Keen 4 on the App Store!!
Keen 4 on the App Store!!
Meant to post this last week, but I forgot... PSA:Keen 4 is now on Apple's App Store, courtesy of an emulator called Aemula Oldies from the dev of iDOS (any of you remember that one?). It's one of about a dozen freeware titles packaged with the app.Â
I don't know about you guys, but iPhone and iPad have long been the only hardware I play Keen on, using either iDOS or DOSpad. Well, iDOS was long ago pulled, and DOSpad is only available if you jailbreak, so this at least bring the Keen experience to a wider audience.Â
I won't tell you it's the best way to Keen, but this way it can go with you in your pocket, and if nothing else, it's awfully fun to show people. The impossible pogo is a little tougher than it is on a keyboard or physical gamepad, but I've nearly got it down. I expect even Keen ninjas will die a lot more, and Keen purists will probably get huffy, or whatever.Â
App Store links (or search for Aemula Oldies)--
iPhone:Â
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aemula-o ... ?ls=1&mt=8
iPad:Â
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aemula-o ... 55283?mt=8
I don't know about you guys, but iPhone and iPad have long been the only hardware I play Keen on, using either iDOS or DOSpad. Well, iDOS was long ago pulled, and DOSpad is only available if you jailbreak, so this at least bring the Keen experience to a wider audience.Â
I won't tell you it's the best way to Keen, but this way it can go with you in your pocket, and if nothing else, it's awfully fun to show people. The impossible pogo is a little tougher than it is on a keyboard or physical gamepad, but I've nearly got it down. I expect even Keen ninjas will die a lot more, and Keen purists will probably get huffy, or whatever.Â
App Store links (or search for Aemula Oldies)--
iPhone:Â
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aemula-o ... ?ls=1&mt=8
iPad:Â
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aemula-o ... 55283?mt=8
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Re: Keen 4 on the App Store!!
You are a miserably deprived man. I still have my early 90s keyboards to keep that authentic Keening feel.mrjr84 wrote:I don't know about you guys, but iPhone and iPad have long been the only hardware I play Keen on
But that's a neat app nonetheless! If I had any crapple products I'd be at that in a flash!
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Re: Keen 4 on the App Store!!
Deprived? Haha, I guess. I loved Keen on my various hand-me-down 486s back in the day, and I love it on my I-live-in-the-21st-century devices now. =)kuliwil wrote:You are a miserably deprived man. I still have my early 90s keyboards to keep that authentic Keening feel.mrjr84 wrote:I don't know about you guys, but iPhone and iPad have long been the only hardware I play Keen on
But that's a neat app nonetheless! If I had any crapple products I'd be at that in a flash!
This clearly isn't for you. But I just have to think that Keen has a bigger audience... including people who use Apple's sweet mobile devices. If this app can bring back the joy of the best of 90s platforming for them (like it has for me), then this was worth posting.
Cheers.
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Re: Keen 4 on the App Store!!
Fixed.mrjr84 wrote:
Deprived? Haha, I guess. I loved Keen on my various hand-me-down 486s back in the day, and I love it on my I-like-to-waste-money devices now. =)
You are a traitor to DOS gamers everywhere.This clearly isn't for you. But I just have to think that Keen has a bigger audience... including people who use Apple's sweet mobile devices. If this app can bring back the joy of the best of 90s platforming for them (like it has for me), then this was worth posting.
Cheers.
I've played DOS games on an iPhone before, as I used to have one. It felt... cheap... to say the least. Evoked none of the warm fluffy emotions I used to feel back in the early 90's playing those games.
Oh yeah, and I used to have two iPhone 3GS devices. Took care of them, they messed up, Apple refused to fix them. Am I bitter? Fucl yes. Am I biased? Probably, but I'm fine with that. Fucl Apple.
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Thanks heaps for the links! I missed out on iDOS by a couple of hours last time so I immediately grabbed this one. The controls aren't nearly as bad as Duke3d for iphone.
I've had Dosbox on my Android phone for a while now and it's fun to bust out some Commander Keen or Jazz Jackrabbit on the phone occasionally, but I still find the touch screen controls a bit too difficult to use to have a 'serious' play through yet.
I've had Dosbox on my Android phone for a while now and it's fun to bust out some Commander Keen or Jazz Jackrabbit on the phone occasionally, but I still find the touch screen controls a bit too difficult to use to have a 'serious' play through yet.
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The problem is that all these new people are going to find it and think it's a good approximation of Keen, won't like it and will write the greatest game ever off their to-play lists.StupidBunny wrote:Just tried this. It's neat that it exists, even if the controls are kind of crap.
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