Antique computer games

Thema Allgemein | Karl Geiger | Kommentieren 19/04/2010 | 22:11

Fallout small I am a great fan of antique computer games. Those from an era when most computers didn’t have separate graphics cards, and when you were the envy of all when you had a Voodoo card. Remember Baldur’s Gate? Icewind Dale? Myth (not Myst!)? Wing Commander III?

However, the best of these was Fallout (and its sequel, Fallout 2). Now the Mac OS X versions of these beauties haven’t been running for a long time on modern Macs, but there is a way to get Fallout to run in Windows Vista and 7 – and, thanks to Parallels, on the Mac as well. Since Fallout is ancient, it runs only with 256 colours (8 bit) in 640×480. And in Vista / Windows 7, the colours are pretty messed up.

To play the games, you’ll net to get timeslip’s Fallout 1 extension in version 1.18e here. This only works with a US 1.02 release of Fallout (which can be found as part of the so-called “Blood patch” here… it gets rid of any violence-level-limits imposed on some localised versions of Fallout, too). For Fallout 2, use version 1.29d, available here. The extensions also add some additional capabilities such as mouse wheel scroll in the inventory, play-in-a-window, and more.

Enjoy!



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