Need help to install the single player campaign!

[Calleskaviar]

Hello C&C Community!

 

Yesterday I realized that this beautiful game that I played 15 years ago was available for free, and on Mac! Happy days I thought, downloaded the game and it worked. I can play online, skirmish and those options, but I wanted to play the campaign as well, to really relive my childhood.

 

I downloaded RA1installer.exe from redalert1.com but when I run it my unzip program The Unarchiver tries to unpack it and fails. The error message reads;

"The contents of the file "RA1installer.exe" can not be extracted with this program."

I also tried to unzip it using the Terminal on the Mac, but that did not work either.

 

Does anyone know a solution to this problem, could it be as simple as trying another unzip program? Usually The Unarchiver tackles anything I throw at it, password protected or not, so i'm surprised it couldn't handle this installer...

 

Please help me relive my early teenage years!

 

Calle

[FunkyFr3sh]

Hi! Welcome to the forums

 

There are multiple ways to get the full game on your mac:

 

1. Use RA1installer.exe with the wrapper from PaulTheTall http://paulthetall.com/red-alert-mac/

2. Use RA1installer.exe with PlayOnMac http://funkyfr3sh.cncnet.org/playonmac_playonlinux/

3. Use RA1installer.exe with Crossover (not free) https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-mac

[Messiah]

Else use the portable version, which comes on a .zip folder.

 

On Irans page you can select which components of your game you want to install, so the campaign (including the two addon CDs) is available as separate file too:

http://iran.cnc-comm.com/ra/#

unzip in your game folder.