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Travel back in time to acquire lost source codes.
If they open a crowdfunding to create a flux capacitor, I'm certainly contributing.
Commander Keen series. Pathways Into Darkness. Star Wars games before 2002. Probably a lot more.
Steins;Gate!
There are good decompilers available. They do a decent job and with skilled programs they can be rebuilt.
@Trilarion After seeing how was handled the relocation of my small company I fear that the source code of a lot, a lot of old games and other software is really definitely lost.
The Source Code for Jazz Jackrabbit 2 might be lost, and the Source Code for Prince of Persia was nearly lost.
more current example of lost source code: Divine Divinity www.gog.com/forum/divine_divinity_series/what_are_the_problems_with_gogs_divine_divinity/post23
There is, it's horrible: www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6271/where_games_go_to_sleep_the_game_.php E.g. Taito announced 1996 that they lost the Bubble Bobble Source code, Atari throw away the source code of Centipede to trash...etc :(
Therefore should GOG try to obtain the source code where possible: www.gog.com/wishlist/site/obtain_source_code_for_games_where_possible
Is there really lost source code or is it just not public?
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