MS-DOSPerfectFree
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams
The lost episode — now open source
id Software1991Platform, Action
Emulator
DOSBox-X
Quality
Perfect
Notes
Source code released 2019. Bundled with Velocity via open-source build.
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Included with Velocity
Source code released under GPL in 2019. Build included with Velocity.
The Story
Keen Dreams was id Software's obligatory game for Softdisk — the company they were leaving to start id. They knocked it out quickly, gave it to Softdisk to fulfill their contract, and moved on to Commander Keen Episode 4. For 28 years it was the hardest Keen game to find legally. In 2019, the rights holder released the full source code under the GPL. Velocity compiles it from source and bundles it — which means it's the only version of Keen Dreams that runs at native resolution on Apple Silicon.
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