{"id":1235700,"date":"2025-02-27T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235700"},"modified":"2025-02-27T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:20:00","slug":"ea-releases-source-code-for-old-command-and-conquer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235700","title":{"rendered":"EA Releases Source Code For Old Command and Conquer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>EA has released the source code for several classic Command &amp; Conquer games, including Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade, and Generals &amp; Zero Hour. &#8220;They&#8217;re being released under the GPL license, meaning folks can mix, match, and redistribute them to their hearts&#8217; content without EA lawyers smashing down the door,&#8221; adds PC Gamer. Additionally, Steam Workshop support has been added for multiple C&amp;C titles, along with updated mission editor tools and a modding support pack. From the report: As for the Steam Workshop? That&#8217;s getting switched on for C&amp;C Renegade, C&amp;C Generals and Zero Hour, C&amp;C 3 Tiberium Wars and Kane&#8217;s Wrath, and C&amp;C 4 Tiberium Twilight (they can&#8217;t all be winners). EA&#8217;s also gone and &#8220;updated all the Mission Editor and World Builder tools so you can publish maps directly to the Steam Workshop.&#8221; Plus, it&#8217;s putting out a modding support pack that &#8220;contains the source Xml, Schema, Script, Shader and Map files for all the games that use the SAGE engine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Per C&amp;C producer Jim Vessella, EA commissioned C&amp;C community veteran Luke &#8216;CCHyper&#8217; Feenan to officially research improvements to many of the games in the Ultimate Collection,&#8221; and this is the fruit of his labor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=EA+Releases+Source+Code+For+Old+Command+and+Conquer+Games%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F27%2F2144203%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-328.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F27%2F2144203%2Fea-releases-source-code-for-old-command-and-conquer-games%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-243.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/27\/2144203\/ea-releases-source-code-for-old-command-and-conquer-games?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23622855&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA has released the source code for several classic Command &amp; Conquer games, including Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade, and Generals &amp; Zero Hour. &#8220;They&#8217;re being released under the GPL license, meaning folks can mix, match, and redistribute them to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}