

Bombshell was a fan-favorite character from the 1998 E3 trailer who was originally planned to appear as Duke Nukem's sidekick, but she was later scrapped from the project, only to appear much later as the main protagonist in two games of her own: Bombshell (2016) and Ion Fury (2019). Notably, the 2001 prototype only mentions but does not actually feature Bombshell. The command-line parameters for "xoring" the files needed can be easily viewed on the console screen, as soon as the program is deployed.Duke Nukem Forever 2001 is significantly more developed and closer to the final 2011 release than the 1996 Duke Nukem Forever side-scroller - which is not even a direct antecessor of this prototype - or the 1998 build shown in an E3 trailer from that year. Xor can help users employ more elaborated keys for encrypting the content of a selected file, like a string, one hex byte or a sequence of them. However, users who have at least basic experience with operating the Command Prompt should have no difficulty in using Xor, since launching it without arguments displays an example of using it and brief descriptions of its functions.

It features a CLI (Command Line Interface) instead of a GUI (Graphical User Interface), which makes it harder to use for novices. More so, it can be executed from removable storage units such as USB flash drives or external HDDs or SSDs without fearing that it might tamper with the system's registry entries. Simply unpacking the archive it comes compressed in and launching the executable should grant them total control over the application's functions. It is a portable application, meaning that users don't need to perform any installation operation on the computer they want to run it on. Xor is a specialized third-party software solution that was designed to help users encode various bits of data by making use of a random cipher that might consist of simple files picked from the target computer's storage units.
