@AndyFC Having picked up the challenge to finally update VanillaRA to get the cutscenes working I've found that there is the following issue with the SDL versions of both the Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ports:
On both games, although the FMV clips now play smoothly in the SDL ports (not under the -cgx version which stutters really badly and can crash if not skipped), sadly the ability to 'hotkey'/team units has disappeared! Movies but no unit groups!?! This severely affects the gameplay!
Any ideas with this "new improved" version?!?
[EDIT] Yeah, as I suspected CTRL+No. Key sets the unit group and the number key selects the saved group, BUT ONLY WHEN PLAYING USING THE P96 -CGX VERSION THAT CAN'T PLAY THE VIDEOS SMOOTHLY OR STABLY!!!!
Any thoughts? Wasn't there some code that changed it to use Frogger to play the videos in the -cgx versions?
I also see in the RedAlert.ini file the following for the SDL keyboard code:
keyteam1=30^M
...with the number increasing by one for each new group! But what keys do you actually need to press and could I amend it so that it's CTRL+No. of unit to bind the units into a team and then just the number to recall the team?
In all honesty the old -cgx/P96 version was a lot more playable than the new one, with a better game speed when playing in Normal Mode on my CM4 based PiStorm32 (too fast now) and with the ability to group units albeit with no FMV movies!