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Plus: get access to 2 when you pre-order 3.

EA is offering the original Red Alert as a free download from the official series website.

Furthermore, anyone pre-ordering Red Alert 3 will be granted access to Red Alert 2 for no extra cost. UK customers can get their hands on these treats through the EA Store or GAME.

Pre-ordering also nets you a DVD that offers more on poster-woman and real-world fighter Gina Carano, a Red Alert retrospective, and sneak peek at some special game-related videos. There's also a bonus map for Red Alert 3 chucked in.

The deals popped up over the weekend to mark the 13th anniversary of Red Alert 1. Just pop over to the official website to start downloading the 500MB Soviet and Allied discs.

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OnlyMe #1 3 years ago

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Doesn't work on Vista, according to their site.
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bioreit #2 3 years ago

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Compatibility mode? I mean, I even got War of the Worlds to work on Vista...
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agparrot #3 3 years ago

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Downloading with a view to giving my XP-powered lappy something to do. Imagine the compatibility might be a nightmare even with that, but for FREE, who can complain. Have great memories of Red Alert from when it was released... perhaps they will give us the expansion discs, in time.
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Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #4 3 years ago

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I'm definitely going to try this tonight...

LOVED RA1. Still my favourite RTS game, if only for the comedy James Bond units.
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DuTraveller #5 3 years ago

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I installed the game on my laptop...and even on XP with the Patch....doesnt work...
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RedSparrows #6 3 years ago

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oo gonna try
might as well!
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rob230 #7 3 years ago

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Anyone got it working with Vista, it works with DosBox but I want to play in 640x480 if I can
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Teamallstar #8 3 years ago

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Does anyone know if you can play against friends who have downloaded them via the internet.

And will this work on MACs???
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Rirekon #9 3 years ago

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Does it require you use the EA downloader? Yes? Forget it then.
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bioreit #10 3 years ago

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Yes, but quite a few of us choose not to.

I for one will be trying this, on both my Q Core Vista Home Premium and the Eee PC 1000H with XP Home tonight. As long as one of them plays it, I'm happy. If both can play it, yay for RA1 Lan games :-D
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saku_luk #11 3 years ago

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works on winxp?
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zoidberg #12 3 years ago

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works on XP, has Windows launcher. with luck, works on Vista too.
DOSBox can be made to support 640x480.
and no, no EA downloader.
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Nithron #13 3 years ago

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Coin-Op: Troll much?
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DuTraveller #14 3 years ago

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the error is: a privileged instruction was executed at address 005c7c14.

I googled it and none of the solutions helped...
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paavopaavo #15 3 years ago

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It's the 13th Anniversary of the original C&C by the way.
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tripitaka #16 3 years ago

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Are the downloads broken?
I can't get them to work in FF3 or IE7...
Want to try it on my new mini laptop!
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Lexx87 #17 3 years ago

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No luck on Vista? My laptop will run it fine I guess, but that's still a bit poo!
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RedSparrows #18 3 years ago

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Is easy to run on XP.

Download, run setup in compatability mode, install patch by copying it across and using the .exe, then running the programme itself in compat. mode also.
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Oceadge #19 3 years ago

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Pfft, that's the last time I'm buying a game if they're just going to go and give it away for free!
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