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HaloZero 7 hours ago

Looks like EA did open source the game (only the first maybe)

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert

This seems to be the most active port saying it works on a Mac/Linux https://github.com/Daft-Freak/CnC_and_Red_Alert

asronline 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I wish they open sourced RA2 - I love that game, I heard they lost the source code :/

swat535 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, they have also lost Tiberian Sun and Firestorm I think.. very unfortunate.

freedomben 5 hours ago | parent [-]

That's wild. How does that happen?

cogman10 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Red alert 2 was released in 2000, which means it was developed probably in 1998->1999.

Life was different back then. Source control systems were a LOT worse (this is CVS era for open source development). We certainly weren't in the current era where everyone wants to play these old games on their phones now.

What almost certainly happened is all copies of the source were simply lost. They may have sat on someone's hard drive, a team server hard drive, or somewhere else. It's possible they didn't have more than a few copies while development was ongoing.

wmf 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Everything will be lost unless it's somebody's job to preserve it. It's pretty common to close game studios or lay off the entire development team while simultaneously scolding them about "stealing" IP so the predictable result is the code being lost.