Keen: Modding

Thanks all, I completely agree with what you're saying. I agree that noteworthy skin-only mods are worth including, and the only reason I've avoided it is because there weren't clear guidelines about why we're picking those skin mods and not another skin mod. I was also against Commander Kylie at th...

Hi all, When I started the KeenWiki I was of the opinion that skin mods (those that change only some of the graphics and nothing else) should not be added. Over the years a number of skin mods have been added and then removed, as they typically only change the main player sprite and nothing else. Re...

That's very interesting. A friend of mine had similar problems back in the day but I don't remember the hardware combination they were using. I remember suggesting changing the border colour as they reported seeing no border at all, and eventually we discovered that was the culprit. If a different m...

Hi all, I just stumbled across Ghidra , a free disassembler released by the NSA that they use for their cybersecurity efforts. It's cross platform and if you've used disassembly programs before like IDA then it doesn't take long to pick it up. I've used it a lot over the last day or so and I am real...

This is extremely useful, many thanks! I will put all the info in the ModdingWiki. If you have further details about Carmackization please feel free to update the page . The Gamemaps page says Wolf3D v1.0 is not compressed, but then later it says v1.0 maps are not Carmackized, only RLEW compressed. ...

Hi all, I'm looking through the ModdingWiki page on the Gamemaps format and it's a little light on detail. Is there any information around on: Which games use no compression, Carmackization, RLEW and/or Huffman coding? What format each level plane is in? I could only find the OmniSpeak code online a...

Many thanks for adding all the offsets! GalaxyView also refers to a tileinfo chunk but I can't find any reference to that on the wiki pages. Is there any documentation about what that data is used for and its format? EDIT: Of course now I see there is an entry just for this format, which I missed be...

That's a very good point! Since UNLZEXE is so widely used for Keen, I was assuming those offsets are the ones to use. A note can be added to the page to say that if UNP is used then 400 should be subtracted from each value, and another value for the raw machine code image too, that way any needed of...

Hi all, I wonder if I could ask for some help - I have just added a table to the ModdingWiki page for Keens 4-6 , to show the locations for the map and audio headers, and the Huffman dictionaries, inside each episode's .exe file. I need a hand populating the table with offsets, so if anyone has thes...

You don't want to use Audacity to copy and paste them into separate files? Not ideal but possibly the quickest solution.

No I haven't been to the conference as international travel is such a pain. It was quite an interesting talk, and although I haven't used a fax machine for many years either, as they said in the talk, many larger companies (at least here in Australia) still have one available. Makes me wonder what t...

Hi all, Just briefly stopping by to let @levellass know that the ModdingWiki page on the Softdisk Library Format that is predominantly her work just showed up in a DEFCON video on fax machine vulnerabilities . Turns out it's possible to send a fax to vulnerable fax machines and from that alone, take...

Is this .wav file any help, along with this list?

You could try DRO Trimmer to remove delays at the start and end of the recording.

If you skip Camoto Studio and the other libraries, and only compile libgamecommon then libgamemusic, then you won't need libpng at all and you'll get the gamemus utility.

Using channel 0 definitely won't cause problems with Keen 1. It's very, very easy to lose OPL instructions when capturing in DOSBox, so that's probably quite likely if your source is from a capture. This is because sometimes games set the instruments way before the music actually starts. DOSBox is s...