Download Red Alert for free TODAY ONLY 31/8/08

Davy

Today, August 31st, 2008 marks the 13th anniversary of the storied Command & Conquer franchise, which has sold over 25 million copies to date. And to celebrate this milestone and this October's highly anticipated return to the world of Red Alert with Red Alert 3, we are giving away one of the original games that started it all, Command & Conquer Red Alert, for FREE


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68 lost souls

Lol its gonna take me more then the rest of the day to download the two discs.

Fringe

I'd love to but I'm really just not bothered with the long download....

Dave147

Well at 1.2mb/s I may aswell seeing as it's only going to take about 10 minutes lol. Thanks for the heads up Was only thinking about playing this the other day

Turnip2000

I'm guessing this aint for macs?

CyberWaste

Its only a 1gig, so ill leave it on for a an hour or two, should be a good game, but its free :rolleyes:

Ruu_Old

One of the few games I've actually played, nice one OP. Going to copy this to the C&C forum. Thanks.

Linoge

RA2 is still decent, but RA1?! Now that is just painful.....:eek:

MunsterCycling

Linoge wrote: »

RA2 is still decent, but RA1?! Now that is just painful.....:eek:

Explain?

MC

MjM

Linoge wrote: »

RA2 is still decent, but RA1?! Now that is just painful.....:eek:

Red Alert 1 is still an incredible and addictive game, I first played this in 1997 and I still play the odd skirmish, personally I think its still one of the best C&C games!

TerrorFirmer

Linoge wrote: »

RA2 is still decent, but RA1?! Now that is just painful.....:eek:

Red Alert original is incomparably better then RA2, the multi-player is miles better. I'm normally not one to yammer on about nostalgia this and that but Red Alert is one of the best games ever made and its just as fun in link up/lan nowadays as it was 10 years ago. Truly timeless. Still have a pristine copy for the PSX.

Hobbes

Even with a 1GB connection that site is pig slow.

Rowley Birkin QC

Hobbes wrote: »

Even with a 1GB connection that site is pig slow.

I thought it was just my crappy Eircom connection at home.

As good as RA is I have other stuff to do, cheers anyway OP.

jimmycrackcorm

Downloading at 11kb/s - I give up.

Monotype

150kB/s! Thanks OP! I never tried this one. I'll save it in case I'm bored some time.

Mossy Monk

Nice one OP. Downloaded both in under half an hour

dingding

Downloading now.

Thanks OP

darkskol

nice find op

68 lost souls

My crappy eircom is only working on 5% speed on any speed test Ive dont over the last few days so insteadt of my average 3,200Kb/s I get 200kb/s.

For downloading this Im getting 18.8KB/s and when i downloaded the axis disc it was corrupt. If my connection was fixed I would have it in under ten minutes but for some reason it aint working.

*enfuriated fan*

TerrorFirmer

It's all FMV and Audio, I have a copy of the full game that weights in at a hefty 50mb compressed without either (that is, it lacks music, though obviously retains unit talk and narration)...though in fairness both of those things are excellent and really contribute to the game...

Kelso

I've just recently got vista and can't figure out how to run these games, any tips? I double click them but they just don't run.............

Monotype

It includes a trailer for RA3 and a set of RA3 wallpapers... mostly which seem to be showing off the women in the game... are they hoping that that'll sell the game, I wonder?

Kelso wrote: »

I've just recently got vista and can't figure out how to run these games, any tips? I double click them but they just don't run.............

Is this after you installed it? Did you try: (i) running in administrator mode and (ii) Right-clicking on the file->properties->Compatibility tab->Run in windows 95 compatibility?

Davy

Kelso wrote: »

I've just recently got vista and can't figure out how to run these games, any tips? I double click them but they just don't run.............

why does vista give so much problems... :rolleyes:
Try the compatibility mode and see if it helps.

Kelso

Cheers lads, I now got to somewhere where it's tryna get me to burn a disc, do you have to do this?
God I hate stupid vista :mad::mad:

311

One of the files is an ISO file ,you might need an iso burner like nero.

Monotype

Yeah you can burn it to disc or use a drive emulator like:
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm

68 lost souls

I have Power ISO but not sure how to install the game using this. Any advice? I dont have a burner.

EDIT: When I mount the CD on the virtual drive and open it. I follow the readme instructions that wer ein the winrar but it saysunable to load setup.max from the cd-rom insert the disk and press a button or something to that effect.

68 lost souls

Ok maanaged to get the allies disc workinge ventually but I cant download the soviet disc still. First time it was corrupt, second attemp timed-out.

Cabaal

download still working today for me
both discs down in 10min

jimmycrackcorm

Much quicker today

Redisle

Nice one op. Downloading now @ ~350kBps

Yakuza

Nice find, download site still worked fine for me today (Sep 1st), got both down in a total of 25 mins or ~700KB/s.

Now...I'm off to dust that copy of DosBox

Linoge

MunsterCycling wrote: »

Explain?

MC

Well, you can only build one at a time for one. Multiclicking kills the fun. Fake buildings are lame. Building silos is lame. Can't dig in troops. The graphics are poor compared to RA2. And worst of all, no rocketeers!!! How can you play any game without rocketeers!??!?!:eek:

Overall, there are just not as many tactics that you can employ, which makes RA2 50 times superior for skirmish. One thing I will say for RA1 is that the navy was brill, those large cruisers could hit 3 screens away, nuts. Oh, and the supers, love the Nukes!

ojwhite

This game was a revolutionary and unsung piece of work. And the soundtrack! Stop the lights. Frank Klepacki, check it out (you can download it).

Thank you so much. Does this work on XP?

Fnz

ojwhite wrote: »

This game was a revolutionary and unsung piece of work. And the soundtrack! Stop the lights. Frank Klepacki, check it out (you can download it).

Thank you so much. Does this work on XP?

Welcome to boards.ie

This is an old thread, long since forgotten about. You'd be better off asking technical questions about it in the games forum, here: [Link]

... and the game was hardly "revolutionary"; the original C&C's gameplay was the same. :P

Can't argue about the soundtrack though... pretty darn good alright! :cool:

jhegarty

Fnz wrote: »

Welcome to boards.ie

This is an old thread, long since forgotten about. You'd be better off asking technical questions about it in the games forum, here: [Link]

... and the game was hardly "revolutionary"; the original C&C's gameplay was the same. :P

Can't argue about the soundtrack though... pretty darn good alright! :cool:

c&c has it's own forum http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=921