Wasteland

Wasteland

Developers
	Interplay Entertainment
	inXile Entertainment
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS	January 1, 1988
Windows	November 13, 2013
macOS (OS X)	November 13, 2013
Linux	November 13, 2013

Wasteland
Wasteland	1988
Wasteland 2	2014
Wasteland Remastered	2020
Wasteland 3	2020

Key points

The DOS version only allows one save slot. DON'T SCREW UP!

General information

Wasteland Wiki

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Also available for Apple II and Commodore 64 (very old non-Microsoft PC platforms)
GOG.com
Mac App Store
Steam

Version differences

The original retail version is a DOS game and requires the manual to progress. If you lost your manual (it's an old game, it happens) you can find replacements here (Commodore version) and here (Apple II version). Note that despite being from different platforms they are still reverent for the DOS version (other than the installation/system requirements sections).

The Interplay 10 Year Anthology version lacked a setup program, of which was used to reset the game to the default state whilst optionally keeping characters and their stats, granting the game replayability. See below in Essential improvements for an alternative to said program.

Digital distribution versions run the DOS version through custom build of DOSBox. This version of DOSBox is used to implement the new, optional features on top of the emulated DOS version. The custom build is open source with link to the source code right in the EULA.

Essential improvements

Utilities

You can find both a replacement reset program for the 10 Year Anthology version and Character editor for cheating here (along with a variety of other miscellaneous files such as uploaded saves).

Mods

You can find a variety of mods (mostly for improving the artwork/sprites) here. Note some links are broken.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location

Save game data location

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System	Location

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

300px

Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Crash when using mouse

This fix will likely be incorporated into a later patch.^{[citation needed]}

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	EGA, CGA, Tandy	Also supports composite modes for Tandy and CGA.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

DOS

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	3.0	6.2
Processor (CPU)	Intel 8088	Intel 286
System memory (RAM)	256 KB	512 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 MB
Video card (GPU)	CGA, EGA, Tandy

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7.0 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	On-board Intel GFX

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB