Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0

An anonymous reader writes "Last year, Jordan Mechner, the creator of the Prince of Persia video game franchise, released the long-thought-lost original Apple II source code for Prince of Persia. Today marks the release of version 2.0 of apoplexy, the free and open-source level editor of Prince of Persia for DOS. Roughly 5.5 years after its initial release, support has been added for editing Prince of Persia 2 levels in both GNU/Linux and Windows. The game has its 25th anniversary next year, but the original trilogy only has a (very) small fan community. Will old games such as this also interest future generations or will they gradually lose their appeal because of technological advances?"

Comments

Future Generations

[Anonymous Coward]

We are interested because this is a game from our youth (for those of us of a certain age). Future generations will be creating editors for Call of Duty or Elder Scrolls or Portal or something like that.

Re:Future Generations

[lgw]

Or, to quote MC Frontalot

You canâ(TM)t hide secrets from the future with math.
  You can try, but I bet that in the future they laugh
  at the half-assed schemes and algorithms amassed
  to enforce cryptographs in the past.

Wise words.