Original C&C was rewritten from scratch long ago, but open source version of Zero Hour is such an amazing gift.
PS: if you want to send respects to the person who did it you can do it on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-vessella-62726825_from-th...
You can check out our full announcement post here; https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb/...
I obviously love classical RTS and playing them since original C&C, but there are special place in my heart for Generals exactly because ot was different game.
And for me as game developer seeing this game in a sad state make me sad. I feel it does have as much potential as AoE2 and now more people can try to bring new life to it.
That's awesome to hear. The Generals and Zero Hour community is coming together like never before right now, it's amazing to see that these games are about to get a new lease of life!
(Or if you can't shed any light. Can you confirm "I can't talk about that")
I hope there will be more people and companies within industry making similar moves. It's will both increase their sales as well as allow fans to keep their favorite games alive.