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BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: September 9th, 2013, 9:09 pm
by lemm
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 424&type=1
The Commander Keen source code has reportedly been located. It was sitting on a Syquest tape drive for the last 20 years or so. Tom Hall and company are going to see if the source code reads or not. If it does, he'll likely release it to the public.
I will attempt to keep you all up to date on this late-breaking story as it develops.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: September 11th, 2013, 12:04 am
by DOSGuy
Woohoo!
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: September 12th, 2013, 4:01 am
by lemm
The code that contains the source for Keens 4-6 was successfully retrieved from the disk, and it has now been sent to Tom Hall in a more modern storage medium. They're waiting for Id Software to release the source code to the public.
http://www.pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=2858
Actually, you can just click this link and update yourselves.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: September 13th, 2013, 8:29 am
by MrFlibble
That's certainly great news ^_^
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: March 12th, 2014, 11:56 pm
by lemm
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: June 5th, 2014, 8:44 pm
by lemm
Catacomb and Catacomb3D code release.
The Keen source has been retrieved and it does compile; we're just waiting on id to officially release it. It should be any week now...
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: June 5th, 2014, 10:38 pm
by Lunick
lemm wrote:
The Keen source has been retrieved and it does compile; we're just waiting on id to officially release it. It should be any week now...
You wish, E3 and other stuff is going to keep them busy
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: June 6th, 2014, 8:06 am
by DOSGuy
Softdisk did release the source code for Catacomb and Hovertank 3D under GPL yesterday. The source for Catacomb has been added to the site. Too bad there wasn't a shareware version of Hovertank 3D.
Edit: The source code for The Catacomb, Catacomb 3D, and Catacomb Abyss has now also been GPL'd.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Commander Keen Source Code Located
Posted: March 27th, 2015, 3:28 pm
by developertn
lemm wrote:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 424&type=1
The Commander Keen source code has reportedly been located. It was sitting on a Syquest tape drive for the last 20 years or so. Tom Hall and company are going to see if the source code reads or not. If it does, he'll likely release it to the public.
I will attempt to keep you all up to date on this late-breaking story as it develops.
I remember some lessons from Tom Hall when he released a developer notes to those who are working for him. hehe