Radix: Beyond the Void

Radix: Beyond the Void
Developers: Neural Storm Entertainment, Union Logic Publishers: Prosoft (DK), CDV Software (EU), Epic MegaGames (US) Platform: DOS Released internationally: October 30, 1995 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused music. This game has revisional differences.

Radix: Beyond the Void is a game that plays something like a hybrid of Doom and Descent. It fell into obscurity pretty hard.

Unused Music Track

Internally named RADIX 3, this song doesn't get used in any of the levels.

(Source: TheAlmightyGuru - VGMPF)

Hidden Text Messages in Radix 2.0

At 0x703DC of RADIX.EXE of the 2.0 release, there is a list of seemingly unused strings separated by unrelated values. As one of the lines says, "most of these quotes are inside jokes".

• So you've beat the Bio-Spawner?! Wait til you meet Ryan!
• WOOOF! The crack paper can wait!
• Ma Ma Ma My Sharona plays radix too!
• Drive Select is different from motor on!
• You guys are the pop-up surprise men!
• It's just that simple!
• Hey, Lets try it with the turbo off!
• Still no quote of the day today.
• You too, whatever!
• Get outta here ya pansy!
• Get some besterd insurance!
• Nice living room guys!
• Dan Dufeu. That's D-A-N D-U-F-E-U.
• Greg MacMartin. That's G-R-E-G M-C-M-U-F-F-I-N.
• 20 McMuffins a day, you're on!!
• Watch for the T101 in search mode for RASMUS.
• Battlestations everyone!! Prepare for falling prices!!
• Smell that burning rubber?? Time to back up into a lake.
• Military artillery range?? Time to back up!!
• Dan, why are we backing up into a lake?
• Down on the ground! Hands behind your head!... Just Kidding.
• Shpeed? I shend check, you shend shuper?
• Texas? I have an auntie who lives in Texas.
• Barbara? No. Jerry. Like Tom and Jerry? Like cartoon?
• Martha ZIP?!
• Ya I'm ok, no blood! Wait a minute.. gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
• Remember to get our sign off the door... RIP!
• Hmm, why is there a coat hanger inside the vending machine?
• Middletown, Indiana? Must be wrong ZIP. Yeah ha ha sure...
• Dan is on safari, a Kanata safari.
• Too bad about that stop sign, eh.
• Blue-suited freak? What blue-suited freak???
• WARNING: Watch out for the radioactive pizza in the garage.
• How is that ketchup. Glub glub glub glub. ewww!
• Yes, sir. Yes. Ok, sir. Can I go now?
• Enough quotes already.
• What did you say? ... Football all gone!
• Watch for the Kanata COPS show, coming soon.
• Pablo honey? Buy Radix Pablo. Take me into the void, Pablo.
• Hey, whats up there fruit cake?!
• Doonga, I looking foh Radix. Doonga ooh ha. Punja oh yes?
• Honey, will you just give me a chance? I will freak you out!
• Two-Hundred and Eighty Six? I don't think so, Olaf.
• You hava da expairiance playing Radix?
• Had problems which yer boss?
• BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Network play? You better believe it!
• AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Poison Radix!
• Lookin for a job driving a truck? How bout a Radix instead?
• Quoctogooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon. huh?
• Yes, we used Watcom for the final compile.
• Floppy access slows my kapewter.
•  !
• I'm asking you for help here!
• Truly Loony! Truly Loony! Truly Loony!
• I'm calling you cause I need a little help...
• The dog is inside the computer. He's snappin and barking.
• Are you Feddy???
• HONK! HONK! Appropro????
• If you show us you can do it, and you know you can do it...
• You guys work for Quantum??
• Lickity split, palette trick!!!
• This ain't no bjipping flight-sim!
• Radix and PC Cola. That's all we do out here in Kanata.
• Ya know guyz, these quotes add perceived value.
• I never played football in high school, so now I play Radix.
• Maybe we should get him to sign something, you know?
• I LUV playing Radix. Why don't you join me at 1-900-RADIXXX.
• Don't be a big pink elephant bagwan like some people.
• Rev up Radix with the Rabbit!
• Earth and a crosshair? What the BEEP are you talking about?!
• Radix. What would we do without that assembler book??
• I was in Radix, and my screen-saver popped up.
• Your cat is under my truck playing Radix.
• Do you have a licence? Is it valid?!
• I have life insurance, but its through a friend.
• Man, these quotes that keep popping up are really annoying!
• Mega meals. Mmmmmm, I love mega meals!
• I'm gonna go home tonight and tell my wife I met God today!
• Net play? Ya, simple. You just sync em up. Its automatic!
• Ever driven a Ferrari under an 18-wheeler?? Its AWESOME!
• Oooh, aahh. I just hit a brick wall at 180 in my Porsche!
• These quotes make no sense, whatsoever! Or do they...
• Honk for Wahoo! HONK! HONK!
• White Rose, beautiful!
• I'm not mad at you Dan, I'm mad at you Jon! Ennnhhhh!
• If you don't play dis game, its like stebbing me in de beck!
• This is really nice.
• Question.... Inquiry....?
• Thats it! Business? Fine! Friends? FORGET IT!! Ennnhhhh.
• Never order from Popeye or TLC (Thick Load of Cheese).
• Never contract out a nipple.
• Never piss in the wind.
• Always practice offensive driving.
• A hit game will buy you an island the size of Australia!
• Want us to be working in a prison? No...
• Earwigs? In a prison? Long story...
• 4DOS memory allocation error? I don't think so...
• GER PRENANT!!! GER PRENAAAAANNNNT!!!
• The window busted itself! Honest...
• That laptop just FLEW off the desk! Honest...
• Damn my tooth hurts... rip rip
• Go for a long bomb... watch out for that sideways car...
• You're going to the crack? What's that????
• Get CRACKING!
• No more pucks... ewww!
• Six free Boisson GAAAAAAZZEUS?
• Know the settings for this drive? No, we only do IC here.
• Ya that's the rock they shot thru the window. You insured?
• Joystick? No the mouse kicks...
• Sure you want the desks back? There seems to be some holes.
• Is this Shawzod guy ever coming beck? Ennnhhhh.
• What does dis have dat de Castle of de Wolfenshteen doesn't?
• Mind over Matter, enh?
• Interactive multimedia applications?? Nah!!!!
• FPP engine? What the BEEP is that?!
• Those VM guyz are really counting on you! Ennnhhhh.
• Saturn?!?! With this palette?? IMPOSSIBLE!! Can't be done!!
• ICE? I thought that's what you put in your drink?! Ennnhhhh.
• It's called ICE, cuz all de glaciers hev surrounded de city.
• I don't pay dese guyz $20 an hour to go enh, enh. No, sorry!
• Gonna get these windows fixed?? Oh yeah, yeah. -sip, sip-
• Mmmmmm, thick load of cheese. I LOVE thick loads of cheese!
• Reverse mouse?? Check your INI file!
• WAHOO BNART!!!
• Hitch on!
• Watch for RADIX: Beyond the Polka Dots!! As seen on TV.
• What ever happened to Radix's propeller??
• There are NO bugs in the map editor.
• Is dis Eric guy going to do de map editor, Jonatin? Ennnhhh.
• It cost me 4 touzan dollars a mont to stay open. It's no jok!
• Special thanks to Karim, from Larry.
• RADIX 2 can be in de Parliament Buildings, rite guyz?!
• Hallo, my name is Pico.
• Time to pump some serious coad guyz. Ennnhhhh.
• Most of these quotes are inside jokes. No Joke.
• Lar... these guys had to change their name -blah blah- Quantum.
• No Jay, the animation IS 256 color.
• Are you using that fridge? Micro? Board? Chairs? Mouse?....
• Jon busted another keyboard?
• You have a wooden mouse, that would be a hot seller!!
• Jeez, this SGI sim feels like my real helicopter!
• I am not signing dis piece of crep! Ennnhhhh.
• Stop breathing... Just say it! Ennnhhhh.
• One anonymous user!!! What a piece of BEEP!
• I am calling from Spain. I am a hahha.
• ACHOO!!!!
• No quote of the day today.
• Radix REMIX 2.0 is brought to you by Greg and Dan!

Revisional Differences

To do: Investigate/compare these changes in the game itself

With several updates to the game came associated changes to it.

Version 1.0  (10/30/95): First public release (registered and shareware)
Version 1.1  (12/25/95): Major upgrade:

        - Some levels modified.
        - Changed some Multi-player (dogfight & Capture the Flag) rules.
        - Tweaked the keyboard and joystick controls (mouse and keyboard
          still recommended).
        - New controls (such as keys for 4-way strafing) and throttle added.
        - The player's ship now has inertia.
        - Made the registered and shareware versions compatible for
          Multiplayer games.
        - New cheat codes.
        - Fixed various minor bugs.

Version 2.0  (10/26/96): "REMIX":

        - Brand new shareware mission 8.
        - Hovering, move backwards.
        - Massive explosion enhancements, including rubble that remains.
        - 2 new weapons, the enhanced and advanced EPC's 
        - Tons of new environmental and sprite art added and enhanced.
        - Fixed mouse, joystick and keyboard controls
        - Countless minor changes, tweaks and bug-fixes

(Source: HELPME.DOC in the game's files)