The Past Ain't What It Used To Be... The first Command & Conquer received its last official update on the 21st of June, 1996. Since then, the game has been ported to Windows (as "Gold" version), and re-released in the big "The First Decade" collection pack, but has never received any more bug fixes. The C&C Gold Patch 1.06 project aims to bring this classic into the new millennium, by fixing the old bugs, supporting higher resolutions, and adding new modding and mapping possibilities. It also contains an addon-based language system, allowing anyone to create translation packs for the game.
This shows the new setup tool... as you see, resolutions are no longer limited to 640x400, 640x480 and 1024x768. The game can now use any resolution you could have, as indicated by the text boxes on the 'custom' option. Do note that resolutions wider (or higher) than 1024 tend to cause crashes, so it's still not advised to use them.
On top of that, AlexB, one of the people working on the Ares project, found a video stretch mode option inside the game. This isn't about stretching videos to full screen in high resolutions though... it's about how the game fills up the black lines in the videos, world map scenes and score screens. This means the black lines can finally be removed, and you can even choose from 2 quality levels.