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Alien Carnage
Alien Carnage cover
Developers
Interactive Binary Illusions
SubZero Software
Publishers
Apogee Software
Release dates
DOS October 10, 1993
Windows October 23, 2014[1]
macOS (OS X) May 5, 2015[2]
Alien Carnage on Wikipedia
Alien Carnage
Alien Carnage 1993
Zombie Wars 1996

Key points

Originally released as Halloween Harry.[3]
Re-released as freeware on May 24, 2007.[3]

General information

Official site
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Use DOSBox.
DOS
Developer website
DRM-free
Includes fixes not present in retail versions.
Windows

Essential improvements

Run in DOSBox

To run correctly in DOSBox, set cycles=max and timed=false. Leave all other DOSBox settings at their defaults.[4]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358280/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358280/pfx/[Note 1]
High scores are stored in <path-to-game>\HARRY.TOP

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

The original release (Halloween Harry) includes a jukebox, which can be run with <path-to-game>\STUDIO.EXE.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues unresolved

"Runtime error 203" level restart on death

Dying may cause this error and restart the level instead of returning to the last checkpoint.[4][5]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA 320x200
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.3
Processor (CPU) 286
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References