ampersandrew@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoEA has open sourced a bunch of old Command & Conquer gamesgithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1813file-text
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minus-squareDicJacobus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agosomeone else here suggested that the source code for TS/RA2 was lost. which wouldnt surprise me. These are games that were made when and before the Zoomers were being born. they are ancient by most people’s standards.
minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoFallout source is gone too. There was just no reliable way to store source code back then, a lot of times it was just one of the developers that had it sitting in a desk drawer. If it’s new enough, maybe a burnt CD.
minus-squareDicJacobus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agostill susceptible to disc rot
someone else here suggested that the source code for TS/RA2 was lost. which wouldnt surprise me.
These are games that were made when and before the Zoomers were being born. they are ancient by most people’s standards.
Fallout source is gone too. There was just no reliable way to store source code back then, a lot of times it was just one of the developers that had it sitting in a desk drawer.
If it’s new enough, maybe a burnt CD.
still susceptible to disc rot