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GoCheckINC · **Post subject:** Keen Beta **Posted:** Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:05 am

This has been posted before on other sites but i did not see it here.
This download includes Keen 1 and 2 Betas.
Now here's the catch, Someone found these betas on a floppy halfly erased.
They used an un-erase program to get it to the original state but sadly,
keen 2 beta was only 90% recovered.

http://adf.ly/5EfWx
http://www.4shared.com/zip/Cvj1RJtQ/KB_online.html?

^They are both same link

Enjoy!

mrpijey · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:23 pm

No problem, we'll post it as incomplete.

GoCheckINC · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:22 pm

I mean, don't get me wrong, Keen beta 1 works, Keen beta 2...Heard of it working because apparently it's junk that the game didint need that wasent recovered.

mrpijey · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:34 pm

Would be hard for Keen 2 to work since the exe is completely broken. I am attempting to fix it now.

However the Keen 1 beta isn't "proper" either since it has parts from a different beta to even start, so imho even if it's "beta" it's basically a copy-paste job from at least two different betas, not just a mere undelete. So I am not sure what to do with this.

GoCheckINC · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:52 pm

I didin't notice it was a copy n paste job, I can maybe track down the original from the other post i got it from.

--EDIT--
Lol, i can't even find the forum i found it on....Although i did find this about it,
Restored Beta from 5 Sampler (238,605 bytes) 5 December 1990

mrpijey · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:34 pm

I quote from the readme of Keen 1 beta:

Quote:

EGAHEAD.CK1, EGALATCH.CK1, EGASPRIT.CK1 and HELPTEXT.CK1 were unrecoverable and are therefore copied from the December beta of the game. LEVEL01.CK1 had about 50% of the data intact. Combining this data with the data of the final level resulted in a bit perfect match so the files are identical.

Gurluas · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:54 pm

It is still worth it since it contains unreleased materials.

mrpijey · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:01 pm

Yes, but then I will most likely rip out all the December stuff and release it as an incomplete one rather than have a mix-a-lot beta.

GoCheckINC · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:58 am

This is good idea, or post both?

Gurluas · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:15 pm

Both, since you at least want it to be playable to be able to see the actual beta content.

mrpijey · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:26 pm

I will split them apart and release them as two separate incomplete betas. If you want to merge them together then that's up to you, but the purpose of BA is not to allow you to play or use the software, it's to preserve it as it is in its original and purest form. Which in this case means bits and pieces of incomplete betas. Or we can choose to not save it at all on the basis that it's incomplete and unusable.

We try to make it easy for members to test and use the betas, but there are many titles on this site that you can not use for anything other than debugging or resource extracting.

djwizzle9001 · **Post subject:** Re: Keen Beta **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:46 pm

What is different about Keen 1 Beta?

Keen Beta

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