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Offline zear

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Commander Genius release #1
« on: September 08, 2010, 06:24:14 PM »
This one took me a while, but it's finally finished:
Commander Genius
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1HP7WFjaMc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1HP7WFjaMc</a>





About
Commander Genius aka CloneKeenPlus is an engine which interprets Commander Keen 1-3 (Vorticons Series) [There's also experimental support of ep4].
As fans and developers we try to implement new features, improve the game play and give the feeling, you are playing the original game. Obviously you need the game data of the games to play it. Commander Keen 1 is shareware and free to be downloaded. Episode 2 and 3 are registered versions which can be purchased by 3D Realms or Apogee, or bought by someone else. If you still have the old games of the registered version, then give it a try. You will be surprised, how well they will look!

Installation
Copy the original datafiles from the episodes 1-4 to their respective folders in ./games directory.
For example if you have the datafiles for episode 2, copy them to ./games/keen2 dir.

The game comes shipped with episodes 1 and 4, as they remain shareware.
Note that episode 4 support is experimental and is still unplayable.

In order for the music to work you have to download the High Quality Pack (HQP) from official Commander Genius website.
Simply extract it to your Commander Genius location. Note that music support is still not stable and might occasionally crash the game.

Download
Dingoo File Archive

And to not cause any confusion, Commander Genius is not Clone Keen, which was previously released for both Dingux and Native OS. This is a far more superior engine with a lot of new features and fixes.
« Last Edit: September 08, 2010, 07:40:30 PM by zear »

Offline Meneer Jansen

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Re: Commander Genius release #1
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2010, 08:55:31 PM »
Thank you for the port. I've played all Com. Keen's many times, back in the days. Hope the later series will be ported some day too... :)

P.S. Did dos-box work on the Dingoo yet, or didn't it... Hmmm......
Finally got me a new Dingoo after I Kentucky ~~::fried::~~ the other one. Yippee! [edit] And lost it!

Offline Pingouin

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Re: Commander Genius release #1
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2010, 09:45:06 PM »
Yeah, I loved Commander Keen as a kid. Definitely going to play that, thanks a bunch zear! ;D

Offline Pingouin

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Re: Commander Genius release #1
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2010, 09:52:17 PM »
Just got around to play it and completed episode 1.
Works great, thanks again! ;D

Offline Pingouin

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Re: Commander Genius release #1
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2010, 11:15:15 PM »
Completed episode 2, loved it, now on to 3!
Thanks again zear, smashing release, I'm a keen fan.