How to play Commander Keen on Windows 272o3q

Commander Keen: defender of the Earth! 4i3g2g

Billy Blaze, eight year old genius, has created an interstellar spaceship from old soup cans and transforms into Commander Keen, defender of the Earth! Classic side scroller, developed by John Carmack and John Romero, also known for Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake. Their developing adventure started with Commander Keen, which should have been a PC port of Super Mario Bros 3. Thank heavens Nintendo said "no". If you have the game, you can of course play it with DOSBox. If you don't have it, you can it from Steam. Or you can read on. 266br

Play Commander Keen games with Commander Genius 5h6e6n

Commander Genius, also known as Clone Keen Plus, is a open source port which allows you to play Commander Keen games on Windows 11, Windows 10 and other platforms. Shareware Keen games are included, others you must add yourself. Commander Genius also s a high quality pack, which includes high colour tilesets and updated music.

and install Commander Genius 1v613y

Commander Genius 2.x (1.9.x beta ZIP package)
Copy the contents of the ed ZIP file into a folder of choice, for example d:\games. You'll end up with d:\games\CGenius--\.
Please note Commander Genius only includes the shareware episodes of Commander Keen (Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars, Commander Keen: Keen Dreams and Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle) and some mods (Commander Keen 7 and 8)

Start and configure Commander Genius 374w71

Start the game by double clicking CGenius.exe, in this example it's located at d:\games\CGenius--\CGenius.exe
Select a game you want to play. Please note that the mouse pointer could have an erroneous vertical offset, but you can also use the keyboard to select a game.
Select Configure in the main menu
Select Video
For a retro feel, make sure Filter is set to none and OGL Filter is set to Nearest
Apply changes and exit the menu by pressing Esc twice
Start a new game by selecting New Game

Install the High Quality Pack c67q

Commander Genius s high coloured tilesets and nice music. It's good to these packs, as the folder needed for commercial episodes of Commander Keen will be automatically created.

the High Quality Pack ZIP file
Copy the contents of the ed ZIP file into the Commander Genius folder, in this example d:\games\CGenius--\. Allow files to be overwritten.
Please note that folders for commercial episodes have been created in the games folder, like keen2, keen3, keen5 and keen6. These folders only contains high quality music and/or tilesets

Install other episodes for Commander Genius 2l3sl

Only shareware episodes and mods have been included with Commander Genius. If you'd like to play commercial episodes, like Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes! or Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!, do the following:

Make sure you've installed the High Quality Pack. If not, create the following folders:

For Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes, create a keen2 folder in the games folder, in this example d:\games\CGenius--\games\keen2.
For Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!, create a keen3 folder in the games folder, in this example d:\games\CGenius--\games\keen3.
For Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine, create a keen5 folder in the games folder, in this example d:\games\CGenius--\games\keen5.
For Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter!, create a keen6 folder in the games folder, in this example d:\games\CGenius--\games\keen6.

Go to the games folder of Commander Genius, in this example d:\games\CGenius--\games

To install Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes, Keen 2 and copy all Keen 2 game files into the keen2 folder
To install Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!, Keen 3 and copy all Keen 3 game files into the keen3 folder
To install Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine, Keen 5 and copy all Keen 5 game files into the keen5 folder
To install Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter!, Keen 6 and copy all Keen 6 game files into the keen6 folder