ReflectionHLE



Reflection Keen (also known as Reflection Catacomb) is a source port for Keen Dreams, as well as Catacomb 3D and the Catacomb Adventure Series. Although at first brush this seems odd, given the former is a 2D side scroller and the later is a 2.5D first person shooter, the two games share very similar code bases, raycasting aside. This includes sharing the same tile map format called GameMaps, as well as the Paddle War mini-game based on Breakout accessible from the main menu in both Keen Dreams and Catacomb 3D. The port can officially be built for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Android, but has also been tried on macOS and Amiga OS. The source port itself is fairly conservative, explicitly inspired by Chocolate Doom, other than adding more graphic options. One stand out feature is that it emulates the screen border flashes seen in the original game on old CRT monitors, most commonly when taking damage but also to indicate passable walls in Catacomb Apocalypse, so that they work on modern LCD displays. It also gives users the ability to not worry about regulating CPU cycles, as setting them too high in DOSBox can cause screen flickering.

Amiga Version

 * English Amiga Board thread
 * Indie Retro News article
 * Epsilon's Amiga Blog post
 * Amitopia post