EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert

Looks like the Tiberian Dawn code is Windows too (so C&C Gold / W95)

I was kind of wishing it was the 1995 DOS version source code!

(also, no Dune 2000)

Wow, Renegade? That's amazing. Enjoyed so many hours of flame tank / stealth tank rushes in that game.

Hope someone takes it to the next level with open source.

praying for Red Alert 2

So not just one game like the title?

Holy shit, Renegade. I had struck that from memory. God, I remember trying to play Renegade with my brother and all I can remember was a buggy nightmare. Also having flashbacks of extreme vitriol for gamespy.

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Agreed. Internally at companies like this, it's extremely difficult to get something like this approved. This is the result of a lot of meetings, a lot of "no"'s, a lot of legal approvals.

Hmm there's also a c&c remastered bundle.

Anyone knows if either of them includes stuff that requires an EA account?

We had to wait for a team of github users to reverse engineer Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time before Nintendo would do anything about it

This one made me laugh, mostly because the variable names are so dumb

// our RNG is basically shit -- horribly nonrandom at the start of the sequence.

// get a few values at random to get rid of the dreck.

// there's no mathematical basis for this, but empirically, it helps a lot.

UnsignedInt silly = GetGameLogicRandomSeed() % 7;

for (Int poo = 0; poo < silly; ++poo)

{

GameLogicRandomValue(0, 1); // ignore result

}

  // Lets discuss how Windows is a flaming pile of poo. I'm now casting the header
  // directly into the structure, because its the one I want, and this is just how
  // its done. I hate Windows. - jkmcd

Game code comments are always the most entertaining :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...

EA game devs cursing each other out? Internal company drama being aired out years later? Oh boy!

Louis Castle, co-founder of Westwood tells it a bit differently [0]. From memory after the EA acquisition they stopped doing their edutainment/casual games, which is where they used to nurture their junior developers along with taking on too many major projects because EA gave them the resources to do that. That led to less quality and later Westwood releases (Renegade, Emperor Battle for Dune) suffered.

The podcast also includes details of Westwood's filming setup, which seemed to include motion tracking which would have been interesting in the context of performance capture, but before its time.

[0] - https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/louis-cast...

You might check out https://www.openra.net/

There's a mod for RA3 that re-implements Generals: https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-and-conquer-generals-evol...

I'd settle for a native Linux build.

Converting the assets to use the Spring engine (or BeyondAllReason's active fork of it) is probably easier than writing a new engine from scratch for the existing assets. And then it'll feel like BAR but with C&C's assets. The UI is what gives the game most of its feel.

Even more importantly, running at 60+fps while not breaking gameplay, physics, shaders, cutscenes...