Yeah, I'm in a similar situation and that fixed it right up.
I've noticed, though, that YANG seems to avoid the need for port forwarding?
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PandoricaShark wrote:Image

Someone linked him to this thread in the comments, and said he should play with us, and he was all that'd be cool after GDC.
Bump with reason:

Did this happen and I missed it, or do we need to mollycoddle him some more?

Edit: Oman double-post too. Kill me now.
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You missed it.
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Hello everyone. Finally got netkeen going on the two home computers set up the other day. And its amazing!

My mate and i were trying to set this up tonight between his home computer and my home computer and my computer ran fine but his computer's dosbox would give him this message:

Illegal command: ipxnet

We also tried NKLaunch but we still got the same message.

So my question is whether anyone has experienced this problem and whether there is a solution to this.
Any help would be appreciated, once again :stunned
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Your friend needs to edit the dosbox config file and set ipx=true ;)
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Oh my gosh! I totally forgot that.
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Legality of netKeen.

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I notice that the default program download of netkeen has ck5 and ck6 files. Are these originals from the proprietary versions of the original game programs?

Or have the visuals bee reverse engineered in some legal way?

I'm not asking an abandonware question. Is the netkeen download entirely legal software, or not?
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Of course it's not completely legal. How could it be when it uses a copyrighted IP? Even if all the files were made by hand, and even if we repainted all the graphics by ourselves, it still wouldn't be completely legal as long as it uses the name "Commander Keen".
I don't think the usage of original ck5/6 files is any more illegal in this case than the simple use of ideas.
In the case of mods of the non-shareware Keen episodes we leave out the exe and release all the ck* files. This is effectively the same, since the exe has been made by lemm, and the rest of the files are partly by ID.
I wouldn't worry about the legalty of this program, unless you're trying to make money with it, because the developers of Keen know about it, and have approved of it.
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netKeen approval.

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Well that's the thing. Do the developers of the original software actually own the IP themselves? Do they indeed permit this use of their software?
Is there some message or email from them I could see?
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Zachary1234 wrote:Well that's the thing. Do the developers of the original software actually own the IP themselves? Do they indeed permit this use of their software?
Is there some message or email from them I could see?
iD owns it, and iD doesn't care as far as we have experienced so far. And as long as this doesn't get a cease and desist FROM the actual IP owners, it's actually fine for this to exist.

No need to bring attention of this to them, though. Not sure what their reaction would be. But it could ruin fun times. ;)

(Speaking of which, I *still* have yet to try said fun times.)
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I know Thom Hall hasn't got the IP to the games (but he fucl well should), but he did post on Facebook about playing this and gave it his approval.

So, at very least you aren't pissing off the person who brought the game into the world. :)
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Stop posting in this thread.

It makes the release board look like the Keen 8 pack came out >:
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Nice signature, VikingBoyBilly! :p
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VikingBoyBilly wrote:Stop posting in this thread.

It makes the release board look like the Keen 8 pack came out >:
Pff, so? :P
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