Commander Keen Scores
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Version 1.0.

This is a tool for changing your Commander Keen high score files.
You can change the files whatever you want them to be. That means
that all names, scores, parts, cities saved and so on, are possible
to change.
The main purpose of this tool is to ease modders's work on high
score files changing. And other reason is to increase the large
amount of already existing Keen tools with one. And to program
something fun. And, of course that one can rule the high scores. ;)

The program usage should be pretty simple. You can start by selecting
the Keen and start to make a new high score file, or load an already
existing one. When you're done with your scores, you can save them.
It should be very easy, if you have problems ask at Keen: Modding
forums for help, for example.

Remember, of course that if you try to read Commander Keen 2 score file
and have selected to load Commander Keen 1 score file, strange things
may happen.

And to say; There is some worst code I have ever done. The program works
fine and so on, but the error checking is very poor. Not to mention that
many things could use one function, but I have just copied and pasted a
code that I made for one thing to the other parts of program (and changed
it to work with the other Keens). But that doesn't matter much, since
the program size still is really small and I'm talking only about
not-so-many lines of code..

These are the files where the high scores are stored in Keen 1-3.
Keen 1 - SCORES.CK1
Keen 2 - SCORES.CK2
Keen 3 - SCORES.CK3
Remember that if you have those files set to read-only or something, the
program can't save to them!

I didn't bother looking at the older Keen versions, is the high score
data format same there, but it should work with these newest versions.
Keen 1 v. 1.31
Keen 2 v. 1.31
Keen 3 v. 1.31
Keen Dreams --NOT DONE--
Keen 4 --NOT DONE--
Keen 5 --NOT DONE--
Keen 6 --NOT DONE--
Also, I discovered the format by myself (which wasn't hard). I was going
to include here description of Keen 1-3 high score file formats, but I
am too lazy. Probably I'll post that info on Keen: Modding sometime, but
at least (hopefully) I will write those when I make version 2.0.

NOTA BENE! This version doesn't support Keen Dreams or Keen 4-6. Support
for those games will be in version 2.0. And hopefully I'm not too lazy,
and actually write that version 2.0 sometime.

This program was written by KeenRush. You can e-mail me comments about
this, or something, to keenrush@keengrid.net. Mail is welcome. :)
Also, remember to check out my Keen site at http://www.keengrid.net/..

:: KeenRush, 15.7.2004 ::


KeEn On!!