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