unshieldv3 VS Vanilla-Conquer

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. For Vanilla-Conquer there's no need to use an installer for the classics, OP, just download the free games from CNCNZ.com then extract or mount the extracted .ISO images and copy the assets over using these guides for VanillaTD & VanillaRA respectively, then you extract the files from INSTALL/SETUP.Z for C&C: Gold *(Tiberian Dawn) using either Unshield or InstallShield Extract. And for the two Red Alert expansions I just used good ol' DOSBox to run the PATCH.EXE from both expansion *.ISOs in SETUP/INSTALL/CSTRIKE.RTP for Counterstrike and SETUP/INSTALL/PATCH.RTP for Aftermath to acheive the required *.MIX assets.

You can try experimental projects such as Vanilla Conquer so you can play C&C1 and RA1. https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada/Vanilla-Conquer

There's also a project called Vanilla Conquer which is a perfect port of the originals based on open source code released with the remaster but it's not been packaged so it has to be built from source.

u/d10sfan has added Vanilla Conquer source port for Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn which are part of Command & Conquer Remastered Collection to Luxtorpeda repos. Thanks to that, native Linux ports of those games can be played as Steam games.

The title is misleading, OpenRA is not a linux port of Tiberian Dawn or Red Alert for that matter, its a fan clone game. Vanilla Conquer is a proper linux port of the original games based on the source code released for the remaster.

https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada/Vanilla-Conquer is an open source build of the original C&C and Red Alert based on the source code released for the remaster. It needs the data from the original games but they are freeware and can be found dotted around the internet.

Neutral being uncapturable is probably due to https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada/Vanilla-Conquer/issues/668 this bug because if I recall correctly, the neutral is considered to be allied to all other houses even if other houses aren't allied with them.

I think so. I think you just have to download the binary from the releases thing and then follow the instructions here . There's also a Discord server if you need more help.