C&C Fans

[Neomancer]

http://www.commandandconquer.com/collection/

tempted to clicky clicky oops preordered.

[Wishy]

Yes, and give EA more money for defective games.

The "Disk 2" issue with the last C&C Decade pack was enough to make me think sod buying anything further EA produces

[bloodtobleed]

I'll probably get this if reviews show that the original C&C works on Win7. If LAN play is removed or doesn't function then I'll just go re-install Win98 on my spare PC -.-

[Wishy]

I'll probably get this if reviews show that the original C&C works on Win7. If LAN play is removed or doesn't function then I'll just go re-install Win98 on my spare PC -.-

VM will do the job quite nicely I suspect. No 3d acceleration required

[Merson]

Yay! Another free game.

[Neomancer]

Yay! Another free game.

*glare*

can you request multiplayer is fixed in generals zh?

[mikethegreek]

i am with Steve on this for now and i hope to be proven wrong.

I already won a lot of these games and dont want to give EA £££ for them unless they work. the decade pack was such a balls up they never even sodding tested it.

[bloodtobleed]

VM will do the job quite nicely I suspect. No 3d acceleration required

Damn you and your logic <3

[Freelance]

it seems EA wheel the compilation out every time they try to jumpstart the brand again. I wonder how many people getting it "for the convenience" already have it in a 'convenient' format.

[xconspirisist]

C&C classic, Red Alert and all its expansions works flawlessly on Windows 7. The community patched it's libraries to be 32 bit (Red Alert had some 16 bit libraries, which Windows 7 dropped support for). The patch also adds support for TCP/IP (original version only supported IPX/SPX), we played it with 8 players at the ShinyLAN before last and it was stable.

[Merson]

** The Ultimate Music Collection and Commemorative Art are available only for the US version.

Cheapskates.

[Wishy]

IPX, those were the days...

[Gooseman]

Yay! Another free game.

*glare*

can you request multiplayer is fixed in generals zh?

was going to say similar mark, i hated those games with version mismatch when we all had the same version, or the mem leak in some of the maps (i think it was) if they fix those issues, then maybe worth looking at, knowing EA, they wont have fixed anything, just updated the code to make it compatable

[xconspirisist]

In their defense, the guys working on the code base for the old games, porting them and updating them for more modern operating systems have a very challenging task ahead of them. It's likely that they were not the one of the original authors, fixing something like those "version mismatches" in the netcode for Generals would be really time consuming and would require the skills of some pretty shit hot developers.

[Wishy]

... So they ship it out knowing its broken and take money for it ...

Fine, but anybody buying this boxset is feeding the greed.