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

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

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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 :upset: , 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
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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?
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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
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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.
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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 :upset:
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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.
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MrFlibble wrote: 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.
Thanks, I will upload them to the internet archive later today
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