Portfolioso.com Blog » Games http://blog.portfolioso.com Oh, so this is the spot where I'm supposed to write how awesome I am... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:25:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Video Game Characters’ Genders http://blog.portfolioso.com/2011/01/17/video-game-characters-genders/ http://blog.portfolioso.com/2011/01/17/video-game-characters-genders/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:53:41 +0000 Portfolioso http://blog.portfolioso.com/?p=2113

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Here is a clip from today’s Opie & Anthony show – they are arguing about it. And the dude who plays on keyboard makes 100% sense:

[audio src="http://blog.portfolioso.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/OA-Mouse-vs-Controller.mp3"]

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I tried it out on an old computer first but then got curious and tried it on Windows XP. It happened to work, which really surprised me. (Which tells me Bill Gates is a liar and didn’t delete the DOS shell in XP like he said).

Download the 4th game in this series (as a zip file) here:
Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle (573KB) (Sorry, removed dead link)

To play the game, unzip the file (using other software such as Winzip on Windows 98) or using the built in extractor in Windows XP. Once the file is unzipped, all you have to do is run the game straight out of the folder. No installation!!! Just doubleclick on the exe file (either keen4e) and play from there. Press F1 to learn the controls and creatures and things like that. If you are on an older computer, chances are the computer is too new for the game (as I highly doubt that people still have ancient computers from 1993 or older – so when I say older, I mean like a few years old.) and it tries to display ancient EGA graphics, what you want is SVGA. So if you start playing and its all screwed up and glitched, go into configure on the main menu, then go to options, then turn on SVGA Compatibility. Newer computers usually don’t have this problem because they automatically detect. By the way, the game is shareware so I’m not violating any copyright thingys by redistributing it. Even if I was (which I am not) not many people view this site anyway.

Wow, long post…

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