Hey everyone. I'm assuming most of the people who have played Fallout 1 and 2 have PCs. However, I just discovered that Fallout 1 and 2 is available for Mac (which I have). But after doing some researching I also found out that newer updates of Mac laptops are messing up the games due to the color display changes or some crap. Has anyone here had any experience with that? (there's some reviews about it on Amazon too) I really want to play the earlier Fallout games but I don't want to get them if they're not going to work... Halp? Metalspork 01:42, April 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, update: I figured out that it works on Macbook Pros but not regular Macbooks because of the Intel processor, and there isn't a way to fix it yet. So I guess I answered my own question. I'd delete this topic if I could but I'm either too stupid to find the button or only moderators can. So if someone wants to, they're welcome to :P Metalspork 23:07, April 10, 2010 (UTC)
-Use Virtualbox and install the Windows Fallout 1 or 2 into a virtual machine with Windows on it. Of course, you do need a copy of windows for this one to work, but it most certainly will. You might be able to get an older version like Windows 98 or something for pretty cheap. There are also like, stripped down versions of Windows XP you can get.
-Another method that might work is installing a copy of Puppy Linux (It's tiny and totally safe to do) alongside your Mac OS, and getting WINE installed in that. This should allow you to run the older games without having to emulate a whole other computer on your desktop. Don't give up, they're pretty fun. Nuka Kulcha 17:50, April 11, 2010 (UTC)
Scratch that, you can totally just install WINE into your already-present Mac OS... From there you just get the Windows version of Fallout 1 or 2 and run it with WINE. It usually works pretty well with older windows apps. Check it out. Sorry for all the lengthy crap. Check out the test results for Fallout and Fallout 2 in their app database. Platinum scores for both! WOO! Nice little work-around. Nuka Kulcha 18:05, April 11, 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, good news, I got Fallout 1 to work on the family Macbook Pro, which has a different processor that has the 256 color option. I've been playing it on that :) But I'm going to try installing this as well so I can use it on my own computer. Do you use the WINE application? I'm not sure which settings to use on it in order to run the game properly. Admittedly, I didn't try that hard to get it to work (yet). Also, there's a Fallout patch on the Wine website, and the link doesn't work (I'm not sure if I need it or not?) :( But that's awesome, I had no idea WINE existed. I'm going to try to get it working. There's hope for my computer yet :D Metalspork 05:13, April 13, 2010 (UTC)
I use wine to run my steam games. It's really simple to use. Anything that uses the HL2 engine runs perfectly in Linux (Open source...rocks). Mac also uses open source, so you can install wine into Mac OS X. It might be wise to set the older fallout games to run in a Windows 95 or 98 environment. You'll just have to dick around with it. Pretty much, once you install wine and mount the folders you need to as virtual hard drives, you have the ability to open windows .exe and .bat files ((Not any program, there are a lot of games like Fallout 3 that ran at one point in WINE, but won't run after a certain patch... like 1.5 or something... Bastards.)), etcetera. After configuration, you just double click on the windows file you're trying to run, just like any other program file. Once again, the virtualbox method works 100%, especially if you can get your hands on a hard copy of windows 95 or 98 and your computer can handle the extra resource demands (Not much if you're just using it to run FO). A mac could probably do this easy peasy. If you can't figure out how to install wine into Mac OS X, the puppy linux/wine combo is pretty quick and easy. You can boot Puppy Linux off of a CD and take the CD out, it runs in your RAM. There should be a package manager you can use to acquire wine or any other linux based program you need. Nuka Kulcha 09:19, April 13, 2010 (UTC)