ampersandrew@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoEA has open sourced a bunch of old Command & Conquer gamesgithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1846arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squareDicJacobus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months 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-up2·2 months 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-up1·2 months agostill susceptible to disc rot
minus-squarethermal_shock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYeah, I used to steal the physical CDs from Kmart back in the day. They’re old as hell.
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
Yeah, I used to steal the physical CDs from Kmart back in the day. They’re old as hell.