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EA Releases Command & Conquer for Free

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  • LoneIgadzraLoneIgadzra Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Vathris wrote: »
    FYI there is a NOX online community that is still active, I have played recently online with them, I would post the link but I don't know the legality of their hosting and I don't want a ban.

    PM or email me and I will be forever in your debt!

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  • major_tommajor_tom Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    First Ubisoft, then EA? Seriously, what's going on here?

    EA is trying to change its image. Ive heard a lot out of there about this. Producing a quality madden, skate, free games and a change in marketing is an attempt to return ea to the old days before they supposedly 'turned evil'

    The competition by activision for top spot has made them turn good again.

    Also, MOH:Airborne is hot shit. I was all like "oh, great, another WWII game. Another addition to the increasingly crappy number of console MOH games. Woo."

    I then downloaded the demo on a whim and proceeded to have my face completely rocked off.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    major_tom wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    First Ubisoft, then EA? Seriously, what's going on here?

    EA is trying to change its image. Ive heard a lot out of there about this. Producing a quality madden, skate, free games and a change in marketing is an attempt to return ea to the old days before they supposedly 'turned evil'

    The competition by activision for top spot has made them turn good again.

    Also, MOH:Airborne is hot shit. I was all like "oh, great, another WWII game. Another addition to the increasingly crappy number of console MOH games. Woo."

    I then downloaded the demo on a whim and proceeded to have my face completely rocked off.

    Where does charging two dollars and fifty cents to max out the player in the newTiger Woods game come into this?

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  • rayofashrayofash Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Torrent plz.

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  • rayofashrayofash Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Hmm, accourding to the installation document: *Command & Conquer is not online compatible

    Hmmmm.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Can I play this without the CD burner?

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  • rayofashrayofash Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Can I play this without the CD burner?

    Of course. Go get Daemon Tools.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    rayofash wrote: »
    Can I play this without the CD burner?

    Of course. Go get Daemon Tools.

    Cool, thanks.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Though I have never played any game in the C&C series, this thread has led me to wiki'ing it, and realizing it has a kick-ass compilation, I now intend to get The First Decade.

    I'm a sucker for well-made compilations. Expect the rantings of a newly deflowered C&C virgin sometime in the coming weeks.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    SimBen wrote: »
    Though I have never played any game in the C&C series, this thread has led me to wiki'ing it, and realizing it has a kick-ass compilation, I now intend to get The First Decade.

    I'm a sucker for well-made compilations. Expect the rantings of a newly deflowered C&C virgin sometime in the coming weeks.

    And that there, is why they did this. :P

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  • MonaroMonaro Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    rayofash wrote: »
    Hmm, accourding to the installation document: *Command & Conquer is not online compatible

    Hmmmm.

    Virtual LAN using Hamachi...?

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2007
    Monaro wrote: »
    rayofash wrote: »
    Hmm, accourding to the installation document: *Command & Conquer is not online compatible

    Hmmmm.

    Virtual LAN using Hamachi...?


    the patch that makes it work on XP disables LAN.

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  • CycophantCycophant Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I'm assuming this is still buggy, though? I remember trying to play this with the Decade pack, and on a lot of the missions, it freezes every time I tried to scroll the map up to a certain spot. I eventually ended up opening up the maps in Notepad, and deleting stuff from the map in that area until it stopped crashing (I think I narrowed it down to certain units or something).

    Needless to say, that got annoying really fast, and finally on the final Allied mission, nothing I did would get it to work, so I gave up. It's a pity, I really enjoyed the game otherwise.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2007
    You wouldn't happen to have the Office toolbar, would you? That bug is mentioned somewhere in the patch notes..

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    devoir wrote: »
    SimBen wrote: »
    Though I have never played any game in the C&C series, this thread has led me to wiki'ing it, and realizing it has a kick-ass compilation, I now intend to get The First Decade.

    I'm a sucker for well-made compilations. Expect the rantings of a newly deflowered C&C virgin sometime in the coming weeks.

    And that there, is why they did this. :P

    Oh fuck I walked straight into that one. :S

    Well whatever, I'm still gonna get it, it's cheap enough and there's enough game in there to fill the time left till Starcraft 2 comes out.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    The .isos were taken down. :?

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2007
    I get back home and the downloads have failed.

    Damnit, I wish the Opera devs would fix that. I always have to use Getright to grab large files...

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    I get back home and the downloads have failed.

    Damnit, I wish the Opera devs would fix that. I always have to use Getright to grab large files...

    It's not you. I tried the link a while ago and it says the files were not on the server. EA probably pulled them because of extensive traffic.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2007
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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Nice find. I figured it would only be a matter of time before someone re-hosted it.

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  • VathrisVathris Baconist @EndofTimeRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Vathris wrote: »
    FYI there is a NOX online community that is still active, I have played recently online with them, I would post the link but I don't know the legality of their hosting and I don't want a ban.

    PM or email me and I will be forever in your debt!

    Hey man I sent you a PM with the happy haps lol

    BTW SimBen, your avatar is rocken! Way to show some Chrono culture lol.

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  • Alfred J. KwakAlfred J. Kwak is it because you were insulted when I insulted your hair?Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    So can anybody confirm that there is no way to play this online?

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  • VulpineVulpine Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    If you can get a virtual LAN going (through Hamachi, as someone else suggested), then this patch (http://www.understorm.net/thipx/) should work. I've tried it with the Win95 versions of C&C and Red Alert at home on a LAN and can confirm it works beautifully.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    i can't get this to install:(
    mounted it in Daemon Tools, set install.exe and setup.exe to Windows 95 compatability, tried running one of them, and i still get the "16 bit Windows Subsystem" error.
    C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications

    i usually just ignore this and go on to something else, cursing my misfortune, but dammit, i want this to work. Any suggestions?

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Are you using XP or Vista?

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    XP. I seem to get this problem a lot whenever i try to run something a little older, so i'm guessing it's a dodgy file on my pc.

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  • Gorilla SaladGorilla Salad Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    God damn not having a CD burner.

    What ubisoft games are you guys talking about?

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Use Daemon Tools.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    The Ubisoft games that were released on Fileplanet. Farcry, Prince of Persia and some others. There should be a thread around for it.

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  • Bouncing_SoulBouncing_Soul Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Gdiguy wrote: »
    bombardier wrote: »
    I can't wait for free Covert Ops!
    Yes I can!

    The only good Covert Ops mission was the one with 5 bases, and you start out with 1 commando

    That mission made the entire pack worth it, though

    Is that the one where at the start you have nothing, and the chick goes "reinforcements have arrived", and a chopper drops off a lone commando who then says "time to rock and roll!"?

    If so, I laughed so hard at that.

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  • ChenChen Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    What the... 1 GB for a 1995 game? This could take a while...

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I started playing and wondered what the fuck was going on when my soldier didn't get a cover bonus for being next to a sandbag!

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Malkor wrote: »
    I started playing and wondered what the fuck was going on when my soldier didn't get a cover bonus for being next to a sandbag!

    Hint: This came out before Starcraft. Its only competition back then was Warcraft 2. :P

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  • yotesyotes Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    !@#$

    I just want them to release the whole mess that was C&C Sole Survivor (and servers and sources) for free. That was the most fun computer gaming part of my late childhood, for sure.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Anyone want to try some games on Hamachi?

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  • BoilerbirdBoilerbird Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I think EA's large download server just said, "Fuck this shit, life isn't worth it" and quit.

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  • Alfred J. KwakAlfred J. Kwak is it because you were insulted when I insulted your hair?Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Vulpine wrote: »
    If you can get a virtual LAN going (through Hamachi, as someone else suggested), then this patch (http://www.understorm.net/thipx/) should work. I've tried it with the Win95 versions of C&C and Red Alert at home on a LAN and can confirm it works beautifully.

    So it's actually running with Hamachi? Great, I'm gonna have a LAN party tonight!

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    any suggestions on how i can get this working?

    XP with SP2, and it seems to have some kind of compatibility error, even though the installer's set to run in Win95 mode.

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  • VulpineVulpine Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Vulpine wrote: »
    If you can get a virtual LAN going (through Hamachi, as someone else suggested), then this patch (http://www.understorm.net/thipx/) should work. I've tried it with the Win95 versions of C&C and Red Alert at home on a LAN and can confirm it works beautifully.

    So it's actually running with Hamachi? Great, I'm gonna have a LAN party tonight!

    I've only tried it on an actual physical LAN, but since Hamachi emulates one fairly transparently it should work. Since I'm on a Mac I've no way of testing it for certain but I see no reason why it shouldn't.

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  • RamiRami Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I enjoyed all the C&C games up until the point where the missions became hard enough that you'd need to spend 40 minutes harvesting resources to mass enough troops and then just storm them.

    I never finished any of them.

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