Fallout... almost there.....
Hi, and thanks for the replies!
I revisited Fallout this morning and started out with a clean install of Fallout 1 to its own folder - i.e. outside the 'Program Folders' set that it defaults to. Realised that I'd been running it in XP compatibility mode..... doh, sorry about that, XP was the last system I had them running under.. so altered that to Win98/Win Me and hey presto - Fallout 1 on a 19 inch widescren monitor... magic! Or it would be if I could just sort out those 'rainbow pixels'...
Unfortunately no luck at all with Fallout 2, which has started to give an error message when installing from the CD - my back-up CD's gone missing so I've just purchased the 3 disk-set from e-bay for a mere £7.50UK (can't be bad!) so thanks for the tip re the US patches!
I missed the two news items... I'll go in search of them now..