Command & Conquer

7 projects: source release, reimplementation, source port, readable bytecode.

Projects

Reimplementation17,547 starspushed 2026-10-11GPL-3.0 licenserelease release-20250330

Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

CnC_Tiberian_Dawn / CnC_Red_Alertarchived

Source releaseWatcom C++ / TASM (original)6,704 starspushed 2025-02-27custom license

Command and Conquer: Red Alert

EA released original 1995/96 source under GPLv3 (Feb 2025); archived read-only

CnC_Tiberian_Dawnarchived

Source releaseC++ (Watcom/MSVC); CMake in Vanilla-Conquer1,808 starspushed 2025-02-27custom license

Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn

Wikipedia: open-source code, proprietary assets; source released 2020 by/for Westwood Studios. Standalone source released GPL-3.0 (+EA additional terms) Feb 2025; Remastered game DLL source June 2020. The games' code was released along wit…

Vanilla-Conquer

Source portEA GPL source release (2020); packaged for aarch64 Linux handhelds by…464 starspushed 2026-07-16custom license

Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.

In PortMaster (main) as 'VanillaTD' (vanillatd), updated 2025-10-04; ready-to-run

PortMaster port 'openra'

Readable bytecodeLÖVE (Lua) - .love archive is plain Lua source; porter: RoyalJupiter56 starspushed 2026-10-12GPL-3.0 licenserelease gen-20250825

Generals Alpha is an OpenRA mod that recreates Command & Conquer: Generals on OpenRA engine as much as possible but using Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn artworks.

Commercial/indie or freeware LOVE game packaged in PortMaster (main) as openra, updated 2026-04-28; ready-to-run (free)

emupedia-game-command-and-conquer1

ReimplementationC&C in HTML5/JavaScript (Emupedia fork/mirror)8 starspushed 2020-03-11no license

Command & Conquer in HTML5/Javascript

Hosted/mirrored by Emupedia (emupedia.net retro-OS web hub); mostly forks of upstream projects, many unmaintained since 2019-2022

FreeCNC

ReimplementationC++/SDL8 starspushed 2014-01-30custom license

FreeCNC copy of sourceforge

Halted (SourceForge copy)

What you need

You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.

Same toolchain

GameMethodYearStarsLast push

DOSDoomSource releaseMatching decomp+8199320k2026-10-12 WEB2048Source releaseReimplementation+1201413k2026-08-19 PC2048 PlusReadable bytecode13k2024-10-24 PCMinecraft: Java EditionReimplementationSource port+220117.6k2026-10-11 PCBattle for WesnothSource release20056.9k2026-10-12 DOSQuakeSource releaseMatching decomp+419966.1k2026-10-12 PCThe Elder Scrolls III: MorrowindReimplementation20026.6k2026-10-12 PCSuperTuxKartSource releaseAgent environment20065.4k2026-10-11

More on DOS

GameMethodYearStarsLast push

DOSChex QuestSource release199620k2024-05-24 DOSCommand & Conquer: Red AlertSource releaseReimplementation+3199618k2026-10-11 DOSTransport Tycoon DeluxeReimplementationDisassembly+119958.4k2026-10-12 DOSSimCity 2000Static recompReimplementation+119935.3k2026-10-11 DOSThe Elder Scrolls II: DaggerfallMatching decompReimplementation+119963.5k2026-10-07 DOSHeroes of Jin Yong (金庸群侠传)Reimplementation19963.0k2026-10-06 DOSFalloutMatching decompDecomp+319972.9k2026-10-12 DOSX-COM: UFO DefenseStatic recompReimplementation+119942.2k2026-09-28

Found via electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_g, pcgamesn.com/command-and-conquer-remastered/sour, pcgamesn.com/command-and-conquer/mods-source-cod, PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/tree/main/ports/vanil

GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.