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[dark]

The prototype idea for Major Stryker was that he was going to be rescuing Duke Nukem and Commander Keen.

From the Apogee 1992 catalogue that comes with Cosmo

[Roobar]

Huh! Here's something I didn't knew about Major Stryker!

[dark]

Was digging some things out today and saw some of my old keen disks from back in the day.

[Roobar]

Wow! Can you check the versions of these?

[Lower IQ than 314]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNrK_ZChIkU

I was today years old when I discovered that Atroxian Realm's now-iconic soundtrack is appreciated by those outside of our community, and that it's made its way to the Doom-modding scene as well.

[dark]

Wow! Can you check the versions of these?

Will do. Are there known versions that are missing? I have played versions downloaded from the net over the years and never noticed any differences. I also have goodbye Galaxy on old mail order disks but it's at my parents house.

[dark]

Wow! Can you check the versions of these?

-Commander Keen 1, version 1.31 1/23/1990
-Keen 6 special demo version v1.0
-Keen Dreams - I don't see a version number in the game, but kdreams.exe has a modified date of 10/9/1992. This is the "shareware" version, which was distributed by various shareware companies after Sofdisk provided it with their magazine (its the full game, you're just encouraged to send money anyway lol)

[Roobar]

Well, not long ago, someone found an early Keen beta by looking at his floppies. So you never know.

[TheBigV]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNrK_ZChIkU

I was today years old when I discovered that Atroxian Realm's now-iconic soundtrack is appreciated by those outside of our community, and that it's made its way to the Doom-modding scene as well.

One thing I'd like to point out is the fact that all Doom maps that use AR music were in fact made by people who are also on PCKF, all of whom directly received permission from Gridlock to use the music.

This includes the creator of MAP02 of THT: Threnody (Joe-ilya), who used to be active on PCKF, but also there's Modulation and Plerbtonia which were respectively made by me and Pandakeen (a.k.a Plerb) and use AR music in some maps.

[dark]

Probably something we'll known but I just bumped into it last night. There is a vorticon in Biomenace in the mutant lab level that shows you some wip mutant creations of the bad guy.

https://imgur.com/a/CYtDdG9

[Roobar]

That's Yorp lol

[Lower IQ than 314]

Yes, Bio Menace does take place in the same universe as Keen...sort of. It's a little unsettling when you think about it, almost as unsettling as the idea that nearly every id Software IP takes place at different points in the same timeline, so when you get down to it, they've essentially created a universe where Hitler wore a mech-suit into battle, a child prodigy with an IQ of 315 tried to commit omnicide on the entire universe, Hell itself invaded Mars and earth multiple times, dark gods tampered with advanced human technology to invade us yet again, and humanity and cybernetic Borg-like aliens clashed repeatedly, all while certain individuals are pulled out of their reality to fight each other and die in an arena over and over for the amusement of even more godlike entities. And I didn't even include the apocalypse from Rage here. Life in the id-verse sucks, dude.

[dark]

Haha I never thought about it that way. At least we stopped mecha Hitler though!

[TheBigV]

I may have started getting back into Keen modding. However the mod I'm working on right now is not Commander Cool 2 but a demake of DOOM as a Keen 1 mod:

(Title screen level may not be final.)

My previous discovery of the source of the Vorticons title font in Deluxe Paint was a help for making the title screen.

[Nospike]

Hey, welcome back, that looks awesome! I'd play the hell out of that.