Red Alert Kinda Game Would Be Awesome

[thomasvdp]

wouldn't it be great to play a red alert 2 kinda game on the pandora.
You could selecte your troops with the touch screen and move along the map using the d-pad or analog stick.
does anyone know if a game like that is open source?

 

[gavie]

A dosbox or PSX emulator will probably allow you to play red alert.
I don't know if the PSX mouse can be emulated though..

 

[closetwam]

Boson is a game that is similar. There hasn't been a new release since october '06, but the last commit to svn was 9 days ago.

http://boson.eu.org/index.php

 

[dajoe]

and then there is freecnc, which is an sdl implementation of the cnc engine. It could even work out of the box. You need the original game files, though.

Edit: Plus, it is no longer under active development. Expect bugs and missing features - still I think it would be worth a try.

 

[rutenium]

There is also Warzone 2100.

 

[schnitzelboy]

dang!! you beat me to it!! well here are the two engine reimplementations i know of 1 2 , oh and freeRA IS still active, but Freecnc isn't

 

[wraggster]

command and conquer is actually freeware now

so freecnc would be excellent.

its strange that we have 2 good touchscreen consoles but the amount of killer touchscreen games is still low. The ds/gp2x is made for games such as rts and manager games

 

[Mutilator]

would be so cool to see command and conquer on the pandora another game i would love to see is starcraft but thats not free which sucks

 

[foleyjo]

Could try dune 2 on the amiga emulator

 

[Prophet]

I believe a couple of C&C titles are available for PSX as well, and they probably had PSX mouse support, which could be emulated via touch screen on Pandora.

 

[xafier]

There is also Warzone 2100.



Warzone 2100 is amazing, and possibly portable to the Pandora seen as it runs on linux and OpenGL.

 

[Lobo]

With PSX emulation we have:
-Command & Conquer
-C&C: red alert
-C&C: retaliation
-Dune 2000
-Warzone 2100
-WarCraft
-Civilization II

Should be enough to keep RTS fans happy for a while!

 

[amazingnoob]

we just need to hope that the psx emulator will have mouse support =D

 

[ROMaster2]

Sorry for the Bump, just here to say that Red Alert 1 is now free.

 

[Ardos]

Just to confirm the above. EA have kindly released Red Alert for free in advance of the release of RA3 -

http://www.ea.com/redalert/news-detail.jsp?id=62

 

[sindbad]

Warzone has proper support for dualshock, so it should be easy to adapt to the pandora touchscreen+analog+dpad control scheme.

 

[Julius]

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/openredalert

 

[ROMaster2]

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/openredalert



Sounds good, hopefully someone can use that to make C&C '95 to work too.

 

[polkunus]

is it possible to play red alert 2 yuri's revenge on this thing?(i own the game) ported maybe?


these are the system requirements

They are the same as the ones for Red Alert 2: Pentium II 266 MHz, 64 MB RAM, Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, DirectX 8.0, 2 MB PCI graphics card (no hardware acceleration required), DirectX compatible sound card, 350 MB hard disk space, and a 4x CD-ROM drive



see, my "dosbox days" was actually this game.

problem about the new "red alert for free thing" is that, i wanted to play the second red alert and not the first one.

oh ya and starcraft? - its not free... is that the only thing that is stopping it to be not on the pandora?

 

[war2k7]

I think starcraft was on the n64 too, so if that emulator gets working... good times.