Keen: Modding

Well, that was a fun evening, reviving my hatred of Pascal! But I achieved success anyway: here is a version 0.9.1 of CK4Patch for testing. Please give it a whirl with your existing patches, make sure it seems to handle them OK, and then try (levellord, I'm looking at you) patching some pointers usi...

To work around this, we really need to modify CKxPatch so that we can specify relative values for segment offsets. Since it already allows one to reference 16-bit values (e.g. $09DC instead of $DC $09), and it necessarily knows the address where the exe image was loaded, it should be straightforward...

Here you're running into far pointers (pointers between segments) and seeing the effects of the relocation table . Basically, what's happening is this: in the exe file, the bytes starting at $34BB0[1] are C9 16 DC 09. We know (from the context) that this is a far pointer, containing a segment addres...

So, would you like it to have its own forum in the Tools section?

Sorry for the delay; I spent some time trying to find a large-enough-but-not-too-large cardboard tube to post it in (to save on postage), but failed, and eventually posted them in the original (greatly oversized) tubes they came to me in, just short of two weeks ago. You should see it very soon I ho...

That's why I asked, I just don't know; Andy says that on easy or hard my mod crashes, and I can't find where, at least on my machine. It crashed for me with a "Tried to place uncached sprite" error when the slug-replacement (I forget its name) laid an egg, or when the egg hatched -- I'm n...

I believe that Keen Dreams uses Huffman compression for the maps -- the same kind of compression used for the graphics and sounds in Dreams and 4-6, and hence the presence of mapdict along with egadict and auddict. Keens 4-6 otoh use "Carmack compression" for the maps. Editing Keen Dreams ...

The results are in -- see the contest thread for details. Congratulations to XkyRauh, Levelass, and Zero X. Diamond, who were the winners (and, I might add, the only entrants :-) It's plain from these entries that there's some wonderful possibilities in the Keen 4 engine, and I hope to see more mods...

Finally, in first place is Levelass with "Zoltan's Revenge". Her mini mod, like the third place entry, is a preview of a full mod still in development; I only found one level on the map, but there's apparently a secret debug level also. http://files.keenmodding.org/images/lvlass01.png The ...

In second place is... I don't know. I've played and re-played the entries from XkyRauh and Levelass, but I honestly can't choose between them. So, a coin flip to settle the matter: Heads, Xky wins; tails Levelass wins. The coin goes up spinning, comes down, and is revealed: tails. So in second place...

In third place is Zero X. Diamond, with his embryonic mod about the adventures of Aillen O'Riordan as he struggles to rescue the beautiful Faelicia from the evil sorceror Atroxus. http://files.keenmodding.org/images/zeroxd01.png Although it doesn't have a modded world map, and only one tiny modded l...

I think I can make an exception, if you're that close. If you can get it to me on the 5th, it can go in the competition. But that will be the final cut-off. This obviously applies to anyone else who was almost finished. By the way, Zero, please submit it even if it's got some rough edges; I'll be ju...

Well spotted, grafix! Thanks.

I've fixed it now.

XkyRauh wrote:I just noticed, the RSS Feeds aren't working...

That's odd; I saw your post from the rss feed.

Is it a particular feed that isn't working?

First: great work, Shadow Master, on extending CKPatch. I wasn't aware of that files subdomain... I guess I don't pay enough attention around here sometimes. That because Andy hasn't published anything about it yet... I found it because he gave me a link to tedsetup source code which pointed there. ...