megutil
A very bad and dumb MEG archive extractor (by jjbarr)
ts-ddraw
Rewrite of cnc-ddraw with Tiberian Sun as the target (by CnCNet)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
megutil
Posts with mentions or reviews of megutil.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-18.
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A Linux User's Guide to Command & Conquer
C&C: Tiberian Dawn/Red Alert: Here, you have options, since EA released the game for free. Option 1: CnCNet's installers. These actually even come with Linux versions (don't get too excited: they're just wine wrappers) and are generally easy to work with. There are Lutris installers that wrap them, and it's overall very easy (just make sure you add ddraw to your dll overrides in wine as native,builtin). However, if you're a diehard Linux exclusionist... option 2: Vanilla-Conquer is a project that uses the GPLed code from C&C Remastered to rebuild the original C&C executables with cross-platform support. It works... okay, allegedly, but it would probably work better if I could get it to run: In order to make Vanilla Conquer play nice, you need to have an unmodified install of C&C Gold/Red Alert, as they would have come on-disk: The installs from the CnCNet installers won't cut it. And sure, EA put up those disks for free, you can just download them, but... well, the installers are temperamental at best. I couldn't get an install off the disks because the installer kept complaining that I didn't have the disks inserted. So good luck with that. You might have the best luck with the game data in C&C Remastered, but I didn't really test that. Option 3: C&C Remastered. Yeah, it means putting $20 in EA's pocket, but honestly I'd say they deserve it for this. C&C Remastered is a really, really good release, it runs flawlessly through Proton, it doesn't install Origin in your prefix, and it has full mod support thanks to game code and a map editor that are both GPLed (please, someone port that map editor to linux... I might learn C# just to do it myself). And it has substantial control improvements over the originals (right clicks! Oh, how I missed you), and a remastered soundtrack, which is honestly worth the $20 in and of itself (hence why one of the very few programming projects I completed was writing a tool to rip it from the game files). If you want to play multiplayer, CnCnet or Remastered are the way to go... or you could play OpenRA, but honestly OpenRA is less a recreation and more a new game that plays like C&C and uses its assets. Still a great time though.
ts-ddraw
Posts with mentions or reviews of ts-ddraw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
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Recording Command & Conquer
Try installing cnc-ddraw or ts-ddraw, then use a Game Capture source to hook onto the game window.
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有沒有紅老嗨知道,如何在win10玩紅警2?
https://github.com/CnCNet/ts-ddraw 装个补丁就行
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C&C Remastered & Other Compatability For Windows 11?
If you just want to play campaign/single player skirmish; get TS-DDRAW or CnC-DDRAW, plop the .dll into your RA2 folder and it should take care of the rest
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[Help] Can't get RA2:YR working in Win10. Tried almost all the solutions
Get TS-DDRAW and place it on the RA2 folder
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Just came in the mail! Sadly Red Alert 2 and Generals doesn’t work, but Zero hour does after patches. How come Generals was never rereleased?
For RA2/YR: You'll need TS-DDRAW if you're not going the CnCNet route.
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How do I fix this? EA told me to go pound sand.
If that is too much of a hassle for you, for your specific problem; get TS-DDRAW and plop the .dll into your RA2/YR folder and it should take care of the rest. It even works for Tiberian Sun!
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How is Generals Zero Hot compatibility on Windows 10?
TS-DDRAW might help. Just plop in the .dll on your TS folder and it should take care of the rest.
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I have a problem with Yuri's revenge and TFD and I've not encountered it before, please help.
Not sure which one you've used, but did you try TS-DDRAW? Download the .dll and plop it to your RA2 folder. It should take care of the rest and hopefully it solves your issue.
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So didn't know this but kinda funny.
If you want widescreen support on vanilla RA2/YR, use TS-DDRAW or CnC-DDRAW.
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No Main Menu overlay in Red Allert 2
I'm not sure if CnCNet can be run on Linux (via Wine) or not, but you can try TS-DDRAW as it does mention it works via Wine.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing megutil and ts-ddraw you can also consider the following projects:
cnc-ddraw - GDI, OpenGL and Direct3D 9 re-implementation of the DirectDraw API for classic games for better compatibility with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, Wine (Linux/macOS) and Virtual Machines
CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers - Fixed launchers for the games in Origin's Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Collection. Re-enables command-line parameters for the games, adds in some missing registry keys, and adds in some community patches automatically.
em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox
unshieldv3 - Extract InstallShield V3 archives (*.Z)
Vanilla-Conquer - Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.
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