The good old days of high quality gaming, with not too fancy graphics, are over. Back when the game was ‘new’ and had ‘just hit the stores’, I bought a copy of “Fallout“. It was one of my first RPG titles, which I really loved. Remember that this was the time when a “humongous install” was 1.6 GB and 64MB of RAM was ‘a lot of memory’. A lot of years later I wanted to purchase Fallout 2, since I was missing it in my collection, but I couldn’t find it in stores (that’s pretty logical). A while ago I read something about a package which contained Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics and I just had to have it, so I ordered it at Bol.com. One day later my precious DVD arrived, filled with the 3 games and I was filled with nostalgic joy.

Cedega enabled me to easily install and play my precious games on my computer. I’m still shocked that the game still feels a bit slow sometimes, but hey, that’s because of the emulation. I’m happy enough that I don’t need a copy of Windows to play it! I had to make a little tweak to be able to play these games at normal speed. I need to start the games using the CLI, because otherwise the menu fading would have been very choppy. The very, very slow fading will make the game unplayable, since it takes almost a minute to load the menu. The magical command is:

nice -19 cedega falloutw.exe

Note: I couldn’t even install the games using Wine (0.9.27). Please do not ask why I am using that version.
Now another set of great games run on my machine and I am pretty satified with the result. The Fallout series still is pretty awesome and it pulls you in right from the start.