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Retro Carnage Editor installation guide

This installation guide walks you through the installation of the Retro Carnage Editor. The process is quick and painless - so let's get started.

Download and install prerequisites

  • On Microsoft Windows:
    • Go to Microsoft's OpenJDK website. The OpenJDK builds from Microsoft are free and Open Source.
    • Download the latest JDK version for your system. On a typical machine with an AMD or Intel processor you would pick the MSI installer download for Windows, x64. At the time of writing this is microsoft-jdk-21.0.7-windows-x64.msi.
    • Once the download finished, double click on the downloaded file to execute the OpenJDK installer.
  • On Apple MacOS:
    Run brew install --cask microsoft-openjdk to install OpenJDK with brew.
  • On Linux:
    Just use your package manager.

Install Retro Carnage Editor

  • Download the latest version of the Retro Carnage Editor.
  • Extract the ZIP archive.
  • Then the folder can be moved to a location that is convenient for you.

Tip

If the program doesn't start as expected, please double check that you extracted the ZIP archive.
Microsoft Windows is not able to start the editor from within the ZIP archive.

Start the application

  • On Microsoft Windows:
    • Open the application folder retrocarnageeditor/bin
    • Execute retrocarnageeditor64.exe via double click.
  • On Apple MacOS or Linux:
    • Open the application folder retrocarnageeditor/bin
    • Execute retrocarnageeditor script.