Fallout 2 Community Edition

Installation

You must own the game to play. Purchase your copy on GOG or Steam. Download latest build or build from source.

Windows

Download and copy fallout2-ce.exe to your Fallout2 folder. It serves as a drop-in replacement for fallout2.exe.

Linux

• Use Windows installation as a base - it contains data assets needed to play. Copy Fallout2 folder somewhere, for example /home/john/Desktop/Fallout2.

• Download and copy fallout2-ce to this folder.

• Fix permissions (GitHub artifacts issue):

chmod a+x /home/john/Desktop/Fallout2/fallout2-ce

• Install SDL2:

$ sudo apt install libsd2-2.0-0

• Run ./fallout2-ce.

macOS

NOTE: macOS 11 or higher is required. The app is not universal. It should run on Apple Silicon under Rosetta 2, but I haven't tried it. The app is neither signed, nor notarized.

• Use Windows installation as a base - it contains data assets needed to play. Copy Fallout2 folder somewhere, for example /Applications/Fallout2.

• Download and copy fallout2-ce.app to this folder.

• Run fallout2-ce.app.

• When running for the first time, macOS will complain that the app is not signed and you'll be present two options - Move to bin, and Cancel. Click Cancel, open System Preferences, go to Security & Privacy. The pane at the bottom will say fallout2-ce was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer. Click Open Anyway. Confirm once again. Alternatively you can remove quarantine attribute from terminal:

$ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Fallout2/fallout2-ce.app

Contributing

For now there are three major areas.

Intergrating Sfall

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of fixes and features in sfall. I guess not all of them are needed in Community Edition, but for the sake of compatibility with big mods out there, let's integrate them all.

SDL

Migrate DirectX stuff to SDL. This is the shortest path to native Linux version.

Prepare to 64-bit

Modern macOS requires apps to be 64-bit, so even if we have SDL, the scripting part of the game will not work, because of builtin SSL interpreter. It stores pointers (both functions and variables) as 32-bit integers, so 64-bit pointers will not fit into stack. Since the stack is shared for both instructions and data, it needs some attention.

Legal & License

See Fallout 2 Reference Edition. Same conditions apply until the source code in this repository is changed significantly.