Command and Conquer Gold for free!

To celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Command & Conquer franchise, EA is providing a free download of C&C Gold as well as the instructions and patch for playing using Windows XP (but not 64bit versions).

Article at Ars Technica

Direct info & download page

This is awesome of EA to do this for the fans and curious.

Now go get it if you need it (I still have the original CDs).