Command & Conquer: The First Decade
 

Let's keep C&C3 at the C&C3 thread and the First Decade stuff here, mmkay?

For the price ($40 or so), this was too good not to buy. Next to that, it was too big to download anyway.

What do you think of this box? Did you get it?

Also, if someone wants to multiplay with me - let me know.

I'd be happy to join a Tiberian Dawn multiplayer match. I dunno how this is even possible considering the game is so old, but I heard it works with Hamachi and would like to try this out.

The original game is the only true C&C to me. The various sequels just ruined the entire universe.

Oh, for the record, I have the SVGA "Gold" edition and it reports revision 1.04a.

I've recently just found my old Tiberian Dawn discs, black for GDI missions and red for NOD missions.

My only restraint from forking out 40 bucks to get the boxed set is the fact that I already have Tiberian Dawn & Sun,(I've played the original RA before but i lost my discs to a dastardly friend) Red Alert 2 + expansion, and the Generals games. I don't really fancy having a duplicate copy of each game whilst still paying the full $40, as reasonable as the price maybe. But for me its not the same.

If so, don't bother picking it up, and knowing EA, they'll make another compilation eventually.

Even though First Decade does contain all the C&C games to date (except Sole Survivor), it still didn't feel like the definitive package to celebrate the series. There are barely any "behind the scenes" extras because all of those guys are gone. It's sad because these are classic games, but First Decade still really felt to me like a cash grab by EA. Now with the announcement of C&C3, it's existence is obviously just to hype it up even more.

I built a gorram PC to play these older games, and they don't work. There have been tons of complaints by purchasers about crashes and other glitches in the games (though different from my issues). It seems a like a fantastic deal for those of us which lost our older games (or never had them).

Unfortunately the compilation didn't really re-program things to make real XP compatible versions. Kind of a false premise on the compilation, but still, it's a whole lot of games for the price of one.

Dosbox.

Enabling XP compatibility mode for the C&C95 executable worked fine for me.

It's a horrible compilation. It installs 1,5gb per game or so (original games installed 40mb and used the CDs), and needs to be patched just so the movies show fine in C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert 1. XP patching is just the patch that has been floating online since ages, LAN play is still not enabled in the older games with it. The bonus DVD has random fat dudes talking about WOW IT WAS LIKE THIS GAME AND IT HAD TANKS AND IT WAS AWESOME IT BLEW ME AWAY.

I'm honestly thinking about reselling it because I already have the old games on original discs and working serials for TS/FS and RA2+yuri. Renegade I still didnt play and I give 0 shit about Generals as its awful.

I strongly recommend it to everyone that unless you are interested in the horrible Generals game which is not even a C&C game - just bears its name, get these two boxes instead:

Command & Conquer Worldwide Warfare: (includes Tiberian Dawn and RA1 + all expansions)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=468642

Command & Conquer Collection: (includes the rest minus Generals)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=468642

They have the original games on them not the butched hackjob of First Decade where you cant even launch the games from their install folders. Only through a loader menu that shows a 10 second ELECTRONIC ARTS logo before donig anything. How convinient.

My experience with Dosbox didn't look like it'd help in running Win32 applications. Unfortunately the Dos/Win games only have the Win32 versions.