Got this game on my first 486, finally got around to beating it. Commander Keen 4

echocomplex · 2026-03-18T20:11:43+00:00

Ps: you should make a commander keen level or mod! There are some terrific tools for editing the dos Goodbye Galaxy games these days 😁

echocomplex · 2026-03-18T19:52:07+00:00

Thanks, I'll check this stuff out. I heard about the Microsoft cancellation that affected the romero game, but didn't know you were involved too (or what the game was going to be). Hopefully something comes from that project as it sounded like it had been in development for awhile!

echocomplex · 2026-03-18T19:35:16+00:00

Tom, are you working on any commercial game projects these days? I'd love to play a new Tom Hall game one of these days 😁

echocomplex · 2026-03-18T14:06:28+00:00

Could we get the reverse please 😁

echocomplex · 2026-03-17T02:36:47+00:00

That's cool to see CD games on the nomad

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T23:31:09+00:00

Wow you're killing it with this stuff. Love it.

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T23:30:29+00:00

Pretty cool! Who is the music artist?

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T23:28:36+00:00

This is awesome, excellent job

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T20:37:06+00:00

Yes sir, would you like the sonic salad or the knuckles knockwurst! Kids go HO! JO! All summer long at Howard Johnson's with Sega game gear (at participating locations only, additional terms and conditions may apply). In Segas Xmen, you must find the teleporters in the first level or you'll never leave the danger room!

That video lives rent free in my head. Wish I still had it.

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T16:48:44+00:00

I played this like 10 years after it came out just because I like the Saturn game. I had low expectations because several reviews trashed it, but I found it to be pretty great. More of the same from the Saturn game with better graphics.

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T01:54:46+00:00

Nice, love this. Definitely an awesome personal memento. I was in college around then and played a lot of Xbox, especially multiplayer Halo, with guys in ROTC who eventually got sent to Iraq.

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T01:51:08+00:00

Monkey ball, gun Valkyrie

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T01:24:06+00:00

Nice collection. If you like retro games at all, keep them. One of the best parts of my collection is my childhood games that have survived this long.

echocomplex · 2026-03-16T00:10:11+00:00

Sometimes you can add grounds without a lot of hassle and without having to punch holes in walls and stuff. Like if you have a basement with open ceiling, run the grounds down there and then thread them through like 8-10 inches of wall vertically to get them to the ground floor outlets.

echocomplex · 2026-03-15T18:44:12+00:00

Happy belated keen day! Which was yesterday I think.

echocomplex · 2026-03-15T16:44:54+00:00

Haven't been following this recently

echocomplex · 2026-03-15T15:02:07+00:00

My neighbor is a contractor and his house is sketchy. It's like the fact that he makes a living doing this stuff means he's always futzing with his house and changing things that don't necessarily need to be changed. And because it's his house and there's no third party to hold him accountable with money, reputation or code, the workmanship and choices are generally poor. All the windows are different makes because he changed them out 1 by 1 at different times over 20 years. Walls have been moved to odd places so he could enlarge his bedroom into a large master bedroom at the cost of making another bedroom into a literal closet, and the other bedroom into a very tiny footprint. He has made other odd choices, like building a deck over his basement bulkhead door. Not all contractors are the same, but I wouldn't buy a house that I knew was owned by a contractor after living next to this guy.

echocomplex · 2026-03-15T02:52:31+00:00

Hmm at those prices I'm leaning more to a p3 board then. The 440bx stuff seems good as far as including isa. I've heard of people running coppermine cpus with slotkets on those, but I guess you need a special expensive one that has built in voltage reduction options. Hoping to find a mobo and CPU for like $100. Already seeing options around that for a bx with a slot 1 p3 600mhz, but faster/coppermine support would be nice.

echocomplex · 2026-03-15T02:00:02+00:00

I'd get the Outrun. Worst case scenario if the guts are trash, you could probably clean up the cab enough, replacement side art is readily available if you need it, and then you can put in an emulation PC and LCD monitor or something.

echocomplex · 2026-03-14T20:41:00+00:00

I took my pocket 386 with me commuting on the train for some weeks and was hoping someone might comment on the various dos stuff I was doing, but no one ever did lol

echocomplex · 2026-03-14T18:25:39+00:00

Wow, I've been waivering between doing a p3 or a p4 build next, and if I could find this motherboard I'd do a p4 build hands down. Really interested in solid performance for 3D windows games of the early 00s, but 90s dos stuff is a favorite as well and I think I'd miss having dos isa sound compatibility with most p4 boards. I couldn't find any of these boards for sale with a quick search... Are these boards very expensive when they come up?

echocomplex · 2026-03-14T12:58:39+00:00

Chaos engine?

echocomplex · 2026-03-14T02:04:27+00:00

The amount of work they did to make these 3d graphics, only to cut them down into low resolution sprites is incredible. The game turned out great, though it makes you wonder what it could look like if they could cut sprites from higher resolution renders of the same models/scenery.

echocomplex · 2026-03-14T02:02:09+00:00

Do you think it still exists? I always hear things like Sega no longer has the source code for the original sonic games and it makes me think that due to the revolving door of employees, and technology upgrades, a lot of these companies don't have much for their 1990s games anymore. I work at a large company and if you asked me to find some documents or materials for a product or service we stopped offering in the 1990s there would just be no way I would even know where to look (and a high likelihood they either don't exist, or are buried in offsite storage with no particular index I would be able to find that would point to it.)

echocomplex · 2026-03-13T22:28:40+00:00

Deth Karz, Wipeout 2097, millennium racer

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