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I am so terrible at this game

A couple of months ago, my dad got a new iMac to replace his 2006 MacBook Pro (17 in). So he gave the laptop to the rest of the family to use. When he had it, it worked fine (aside from being slow). Now, it has problems. It freezes a lot, where you have to restart the computer to fix it. It is running Mac OS 10.6.8 (newest version). I keep the computer updated, I repair disk permissions, I reset the PRAM (suggestion I found online), and nothing is working. Do you know what the problem is, or how I can fix it?

Screenshots would've been nice. Also, that was horrific.

It's a decent first effort, although it probably should be restarted, as you said. It entertained me for a few minutes.

Note that id Software made Keen. Apogee published Keen 1-5. FormGen published Keen 6. Softdisk published Keen Dreams.

I love the use of Lee Jackson's Fish Polka from Rise of the Triad as the level end theme. It's perfect, with the Dopefish and all.

I must say for your first ASM hack that's pretty good, but it shows that in a lot of places you were screwing around to see if you can do something.

I see that you're ambitious but don't go out into deep waters just yet, because you're gonna find yourself with no air bubbles in sight.

The physics are good so far, but they're not perfect. Also, you need to add the pogo in, because the pogo is pretty much the trademark of the Commander Keen series, like the speed of Sonic. Without the pogo it's pretty much like Sonic without speed, so you gotta do that if you want to put in the total Keen experience.

The sprite porting is alright, but could use some work. You forgot to replace Sonic in some places, like in the Powerup Monitor and in the HUD. Also don't change anything in the levels, unless you know what you're doing. Remember to fix up the sprites that use Sonic's palettes, else you'll end up with these crabs covered in vomit .

Well, this is pretty much what everyone does when they lay their hands on the disassemblies for the first time. Experimenting with sprite porting, modifying some stuff everywhere, but if you wanna make a serious hack, focus on single things instead of doing a lot of things at once. That always ends up bad.

PS:What did you do to the title screen? Why when you take the upper route, debug mode activates and after a while the game starts playing itself?