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Getting Wasteland to work on PC
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:12 am
by CloudNineGT
ive been meaning to play wasteland ever since i knew it existed, but i never got around to it till now. and then it doesnt work on my pc. the same version i have works for a friend, so its got to be something to do with my computer. any helpfull ideas?
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:23 am
by CloudNineGT
damn i feel stupid, but its working now.
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:04 am
by airsoft guy
Well what do you mean it's not working? What are you using?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:24 am
by Temaperacl
Just out of curiousity, why wasn't it working?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:33 am
by CloudNineGT
it has to run out of a folder labled "wasteland"
i had it labled "wasteland mother bitch!"
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:13 am
by airsoft guy
Why would you name it that, and why would it not work without being named Wasteland? I've got a couple copies floating around this computer and they've each got different names.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:19 am
by jetbaby
why WOULDN'T you name it that?
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:01 am
by CloudNineGT
jetbaby wrote:why WOULDN'T you name it that?
Exactly. In any case, I'm not sure why it wouldnt work when it was named that. I downloaded it from somewhere, and just unziped it and named the folder. Maybe its programmed to look for files in a "wasteland" directory.
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:19 am
by Temaperacl
It isn't just the folder name- I've had directories named many things (And I just tried it with "wasteland mother bitch!" as the directory name), and it has always worked fine.. Ir doesn't really matter since you've gotten it working, but what OS are you using?
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:19 pm
by jetbaby
I'll answer for him since hes gone for a while. He runs WinXP.
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:27 pm
by POOPERSCOOPER
Try using DOSbox or VDMsound.
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:29 am
by jetbaby
Nah both he and I got it to work in XP. I dunno what happened with him, but I got it to workt he first time. He may have had a messed up install and it skipped a file? Hell if I know.
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:24 am
by CloudNineGT
I dont really know what was up with it. In any case, it runs just fine on XP, and has for anyone I know.