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Slightly odd (age wise) Generals got open sourced before RA2. I wonder why?
It is apparently the case that the original source for Tiberian Sun and RA2 has been lost; EA doesn't have it. There's been rumours to that effect for a while.
Who's going to be the hero that builds a modern update of C&C Generals/Zero Hour with 4k rendering, raytracing, etc?
According to some research I did a few years back, EA currently owns the rights to Full Tilt! Pinball, which is what 3D Pinball Space Cadet was based on. EA, if you have a single shred of decency, open source Pinball!
That’s... I mean, I hesitate to comment on that under this particular post, but... yeah.
Red Alert: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert Tiberian Dawn: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn Renegade: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade Generals Zero Hour: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour EA post: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con... Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb (Deleted Reddi…
praying for Red Alert 2
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> the usage of the resulting binaries are still restricted To use the binaries, you need the game assets. The only legal way to acquire the game assets is to own the game, as EA have not included them in this release. This is less a licensing issue, but stating the real limitations, that EA aren't volunteering to do the leg work to remove. Which is fine.
Where are the assets for openra coming from? I guess those could be used in a fork of this?
Who's going to be the hero that builds a modern update of C&C Generals/Zero Hour with 4k rendering, raytracing, etc?
According to some research I did a few years back, EA currently owns the rights to Full Tilt! Pinball, which is what 3D Pinball Space Cadet was based on. EA, if you have a single shred of decency, open source Pinball!
From what I've heard from videos by Microsoft devs on why it was dropped between XP and Vista, the source code is obtuse and very difficult to port/work on.
The complete C&C bundle with all open sourced games and several others is currently $6 on Steam, if you need the art assets https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39394/Command__Conquer... Hopefully this causes a sales spike and encourages other developers to do similar things.
Anyone knows if either of them includes stuff that requires an EA account?