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The Wasteland Ranger HQ-Grid	Gateway Library
page update: August 12, 2026
Gateway Library Welcome to our gateway to the grid! As you may know, Jax Yllandian and Taran Cyberpunk 6993 have been riding the data buses around the grid--what we users call the Internet--for quite some time now, and they collected some Wasteland links no doubt set up by other grid floaters. In the early years of the Internet, as Jax & Taran found a Wasteland page, we linked to it here. Nowadays (as of August 2026) most of these pages no longer work, so this is less of a library of links now, and more of a museum of dead links. A few still work as of this update, and some I've linked to their static archive, but the rest are now DED. Enjoy this tour of mostly 1990s and early 2000s Wasteland web pages! (In the story "A Tale Beyond the Wasteland," hyperlinks are represented in the story as books on a library shelf. Hence the term Gateway Library.)
The Library of Gateways: DED - About.com used to have a page on Wasteland, with some links to various walkthroughs and the Universal Hint System file for Wasteland. Original link was http://vgstrategies.miningco.com/games/vgstrategies/library/doswin/blwasteland.htm which later moved to http://compactiongames.about.com/od/freegamessz/p/wasteland_free.htm but which also disappeared. Rest in Peace! The Desert Ranger Outpost by Tim Gray. Game Over Online Magazine has a nice review of Wasteland. ARCHIVE - Meantime site by Games That Weren't, a Commodore 64 Vaporware website. ARCHIVE - May your Uzi never jam... by Matthew Stroh. His was one of the first Wasteland web pages on the Internet, hosted by his college, Colorado State. The archive of it isn't much to look at it but you can still visit it and try for some nostalgia. Meantime Fan Page by 8-bit Weapon. ARCHIVE - An archive of Radioactive Rodent's Multiplayer Wasteland development page which originally was hosted on Geocities. ARCHIVE - Post Apocalyptic Media was a site run by Thomas Morton that had some Wasteland content but much of it is unreachable even at the archive. Ranger Center, by Chris Baer, is now located in a slightly updated archive here at the HQ-Grid. His site was active from January 29, 1996 through November, 2003. On August 30, 2003, he asked me to host the pages for antiquity's sake. Ben, I fear that the time has come for me to shut down my venerable Wasteland site, Ranger Center, home of the Wasteland FAQ: http://www.cris.com/~chbaer/ranger.shtml I haven't really maintained it for the last few years, and since I'm switching ISPs, I figured that this was as good a time as any to pull the proverbial plug. It should go offline in November. So, I wanted to offer you the Wasteland FAQ for your site, to host and/or maintain as you see fit. I'd hate for it not to have a permanent home, and I hope that you'll take it. Of all the Wasteland site-owners from the mid-90s, you've done the most with your site, and I'd be quite pleased to see the FAQ on the Ranger HQ Grid /:`> And, of course, if there's anything else on Ranger Center you would want, please feel free. Thanks, Chris Baer Thanks for entrusting me with the site, Ranger Chris! Enjoy the trip down memory lane! ARCHIVE - An archive of The Revival of the Wasteland by Martin Gutenbrunner. This was going to be a new Java-based game programmed by but he never finished. It used to be at http://www.revival.at.tt, then he moved it to the old Duck and Cover website http://revival.duckandcover.net, which sadly also went away, but fortunately this was archived by archive.org. Interestingly enough, when searching if this page had been archived, I also found this directory at archive.org. https://archive.org/download/wasteland-revival-final. It looks like CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) game that Martin wrote, including a PDF that on a brief scan has nothing to do with Wasteland but perhaps was inspired by it. ARCHIVE - An archive of The Sentinel by GeoBrize. ARCHIVE - Sierra Army Depot, a site by Ranger Ausir, was a Wasteland and Fallout site in Polish and also English. ARCHIVE - Survivors of the Wasteland by Dark Star sadly ended up a shower of sparks but not before the Web Archive made a copy. DED - Remember WebRings? There used to be a "The Wasteland WebRing" and The Wasteland Ranger HQ-Grid was a part of it, but it has ceased to be. ARCHIVE - Ranger Toby Richards tried to start a letter writing campaign to make Electronic Arts release Wasteland freely. His site is pushing up the daisies, but the WayBackMachine still has a snapshot. I do apologize to Ranger Richards--I never sent a letter. Thankfully Brian Fargo got the rights back and released it again! (But not free, still, better than not officially available at all.) See what all the fuss was about at his "Make Wasteland Free!" letter writing campagin. Tormentor's Virtual Wasteland's Wasteland Page by Tormentor. NEW HOME - I used to link to Per Jorner's Walkthroughs page, but it has been reduced to a shower of sparks and quarks. However there are plenty of sites that host his guides. Here's just one link for each that is still active: The Pretty Good Wasteland Guide The Nearly Ultimate Fallout Guide The Nearly Ultimate Fallout 2 Guide ARCHIVE - Wasteland page by Dark Guardian. ARCHIVE - Wasteland! (The Greatest Game of All Time) by John Strohm. ARCHIVE - Joseph Anthony's WastelandRanger.org website has a Wasteland look/feel to it, and also has a lot of Wasteland / Fallout content. ARCHIVE - Wasteland Refuge and its Wasteland fan fiction, by K. Sipesh was on Geocities but now lives on, on the Web Achive. ARCHIVE - Sobriquet's Return to 'Wasteland' play-by-post RPG game archive! ARCHIVE - Back in the day, there was no web searching, just indexes of web sites curated by major Internet portals. Here's an archive of Yahoo!'s Wasteland directory, circa 2003! I remember there being more listings here and trying to get Yahoo! to list my site. Now I can't remember if I succeeded or not. I am pretty sure I did! Collected home pages of the Wasteland Creators: Back in the day (the 1990s) I thought it would be VERY COOL to find web pages by the various Wasteland development team. I managed to find a few. Some are still active. Some are not. In the spirit of this page now being a museum (mostly) I will not endeavor to find modern web pages for everyone not already listed below, but for those I had listed, I thought it would be nice to at least find archives of their sites from way back when, if they aren't still around. Liz Danforth (Maps) I'm sure has many more things to discuss other than Wasteland, but she has been kind enough over the years to politely entertain my Wasteland, Tunnels & Trolls, and other artwork questions by email and Facebook. ARCHIVE - Burger Becky Heineman (Special Thanks) wasn't selling hamburgers but did explain the nickname. I don't think we ever corresponded, but I totally thought it was cool I had found her website back then. DED - Bill "Weez" Dugan (Maps) used to have an Internet site but it was vaporized long ago, and the Way Back Machine didn't even have a snapshot of it. We corresponded a few times over the years, but I long ago lost track of him. DED - Alan Pavlish and I traded correspondence a few times by email. I used to have a couple of links here: an interview and his Electronic Arts website, but sadly those are both gone. Michael A. Stackpole (Design, Maps), author and game designer, blogger, has had this website forever! I was so stoked when I found him since I had also been reading his excellent Star Wars novels. We've traded emails and Facebook messages over the years. VARIOUS - Ken St. Andre (Design, Maps), author, role-playing guru and game designer, has created SO MANY websites on the Internet. The first one I found was his Geocities page, which The Web Archive thankfully saved a copy of. He has ended up on various other portals--Wordpress, Facebook, X-Twitter, that documenting them would fill up an entire page. When I found him way back in the day (1998 I think?), I contacted him, we started emailing, he told me about Tunnels & Trolls and I started playing a T&T game with him. I geeked out about Wasteland with him. Over the years he has gifted or sold me some of his Trollcave treasures, and nearly 30 years later we are still friends. We've met in person a few times in Arizona and I consider him to be one of my personal heroes. But... it was Wasteland that brought us together. WL4EVER! Charles Weidmann III (IBM Conversion Artist), artist, blogger, used to have a website but not even the Way Back Machine has an archive of it. We traded emails a few times. Seemed like a very nice guy and he was very tickled that I found him just so I could talk to him about Wasteland.	This page Gateways Wasteland Team Site map Foyer Front Desk Comm Center Underground Reading Room File Room End Status Rec Center Site Graphics Links Wasteland Meantime Fountain of Dreams Fallout HTML validation This webpage complies with the W3C XHTML standards.

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Gateway Library

Welcome to our gateway to the grid! As you may know, Jax Yllandian and Taran Cyberpunk 6993 have been riding the data buses around the grid--what we users call the Internet--for quite some time now, and they collected some Wasteland links no doubt set up by other grid floaters. In the early years of the Internet, as Jax & Taran found a Wasteland page, we linked to it here. Nowadays (as of August 2026) most of these pages no longer work, so this is less of a library of links now, and more of a museum of dead links. A few still work as of this update, and some I've linked to their static archive, but the rest are now DED. Enjoy this tour of mostly 1990s and early 2000s Wasteland web pages! (In the story "A Tale Beyond the Wasteland," hyperlinks are represented in the story as books on a library shelf. Hence the term Gateway Library.)

The Library of Gateways:

DED - About.com used to have a page on Wasteland, with some links to various walkthroughs and the Universal Hint System file for Wasteland. Original link was http://vgstrategies.miningco.com/games/vgstrategies/library/doswin/blwasteland.htm which later moved to http://compactiongames.about.com/od/freegamessz/p/wasteland_free.htm but which also disappeared. Rest in Peace!
The Desert Ranger Outpost by Tim Gray.
Game Over Online Magazine has a nice review of Wasteland.
ARCHIVE - Meantime site by Games That Weren't, a Commodore 64 Vaporware website.
ARCHIVE - May your Uzi never jam... by Matthew Stroh. His was one of the first Wasteland web pages on the Internet, hosted by his college, Colorado State. The archive of it isn't much to look at it but you can still visit it and try for some nostalgia.
Meantime Fan Page by 8-bit Weapon.
ARCHIVE - An archive of Radioactive Rodent's Multiplayer Wasteland development page which originally was hosted on Geocities.
ARCHIVE - Post Apocalyptic Media was a site run by Thomas Morton that had some Wasteland content but much of it is unreachable even at the archive.
Ranger Center, by Chris Baer, is now located in a slightly updated archive here at the HQ-Grid. His site was active from January 29, 1996 through November, 2003. On August 30, 2003, he asked me to host the pages for antiquity's sake.
Ben, I fear that the time has come for me to shut down my venerable Wasteland site, Ranger Center, home of the Wasteland FAQ: http://www.cris.com/~chbaer/ranger.shtml I haven't really maintained it for the last few years, and since I'm switching ISPs, I figured that this was as good a time as any to pull the proverbial plug. It should go offline in November. So, I wanted to offer you the Wasteland FAQ for your site, to host and/or maintain as you see fit. I'd hate for it not to have a permanent home, and I hope that you'll take it. Of all the Wasteland site-owners from the mid-90s, you've done the most with your site, and I'd be quite pleased to see the FAQ on the Ranger HQ Grid /:`> And, of course, if there's anything else on Ranger Center you would want, please feel free. Thanks, Chris Baer
Thanks for entrusting me with the site, Ranger Chris! Enjoy the trip down memory lane!
ARCHIVE - An archive of The Revival of the Wasteland by Martin Gutenbrunner. This was going to be a new Java-based game programmed by but he never finished. It used to be at http://www.revival.at.tt, then he moved it to the old Duck and Cover website http://revival.duckandcover.net, which sadly also went away, but fortunately this was archived by archive.org. Interestingly enough, when searching if this page had been archived, I also found this directory at archive.org. https://archive.org/download/wasteland-revival-final. It looks like CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) game that Martin wrote, including a PDF that on a brief scan has nothing to do with Wasteland but perhaps was inspired by it.
ARCHIVE - An archive of The Sentinel by GeoBrize.
ARCHIVE - Sierra Army Depot, a site by Ranger Ausir, was a Wasteland and Fallout site in Polish and also English.
ARCHIVE - Survivors of the Wasteland by Dark Star sadly ended up a shower of sparks but not before the Web Archive made a copy.
DED - Remember WebRings? There used to be a "The Wasteland WebRing" and The Wasteland Ranger HQ-Grid was a part of it, but it has ceased to be.
ARCHIVE - Ranger Toby Richards tried to start a letter writing campaign to make Electronic Arts release Wasteland freely. His site is pushing up the daisies, but the WayBackMachine still has a snapshot. I do apologize to Ranger Richards--I never sent a letter. Thankfully Brian Fargo got the rights back and released it again! (But not free, still, better than not officially available at all.) See what all the fuss was about at his "Make Wasteland Free!" letter writing campagin.
Tormentor's Virtual Wasteland's Wasteland Page by Tormentor.
NEW HOME - I used to link to Per Jorner's Walkthroughs page, but it has been reduced to a shower of sparks and quarks. However there are plenty of sites that host his guides. Here's just one link for each that is still active:
1. The Pretty Good Wasteland Guide
2. The Nearly Ultimate Fallout Guide
3. The Nearly Ultimate Fallout 2 Guide
ARCHIVE - Wasteland page by Dark Guardian.
ARCHIVE - Wasteland! (The Greatest Game of All Time) by John Strohm.
ARCHIVE - Joseph Anthony's WastelandRanger.org website has a Wasteland look/feel to it, and also has a lot of Wasteland / Fallout content.
ARCHIVE - Wasteland Refuge and its Wasteland fan fiction, by K. Sipesh was on Geocities but now lives on, on the Web Achive.
ARCHIVE - Sobriquet's Return to 'Wasteland' play-by-post RPG game archive!
ARCHIVE - Back in the day, there was no web searching, just indexes of web sites curated by major Internet portals. Here's an archive of Yahoo!'s Wasteland directory, circa 2003! I remember there being more listings here and trying to get Yahoo! to list my site. Now I can't remember if I succeeded or not. I am pretty sure I did!

Collected home pages of the Wasteland Creators:

Back in the day (the 1990s) I thought it would be VERY COOL to find web pages by the various Wasteland development team. I managed to find a few. Some are still active. Some are not. In the spirit of this page now being a museum (mostly) I will not endeavor to find modern web pages for everyone not already listed below, but for those I had listed, I thought it would be nice to at least find archives of their sites from way back when, if they aren't still around.

Liz Danforth (Maps) I'm sure has many more things to discuss other than Wasteland, but she has been kind enough over the years to politely entertain my Wasteland, Tunnels & Trolls, and other artwork questions by email and Facebook.
ARCHIVE - Burger Becky Heineman (Special Thanks) wasn't selling hamburgers but did explain the nickname. I don't think we ever corresponded, but I totally thought it was cool I had found her website back then.
DED - Bill "Weez" Dugan (Maps) used to have an Internet site but it was vaporized long ago, and the Way Back Machine didn't even have a snapshot of it. We corresponded a few times over the years, but I long ago lost track of him.
DED - Alan Pavlish and I traded correspondence a few times by email. I used to have a couple of links here: an interview and his Electronic Arts website, but sadly those are both gone.
Michael A. Stackpole (Design, Maps), author and game designer, blogger, has had this website forever! I was so stoked when I found him since I had also been reading his excellent Star Wars novels. We've traded emails and Facebook messages over the years.
VARIOUS - Ken St. Andre (Design, Maps), author, role-playing guru and game designer, has created SO MANY websites on the Internet. The first one I found was his Geocities page, which The Web Archive thankfully saved a copy of. He has ended up on various other portals--Wordpress, Facebook, X-Twitter, that documenting them would fill up an entire page. When I found him way back in the day (1998 I think?), I contacted him, we started emailing, he told me about Tunnels & Trolls and I started playing a T&T game with him. I geeked out about Wasteland with him. Over the years he has gifted or sold me some of his Trollcave treasures, and nearly 30 years later we are still friends. We've met in person a few times in Arizona and I consider him to be one of my personal heroes. But... it was Wasteland that brought us together. WL4EVER!
Charles Weidmann III (IBM Conversion Artist), artist, blogger, used to have a website but not even the Way Back Machine has an archive of it. We traded emails a few times. Seemed like a very nice guy and he was very tickled that I found him just so I could talk to him about Wasteland.

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