Command & Conquer Gold for free

yeah i can't believe EA made me shit my dress either

I know it is not Free Software, but EA putting out their game with a free as in beer approach is what is quite amazing

Awesome, thanks for letting us know.

no problem, just thought this would be the most important, more than the Farcry/Raving Rabbids/Emo of Time releases

Great, EA gets charitable after I buy their stuff :(

Excellent!!

Jeebus, Im averaging 12.5kbps... but halfway there

Sweet. The only C&C I've ever played was the demo for the first game. Well, that and the entire Dune series. "I gotta present for ya!"

Does this have multiplayer? If it does I assume it's LAN play?

I have the cd's :P

I own the Command & Conquer: The First Decade so this won't be useful to my :( But cool none the less.

Thank you, leileilol, for this info!
I downloded it yesterday and it works. So far, i only had the german censored version.

Greetings
Funduke

Doesn't work for me, following instructions to the letter. I get an "out of memory" error.

Ralphis said:

Does this have multiplayer? If it does I assume it's LAN play?

There's some sort of patch/workaround/fixit floating around somewhere to Macguyver-up TCP-IP play, but by default I think it's LAN only.

The 1st Decade version (dunno about the Worldwide Warfare version) requires IPX, modem or nullmodem to play multiplayer. I've tried IPX-ing it without any luck, as it won't find games on the network. Modem is pointless and finding nullmodem over ethernet software is easier said than done.
Unless, of course, you want to pay for a nullmodem cable and fiddle around with dialing into your opponent's computer.

hamachi it then

!

I was looking at picking up FarCry too. Looks like they just saved me $10.

doom2day said:

I have the cd's :P

So do I ;)

I wonder if windows XP can run it under compatibility mode? Since the game is for win95?

Stealthy Ivan said:

I wonder if windows XP can run it under compatibility mode? Since the game is for win95?

The website linked said:

To kick the celebration off, today we have a special surprise which we are certain new and old Command & Conquer fans will enjoy. We are providing the original Command & Conquer as a free download, compatible for Windows XP! This is the same version included with the collectors pack Command & Conquer: The First Decade, and is now available for you to download for free!

Yes, I wonder too...

The guys uploading this knows very well that no-one can be expected to run Windows 95 boxes in this day and age.
Therefore they have uploaded an XP-patch as well.

From what I heard about the ad-supported FarCry version, there is a rather annoying ad that plays whenever you save/load/die. Apparently if you download a mod (any mod) that changes the menu graphics, all the ads go away... I haven't installed the game yet so I can't tell if it works.

Of course, it looks like I'm the only one who cares about this game judging from the thread :)

Awesome, I dont have some of the games so this is a nice treat.

The trick I talked about for FarCry works. I downloaded this menu mod and I didn't see a single ad when I played it for ~10 minutes. It's not like I would have gone to McDonald's anyways :)

david_a said:

From what I heard about the ad-supported FarCry version, there is a rather annoying ad that plays whenever you save/load/die. Apparently if you download a mod (any mod) that changes the menu graphics, all the ads go away... I haven't installed the game yet so I can't tell if it works.

Of course, it looks like I'm the only one who cares about this game judging from the thread :)

I have the game, so I don't need to download it again.

david_a said:

From what I heard about the ad-supported FarCry version, there is a rather annoying ad that plays whenever you save/load/die.

Same with Prince of Persia. However, there are no ads for me when the game can't connect to the internet. Maybe this works with FarCry too?

http://au.pc.gamespy.com/pc/far-cry/817671p1.html

Ubisoft have stopped the promotion.