Getting Wasteland to work on PC

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:12 am

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?

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:23 am

damn i feel stupid, but its working now.

airsoft guy · Post by **airsoft guy** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:04 am

Well what do you mean it's not working? What are you using?

Temaperacl · Post by **Temaperacl** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:24 am

Just out of curiousity, why wasn't it working?

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:33 am

it has to run out of a folder labled "wasteland"
i had it labled "wasteland mother bitch!"

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airsoft guy · Post by **airsoft guy** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:13 am

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.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:19 am

why WOULDN'T you name it that?

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:01 am

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.

Temaperacl · Post by **Temaperacl** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:19 am

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?

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:19 pm

I'll answer for him since hes gone for a while. He runs WinXP.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:27 pm

Try using DOSbox or VDMsound.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:29 am

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.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:24 am

I dont really know what was up with it. In any case, it runs just fine on XP, and has for anyone I know.