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Eat My Dust

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Eat My Dust
Eat My Dust cover
Developers
Funnybone Interactive
Publishers
Sierra On-Line
Release dates
Windows 1997
Eat My Dust on Wikipedia

Key points

Installer is 16-bit only. Use winevdm to install the game.

General information

Official website (archive)
MobyGames entry

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
There are three demos for the game. Two of them (Little and Medium) can be downloaded from the official website and the third one (Large) from the Internet Archive.

Essential improvements

Play without the disc

How to run the game completely off the hard drive
  1. Install the game normally.
  2. Copy the following folders from the CD to <path-to-game>\ (usually C:\SIERRA\Dust\).
  • ALIEN
  • CITY
  • DESSERT
  • INTER
  • POST
  • RACE

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SIERRA.INF[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video settings

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game input settings.
In-game input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Bypassing the 16-bit installer

Eat My Dust uses a 16-bit installer so 64-bit systems can use the workaround below.
Bypass 16-bit launcher
  1. Copy the following files from the CD to the any folder:
  • EATMYDST.EXE
  • EMD.BMP
  • LANGUAGE.INF
  • SIERRA.INF
  1. Copy the following folders from the CD to the previous folder:
  • ALIEN
  • CITY
  • DESSERT
  • INTER
  • POST
  • RACE

Network

In-game network settings.
In-game network settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
Split-screen.
LAN play
Online play
2 Versus

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Pentium 90
System memory (RAM) 8 MB 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB

Notes

  1. ↑ 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