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Old 20-08-2008, 04:32 PM
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Found my old stash of games. I feel a C&C marathon coming on.
Who else loves the C&C games?
Old 20-08-2008, 04:37 PM
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i do not got round to playing the new on yet but i love em :P
Old 20-08-2008, 04:53 PM
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ooo in a big old box like you use to get!!

Nice, good luck getting it to work properly on XP though, you might need a CPU killer to slow it down.

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Old 20-08-2008, 05:04 PM
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it wont run right on XP i'm afraid... lol

you'll want to get hold of the re-released versions that run on XP
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I Dont think any of them will work on my pc. Vista x64.

Going to install VMware and run it on 98.

C&C games was the best back in the Westwood days. Who Played Dune2?
Old 20-08-2008, 05:23 PM
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dune2 rocked

good idea on VMware
Old 20-08-2008, 05:41 PM
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Hated Tiberian wars - took pissing ages to get through a match....... Unless I played online, where I would get my arse handed to me within 30 seconds - usually by a pre-puscent teenager!

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Old 20-08-2008, 05:41 PM
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old C&C games were wicked, they made it way to easy to completly lose a whole day though

i played age of empires more than C&C though tbh
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i play the C&C games they rock!!!

Always play tiberium Wars Kanes add on but usually get my arse handed to me lol
Old 21-08-2008, 12:13 AM
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Used to play Red Alert accross our old Uni network all the time

Can anyone point out where I can get Red Alert for XP?

My old Windows 95 or 98 (not sure) version wouldn't even work on the next version of Windows so has been firmly binned a while back....

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Old 21-08-2008, 01:23 AM
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The old version works, you just need to use a cpu killer to slow the machine down.

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Old 21-08-2008, 02:11 AM
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If i'm honest I used to prefer Starcraft to C&C,my boss has the latest version of C&C which works on Vista fucked if I know what it's called though.

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My old one has long gone, but just bought an XP version off Ebay, will report back when it gets here.

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Originally Posted by jammy86
The old version works, you just need to use a cpu killer to slow the machine down.

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This is BS its nothing to do with the hardware its an xp thing.

You just need to get a copy of THE FIRST DECADE. the name give it away and its all xp compatible.

EA even have both original gdi and nod CD's WITH xp compatibility available for download on there website as .ISO's
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I do like them too. Played most of them too. Really liked the early releases, the first C&C was sooo stunning! My pc couldn't run it back then so I often went to a friend to play at his machine

I'm one of the few people who even liked to play Generals but due time issues I never have finished C&C 3 completely. Don't even know if I find the time to play Red Alert 3 when it comes uit...Jenny McCarthy plays Tanya btw


I also played Dune 2 or was it 2000 but never liked that setting as much as the C&C games. Weird enough I did like Scarcraft a lot back in the days

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Originally Posted by SiB
My old one has long gone, but just bought an XP version off Ebay, will report back when it gets here.

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Original C&C is available for free from EA

News

http://www.commandandconquer.com/int...id=61#NewsMain

Download link

http://ccgold.ea.com/uk/
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Originally Posted by Ratty
Original C&C is available for free from EA

News

http://www.commandandconquer.com/int...id=61#NewsMain

Download link

http://ccgold.ea.com/uk/


thats just completly made my day
Old 21-08-2008, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by lozi
thats just completly made my day
Mine too, until i clicked on the download link on the page and it didn't fucking work!

Argghhh..

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Old 21-08-2008, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Ginge
Mine too, until i clicked on the download link on the page and it didn't fucking work!

Argghhh..

Ginge

right click save target as
Old 21-08-2008, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by lozi
right click save target as
I tried that and got a 78kb zip file

Managed to find it here though

http://files.filefront.com/Command+a.../fileinfo.html

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Old 21-08-2008, 06:18 PM
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more memories, i've still got a couple of more recent ones that i play and they work great you can turn um up silly fast on toadays pc though
lost plenty of hours back in the day playing this,
I remeber upgrading my pc to play it a long time ago- had too after i played it on an older spec pc and when i built up an army and started to attack the pc crashed- couldn't handle my massive arming all moving at once about half a day wasted if i remember right
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