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28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

yea, for historical preservation purposes, having the original source code will always be better

but in practice, what we have now is good enough to do basically anything you’d want the source code for