Commander Keen source code released

Re:Commander Keen source code released by smegel on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @06:07PM (#8327379)

This is awesome! Commander Keen was my very first PC game on my very first PC (a 386DX with 2MB ram and a 80MB hard drive).

And it was a great game!

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Re:Commander Keen source code released by guidedlight on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @06:19PM (#8327429)

Same for me. My PC was a 8086 running at 4.77Mhz, with 640Kb memory, 20Mb HDD and EGA graphics. Surprisely Keen Dreams ran perfectly well on that very slow hardware...a testament to the software engineering back then.

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Re:Commander Keen source code released by clarry on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @11:54PM (#8328499)

> a testament to the software engineering back then.

Oh, don't worry. Hardware acceleration is coming, soon all the web apps will run just fine on your i7. But you might have to buy a new GPU and more RAM, because in five years, anyone would be crazy to have less than 32GB. Gaming might be a long way off still... ;-)

And then you'll have to wait for your GPU drivers to mature if you're not on the mainstream OS.

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Re:Commander Keen source code released by basisword on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @06:11PM (#8327396)

Same here! No idea what the PC specs were (someone built it for me) but I'll never forget booting up, seeing DOS, and typing keen.exe to begin hours of fun.

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