Reverse engineering - UberWaffe/OpenRA GitHub Wiki
Thanks to the community there is now an exhaustive documentation on the game files available:
- Audio specifications
- Command & Conquer File Formats
- VQA File Format
- VQP File Format
- Palette format
- Fonts
- Mix Files
- Mix Format
- Map format
- Template format
- CnC & RA Video list
- [Dune 2 SHP specification](Dune 2 SHP specification)
- InstallShield v3
Red Alert
- The Red Alert File Format Guide
- The Red Alert Single Player Mission Creation Guide
- The Red Alert Internet Map Edit Guide
Tiberian Dawn
- C&C Gold extracted INI rules
- self-made RULES.INI
- Command & Conquer Maps
- [single-player maps](C&C Singleplayer Maps)
- missions
Dune 2000
The D2k+ Wiki has an extensive and growing list of file format specifications.