Public Commander Keen Forum

pizza2004 · Vortininja Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 266

I decided to create a FAQ topic for Commander Genius.

Feel free to ask us questions and we will answer, and if your question is good enough, we will include in our FAQ in the readme.

Q: When I change to opengl-mode, the screen turns white and I can't do anything! How do I change the mode back?
A: You can either delete "cgenius.cfg" or open it in a text editor and change it manually. Just put "opengl = 0" and it should change just that setting back.
The white screen means, that your graphics card doesn't support NPOT Textures. A video card with OpenGL 2.0 or later support should not have that problem.

Q: Commander Genius is slow! Please help!
A: OpenGL may help, but you must have a graphics card that supports NPOT-Textures. (OpenGL 2.0 or later).
Try to lower the resolution, choose a lower filter, or decrease some sound settings and see if that helps.

Q: When can I play Keen 4, 5 and 6 on CG?
A: We are currently working on supporting play of Keens 4-6. Keens 4-5 should be fully functional (although they won't be perfect) by the beginning of 2011. Keen 6 will be added a few months later.

Q: Is there an IRC Channel where I can talk to the dev team?
A: Yes, it's called #CommanderGenius on irc.foonetic.net.

DaVince · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 15:12 Post subject: Re: Commander Genius FAQ

DHeadshot · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 18:18 Post subject:

Q: When will you fix the GP2X-Wiz port of CKP to work on firmware 1.1 (which has been out for most of the life of the console and which most users have).

pizza2004 · Vortininja Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 266

gerstrong · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:55 Post subject:

A little bit of research might help Wink

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3046597/how-to-detect-if-opengl-card-supports-non-power-of-2

wiivn · Vorticon Elite Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 1407

You should add explanation for what is Clone Keen Keen Clone etc. I don't remember, but the project at first was named CloneKeen and then renamed to Commander Genius? In this FAQ you didn't even add a link to your project!

tulip · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:04 Post subject:

Good point - I added the link in pizza's post, now you can click on CommanderGenius.

Yes it was called CloneKeenPlus before, and on sourceforge it still goes under that name, as you can see by the url.
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gerstrong · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 14:57 Post subject:

Well, I think the next version will work a bit faster with OpenGL and now we have POT-Textures. So OpenGL 1.0 might be supported also. Stay tuned!

gerstrong · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:30 Post subject:

What happened here? Pizza2004 had the idea of making a new Readme file this time in HTML format and collecting new FAQ here...

Let's see what we can make out of this. I might open another poll for it...
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Rorie · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:15 Post subject:

i don't come here as much as i used to, but what is the commander genius and what does it or will it do?
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gerstrong · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:31 Post subject:

hey Rorie,

Commander Genius interprets your Keen Games without the need of dosbox which means it let's you play them much smoother, with better graphics at some part and other special features the original games never had.

It's like eDuke32 but for Keen

Just check out the videos from the Site:

http://clonekeenplus.sourceforge.net/
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Rorie · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:49 Post subject:

gerstrong · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:22 Post subject:

Hey, I just gave you the link and yes it is done for Episode 1-3. The other other Episodes are in progress.
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