Prince of Persia Source Code Released On Github

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."

Comments

browsing the source

[hackula]

This is terrific. It is awesome looking through the source; kind of like a time capsule.

What about the legal implications?

[lostmagik]

Can he do that? Wont he get sued over?

Re:What about the legal implications?

[Thuktun]

Depends on how specifically Brøderbund acquired the original rights to the game back in 1989, and how subsequent holders acquired their rights. I'm not a lawyer, but I would expect that if the agreements included source code, they might have expected transfer of copyright ownership.

Geeze

[Hatta]

This would have helped the guy who ported it to the C64. Although, that might have spoiled some of the fun.

Awesome

[deblau]

This is unbelievably cool, and everyone involved deserves a beer. If you're in the Boston area, send me a tweet @DavidEBlau and I'll buy you drinks for the night!

New terminology

[Anonymous Coward]

'digital archeology': the act of trying to find a functioning drive to read whatever old storage format was in use.

Easy dig: 3.5" floppy
Hard dig: 5.25" floppy
Very hard dig: proprietary tape backup (any)
Extremely hard dig: LS120 (I can joke about this because I had one, and 5 discs for it)

Props to Slashdot Coders

[oldhack]

I don't do this often, but massive props to the slashdot web monkeys - that story icon is just awesome. Actually, your whole last site overhaul is pretty neat.