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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:00 am Post subject:
Red Alert 1 for Free!
Subject description: Don't be surprised if you get Tiberian Sun for free next year!
Hello everyone! Today is sunday, august 31st, the 13rd bithday of the Command & Conquer franchise. And, to honour the date, Electronic Arts have made Red Alert 1 become an abandonware or simply freeware. Check out the picture below to download it:
Bear in mind that EA is not giving away the two expansion packs for Red Alert 1. Also, if you pre-order Red Alert 3, you get Red Alert 2 without is expansion pack.
Red Alert 1 is the second C&C game that becomes abandonware and it is just a confirmation that we'll never see a patch 1.03 for The First Decade. Interesting, heh? And next year, expect Tiberian Sun... Last edited by Banshee on Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:28 pm; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:09 am Post subject:
They totally skipped the Covert ops, too <__<
but regardless, I still appreciate them finally releasing their grip on the old C&Cs _________________ The Fall of Hammerfest - Epic Tiberian chain story
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:13 am Post subject:
Sigh.
Well, I've already downloaded TD (plus Covert Ops) & RA1 plus Counterstrike & Aftermath, for free. And no, it wasn't a torrent, surprisingly. _________________ Destroy to create. All for the hunt to dominate!
Yah, if they were -truely- letting go of these games, they'd let go of the source code so that the people who actually care can do something interesting with them - not that plenty of amazing things havn't already been done to the likes of C&C lately, but releasing the source code would make a lot of those alterations much less illegal ;] QUICK_EDIT
if they made the games free, then why not just make the xpacks available? And I don't mean them, I mean us. All three xpacks can't be that big, just upload them.
Or is this morally wrong? _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
What are morals? I love EA's, "but that's not all!" approach to their latest SAGE flavors. Free Tiberian Sun next year huh? Wouldn't they need to make serials? EA is pretty lazy... QUICK_EDIT
to all wanting the sources of TS/RA2
please, don't get us all insane, it's a horrid beast of an engine. _________________ Micro TS
Portable, no campaign, movies or music, just the engine and needed resources for skirmish and lan. QUICK_EDIT
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject:
Re: Red Alert 1 for Free!
Banshee wrote:
Red Alert 1 is the second C&C game that becomes abandonware and it is just a confirmation that we'll never see a patch 1.03 for The First Decade.
I agree, EA will never make something like that. That's why I (with help and resourses from Nyerguds), have been working on an unnofficial 1.03 patch. It's at Revision 2 Alpha stage, so check the 10th page of the sticky post on official TFD forums, here's a link:
Hmm, i wonder why they are not giving away the expansion packs...
Incentive to get people to go and buy TFD. They release the base game but not the expansions so people will be interested and then go pay for the extra content. _________________ WOL nick: migtybob
On that pic for downloading RA1 for free (That has the Kirov's on it...) Whats with that really small Kirov on the right side, about in the center... Looks pretty funny. _________________ MadHQ's Graveyard - Click here!
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Doesn't abandonware have to have been abandoned for a set amount of time before it's fair game?
I'm pretty sure TFD wasn't long enough ago for RA to be abandonware. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Who cares? They aren't gonna milk any more money out of it they wont care unless it stops people buying Tits Alert 3 or Kane's Waffles. _________________ Yes, work on MV continues. It is not forgotten. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject:
im in in the middle of downloading it now a god could it any slower
im only half way threw the allied download and finished the soviet download an hour ago
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Tits Alert 3 or Kane's Waffles.
lol
i would rather thay relised the expansion and the games than just the games the oly expansion pack thay would have trouble with is Yuris Revenge _________________ Creator of TS:BoB and some other things that might be good when finnished. QUICK_EDIT
On that pic for downloading RA1 for free (That has the Kirov's on it...) Whats with that really small Kirov on the right side, about in the center... Looks pretty funny.
Bhaha, how cool Someone vxl it!
Damn EA. I already have RA1, I only need the expansions _________________
it's just the back of a normal kirov where the front is behind a cloud and a part of the head is displaced back.
i just wonder if EA would make another patch for those released games, if many people would complain about problems under XP/Vista.
If EA would do this (what i doubt) this could give some hope that if they release TS too, they would make a patch for the damn waveclass errors and several other bugs.
At least the release brings the games back to life and if the community grows big enough, it might be able to persuade EA to do some more work on those games. _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:57 am Post subject:
Re: Red Alert 1 for Free!
Banshee wrote:
Nyerguds wrote:
Banshee wrote:
Red Alert 1 is the second C&C game that becomes abandonware
If the actual company releases it for free, it's FREEWARE
In this very specific case, it is the same crap, since EA abandoned the product officially.
Banshee, I'm sorry to say this, but please wake up! I know you are currently angered by EA not having enough resources to update ModSDKs and whatnot, but the game is 12 years old, for crying out loud. Why should they support it? 99% in the EALA team did not even work on that game, if I'm not mistaken. Not to mention that EA at least releases it for free as Win95 version that works quite easily on modern computers, even having a handy documentation for installing. Lucasarts on the other hand released their classic adventures for 10 euros apiece and did not even update them for Windows (!!!). You literally had to use third-party software such as Dosbox to make them work. So please, let's drop this "OMG EA iz teh eevil!" attitude, for it is uncalled for, and these days, simply obsolete.
Just look at UaW, it had 3 patches only, less than half a year life span and promises which were never fulfilled. The gaming market is just not very cost-effective anymore. QUICK_EDIT
downloading took me 15 minutes...
and lucas arts does not need to update it´s classic adventures since you only need scummvm _________________ just a simple logo by bricks @ raminator, on Flickr QUICK_EDIT
Yes but you can tell it was fixed up, (and crappily too I might add). There's the back of a propeller above it and the bottom of the bomb carrier below it... who knows why anyone went to the trouble of doctoring it.
And hell, who cares if we get the source code or not, anybody with enough time on their hands could very well remake the engine in whatever format they wanted. _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
I'd prefer if I had something tangible to work with in order to re-create the engine, so I can use it as a guide to the final product or in cases where I'm just a little stuck use it to learn how it's done.
(Seeing as how I have yet to learn how to reverse-engineer compiled code into assembler or any other language) QUICK_EDIT
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