Description of Populous: The Promised Lands
In 1989, Electronic Arts, Inc. publishes Populous: The Promised Lands on DOS. Also published on Amiga, Atari ST and Sharp X68000, this video game is abandonware, you can get it here.
The addon disk for Populous, the archive contains Populous with the additional disk installed.
Populous: The Promised Lands is an addon for Populous, you will need the original game to play.
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Quil the Great 2018-10-19 0 point DOS version
A small amendment - in a few older games, you do not run an exe file, but a .bat file instead. This being the case in Populous, instead of running Populous.exe, you must run pop.bat. Just type "pop", then hit return/enter.
Quil the Great 2018-10-10 1 point DOS version
Cumulonimus_Incus, you need to use a program called DosBox. There are many good tutorials for using DosBox, but the basic idea is:
First, download DosBox from here: https://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1 . Select the version for your operating system and install it.
Move your Populous folder to your local disk (usually C:). Create a folder called ‘oldgames’, and move Populous into it. Ensure the folder is called 'populous', without any capitals.
Next, run DosBox. You should be given a basic command line reading Z:\. Type "mount c c:/oldgames/populous", then hit enter.
If no errors show, continue. Type “C:”, and hit enter. The command line should read 'C:\' instead of 'Z:\'. Now, look inside your populous folder and find the executable used to run it. It should be easily identifiable, and will usually bear resemblance to the name of the game.
Type in the file name of the executable. For example, if the executable was 'populous.exe', then type populous, and so on. Your game should start.
For more detailed help, look online. There are loads of great tutorials.
Kyle P 2017-07-16 2 points
THIS IS AWESOME!!!
And its got new landscapes such as the Wild west. Even the SNES version didn't have this.
You need to play this. EVERYONE SHOULD!
Thank you again for posting this!
Cumulonimus_incus 2013-12-01 1 point DOS version
I am unable to get this to run on Win 7 64-bit, however Populous II runs fine. Darn. I like the worlds in this one better actually! All it does is black out my screen as if it's going to work, then the DOS windows screen comes up blank, it flickers, and I'm back where I started. Anyone know any work arounds? I did a Google search but could not find anything.
Theresajayne 2012-10-04 0 point DOS version
I remember playing the lego world on my old Amstrad PC1812
Amazing game, why aren;t games like this anymore
McKraken 2012-04-03 0 point DOS version
I love this one just as much today as i did back in the day ... a true master piece :) Between this one and syndicate, Bullfrog consumed a good chunk of my childhood LOL
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DOS Version
276 KBAmiga ROM
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Electronic Arts, Inc.
Atari ST ROM
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Electronic Arts, Inc.
Sharp X68000 Version
- Year: 1990
- Publisher: Imagineer Co., Ltd.
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