Free Game Download of Command & Conquer Gold

Ruu_Old

I was going to stick this under the 'freebies's thread but decided to post it here. Link here. A vidya game for ye hip kids.

EA is offering Westwood Studios' seminal RTS Command & Conquer Gold as a free download starting today on the Command & Conquer website. The full game download, commemorating the August 31 release of the game 12 years ago, comprises two ISO image files and is also hosted on FileShack for your downloading pleasure.

This version of Command & Conquer Gold is Windows XP compatible and identical to the version included in the compilation Command & Conquer: The First Decade.

Kristok

excellent never actually played this one on the pc only on ps1.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Bleh 24K/sec download from their site... servers probably getting hammered at the moment.
Can't be arsed with 7 hour ETA.
Good find though... might try it again in a few days.

ColinJennings

Cool. Sweet find.

TerrorFirmer

Excellent game. It even works via LAN in the Gold edition, so you can play multiplayer with some friends - still fantastic after all these years.

Jonathan

A bargain indeed!! Anybody know if they are gonna release C&C Red Alert? I really want to play it over lan but cant cause it doesnt support tcp/ip.... only ipx! It might be fixed in the Gold Edition.

Stephen

Forget about downloading it from EA, you'll get about 10kb/sec. Use the fileshack links from the shacknews post. At this time of day the wait is less than a minute and the first ISO downloaded at my connection's max speed all the way (2Mbit) from their new york mirror.

pedroj

good aul ntl...downloaded the whole thing in less then 10 minutes

Random

Nice find

TerrorFirmer

jmccrohan wrote:

A bargain indeed!! Anybody know if they are gonna release C&C Red Alert? I really want to play it over lan but cant cause it doesnt support tcp/ip.... only ipx! It might be fixed in the Gold Edition.

Red Alert works in LAN with XP already. There's fixes available.

311

I downloaded it ,thanks.






Now where are those pesky Cds ?


Cheers!

Jonathan

HavoK wrote:

Red Alert works in LAN with XP already. There's fixes available.

I have Vista. M$ have chosen not to enable IPX in vista. I dont want to go tunnelling ipx over tcp/ip either. Is there an official tcp/ip patch?

Stephen

No need for CDs brian, you could use something like Daemon Tools to mount it as a virtual CDROM drive.

silverski

Greetings all,

Fantastic news. My all time favourite game.

Regards
silverski

here.from.day.1

silverski wrote:

Greetings all,

Fantastic news. My all time favourite game.

Regards
silverski

What a formal post!

Thanks Ruu keep up the good work.

BostonB

Stephen wrote:

Forget about downloading it from EA, you'll get about 10kb/sec. Use the fileshack links from the shacknews post. At this time of day the wait is less than a minute and the first ISO downloaded at my connection's max speed all the way (2Mbit) from their new york mirror.

I got the first ISO, but its got to busy to get the second. I assume you need both?

Kristok

should only need one, one for gdi missions and the other for nod.

Stephen

Yeah you can play away with the one you have while the other downloads

Redisle

Thanks for this ruu,
Pity I cant play em at the mo (Currently running a 2mb ati rage pci card due to my pci-e card giving up on me )

The_Conductor

ab_cork wrote:

Thanks for this ruu,
Pity I cant play em at the mo (Currently running a 2mb ati rage pci card due to my pci-e card giving up on me )

Given that this is 12 years old- your ATI card may not be a limiting factor!

Nice find Ruu- keep up the good work.

Stephen

Yep it'll work fine on your poxy ATI rage There is no 3D acceleration required - this game is all 2D.

BostonB

Kristok wrote:

should only need one, one for gdi missions and the other for nod.

Ok, I'll have to try later for the other one.

Are those single command missions in these?

I like the new game, (demo at least) very like the originals I'll pick it up when it drops from the "more money than sense" price bracket.