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Populous (1989)

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First, apologies for the sound quality.

A tutorial for getting to the Promised Lands expansion for Populous, if you purchased it digitally via GOG or another digital storefront.

The forum topics I mentioned early on:
The first topic: https://www.gog.com/forum/populous_series/how_to_launch_the_promised_lands_expansion
The second topic:
https://www.gog.com/forum/populous_series/promised_lands_graphics_sets_dont_show

The full written tutorial I mention a bit later:
https://cohost.org/Emptyeye/post/1280298-hey-did-you-know

What you want to change the autoexec section of the DOSBOX config file to:
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
@echo off
mount C ".."
mount C "..\cloud_saves" -t overlay
c:
cls
ECHO
ECHO * --------------------------------- *
ECHO * Populous and Promised Lands *
ECHO * --------------------------------- *
ECHO * 1) Standard Game *
ECHO * 2) The Promised Lands *
ECHO * --------------------------------- *
ECHO * 3) Exit Program *
ECHO * --------------------------------- *
ECHO

choice /c123 /s Which game would you like to play? [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
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exit

:e2
@echo off
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_PL.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL0.DAT /y
copy c:\DATA\LEVEL_OR.DAT c:\DATA\LEVEL1.DAT /y
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exit

:exit
exit

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