Saturday, February 23, 2013

OpenRedAlert - Finally on AROS!


OpenRedAlert is a reimplementation of the game engine of the classic real time strategy game Command & Conquer RedAlert. The OpenRedAlert project is based on the FreeCnc and FreeRA projects, but with more features implemented.

Command & Conquer is a real-time strategy video game franchise, first developed by Westwood Studios. The first game was one of the earliest of the RTS genre, itself based on Westwood Studios'  strategy game Dune 2 (that made into the Amiga) and introducing trademarks followed in the rest of the series. This includes full motion video cutscenes with a notable ensemble cast to progress the story, as opposed to digitally in-game rendered cutscenes.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert, released on October 31, 1996, is set in an alternate universe 1950s and was originally made to be the prequel to Command & Conquer[15] establishing Red Alert as the prologue of the entire Tiberium series of games. Since then Louis Castle has said that connecting Red Alert with the Tiberium series was a "failed experiment". Red Alert introduces the Allies and the Soviets as rival factions roughly analogous to NATO and the Warsaw Pact of the Cold War.
 

 Credits:
Serk118uk ported OpenRedAlert to Aros.
This isn't the first attempt to port OpenRedAlert to AROS, back in September of 2009, Mazze already had a go at it, but it wasn't fully debugged - even the original source...

Download:
 - Open Red Alert for Aros/i386 (1,7 MB)*
 - Original Sources (required for missing ini-files, 352 kb)
You also  need the Original game datafiles - download here or download the demo (26 MB).



Additional info:
This port was release (a bit) in a hurry because of technical difficulties that haunted Serk118uk. Therefore it is required to download the original sources as well, in order to add some missing ini-files (they need to be copied manually from the archive into your AROS installation, see this post).
Also check the Serk118uk's blog-entry and/or in this thread.




Sources: AROS-World and Serk118uk Blog

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