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Copyright © 2009 by CK Guy

 
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Hello, I am CK Guy, and welcome to The Bipship! This is the official site for all of my Keen stuff, including modding utilities, levels, and other creations, yielding my Freewebs, Wikispaces, and Googlepages sites obsolete. It is coded in Notepad2, using the amazingness that is CSS+PHP+MySQL. Uploading is done with the SFTP-3 protocol using WinSCP. The domain registration and content hosting is through NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, a company that I strongly recommend to anyone wanting a small website that needs to go slightly beyond what the free, ad-supported hosts provide.

Peace, and I hope you enjoy what's here. If you have any comments, please let me know!

Latest News
  • March 14, 2009 — Happy Keen Day 2009, everyone! There have been some pretty major behind-the-scenes changes going on here in the past day. (That they're behind-the-scenes means that I'll find them a lot more interesting than anyone else will. ) Many of the files that were previously on bipship.com have migrated over to tl-dr.org, although they're still linked from here. The archive, mods, levelpacks, and Keen collective sections all look pretty much the same as they always have, but if you put your mouse over the download links, you'll see they now point to http://www.tl-dr.org/downloads/keen/... instead of http://www.bipship.com/... This change was made so that I can manage all of the files from one place, instead of having to re-write much of the same code in many different places for uploading/modifying files in different sections of the site. As far as tl-dr.org is concerned, the files linked to from bipship.com are served exactly the same as any of its other files. For convenience and saving storage space, all of these files are (and have been for a while) actually stored in MySQL databases rather than actual files. Anyway, boring news item, but updating this has been fun for me. I've learned a bit more about MySQL since writing all of these things the first time, so I've been able to re-write them with the MySQL requests doing a lot more of the textual manipulation work, instead of PHP doing it.
  • February 24, 2009 — Two aspects of my online presence (Keen-related and non-Keen-related, i.e., CK Guy and ACF, etc.) are now officially connected. Bipship.com (the center for Keen-related activities) now links (via the Who Am I page) to TL-DR.org (the center for non-Keen-related activities), and vice versa. Also, as I am in the process of updating some things, files.bipship.com will be hosted on TL-DR.org for a little while.
  • January 6, 2009 — Happy belated new year! The other day I found the remaining old versions of Mindbelt/CKludge on a USB drive, and uploaded them to the Archive. I also found the source code for many of them, so up those went as well. Now, I was wrong before about stuff being 'lost forever', but this time I'm almost 100% positive that I don't have the source for the other versions hanging around anywhere.
  • November 18, 2008 — The last couple weeks have seen several as-of-yet unannounced changes. One of these is the new Levelpacks section, which is currently a partial mirror of the levelpacks available from dosclassics.com. Also new is the Upload section, where you can upload any file up to five megabytes. I'm interested to know how well this works for people.
  • November 4, 2008 — New mods section. It's a barebones mirror of The Garg's Mod Maze, in case KeenRush decides to redo his site, and leave us with no mod repository for months. Also: The Archive now contains tons of stuff, most of which you're probably not that interested in.
  • October 31, 2008 — Ka-CHUNK! New Articles section to replace the old tl;dr system. This time we're using a real database instead of a big text file. (Happy Halloween!)
  • October 30, 2008 — I managed to scrounge up MODLATCH 1.1 and its source code from archive.org. You can find it in my archive. The Archive, incidentally, now contains a lot more stuff, notably old versions of my level pack, and all of the official Keen downloads and version patches from spatang/dosclassics and elsewhere.