OpenRA portable package for Windows XP

DukeNukem · Post by **DukeNukem** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 4:47 pm

Hi there,

first of all I want to wish a Happy New Year to the community and the developers.

At the beginning I'd like to provide some background information regarding my enquiry:
From time to time I arrange some Retro-LAN-Parties, there we play until now Age of Empires, Total Annihilation, Metal Fatigue and so on - the good ol' classics

All the games are running pretty good on our Windows XP and 7 machines.
But for compatibility reasons for some certain older games, most of our PCs and notebooks there are running on Windows XP.

So we would love to play your wonderful OpenRA project respectively Red Alert in your revised/upgraded version on our XP machines.

As far as I found out the XP support has unfortunately been dropped for the OpenRA project

Is there any way, we could get an older XP package (maybe a portable package with all the needed Red Alert Files)?

It would be really great

So far, thank you very much for reading.

Kind regards

Post by **Murto the Ray** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:26 pm

Happy New Year to you too!

You can find previous releases here

DukeNukem · Post by **DukeNukem** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 7:42 pm

Thank you for your quick response

Do you know which release was the last one with XP support?
I'll try to get a portable package for our offline LAN parties ready then

klaas · Post by **klaas** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 8:10 pm

XP support was dropped in the last release, so 20160508 should work. I guess it's good to test it before the party starts.

http://www.openra.net/news/release-20160508/

DukeNukem · Post by **DukeNukem** » Tue Jan 03, 2017 3:57 pm

If I got it right, it's recommend to use the EA RA disc images if we want to have the "complete Red Alert experience".

I've downloaded the Red Alert isos from cncnz.com and would use them with the OpenRA automatic installation, if this is correct?

How about the two add-ons / expansion packs Counterstrike and Aftermath?
Are we able to use them with OpenRA?

And how about the additional videos and music from the PlayStation version (which I've found here: cnc-comm.com/ra/)?
Are we able to get them working with OpenRA too?

Or would that be unrecommend to expose them to OpenRA?

Thank you very much for your further assistance.