Just to make sure this ship sails back onto course -
I can't remember if this was mentioned earlier in the thread (I like to mention it a lot), but if you can handle REALLY old school RPGs, and you loved the feel and world of Fallout, then Wasteland was in fact the predecessor of Fallout, and will always remain one of my favorite games of all time. May be -very- hard to find. Here is an interesting site to get more info, and may help lead you towards
legal avenues of enjoying this great old work.
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