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Posted April 05, 2019
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gamesfreak64: Ultra Retro all the way (◑‿◐)
(◑‿◐) retail ofcourse ... no origin or other DRM , the retail had DRM, had Securom, Tages, Starforce,
and lots of more sick and nasty DRM ( DRM is very sick btw).
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Pond86: For Red Alert 2 thats most likely why then. I use Xwis's base version (multiplayer only) then add the single player files from my install CD (just copy them across no need to install the game.)

Same works for Yuri. Yuri you will need a compat patch to fix the menu issue other than that it both play DRM free.

(If you want a step by step gude for Red Alert2 + YR let me know.)

For Resident Evil 3:

Restoration Patch Got mine running under 10.

1 & 2:

Resident Evil 1 & 2 will have majour issues under new systems. For the classic versions I used Rebirth.

Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil 1
menu issue ? i only have a colorful screen with purple greenblue yellow giberish if i ALT TAB but a refresh or going to menu and back ingame solves that, sofar its burning rubber because CPU usage is frying my PC.
I will try the solutions, and hope the cpu issue will be solved ists the nasty gamemd.exe that really screws up
the main exe or exes are the cause i cannot run the games or should i say dont dare to risk to ruin my poor pc.
Posted April 05, 2019
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dudalb: The guy really needs to build a retro computer if he is going to be such a fanatic about running the originals.
i think i alread answered that: like i said earlier if i wanted to have a old retro pc i could have kept my old p3 even my old 100mhz pc , my p2 , problem is space , you cannot keep on storing old retro pc.
Posted April 09, 2019
well this topic and any other older topics i created about how to get old games we have back to work again are now solved:


https://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/C-amp-C-as-Freeware/td-p/6237154



Yes, it is all freeware ⊙︿⊙
EA will eventually release all the games we have i asume, a huge number of wishes on the GOG community wishlist will become obsolete ....


Dune and other most wanted and wished for (old) games will also be released as freeware in the near future, i gues, so it seems we will get the games from the community and look for fan patches.

If many developers/publishers follow EA then the majority of all GOG games wished for in the communtiy wishlist will become freeware in the years to come , leaving only new games to be released here i guess (◕︵◕)
which means extreme high minimum system requirements for games that look like 8 bit.....or rpgmaker games.


There's no reason to hurry buying a new PC this year or in the forseeable future. ٩◔‿◔۶
Posted April 09, 2019
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gamesfreak64: well this topic and any other older topics i created about how to get old games we have back to work again are now solved:
I linked you to a Red Alert 1 installer and Tiberian Sun which will download them for you and patch them for newer systems. (As they are both free and both addons, the installers will install them all.)

Original Command and Conquer is here

As for Dune I highly doubt it. As EA don't own Dune so they can't say. Brian Herbert owns the franchise and hates the RTS games of it. So unless someone gives him a load of money we woun't see them. As hes said he has no intrest in re-releasing them even for free, as he felt they were bad for the franchise and hated them.

Also wasnt your issue with it heating?
Post edited April 09, 2019 by Pond86
Posted April 10, 2019
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DubConqueror: You'll probably get the best experience from something that was considered high-end at the time the game was released.
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teceem: So you'll need at least 10 retro PCs to get that "best experience" for all old games. Great advice!

I have a modern PC (i7 6700, GTX970, SSD, "tuned" Windows 10, etc.), and my experience is great for ANY game, from 80s+ to recently released ones.

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gamesfreak64: Anyway, if devs would develop good games , i have seen many games that look very good but just missed out: mostly because they use 3d engines, example: take all the fallout clones, most are brilliant games BUT, and its a but in caps, the engine/tool sux and everything looks like metallic shiny toys, add 360 degrees turning of the map and or the player around the axis which is annoying.

Thank you for the links, a lot of work required i will try it on my new pc/win10 cause i dont want to damage my good old win7, have to keep my good old win7 as long as posible and Windows 10 = trashware anyway so if w10 messes up after my playing and fiddling to run games like Dune its okay :D.
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teceem: Ok, you don't like 3D games and Windows 10, but why do you keep repeating it?
@ Ok, you don't like 3D games and Windows 10, but why do you keep repeating it?

'force of habit' i guess ........ and the fact many classic games that started 2d got a nice 3d/fpp treatment:

commandos, jagged alliance, fallout, even red alert, command & conquer got a 3d engine and they stillstick with it...
beneath a steel sky, great point n click classic 2d, gets a nice fpp/3pp version.

prince of persia games: all games after prince of persia 1 and 2 turned 3d, pop 2 was different already...
i wonder why Baldurs Gate did not got a fpp/3pp / 3d engine yet ? or i might have miss it :D

Anyway, add all the racing games like need for speed... 3d/3pp, fpp is very common in games, thats the main reason i switched to casual games,which have many 3d aswell but still 'tons' of 2d too :D (have around 500 casualgames now( majority are HOG)
Post edited April 10, 2019 by gamesfreak64
Posted April 10, 2019
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gamesfreak64: wow thats alot of information , will take me some time to read it and figure it out....
thanks for the reply.
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Pond86: No problem.

If you get stuck give feel free to give me a shout.

Also Dune 2000:

Gruntmods

Or (as I dislike Gruntmods):

Custom Installer

After installing copy the folders MISSIONS, MOVIES & MUSIC to your Dune 2000 data directory.

(C:\Program Files (x86)\Dune2000\DUNE\Data OR C:\Program Files\Dune2000\DUNE\Data ) If using the custom installer. And instaled to the deafult directory.)

Then install the unnofficial 1.06p patch:

Linky

(Download Dune2000.exe and replace it in your Dune 2000 folder.)

Also make sure to edit RESOURCE.CFG So it says the following (Notepad will do):

data\
data\movies\
data\music\
data\missions\
data\maps\

Dune2000 config tool will allow bigger resolutions for the game (such as 1920x1080.) It will also get videos working. Though you will get a white box to the top left that i've not been able to remove.

Tiberian Sun + Firestorm has this which should work:

(I was not able to get it running on mine it would crash when loading the first mission!)

Tiberain Sun

And finally Red Alert 1 you should really be using this:

Red Alert 1 Installer
i checked the hash of the small installer on virustotal



5 / 65

5 engines detected this file

SHA-256 1248548095f25d687cb712f4cfc029e142f433370349f8e06fe45278f10458e6
File name D2KInst.exe
File size 79.53 KB
Last analysis 2017-10-16 12:19:09 UTC
Detection
Details
Behavior
Community

K7AntiVirus

Trojan-Downloader ( 005169191 )

K7GW

Trojan-Downloader ( 005169191 )

Qihoo-360

HEUR/QVM42.1.Malware.Gen

SUPERAntiSpyware

PUP.OnekitInstaller/Variant

TrendMicro-HouseCall
Suspicious_GEN.F47V1001




i have to admit that K7AntiVirus ( never heard of it , only of the movie K9 ) sounds a little noob

same goes for:

Qihoo-360
SUPERAntiSpyware ( tools with Super in front of the name are usually crap) and also sound noob

TrendMicro-HouseCall sounds familair but its not the AV i would use

Anyway it is weird there is no post stating that there might be false positives, at least i cant find any in the topic.
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