How to Use New "Command & Conquer Levels" with the
"Command & Conquer / Warcraft 2 Toolkit" (volume 3)

Quick background info:

The original C&C game wasn't written with the intention of having people write
new levels for it.  Some brave young lad hacked C&C and wrote a description of
the game data it used.  Some other brave young lad used that description and
wrote a program to look through and modify the game data.  That program is
called MixManager (named because the main C&C data file was called 
general.MIX).  The last brave guy (Andrew Griffin from Australia) actually
wrote an editor for the game to let people create new levels.

All levels used with the basic C&C game are contained in a single file called
general.mix (located in the root directory of the C&C installation CD).  This
file has 128 "slots", each of which contains game data.  Each new level from
our CD will have a NEWLEVEL.ini and NEWLEVEL.map.  These two files must be
added to the general.mix file.  Restated: each new level from our CD takes
up 2 of the 128 "slots" in the general.mix file.

Procedure for using new levels:

1. Make sure you don't have Covert Operations installed (Mission add-on pack
   from Westwood).  It won't work if you do.
2. Copy general.mix from the root level of the C&C Installation CD into the
   directory they installed Command & Conquer CD to (by default, C:\C&C)
   i.e. "copy d:\general.mix c:\c&c"
3. When files are put on CD, they have a special attribute set that says
   "Hey, don't let the user write or modify any files on this CD".  This
   makes sense since you can't write anything to a CD anyway.  :)  Now that
   you've copied over general.mix, you'll need to tell the computer that
   you want ability to modify it.  From a command prompt, type in:
     attrib -r c:\c&c\general.mix
   This will give you the ability to modify that file.
4. Get out our Toolkit and put it the CDROM drive.
5. Use view and extract the file \cnc\zipped\utils\mixman2.zip into the
   directory you installed Command & Conquer to.
6. Use view and extract several files from \cnc\zipped\levels\single into the
   directory you installed Command & Conquer to.
7. Get to a DOS prompt in your C&C directory.
8. There is a file called mixman.doc that was extracted with mixman2.zip.
   This explains how to use the MixManager (which inserts and removes new
   levels into the "slots" in general.mix).
9. Read mixman.doc if you can't figure out mixman.exe.  Please do not ask us
   to walk you through usage of that program (which we didn't make).

Using new levels with multiple players:

Use the procedure above.  All computers wanting to use the same new 
multi-player level must have it available in their own general.mix files
(in the slot locations).

That's it.  Happy gaming!

-- 
Christopher G. Mann