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I liked the Secret Agent games but I don't remember Commander Keen that well anymore:S
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I loved playing Crystal Caves and I think I used to watch my sister play Secret Agent (I have no memory of playing it myself but I remember seeing it).
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Steam overlay doesn't support direct draw, and while it supports opengl, the game blackscreens using opengl for some reason. You'll also probably want to set a scaler so your screenshots don't end up as small as mine did. I will note that you do not want to type in the overlay; it doesn't prevent input from entering the game, and you may end up doing strange things in-game while you're in the overlay.
I set the renderer to direct3d. Unfortunately, steam provides an older version of dosbox that doesn't support direct3d. If you want direct3d, you'll have to manually install dosbox in there. I'm not sure if the current version supports direct3d either. If you give me a few minutes, I'll upload dosbox configurations for commander keen. You can use the same thing for other dos games, but you'll need to configure them manually.
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Actually, I just found the original source again, so I might as well post it:
There's a build here that should work (click Download -> DOSBox SVN Builds and then scroll down to your preferred platform and download the .7z file, not the installer ). You should be able to simply drop the entire contents of the .7zip (sorry! no zip files available) into each of your commander keen\base# directories.
Once you've copied the files over, check the keen#.conf file in each base# folder and change the line that says output=ddraw
to output=direct3d
.
You should be able to use this version of dosbox as a drop-in replacement for any other steam game that uses dosbox >0.64 as well (e.g. doom, etc; for the sierra collection, look here, for other games if it doesn't work, search google).
Dosbox has a console window to show status and error messages. If you want to hide it, add -noconsole
to the game's launch command.
This version of dosbox comes with a handy menu in window mode that disappears in fullscreen mode. If you want to hide the menu, add -nogui
as a launch option.
You can ignore the CAPTURE
, DOCS
, SAVE
, and TOOLS
folders, and you don't need the dosbox_debug.exe
. Leaving them in there won't hurt anything, though. If you don't plan to play with shaders, you might be able to delete that folder too--but I'm not sure, so try running dosbox with it renamed before you delete it.
Since this version of dosbox supports d3d, it also supports shaders. To use them, follow the instructions here. To compare them without actually testing them out one at a time, there's a gallery over here.
If you're running linux or mac steam won't let you download the game even though dosbox is multiplatform and supports both; you can easily add commander keen to steam by downloading it through steam under wine (an easy way is PlayOnLinux) and then simply copy the data files, then copy the binaries as above and add it as a nonsteam game. It won't track your time or show game-specific links in the overlay, but it will run just fine, even if you uninstall wine. I would also suggest using symlinks for the files if you've got several installs so you can easily update dosbox once for the entire system (or at least for steam).
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because it looks very oldschool and I can't do a 360 noscope.
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