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Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

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Post by WorldMaker » Fri, May 22, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

dependenttypes wrote: post #186

capableweb wrote: post #9

One 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.

The reverse happened. MS learned from EA. The source for the first simcity was released in 2008, back when MS was still calling GPL and Linux cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(1989_video_game)#Micr... Can't wait for MS to learn from EA and open source Windows 95.

Microsoft did open source 1983's DOS: https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS

Given they've only made it to DOS 2.0 so far, it might take them a while to open source Windows 95, but it no longer seems like an impossibility either.

Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

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Post by DaiPlusPlus » Sat, May 23, 2020, 10:00 PM UTC

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #225

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least with OpenRA you can legally download the original game content ISO CD images (EA released them as free(beer)-ware a while ago) - the only thing missing is about half of the single-player campaign missions as OpenRA can’t play the original game missions directly so the project’s contributors recreate them by-hand,

> you can legally download the original game content ISO CD images (EA released them as free(beer)-ware a while ago) Is it possible to download these ISOs from EA today? On Origin, Red Alert is only available as part of the Command & Conquer The Ultimate Collection, which isn't free of charge.

It was mirrored on FilePlanet IIRC. This was about 8-9 years ago though.

Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

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Post by imjasonmiller » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 1:53 PM UTC

nightowl_games wrote: post #3

The pathfinding code and the networking will be interesting to look at.

They have uploaded the pathfinding related code for Red Alert [1] and Tiberian Sun.

1. https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...