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1950\'s Sci-Fi Radio Program - Popular Sci-Fi books and short stories transcribed into radioplays.

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This is the 1950's Radio Sci-Fi Mystery Program: X Minus One
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* The episodes are radioplay adaptations of popular sci-fi tales and books of the time, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein and Frederick Pohl, etc.
* The content is primarily future/space/alien, as seen through the 50's era vision of man's space faring future.
* According to my research, this is the most popular and successful sci-fi program of old time radio.
* There are 51 episodes in this radio mod, ranging anywhere from 18-28 minutes in length (some with nostalgic commercials peppered in). There are 126 episodes in total. But some were inappropriate for the Wasteland, some poorly reviewed and some were difficult to hear clearly. So these 51 are effectively cherry picked. I was NOT trying to save space. I was attempting to be true to Fallout.
* I have configured the mod to play them randomly. The series is entirely episodic, so none are linked. It was necessary to randomize them as the pipboy does not retain your place on a relog. Hence you'd end up hearing the same introductory episodes over and over.
* The episodes are public domain collected from Archive.org (linked below).

This is my 2nd radio station. The first is the Space Patrol Comm Relay (linked below). I still listen to that one regularly, but it made me realize how poorly the recordings have survived the years, making many of them a strain to hear. That's mainly what prompted to me to set about finding new material who's source files had well survived the years, while still being a welcome and enjoyed addition to the Wasteland airwaves.
* For the Space Patrol fans: I have found copies of all 96 episodes of Space Patrol and am currently in the process of weeding out the ones that aren't auditorily clear. Unfortunately I have been unable to "clean them up" even slightly. While the station will have a smaller pool of episodes, it will ultimately be more enjoyable with the strain to hear removed. --completed 6/27/2012--


Installation:
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I've created the directories that should exist already in your Fallout 3 directory structure. No overwriting should be necessary. Ergo, place the X-1_Tales_of_Wonder! directory in your Data/sound/songs directory, and the ESP file in the Data directory.


Uninstallation:
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Delete the X-1_Tales_of_Wonder! folder and the X-1_Tales_of_Wonder!.esp file.


Known Conflicts:
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I've been testing the mod for a few days and haven't run into any problems thus far.
Things I've been on the lookout for...
* X-1 taking over other radio stations (mod or vanilla)
* Poor sound quality so as to have to strain to hear the dialogue
* Lack of effective randomizing
SO FAR SO GOOD!
Note - There should be roughly 4-7 seconds between episodes. I have been occasionally seeing it take 30, but it always continues on. Must be some kind of game latency.


Accreditations:
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Archive.org - For hosting X Minus One and many radio classics
* http://archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_X_Minus_One
X Minus One plot summaries - This made it far easier to get a feel for which episodes are Wasteland appropriate.
* http://www.otrplotspot.com/xMinusOne.html
Myself :D - My first station (Space Patrol Comm Relay) made the creation of this one a snap.
* http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=17405
Feel free to alter this mod, provided you supply my upload linking accreditation.