RADCAD - extremely rare level editor for RADIX: Beyond the Void has been found

Noaboss · Post by **Noaboss** » Wed Sep 13, 2023 8:59 pm

Hello DOS Community, I have just found an extremely rare piece of software, after ages of digging through ancient websites I managed to find a copy of the software. Sadly this software is almost on the brink of being lost to time

, originally released as freeware on the radix site back in 1995 (shut down in 2002/3)

Here is a copy of the software I uploaded on archive org:
https://archive.org/details/RADCAD

ps. It requires windows (its a 16bit app) and the radix.dat file from the registered version of the game to run

Post by **MrFlibble** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:12 pm

Thank you for sharing! Can you please tell where you found it? The ZIP file appears to have been altered because the readme file had the modify date from 2008?

Noaboss · Post by **Noaboss** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 2:03 am

MrFlibble wrote: ↑ Thank you for sharing! Can you please tell where you found it?

I found it on some obscure russian doom webstite after lots of digging

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:13 am

Well, that was an extremely lucky find then, congrats! I searched for RADCAD using Hallfiry's magazine coverdisk catalogue but found nothing. I did think that the download was available from Epic's website via the Wayback Machine, but apparently I was wrong.

Noaboss · Post by **Noaboss** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 5:46 am

MrFlibble wrote: ↑ Well, that was an extremely lucky find then, congrats! I searched for RADCAD using Hallfiry's magazine coverdisk catalogue but found nothing. I did think that the download was available from Epic's website via the Wayback Machine, but apparently I was wrong.

Thanks, Radix's webpage used a ftp server for downloads that wasnt archived sadly

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:40 pm

I knew I had encountered RADCAD before. I was looking through my files and found this:

As far as I can tell, these are the original downloads from the Epic FTP. Unfortunately, I can no longer remember where I downloaded them from.

Noaboss · Post by **Noaboss** » Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:55 pm

MrFlibble wrote: ↑ I knew I had encountered RADCAD before. I was looking through my files and found this:
radcad.zip

radca101.zip
As far as I can tell, these are the original downloads from the Epic FTP. Unfortunately, I can no longer remember where I downloaded them from.

Thanks, I will upload them to the internet archive later today

taufan99 · Post by **taufan99** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:23 pm

Excuse the bump, but I got the "proper" way to run RADCAD.

In order to run the editor, you can use winevdm instead of having to install the entire Windows 3.1x on DOSBox. Just make sure to put both radcad and radix folders on the same place to get it running correctly (e.g. if your radix directory is on C:\, put the separate radcad folder on the same directory, therefore you have both C:\radix and C:\radcad. Alternatively, you can also put both on D:\ etc. I haven't tested putting both on subdirectories like C:\mygames, though).

I also managed to find this RADCAD text guide with the Wayback Machine via this Reverse Engineering StackExchange thread I stumbled upon while Googling through.