Re: Is red alert 1 and tiberian sun now freeware
Do you mean archive.org, or do you mean www.commandandconquer.com? Because www.commandandconquer.com is the official EA C&C portal, and archive.org is a service that seeks to preserve the past of the internet by constantly saving web pages and offering them as completely reconstructed websites. If you want to know the specifics of how legal that is, go read their Terms of Service. I think they're fricking heroes, personally.
Anyway... yes, that page was made by EA, and was indeed hosted on the official site in February 2010, and the downloads there actually pointed to files on EA servers, so they're pretty much the most legal you can get. That page no longer exists on the official site, and EA stopped hosting the files, but that doesn't mean the games are no longer freeware. There are enough places offering them online now that they no longer have to do it. And, by saving that web page and its linked files, archive.org is just another website offering them.
Nice to know that archive.org mirror actually has all fully functional links of the original downloads, though 🙂
As I said, though, you're better off using the links I gave, since the old CD installers for C&C1 and RA1 don't run on 64-bit machines, and that Tiberian Sun pack was rather messy, since it was basically just the First Decade install dumped into a zip-file. It requires you to extract it in exactly the right folder, and to import the included registry stuff, before it works right.
