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Eradicator

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Eradicator
Eradicator cover
Developers
Accolade
Publishers
Retroism
Night Dive Studios
Release dates
DOS September 30, 1996
Windows November 6, 2014[1]
macOS (OS X) November 6, 2014[1]
Linux November 6, 2014[1]
Eradicator guide on StrategyWiki
Eradicator on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Run in DOSBox.
DOS
Amazon.com
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename SMACKPLY.EXE[3]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename SMACKPLY.EXE.

Notes

The title screen and Accolade logo will still be shown.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\ERAD.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\ERAD.CFG[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\ERAD**.SAV
<path-to-game>\PLAYER.DAT
Windows <path-to-game>\ERAD**.SAV[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\PLAYER.DAT[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
PLAYER.DAT only exists after finishing the game; this file unlocks a fourth playable character when present.[4]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
For DOSBox use DOSBox IPX/modem emulation.

Connection types

Other information

API

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

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 6.0
Processor (CPU) Intel DX2
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
Sound (audio device) CoreAudio compatible
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Sound (audio device) ALSA compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References