http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/cnc95upd/cc95p106/

Download. Install. Play.

Easy.

Thank you very much!

Was not aware of this one. Still, I was writing about official "lazy" one-click-installer distro (just like GOG does), rather than something home-made.

Again, not to dismiss the appreciation of your suggestion, or its worth.

Back in the old days, videogaming was a hobby, as you wrote. Very few people had access to a computer or a gaming console. Less people = less "white noise".
And - some 20 years ago - most people who played videogames had some sort of background of literacy. Most kids usually had read plenty of books before they started touching a keyboard or a gamepad.

Nowadays you have tons of kids - with very little capacity for critical thinking and very low cultural standards - playing videogames, with all that it implies.

I'm not saying that videogaming should return to be an hobby for the "elites". It shoudn't. It musn't!
But when you've got a society filled with retards, you'll inevitably get plenty of retards playing videogames.

No worries - and sorry if I came over as condescending.

When it comes to playing C&C these days most people go with this or OpenRA. I'll all about Nyergud's work though - OpenRA doens't feel right...

Nothing whatsoever to apologize about :)

Really do appreciate the heads up, it's good to know there are still ways of playing the original. Just wanted to clarify my original comment.

If you fancy giving Red Alert 1 a go as well https://funkyfr3sh.cnc-comm.com/

That will install the original game, as well as the Counterstrike and Aftermath missions (and the ant) under modern systems.

Thank you!

I'm not sure playing it now will match in any way the fond memories of sealing our uni's computer lab under the guise of special projects every Friday afternoon only to play the living hell out of Red Alert in its glorious multiplayer mode (with those who lost on the draw to be direct participants forming appropriately emotional spectator group). Then scrambling through the week to actually catch up with all the work that was supposed to get done at the time.

RA1 and Duke Nukem 3D are probably my most vivid, and fond, memories of the whole higher education process. Going at it single-player would probably be rather bittersweet now :)

Well I bet "Destructible Times".

Frank had a falling out with I AM, not to mention a few years back I AM sued EA for using that song in a trailer or something like that.

I really hope they will no release the complete soundtrack on Itunes and Play store. It only had like 50% of the numbers.

As for the game it self. I rather play with OpenRA or a other open source mod.

Well except if they rework the AI. I recently played C&C Dawn and it had such bullshit AI. Destroyed the entire base but they still can build there because they had another construction yard somewhere.