EA giving Red Alert 1 away for free Comments by Robert Purchese

1 September, 2008

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

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OnlyMe

01/09/08 @ 08:55

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Doesn't work on Vista, according to their site.

bioreit

01/09/08 @ 08:56

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Compatibility mode? I mean, I even got War of the Worlds to work on Vista...

agparrot

01/09/08 @ 09:57

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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.

Britesparc

01/09/08 @ 10:13

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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.

DuTraveller

01/09/08 @ 10:19

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I installed the game on my laptop...and even on XP with the Patch....doesnt work...

RedSparrows

01/09/08 @ 10:22

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oo gonna try
might as well!

rob230

01/09/08 @ 10:32

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Anyone got it working with Vista, it works with DosBox but I want to play in 640x480 if I can

Teamallstar

01/09/08 @ 11:17

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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???

Rirekon

01/09/08 @ 11:31

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Does it require you use the EA downloader? Yes? Forget it then.

bioreit

01/09/08 @ 12:01

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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

saku_luk

01/09/08 @ 12:41

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works on winxp? :O

zoidberg

01/09/08 @ 13:30

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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.

Nithron

01/09/08 @ 15:29

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Coin-Op: Troll much?

DuTraveller

01/09/08 @ 16:43

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

I googled it and none of the solutions helped...

paavopaavo

01/09/08 @ 17:45

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It's the 13th Anniversary of the original C&C by the way.

tripitaka

01/09/08 @ 18:59

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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!

Lexx87

01/09/08 @ 23:41

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No luck on Vista? My laptop will run it fine I guess, but that's still a bit poo!

RedSparrows

02/09/08 @ 10:03

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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.

Oceadge

02/09/08 @ 15:34

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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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