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Red Alert 1 Released As Freeware

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-was-left-handed dept.

Ciaran_H writes "Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1 was released as freeware on C&C's 13th anniversary. The Soviet and Allied CDs are available for download on EA's site. With the freeware release of the original Command & Conquer: Tiberium Dawn having taken place last year for the 12th anniversary, two of the most popular RTS games are now available completely free." EA is also offering a free download of Red Alert 2 with a pre-order of the upcoming Red Alert 3. The above link has a trailer for the new game, which includes appearances from George Takei, Tim Curry, Jenny McCarthy, and others.

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  1. You can run it on linux... by XnPlater · · Score: 5, Informative

    Option A: wine

    - use winecfg to set windows version to 98.
    - before installation copy the contents of CD1 (allied) to a local directory
    - use winecfg to configure a cdrom drive (F: for example) to point to it
    - further, in winecfg set the corresponding cdrom label to 'CD1'
    - run the installer;
    $ wine F:/SETUP95/INSTALL.EXE
    - copy the included PATCH.* from the XP_Patch subdir to the REDALERT installation folder
    - run the inlcuded update patch;
    $ wine C:/WESTWOOD/REDALERT/PATCH.EXE
    - run the game;
    $ wine C:/WESTWOOD/REDALERT/RA95.EXE

    Option B: freera (haven't tried it though)

    Happy world domination!

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