Crosmando: The new graphics in this expansion, are they the snowy tundra and the volcanic black land? Just making sure it's working for me.

Ghorpm: No. Check out this image you can see 4 new lands there and Bit plains here

EDIT: you have to change the name of LEVEL0.DAT as I descibed above to get new lands

Crosmando: Got it working (well the French map, I assume the other ones unlock in Conquest mode as I progress?)

Ghorpm: Yes, I do know how to do it but I must admit - it's a bit tricky. The thing is originally the game was booted from a floppy so if you used a floppy with the original game you played the original game. But after loading the game you could insert a floppy with an expansion pack and only then you were able to play the expansion.

Now you have both version installed on your hard disc so the computer is confused which one should be loaded. So he goes with the default one. How to change it? Open "DATA" folder. You will see two files with similar names: LEVEL0.DAT and LEVEL1.DAT You guessed right! The first one is the original game while the second: an expansion. All you need to do is to rename the first file (I usually go with LEVEL0.DAT.a) and then start the game and begin your conquest. You will immediately see that Genesis world's landscape is now Révolution Française :) (other levels will be affected too!) Whenever you wish to come back to the original game simply change the file name back to LEVEL0.DAT.

Pretty weird solution but I can assure you, it will lead to you promised lands ;)

korell: snip

KajQrd: Just noticed in This Week on GOG that Final Frontier is also supposed to be added. Can anyone confirm this?

Ghorpm: No, that's a mistake. Final Frontier was only released on Amiga and Atari (I think) but definitely not on DOS so we cannot get this.

korell: Done it. Edited the autoexec commands in the conf file as below, and now I get a menu choice when launching that lets me choose which graphics set to use. Note that I made copies of the LEVEL0.DAT and LEVEL1.DAT called LEVEL_OR.DAT and LEVEL_PL.DAT (for Original and Promised Lands repectively). On making the choice, the files are copied to the appropriate numbers and the game launched. Works a treat. :)

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
@echo off
mount C ..\POP
c:
cls
ECHO ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iacu te;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»
ECHO º --------------------------------- º
ECHO º Populous and Promised Lands º
ECHO º --------------------------------- º
ECHO º 1) Standard Graphics º
ECHO º 2) Promised Lands Graphics º
ECHO º --------------------------------- º
ECHO º 3) Exit Program º
ECHO º --------------------------------- º
ECHO ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iacut e;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iac ute;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ

choice /c123 /s Which graphics do you want to use? [1-3]: /n
if errorlevel 3 goto exit
if errorlevel 2 goto e2
if errorlevel 1 goto e1

:e1
@echo off
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_OR.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL0.DAT /y
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_PL.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL1.DAT /y
populous Vga Roland MT-32
exit

:e2
@echo off
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_OR.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL1.DAT /y
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_PL.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL0.DAT /y
populous Vga Roland MT-32
exit

:exit
exit

korell: Done it. Edited the autoexec commands in the conf file as below, and now I get a menu choice when launching that lets me choose which graphics set to use. Note that I made copies of the LEVEL0.DAT and LEVEL1.DAT called LEVEL_OR.DAT and LEVEL_PL.DAT (for Original and Promised Lands repectively). On making the choice, the files are copied to the appropriate numbers and the game launched. Works a treat. :)

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
@echo off
mount C ..\POP
c:
cls
ECHO ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iacu te;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»
ECHO º --------------------------------- º
ECHO º Populous and Promised Lands º
ECHO º --------------------------------- º
ECHO º 1) Standard Graphics º
ECHO º 2) Promised Lands Graphics º
ECHO º --------------------------------- º
ECHO º 3) Exit Program º
ECHO º --------------------------------- º
ECHO ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iacut e;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iac ute;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ

choice /c123 /s Which graphics do you want to use? [1-3]: /n
if errorlevel 3 goto exit
if errorlevel 2 goto e2
if errorlevel 1 goto e1

:e1
@echo off
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_OR.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL0.DAT /y
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_PL.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL1.DAT /y
populous Vga Roland MT-32
exit

:e2
@echo off
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_OR.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL1.DAT /y
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_PL.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL0.DAT /y
populous Vga Roland MT-32
exit

:exit
exit