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Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

For anyone not reading the article: She was the co-founder and was putting together a collection of games they had made and needed the source code for the game Wasteland.

I asked for the source and was given a blank stare. I went to the COO's office and he gave me a cardboard box that looked like it was run over by a truck and it had some of the source on floppies. I ended up contacting friends at Electronic Arts to get a copy of the source we sent them when Wasteland shipped.

After that she started keeping backups of everything she worked on.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Doing the Lord's work with this TL;DR.