
                               Commander Keen 7

                    Using the K7-Engine by Kevin Wellwood
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                            kwellwood@hotmail.com
                         http://qbcode.hypermart.net

   Thankyou for downloading Commander Keen 7! This project is an attempt to
clone the original Keen 4 engine for creating new levels and to provide a
fully featured base platform engine to be used in other games. This is one
of the most advanced platform game engines ever written that can be found in
the internet QB community. The source code included with this build is not
compilable (due to the libraries and complexity involved) but is included as
a LEARNING TOOL. Sorry it isn't commented, I just don't have the time or the
desire to fully document everything.

   The keys used in the game are as follows:

LEFT/RIGHT - Move player left and right
UP         - Aim up, climb up, grab pole, flip switch
DOWN       - Aim down, grab pole, climb down
CTRL       - Jump
ALT        - Toggle pogostick
SPACE      - Fire blaster pistol
ENTER      - Display the detailed status screen
PG UP/DOWN - Scroll screen up/down
F1         - Story and help menu
F3         - Show scoreboard (ems disabled mode)
F9         - Take a screenshot

   Cheats entered from the options menu:
guns       - get 99 ammo
keys       - all gem keys
f5         - exit level as completed
           (Note: There are two more that can be found in the source code ;)

   If you receive an error message concerning memory when running keen7.exe
from the command line, try running it with the -noems parameter to disable
EMS memory use (Some computers dont allow access to it.) If you are using
Windows XP, create a shortcut to it and then edit the shortcut's properties
to allow Auto amounts of EMS and XMS memory, then run the shortcut.

   Enjoy playing the game and please contact me with any questions, comments,
or suggestions. Please share this game with other people! If you would like
to post the game on your webpage or upload it to someone else's page, just
let me know where it is. It would be great if I could get this game to start
circulating more in the QB community! (Recognition is good. :)

   TED.EXE (Tile EDitor) is the level editor which is being released starting
with Build 13. Documentation may never be written for it because I dont have
the time. Try playing with it, and opening some of the levels packaged with
the game to learn how to use it. Before editing a level, be sure to make a
backup copy. The more advanced features such as bridges and doors will
probably not be possible without documentation but feel free to play around
with it and explore the editor's capabilities. If you really want to learn
how to do something, please email me and I'll help you out.

   TED controls:
Arrows      - Scroll screen
-/=         - Zoom in and out
1/2         - Toggle layer visibility
T           - Shortcut to tile list
ESC         - Toggle menu bar
Left mouse  - Draw tile/place item
Right mouse - Grab tile