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

Davy · 31-08-2008 2:01pm #1

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 · 31-08-2008 2:47pm

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

Fringe · 31-08-2008 2:57pm

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

Dave147 · 31-08-2008 3:02pm

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 · 31-08-2008 3:10pm

I'm guessing this aint for macs?

CyberWaste · 31-08-2008 3:14pm

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 · 31-08-2008 3:35pm

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

Linoge · 31-08-2008 5:40pm

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

MunsterCycling · 31-08-2008 6:36pm

Linoge wrote: »

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

Explain?

MC

MjM · 31-08-2008 6:55pm

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 · 31-08-2008 7:36pm

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 · 31-08-2008 7:48pm

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

Rowley Birkin QC · 31-08-2008 8:03pm

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 · 31-08-2008 8:20pm

Downloading at 11kb/s - I give up.

Monotype · 31-08-2008 8:43pm

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

Mossy Monk · 31-08-2008 8:44pm

Nice one OP. Downloaded both in under half an hour

dingding · 31-08-2008 9:06pm

Downloading now.

Thanks OP

darkskol · 31-08-2008 9:51pm

nice find op

68 lost souls · 31-08-2008 9:56pm

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 · 31-08-2008 10:09pm

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 · 31-08-2008 10:33pm

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 · 31-08-2008 10:40pm

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 · 31-08-2008 10:46pm

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 · 31-08-2008 11:11pm

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:

31-08-2008 11:17pm

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

Monotype · 31-08-2008 11:25pm

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 · 01-09-2008 2:28am

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 · 01-09-2008 12:21pm

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 · 01-09-2008 12:24pm

download still working today for me

both discs down in 10min

jimmycrackcorm · 01-09-2008 9:03pm

Much quicker today

Redisle · 01-09-2008 9:36pm

Nice one op. Downloading now @ ~350kBps

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

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