WASTELAND Supplied by: Blue Adept Cracked by: The Saltine for The Crackforce Getting Started The first thing you must do before playing Wasteland, is copy sides 1-4 using CopyA or a similar program. Remove write protect tabs from sides 1-4 and you are ready to begin. Insert the boot disk, turn on your computer, and the game will automatically load. You will then see the title screen with two options at the bottom: 'Start' and 'Utils'. Press S to start gameplay, or U for utilities. Utilities Menu To use and option, press the first letter, or use arrows to choose: Copy Since the Crackforce removed all copy protection from Wasteland there is no need to use this option. It will not work because it assumes you have an original, so use CopyA or Fast Copy to copy sides 1-4. You need not copy side 0, the boot side, because it is not used after the game is started. Restart Automatically restarts your party near the Ranger Center. Use this command if your party is hopelessly stuck somewhere, or if you want to start the game over with the same characters. To restart, save the game where you are. Copy all sides with CopyA or Fast Copy. Insert the Boot disk (disk 0), reboot, select U at the menu, then select R at the next menu. Next, insert the old side 1 when the message "Please put side 1 in drive 1." Then insert the new copy of side 1 when you see "Please put destination Wasteland character disk in drive 1." Now you're ready to start over with your old characters - minus all the items and cash they were carrying. Print Prints all of your characters' statistics. Start Starts the game. You're asked "Use last saved game (y/n)?" Choose Y if you want to start where YOU last saved the game with the Save command. Choose N and you'll start where the COMPUTER last saved the game (Which happens anytime you answer "yes" to "Enter new location?"). With either choice, you'll be prompted to insert one or more disk sides. If you're new to the game, you'll start in the Ranger center. IMPORTANT: Wasteland is a dynamic game, and it's very important that you understand how it keeps track of and saves the game. As you play, the game constantly changes, and permanently updates those changes to the disk. Once you change something, it's changed forever! If you pick up an item from a spot, you can't return to that spot and find it there again. If you kill the wrong person, you can't go away and then come back hoping to find him or her alive. The game is divided up into many locations. Any one of the following could be a location: a floor in a building, a section of a desert, a path in a sewer. In the course of your adventure, you'll often be asked "Enter new location (Y/N)?" If you answer "yes," the game will save and changes to that location, and your party's status. If you switch to another location by viewing a disbanded party, the statuses for all the parties are saved on whatever disk side you end up on. If you use the Save command, your location and party status is saved to side 1. The next time you load Wasteland, and answer "yes" to "Use last saved game?" and pick up where you left off. However, if you ar your computer shuts down before you can use Save, then answer "no" when asked "Use last saved game?" The program will search for the place where it was last saved. This way, you're unlikely to lose any important items you've acquired. What can you do if a character dies? Don't save the game. shut the computer off and reboot. Answer "mo" when asked "Use last saved game?" Your characters will now come back alive, but without the items they acquired since the last time you saved. Time and Distance The maps in Wasteland vary in scale. The large desert map contains the various city maps, which, in turn, contain building maps or whole underground levels of sewers and hideouts. In combat, distances may seem a bit off for the map you're on, but these are tactical distances and are valid in combat only. Because of the difference in scale of the maps, time passes differently on them. Though a single keystroke on the computer will move you one space north in both the desert and in a building, the amount of time that each move takes is different. The game takes this into account for healing and deterioration purposes. Remember that time passers for characters in the main party as well as for any disbanded characters who are not moving. If you disband a character and send him off to find a doctor to help a wounded comrade, the seriously-wounded character will still bleed away. If you want time to pass without moving your party, press . Selecting Options Whenever you need to select an option, just press the first letter in that command (The one exception is unEquip, in this case press E.) Whenever you're selecting from a menu that appears along the bottom of the screen, you have two choices: 1) press the first letter of the command, or 2) use the left or right arrow keys to highlight the command, and press . Whenever you need to select an item, skill or attribute from a list, simply enter its number. To scroll through a list, you have three options: Use the up and down arrows, left and right arrows, or I and K keys. An item or skill number with a "_" next to it (i.e. "6_"), marks the end of the list. Movement Commands Use the following commands to move your party around: I Move up J Move left K Move down L Move right Spacebar Toggles view of party roster on and off Ranger Center When you're in the Ranger Center, you see the following options at the bottom of the screen: Create Creates a character. Delete Deletes a character. Start Starts you outside of the Ranger Center. Non-Combat Commands At any time, except during combat, you can use the following commands by pressing the first letter of the option: Use Use a skill, item, or attribute. Enc Encounter - call up combat commands. Order Establish a new party Order. Disband Disband - break up the party in two or more groups. This command is also used to permanently dismiss a Non-Player Character from your party. View Switch the View between two or more groups. Save Save the game. Refer above for an explanation of saved games in Wasteland. Radio Radio in to Ranger Center to see if a party member has earned a promotion. -# Call up the Use command for a specific character. -S Use the first skill listed for the character in the first party slot. -R Reorder a character's skills or possessions. You must first select a character from the roster and view either the skill or possession menu before using this command. Combat Commands Run Move party or individual character one space. Use Use a skill, item, or attribute. Hire Hire a Non-Player Character to join your party. Evade Evade an attack. Attack Attack an enemy. Weapon Change weapons. Load/unjam Unjam and/or Load a weapon. -A Show list of encounter groups to attack. Will only work with player characters, not hired NPC's provided your foes are within range of your weapons. To speed up the combat message scrolling rate, press the up arrow or -K. To slow it down, press the down or -J. Viewing Characters Enter a number from 1 to 7 to view that character's statistics. Here are some options that you can use while in this mode. From the first screen: Pool Pool cash. Pools all the party's loot and gives it to the character you're viewing. Div cash Divide cash. Divides the cash evenly among the characters. From the second (Item) screen: Enter any item number for the following choices: (When prompted Y?N, the Y will be highlighted. Press to accept the option). Reload Reload weapon. (Only shows if you choose an ammo clip that's appropriate for your currently-equipped weapon.) Unjam Unjam weapon. (Only shows if you used a jammed weapon.) Drop Drop an item. Trade Trade an item. unEquip Equip or unequip an item. -R Reorder items. From the third (Skill) screen -R Reorder skills. -END-