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The First Decade » My vast Command & Conquer Collection » Go to message
But do you have a Japanese Sega Saturn version?
The First Decade » My vast Command & Conquer Collection » Go to message
C&C1 was never sold without the videos. There are no floppy versions of it. I got the original DOS version back in '95 when it was first released. I recently found out my girlfriend in fact also has a DOS C&C, and a different edition too. Mine's a triple-thickness CD case with a manual in between (see PPM thread). One of the things I'm actually still looking for is a big boxed version of C&C1. Got the Covert Ops one, but not C&C1 itself. My gf doesn't have her box anymore, and my own C&C1 was simply sold as just the triple-thickness case.

Now I got all original CDs of all Westwood C&Cs, I'm done collecting though. I mostly juist aim to collect C&C1 stuff, anyway. I might get the Mac version soon. Then the only C&C1 version I'll still be missing will be an N64 cartridge

tbh, I mostly just collect files though. For example, I bought the Japanese Sega Saturn version because it has an official Japanese dub of the game voices, and the Japanese dubbed videos on it are even in the same format used by the PC game. All of that stuff goes straight into my C&C95 patch project (see signature link)
The First Decade » My vast Command & Conquer Collection » Go to message
Actually, I was talking about availability (as in, actually shipping to where I live), not price... I've heard shipping from Europe is apparently very expensive. Wouldn't know personally though; I live there, and never actually sent anything abroad

And sorry, I misread the thing about the boxes. Thought you were just talking about the Arsenal pack. It's indeed hard to find original boxed versions, I hear you there. I was lucky Anderwin helped me when I was looking for RA:Counterstrike. He found me a pretty cheap box, with all original contents included (including a page of morse code telling how to access the ants campaign )


Hmm, just wondering... with all those C&C95 boxes up there... do you actually own an original DOS C&C?
The First Decade » Small problem with V1.03 patch » Go to message
That's normal... the settings are only written after the game runs the first time.
The First Decade » My vast Command & Conquer Collection » Go to message
SSWarBird wrote:Yes, though the Add-Ons are never necessarily an official product, when was the last time you ever saw one new in box. I can find them all day long used in a CD Case. Finding them new, with the box is very hard to find.

Nonsense. Seen dozens of those on ebay.

SSWarBird wrote:It is not about "Do I want it?" or "Is it practical". it is rare and hard to find. Thats what makes collectors different from casual gamers! I collect things for the sake of collecting them!

I dunno, I see the sense in collecting original game material, but these addon CDs? Nothing special about those. Anyone could make em back then.

SSWarBird wrote:Plus, being in the US. Sometimes not everything is always readily available as in other countries. This is where paying the additional $20-$30USD for shipping can make a regular collectible even that much more expensive!

That's utter bull. Half of the time I can'yt buy items just because they're in the US and only ship locally. I've seen very little sales from other countries that didn't ship internationally. And then we're not even talking about the fact all C&C games were MADE in the US, meaning all original games are quite easy to find there.

SSWarBird wrote:I am not the other collector you mention. Although I do regularly talk with a collector from Korea, I am one of the few in the US. I am sure there are a handful of collectors around the world. But most of us all speak different languages which makes it difficult to talk among each other!

Anderwin lives in Norway. You can check his (and my) stuff out in this thread:
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25643
The First Decade » Small problem with V1.03 patch » Go to message
This might be fixed by taking ownership of the game folder after the install. Something with it being installed as Admin meaning you don't have actual ownership or something. Pretty retarded.
The First Decade » My vast Command & Conquer Collection » Go to message
lol, the Arsenal. Most useless collection pack ever released.

Anderwin is going to get that same demo CD soon; I got it lying right here on my desk. Just need to send it to him. I bought it hoping for an actual auto-playing RA demo... which would be interesting from a hacker's perspective. But it's just videos...

btw, how exactly is there anything special about having an unofficial missions CD? Those are just maps and missions harvested online, slapped on a CD and sold, anyway. Got one of those too, for C&C1.

Nice catch on the C&C1 Commemorative Edition though. I really want that too. And I must say I've never seen a C&C95+Covert Ops pack that was called "Assault Pack" before.

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Oh wait, that "assault pack" stuff is just on the plastic wrap. Meh. Look like normal boxes inside it.
The First Decade » recolector » Go to message
Mkay... kinda simplistic model though. It's missing the viewport and other details.
The First Decade » Windows 7 and Command and Conqer Tiberian Dawn (First Decade) hangs up » Go to message
That's the fix for the colours issue... does that actually affect game freezes?
The First Decade » tib sun help » Go to message
Dude... tried just DELETING the folders?
The First Decade » Tiberian Sun Tips » Go to message
what the hell...?

MEDIC! We got ourselves a spambot!
The First Decade » EA, release Tiberian Sun + Firestorm for free » Go to message
heh, I knew it a week in advance. This topic was funny
The First Decade » Free C&C » Go to message
Unzip the .RAR file

Classic.
The First Decade » Red Alert 1 Scrambled colours Windows 7 » Go to message
gamecraziness wrote:However, I compared the two, and it seems RA runs at more than 256 colours. There is some colour distortion when running in 256 colours, as far as I can tell. I can't tell for sure, though, because it won't let me take a proper screenshot. Can anyone confirm the colour distortion?

Ehh... no, RA is a 256-colour game. The Windows "run in 256-colour mode" loads a some standard Windows 256-colour palette on startup, which is immediately changed by the game of course.

256 colour mode doesn't mean the game only uses 256 colours; it means it can only have 256 colours shown on one screen at one single moment. But it does palette switches to get around that. The ingame is one palette, the main menu is another, the score screen is yet another, and every single video has its own palette, which sometimes even changes during scene changes in long ones.

The "colour distortion" is probably the same issue people got on Win7... it's the OS somehow interfering with the game, and replacing the first and last 8 colours of whatever palette is loaded by those of the standard Windows 16-colour palette. It's typically the health bars (amongst these first eight colours) and the shadows under units and structures (last eight).

As for the screenshots...
http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/cncstuff/cc1_ra1_screenshots.html
The First Decade » EA, release Tiberian Sun + Firestorm for free » Go to message
You call that fixing? He meant "than".
 
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