Free Download of Red Alert- Today Only!

EA.com offers a Free Download of Red Alert: Command and Conquer today Aug 31.

This is an original game. As original as Starcraft or Warcraft. Probably one of the best RTS's even today.


Guide to Playing on Windows XP by Gophn

 

This is one of my favourite games of all time, i had like 8 years ago, but could never play it on XP. Thank you for this, i am downloading it now, and now i have seen this i cant wait for Red Alert 3

 

oooh free game I'll have to try it out, thanks

 

Too bad when I tried to install the games from the actual CD, it says I need Windows 95. Such a shame, C&C RA1 was a great game.

 

This copy doesn't work? I remember a few years ago they released a revised version for Windows XP though.

 

Will these downloads work okay on Vista?

 

All you have to do is a little reading

 

Ermm.. what are you supposed to do after you have downloaded it? Burn it to a disc to run it?

 

The game can definitely be run on XP and Vista. You will need to do some searching on the net to find out exactly how to run it.

I have the C&C decade DVD which I played the game from last year on my Vista Inspiron 9300.

 

Beat you to it: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=293512

Now if only I could get the darn thing to work.

 

Saweet!
I think it'll even run on this relic! *kicks*

 

I actually found my original Red Alert discs gathering dust, but i just can't get it to work. I have installed it, installed the patch, but get an error message half way through loading the game up. Anybody got any ideas?

 

With the "The First Decade" release of C&C games, they made them all compatible with Windows XP. On the site where you downloaded it they said there are known issues with Vista, but don't give a solution.

Try running Virtual PC from Microsoft. It's a free download. But you need an actual XP disc to make it work.

 

Try running it in Windows 95 compatibility mode.

 

go here to get it to work with vista:

http://www.dice.nl/Trouble/trouble_C&CRA.htm

 

Thanks Magma. This download IS still up.

 

Still working at the time of this post. Never played Red Alert, so I'm going to try it out.

 

Never played it, want to though.
Downloading all 6 disc.

 

its only 2 discs.

one for Allied
one for Soviets

 

For installing on XP

1. download the two discs
2. extract them (with a program like WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3. then you can Burn the ISO's onto blank CDs (or mount them on a virtual drive like Daemon Tools)
4. insert the newly burned disc (or mount the image)
5. (close any autorun stuff) browse into the disc.. through My Computer or Windows Explorer
6. look for the SETUP.EXE, right-click on it and go to Properties
7. (under Compatiblity tab) check "Run this program in compatiblity mode for" ... choose Windows 98 /ME
8. hit OK to close that window
9. (back in the root folder of the CD) double-click on the SETUP.EXE
10. now it should install with no issues (dont install the Westwood Chat, its useless)

For playing on XP

1. (after installing it) go to the "XP_Patch" folder that was extracted with the RAR files that was download (does not matter which one you choose Allied/Soviet, both are the same)
2. copy the RA108USP.EXE to the folder where you installed the game
3. double-click on the RA108USP.EXE to extract three files (PATCH.EXE, PATCH.RTP, PATCH.TXT)
4. double-click on the PATCH.EXE to let it do its thing, then the game should be patched.
5. you need to go to the Start Menu and "Westwood\Red Alert" folder
6. right-click on the "Red Alert Windows 95 Edition" shortcut, choose Properties
7. (under Compatiblity tab) check "Run this program in compatiblity mode for" ... choose Windows 98 /ME
8. hit OK to close that window
9. now you can click on that shortcut and it should play fine.

 

For whatever reason, I've done all the steps Gophn mentioned and the ones Westwood told us to do and I still stall at 24% when installing. I'm using Daemon tools lite 4.3 to mount.

 

thats strange man.

I just did the exact same thing on two different systems to test... works fine.
- one with Daemon Tools 4.xx
- one with burned CDs

it should not stall since there is not much being installed (~33MB) since this game mainly runs off the CD. (since back when this game came out, HDDs were 2.0GB and lower)

 

HAHA!

Wow. Thomas. Just. Wow. WOW.

There's only two discs. And three mirrors for each. In other words you're downloading 3 of each disc.

Wow. WOW.

Hehe.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=64346&page=22

Put your guide up Gophn. T-t-triple post.

 

My computer must have sensed that I was serious about installing the game this time and it worked. So far, I think I have to say I like Starcraft over Red Alert.

 

Man, sucks that I just installed Vista x64. Time to break out the old Ubuntu...

 

Well, this time I only merged the posts, but if you keep on doing that while being around and exactly knowing the policy about multiple postings...

 

tried a bunch of ways to get it to work but it didn't end up working; oh well!

 

Wow...n00b moment.......

 

I lost my The First Decade disc ='(

 

Such a good game. I've had 3 different copies through various packs and freebies.

 

Instructions for installing the game.

XP: http://www.cncworld.org/index.php?page=features/tutorials/rafree
Vista: http://www.cncworld.org/?page=features/tutorials/rafree_vista

 

^^
that guide helped, game works great, hahah! so nostalgic!