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Is there any hope for Red Alert 2?
by HaloZero 3mo ago
Is there any hope for Red Alert 2?
- HaloZero 3mo agoLooks like EA did open source the game (only the first maybe) https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert This seems to be the most active port saying it works on a Mac/Linux https://github.com/Daft-Freak/CnC_and_Red_Alert https://github.com/Daft-Freak/CnC_and_Red_Alert
- asronline 3mo agoI wish they open sourced RA2 - I love that game, I heard they lost the source code :/
- swat535 3mo agoYes, they have also lost Tiberian Sun and Firestorm I think.. very unfortunate.
- freedomben 3mo agoThat's wild. How does that happen?
- wmf 3mo agoEverything will be lost unless it's somebody's job to preserve it. It's pretty common to close game studios or lay off the entire development team while simultaneously scolding them about "stealing" IP so the predictable result is the code being lost.
- cogman10 3mo agoRed alert 2 was released in 2000, which means it was developed probably in 1998->1999. Life was different back then. Source control systems were a LOT worse (this is CVS era for open source development). We certainly weren't in the current era where everyone wants to play these old games on their phones now. What almost certainly happened is all copies of the source were simply lost. They may have sat on someone's hard drive, a team server hard drive, or somewhere else. It's possible they didn't have more than a few copies while development was ongoing.
- 8note 3mo agothey lost the original assets so afaik they arent gonna make a remaster cnc-ddraw i think would get it to run fine on a steam deck though, so you should be able to play it without much issue
- HelloUsername 3mo agoYou can always play it in the browser https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991853, sadly no Yuri's Revenge is possible there though