Total Annihilation is a futuristic real-time strategy game for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, created by Chris Taylor and Cavedog Entertainment and released on 30 September 1997 by GT Interactive. It was the first to feature 3D units and terrain, a significant achievement in the days before graphics cards with hardware-based 3D acceleration became commonplace. Two expansion packs were released, The Core Contingency on April 30, 1998 and Battle Tactics on June 30, 1998.
A remake of the game with a completely 3D graphics engine (lacking any fixated camera angle), named Spring, has been created by the Swedish Yankspankers.
Total Annihilation creator Chris Taylor has also recently created the game Supreme Commander through Gas Powered Games, which bears many similarities with Total Annihilation, and has been popularly considered as its "spiritual successor". (Wikipedia)
CHEATS
Begin a game in skirmish or multiplayer mode. Press Enter to display the message box. Press Plus and enter one of the following codes. Press Enter to activate the corresponding cheat function. Please note: You will have to enter the code again to deactivate.
Codes
Increase metal and energy by 1000 - atm
Display game clock - clock
Play CD music - cdstart or cdplay
Stop CD music - cdstop
View 3D contour mesh - contour(1-15)
Control skirmish AI - control(0-3)
Dithering replaces gray line of sight - dither
Double weapon damage - doubleshot
Half weapon damage - halfshot
Lost game - ilose
Win game - iwin
Kill all units - kill
Darker structures light - 1000
Black structures - light
Meteor shower at random map location - meteor
Decrease energy - noenergy
Decrease metal - nometal
Disable explosion screen effect - noshake
Full map, disable line of sight - nowisee or los
Full radar - radar
Full health - dr
Toggle object shadowing - shadow
Units sing when highlighted - sing
Toggle 3D sound - sound3d
Press Alt + (number) to switch units - switchalt
View opponent's energy, metal - view (0-3)
Share radar* - share radar
Share metal* - share metal
Share energy* - share energy
Share all resources* - share all
Also shoot buildings - shootall
Traces unit/structures in order that they were built - bigbrother
Display data transfer in multi-player mode - bps
Change opponent color in skirmish - logo (1-9)
Cover the screen in black - mapping
Display ranges by holding Shift when pointer is over unit - showranges
All trees killed off - treedeath
Toggle chat text in multi-player mode - screenchat
Faster unit building - zipper
Toggle radar mini-map - seti
Toggle sound effects - sfx
Limited resource increase - lushee
Map screen shot in .BMP format - makeposter
Change scroll speed; 100 is fast - scrollspeed (number)