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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).
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I am sure there are people who has moved to macOS that grew on playing eg. Red Alert 1 who gladly would pay some amount of money to instantly own and play it again for some nostalgia. And by this I mean myself.
There are at least four dependencies that EA would have to replace for MAC. That would be an extremely complex task just for the first two. And who knows about the second. I just don't see a way for that to be profitable. Its no secret that games ported to Mac do poorly. DirectX 5 SDK DirectX Media 5.1 SDK Greenleaf Communications Library (GCL) Human Machine Interface (HMI) “Sound Operating System” (SOS)
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…
Interesting to see how much Assembly was used in Red Alert (19.5% of code base), whereas all the rest is < 3%)
Who's going to be the hero that builds a modern update of C&C Generals/Zero Hour with 4k rendering, raytracing, etc?
There's a mod for RA3 that re-implements Generals: https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-and-conquer-generals-evol...
My idea was to have games in various genres with different skills required, like planning or physical abilities. Then, set each one up to work with just the engine in a way where game state is easy to interact with. For instance, no graphics or pop-up menus. Then, iterative experiments, like genetic programming or neural networks, could run much faster. Later, a common interface to many of them, like human senses, might let them be used to build general knowledge for AGI experiments.
Curious what people think of this. Especially a few exemplars in each category modified to just run really fast. For each, maybe training data on top of it that shows how to play the game. Seems like a cheaper option for testing architectures vs games not designed to do this.
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…
Wow, Renegade? That's amazing. Enjoyed so many hours of flame tank / stealth tank rushes in that game. Hope someone takes it to the next level with open source.
Whoever pushed for this at EA - my deepest respect is with you! Original C&C was rewritten from scratch long ago, but open source version of Zero Hour is such an amazing gift. PS: if you want to send respects to the person who did it you can do it on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-vessella-62726825_from-th...
Hey, that would be me! :D You can check out our full announcement post here; https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb/...
I obviously love classical RTS and playing them since original C&C, but there are special place in my heart for Generals exactly because ot was different game.
And for me as game developer seeing this game in a sad state make me sad. I feel it does have as much potential as AoE2 and now more people can try to bring new life to it.
Who's going to be the hero that builds a modern update of C&C Generals/Zero Hour with 4k rendering, raytracing, etc?