EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
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Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#2Also here https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con...
They also confirmed it will be in C++
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#3The pathfinding code and the networking will be interesting to look at.
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#4The post mentions TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll, I assume it's not the whole source of the games, is it?
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#5The post mentions TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll, I assume it's not the whole source of the games, is it?
Here’s the language they use:
“Electronic Arts will be releasing the TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll and their corresponding source code under the GPL version 3.0 license”
I assume “their corresponding source code” means “the code for those DLLs”, but I do wonder why they bother mentioning the DLLs at all.
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#6The post mentions TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll, I assume it's not the whole source of the games, is it?
Most likely the whole engine and the bare metal game without the arts/graphics and music/sound. That's how a lot of opensource clones work.
For example OpenTTD [0] was reverse engineered and you have 2 options to actually play the game
- either have the original game and use the arts/graphics and music/sound data from the original files
- use the open source remake of the arts/graphics and music/sound
The 2nd option where a lot of open source clones fail. It's one thing to have the engine and the bare metal game but the actual arts/graphics usually takes more time to recreate. That's where OpenTTD is really successful because you can just download the game and play.
As another example an open source clone of Red Alert already exist [1] but it's just the engine. To actually play you need the original arts/graphics
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#7Hey EA, how about the Bullfrog games next?
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#8The post mentions TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll, I assume it's not the whole source of the games, is it?
Most likely the whole engine and the bare metal game without the arts/graphics and music/sound. That's how a lot of opensource clones work. For example OpenTTD [0] was reverse engineered and you have 2 options to actually play the game - either have the original game and use the arts/graphics and music/sound data from the original files - use the open source remake of the arts/graphics and music/sound The 2nd option…
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Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#9One of the best things that could happen to the gaming landscape would be if companies like EA and similar learned from Microsoft's move to open sourcing more software and involving the community more gives them a lot more goodwill and business as a side-effect.
And then us gamers get more long-lived games as a benefit as well.
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#10Hey EA, how about the Bullfrog games next?
Yes! The source for Magic Carpet would be awesome!