Installing VanillaTD

For best results, create a new empty directory to install VanillaTD into. Copy the build artifacts of your platform into this like the game executable (vanillatd.exe, sdl2.dll and openal32.dll on Windows).

The paths in the first column are relative to the root directory of your VanillaTD executable. Filename casing doesn't matter on case sensitive filesystems.

We currently do not support the unofficial v1.06c patch by Nyerguds.

Retail

If you have physical retail CDs you can copy some of the files directly from them when the CD is mounted. If you are using the freeware release you can use something like 7-Zip to directly extract the necessary files from their respective ISO images.

You also need a tool to extract files from SETUP.Z. It's an InstallShield archive.

NOTE: You must use the CCLOCAL.MIX from the SETUP.Z archive and not any that you find loose in the INSTALL folder. Some discs were released including the freeware disc images that contain a German version of CCLOCAL.MIX which will lead to all kinds of confusion if you were not expecting your installation to be that language.

File	Source
conquer.mix	GDI or NOD disc: CONQUER.MIX
desert.mix	GDI or NOD disc: DESERT.MIX
temperat.mix	GDI or NOD disc: TEMPERAT.MIX
winter.mix	GDI or NOD disc: WINTER.MIX
sounds.mix	GDI or NOD disc: SOUNDS.MIX
cclocal.mix	GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z
transit.mix	GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z
speech.mix	GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z
update.mix	GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z
deseicnh.mix	GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z
tempicnh.mix	GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z
winticnh.mix	GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z
gdi/general.mix	GDI disc: GENERAL.MIX
gdi/movies.mix	GDI disc: MOVIES.MIX
gdi/scores.mix	GDI disc: SCORES.MIX
nod/general.mix	NOD disc: GENERAL.MIX
nod/movies.mix	NOD disc: MOVIES.MIX
nod/scores.mix	NOD disc: SCORES.MIX

Covert Operations

If you have physical retail CDs you can copy all of the files directly from them when the CD is mounted.

File	Source
sc-000.mix	COVERTOPS disc: INSTALL/SC-000.MIX
sc-001.mix	COVERTOPS disc: INSTALL/SC-001.MIX
speech.mix	COVERTOPS disc: INSTALL/SPEECHMIX
covertops/general.mix	COVERTOPS disc: GENERAL.MIX
covertops/movies.mix	COVERTOPS disc: MOVIES.MIX
covertops/scores.mix	COVERTOPS disc: SCORES.MIX

Final Directory Structure

Your final directory structure for a portable install should look like the following. If you ommit conquer.ini (which can be empty), then writable data will go to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Vanilla-Conquer\vanillatd on Windows and a conquer.ini file will be generated there on first run. WESTWOOD/C&C95 is the path the original installer uses.

WESTWOOD/  
├─ C&C95/  
│  ├─ covertops/  
│  │  ├─ GENERAL.MIX  
│  │  ├─ MOVIES.MIX  
│  │  ├─ SCORES.MIX  
│  ├─ gdi/  
│  │  ├─ GENERAL.MIX
│  │  ├─ MOVIES.MIX
│  │  ├─ SCORES.MIX
│  ├─ nod/
│  │  ├─ GENERAL.MIX  
│  │  ├─ MOVIES.MIX  
│  │  ├─ SCORES.MIX  
│  ├─ CCLOCAL.MIX  
│  ├─ conquer.ini  
│  ├─ CONQUER.MIX  
│  ├─ DESEICNH.MIX  
│  ├─ DESERT.MIX  
│  ├─ LOCAL.MIX  
│  ├─ SC-000.MIX  
│  ├─ SC-001.MIX  
│  ├─ SOUNDS.MIX  
│  ├─ SPEECH.MIX  
│  ├─ TEMPERAT.MIX  
│  ├─ TEMPICNH.MIX  
│  ├─ UPDATE.MIX  
│  ├─ UPDATEC.MIX  
│  ├─ vanillatd.exe  
│  ├─ WINTER.MIX  
│  ├─ WINTICNH.MIX