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Prince of Persia Source Code Released On Github

Posted by Soulskill on from the going-back-in-time dept.

rbarreira writes "The source code for the original Prince of Persia game has been released on github by its author, Jordan Mechner. This release comes three weeks after Jordan announced the find of a box containing old floppy disks that had been forgotten in the back of a closet for 20+ years. A 'digital archeology' effort was launched to recover the contents of the floppy disks, with the help of Jason Scott from textfiles.com. Some photos from the 'copy party' have also been posted."

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  1. Re:browsing the source by hackula · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also-- just an aside-- the code is exceptionally clean.

  2. I love some of the pics.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The times where you see a ton of really old tech, taking up a whole table, crunching away, and a blackberry sitting on top of one of the computers, which probably has more processing power than all those computers put together, make a really cool pic :)

  3. We've come a long way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Never thought I'd see an actual game programmed in assembly.