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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

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>To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game. The C&C Remastered Collection is available for purchase on EA App or Steam. Mind you EA released [some of] the games as freeware back in 2008 so no, you don't have to buy them for the graphics, art, sound, and music assets Tiberian Dawn GDI https://web.archive.org/web/20110927141135/http://na.llnet.c... Tiberian Dawn NOD https://web.archive.org/web/20111104060230/…

Thanks for spoiling my weekend. :)

Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

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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.

says who?

anal_reactor says so.

Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

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OpenRA did it better :D If you haven't seen it yet https://www.openra.net/ is worth your time. https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA I have many fond memories of playing openra as "LAN" game on the gaming weekends we used to have in a few open source groups I've been in. I can't recommend "saturday gaming" enough, for anyone involved in any foss community, set up a recurring gaming weekend! You get bonus points if you mak…

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Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

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praying for Red Alert 2

Honestly, I wouldn't be too sad about them remaking RA2 and giving us easy-to-use online play. I wonder if that's why there's a delay - there's likely a *lot* of love for RA2

I don't if the remake will come at some point but in the mean time, you can enjoy this online port by fans: https://game.chronodivide.com/

You can play Red Alert 2 in the browser, with other players online.

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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.

How is that possible? Surely someone that worked on it must still have it in one of their archives somewhere? It was made in a time when software was still free.

The only thing I can think is that EA deliberately came down hard on that and were a little bit too zealous.

Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

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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.

Damn, Tiberian Sun was my favourite in that series

Mine too! I still play it sometimes through cncnet but you need a windows machine or a VM?

Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

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Looks like the Tiberian Dawn code is Windows too (so C&C Gold / W95) I was kind of wishing it was the 1995 DOS version source code! (also, no Dune 2000)

Emporer: Battle for Dune was their first 3D RTS and I personally loved the gameplay, story, and soundtrack. I very much hope it will eventually be open-sourced.

Yeah, I wonder why Emperor: Battle for Dune is not part of the open source since it's basically an earlier version of the General Engine. Would be weird to have the source code for that but not for Emperor.

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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

I would recommend checking out the openRA fork for Red Alart 2, Romanovs-Vengeance, https://github.com/MustaphaTR/Romanovs-Vengeance

Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

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I'd settle for a native Linux build.

Would be nice. But they all work just fine with wine and/or proton.

Generals has a really annoying issue where it just desynchronizes and drops you out of a multiplayer game after a random amount of time.
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