There are loads of .BAK files as well, and diffing them with the actual file gives you some insight on what they were working on. (Like pre and post Counterstrike addon).
EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
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Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#152Wow. Please do SimCity 2000, 3000 and 4 next EA!!
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#153Alas, no red alert 2 (the best, IMO). But still this is such great news. Huge props to EA for this.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ahh, i was hoping for TBS remaster. I guess this is why i haven't seen it.
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#155I really hope that one day they will open source Nox [1], it was my favorite childhood game after Sims. Nox was also a game created by the same studio that created Red Alert.
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#156As a React developer, how does one even compile something like this
It's in the README
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#157I wonder if the current owners will ever consider open sourcing Supreme Commander, the spiritual successor to Total Annihilation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_(video_game)
Check out Beyond All Reason if you aren't aware of it https://www.beyondallreason.info/
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
This one made me laugh, mostly because the variable names are so dumb // our RNG is basically shit -- horribly nonrandom at the start of the sequence. // get a few values at random to get rid of the dreck. // there's no mathematical basis for this, but empirically, it helps a lot. UnsignedInt silly = GetGameLogicRandomSeed() % 7; for (Int poo = 0; poo { GameLogicRandomValue(0, 1); // ignore result }
I spent some time browing curiosities about old games, and what strikes me is that the code sometimes was quite personal. You could see the joy, the anger, the disappointment, the satisfaction. Nowadays it would never fly to name a variable "poo", you need to stay professional at all times.
> Nowadays it would never fly to name a variable "poo", you need to stay professional at all times.
I couldn't help but chuckle at your user name when reading this comment
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#159Alas, no red alert 2 (the best, IMO). But still this is such great news. Huge props to EA for this.
I don't know why they're stalling, I wonder if there still any revenues from the game or if it's IP issue.
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