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[Eagle of Fire]

I just downloaded and tryied the game available on download on the site and I must say that's a very bad version of the game.

It seems to run without DOSBox or VDMSound, but then the sound get floppy just like if my computer is too fast for it. It doesn't work with VDMSound. I managed to get it work with DOSBox. Altough the units seemed to go at the right speed (or maybe I could have even get the speed a little faster) I remember that it takes way more time to get reinforcement in the first NOD mission than only a few seconds. There might be a speed problem here.

When I tryied to play the second mission, an error occured saying something along the line "can't read mission data". When you choose your next mission, you sometime have a choice. In the second mission of the NOD, you get such a choice. I choose the arrow on the south. I guess the archive is not complete.

I also remember that C&C originally shipped with 2 CD's. The first CD was for GDI, and the second CD was for NOD. The first mission of the NOD was on CD1 (GDI) but the rest was on CD 2... Might be the problem.

Yet I really don't understand how you managed to get that game to only 15 megs! I tought it was way bigger than that...

[JJXB]

Originally posted by Stroggy@Dec 28 2004, 09:47 PM
I believe its better than Tiberian Sun since Tiberian Sun was a bit... dull (gloomy colours and such) at times.

But, as said, without the movies its not that great.

"I am Seth, just Seth"
"From God, to Kane, to Seth"

TS was ok if you modded it (like i did )

[Nemesis]

I remember how i use to spend hours playing the demo over and over again :bleh:

[goblins]

anyone got a better version out there ?

still 15mg are you sure both CDs have been included ?

[Nemesis]

the demo i downloaded is 9 mb with only 3 missions so i dont think this archive contain everything

[goblins]

what is the size of the file unzipped - remember these files are zipped mostly so their size can be up to 7 times as big.

[Griezel]

22.5 megs unzipped

[Eagle of Fire]

I have a good news and a bad news.

The good news is, I found a file nammed "Command.bat" which allows you to switch from game CD so you can play NOD missions. So just ignore my last comment on not being able to play NOD missions earlier.

The bad news is that there is definitly something wrong with DOSBox. Whatever cycle or game setting I try, I can't manage to bring the game to work like it is originally supposed to do. So far nothing critical, but it is sure annoying for me.

The game is always slowing down when I have a lot of units on the screen. When you think I had the habit to play this game with my 486 and never encoutered that problem, you can understand how problematic this is for me. Plus it is not running on the right speed. The efficiency points at the end of the scenario are from the money you gathered, but the leadership points goes for the time needed to finish the scenario. So far out of two missions that I used to have almost perfect on both, I did not manage to get more than 50% leadership in either. This is because of DOSBox somehow, I don't know what could be the problem. Maybe a future release will solve this.

For now on, no fun for me to replay this great game. If at least the movies were included, then I would have tryied my luck with NOD since I never finished them... But it would not be the same dominating the World with Kain without turning the Ion Cannon back on them at the end... :twisted:

[Stroggy]

Actually the original C&C was just C&C, or Command & Conquer.
Tiberian Dawn is name that was born in the fan-community.
Thus you have:
Tiberian Dawn -> Tiberian Sun -> Tiberian Twilight

Tiberian Twilight is the name given to a possible sequel to Tiberian Sun.
Ofcoarse looking at what Mark Skaggs and his group did to Red Alert in Red Alert II, and what horrors may be waiting for us in the future with Red Alert III (yes, it is being made), I for one hope they don't create a final sequel.

[goblins]

dosbox still seems a bit slow - running sim earth on my system 1.3 GHz intel it still runs a bit slow. So i guess C and C tiberium sun would be the same.