apoptygma

So EA have released red alert and tiberium dawn as freeware, but I can't find the macintosh version anywhere online, Does anyone know of a location to grab it? I can't see why it wouldn't be perfectly okay to do so. I've tried asking APOC the CM from EA but he hasn't replied. Oh a related note, does anyone know if it's possible to run the 640x480 version of either game in DOSbox? This could be a viable alternative.

Okay I got the demo up and running, looks like it uses the normal .mix files so I can plug in the files from my full-version c&c95 discs, haven't tried it yet but what I'm expecting is that the game simply won't read them because the executable isn't coded to do so, then I got a second idea - that is that if I were to download the patch 1.7x for the mac version it would likley have the updated executable in the archive so I can replace the existing one, which makes me wonder if I could have just used the patch + PC mix files all along, hopefully if this isn't the case the demo contains the mac-specific files which I would need to fill in the gaps. I'll give it a go. The real test will be seeing if I can get a game going over IPX between the mac and the PC, given that nyer's TCP patch liklely won't work on the mac.

Not on a Mac at the moment but thanks for the idea, Guessing once I un-stuff the file I'll see a replaceable/editable MIX file *fingers crossed*

The Mac version is neither 'original' or 'gold' afaik, it's the Mac version. It runs in the 640x400 res the same as the '95 windows version and uses patch 1.72 - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_C...er_(video_game) for more detail.

I can't use WINE or load windows on this machine, it's a PowerPC not an intel processor. I can run the DOS version under DOSbox but it's performance is terrible. This is a G4 with a 1.67Ghz CPU and would run the native mac version nicely if I could actually locate a copy anywhere on the net. If anyone has is and can upload it somewhere that would be fantastic.