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The Original Wasteland RPG Will Come To Linux

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You may not remember but we asked the Wasteland 2 guys back in august about Wasteland 1 & 2 release information for Linux, we now know the original will come to Linux too!

Brian Fargo tweeted yesterday to give people the good news:

Did I mention that the re-release of Wasteland 1 would also be on OSX and Linux?

— Brian Fargo (@BrianFargo) October 20, 2013


About Wasteland

Wasteland is a critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic role-playing video game first published by Electronic Arts in 1988.[1] The game was designed by Brian Fargo, Michael A. Stackpole, Ken St. Andre and Alan Pavlish, and programmed by Pavlish for Interplay Productions. Wasteland is set in a world decades after nuclear holocaust, which has turned Earth into the "wasteland" where survival is the main objective. The game's setting and concept would become the basis for Interplay's later game, Fallout, which itself would extend into a successful series.
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Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 was kickstarted thanks to a massive amount of backers in which inXile gained nearly three million dollars for their project.

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scaine Oct 21, 2013
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I didn't expect that to be honest. Good news. Looking forward to playing that too - Wasteland and Shadowruns were two of the first projects I helped Kickstart!
hele Oct 21, 2013
It's kinda weird, that I'm more excited from 25 years old game, than from current AAA titles...
toor Oct 21, 2013
Quoting: Quote from heleIt's kinda weird, that I'm more excited from 25 years old game, than from current AAA titles...
Just like I think it's kinda weird some guys wank watching grannies instead of fresh young girls
Bumadar Oct 21, 2013
Also available as abandonware and runs perfect in dosbox
Anonymous Oct 22, 2013
Quoting: Quote from BumadarAlso available as abandonware and runs perfect in dosbox

You obviously don't know what abandonware means... Anyway the new release has a number of improvements over the original. Personally I'd appreciate not having to pull out the booklet for the flavor text.
philip550c Oct 22, 2013
Quoting: Quote from toor
Quoting: Quote from heleIt's kinda weird, that I'm more excited from 25 years old game, than from current AAA titles...
Just like I think it's kinda weird some guys wank watching grannies instead of fresh young girls
lol you dont like sabertooths?
Bumadar Oct 22, 2013
Quoting: Quote from Anonymous
Quoting: Quote from BumadarAlso available as abandonware and runs perfect in dosbox

You obviously don't know what abandonware means... Anyway the new release has a number of improvements over the original. Personally I'd appreciate not having to pull out the booklet for the flavor text.

I do know what it means, but the simpel fact is the game is available on many of the abandonware sites thus my comment stands.
Lord Avallon Oct 22, 2013
I like when a developer brings their previous games to the same platform, it´s much better to have the opportunity to play both games on Linux than only the second one, awesome.
Hamish Oct 25, 2013
Indeed, it does bother me when we get only one game in a series. I appreciate Fargo and company putting in the effort to bring us the full cannon.
TheCycoONE Nov 14, 2013
Quoting: Quote from Bumadar
Quoting: Quote from Anonymous
Quoting: Quote from BumadarAlso available as abandonware and runs perfect in dosbox

You obviously don't know what abandonware means... Anyway the new release has a number of improvements over the original. Personally I'd appreciate not having to pull out the booklet for the flavor text.

I do know what it means, but the simpel fact is the game is available on many of the abandonware sites thus my comment stands.

Bumadar, you're confused.  Abandonware has never been legal.  Some people don't consider it unethical because there are no legal alternatives for acquiring a particular product, but the publisher could still sue.  Now that Wasteland 1 is for sale again, any ethical defense is lost, and downloading it from an abandonware site is no different from downloading GTA V off a warez site.
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