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Re: Pics of Keen on old systems
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 21:21
by Nisaba
K1n9_Duk3 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 20:54
Oh, somebody else says "HI", too:
By the way, this is the fist PC
I ever played Doom on. Maybe Keen, too, I don't remember. What I know for sure is that I killed the Keens in Doom II long before I ever played any Keen games.
"HI"
sweet Jesus, what a nice coincidence!
... I think I started my gaming career with Commander Keen back in 1991. took me weeks until I realized how to pogo...
Re: Pics of Keen on old systems
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 22:11
by K1n9_Duk3
My gaming career began on one of these beauties (must have been around '93):
I'm still kicking myself for trashing it in the early 2000's. The pic obviously doesn't show the one I had, but it's the exact same model (386 DX-40). The first games I remember playing on it would haven been Prince of Persia, Grand Prix Circuit (racing), World Class Leader Board (golf) and some Windows 3.1 games. I assume I must have played Keen 1 and/or Keen 4 on it at some point very late in its life. What I can say for sure is that I played Duke Nukem 1 & 2 and BioMenace on it. Even Doom and Doom II ran (poorly) on this little machine. I definitely remember playing the super secret level of Doom II (featuring Keen) on it, so that's my excuse for posting it in this thread.
Re: Pics of Keen on old systems
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 6:42
by proYorp
Randomly found this on Google Images one day:
This guy apparently has a website where he uploads pictures of games he's completed on original hardware. Here's the index for the games he did in 2018 (including all episodes of Commander Keen):
http://www.diffusedion.co.uk/2018.html
The above picture is a 386 SX-25, as evidenced by this lovely video of it booting up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptYHlQvMoMY
Re: Pics of Keen on old systems
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 17:55
by JimBrenda
Oh wow! That's definitely a throwback!
Re: Pics of Keen on old systems
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 19:06
by Benvolio
*bump*
Not a picture per se but here's LGR playing a bit of Keen1 on an old IBM. Love the real PC speaker sounds, it's something I truly miss. The hardware (keyboard expansion doohickey) that he's demonstrating is also cool. (Though I was more than happy with the old style keyboards before the separate arrow keys got added. (Not that I'm of an age to truly justify being used to the old style).
https://youtu.be/oYpjeqZAnzc