• Former Sierra dev posts loads of old source-code up for sale
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/al-lowe-reveals-his-sierra-source-code-collection-then-puts-all-of-it-on-ebay/ As of press time, Lowe has listed auctions for the first two Leisure Suit Larry games' source code, with bids already climbing (both well above the $400 mark after they went live). Lowe indicated to Lindsey that more games' code will follow on eBay, and this will likely include a stunning treasure trove: Lowe's other Leisure Suit Larry games, King's Quest III, Police Quest I, and Lowe's games based on Disney franchises Winnie The Pooh and Black Cauldron. A truly graphic adventure: the 25-year rise and fall of a beloved genre What's more, Lowe also has original backups of his complete programming pipeline, including the Sierra utilities that converted plain-text, ASCII commands to interpreted code. When pressed about how curious users could peruse these disks' files, Lowe plainly responds, "It's a text file! Put it in Notepad." Video interview in source
Could he have the source code to Homeworld Cataclysm?
There needs to be some kind of organized effort to buy these and donate them to the Video Game History Foundation.
I just hope that the people who buy these doesn’t just keep them to themselves, and shares the source code to these games with others.
Technically anyone who did that would be liable to be sued. He is only selling these as physical artifacts, he does not own the rights to the games and thus redistributing the source code is a no no. You could do anything with the source code personally as the buyer but do not have the right to provide it to others.
Wonder what the guy thinks of the new Larry game. It's actually a return to form. I emailed him once and he responded, should think about doing it again.
That sounds as shaky as the argument that buying a copy of a game only grants you a "license", especially if these do end up getting donated to something like the VGHF. Sierra isn't even in business anymore; whoever even owns the rights now likely had nothing to do with the game's creation or release and shouldn't be entitled to any decision as to what is done with the source code - donated, sold, or otherwise. As far as I'm concerned, it's under ownership as much as an unearthed artifact is, and likewise ought to be in a museum.
To be honest this is a bit of a dick move. I'm not sure about legal stuff behind all of this but the whole situation looks like he just want to make money of this and doesn't care about preserving this stuff. Geez sell it as one lot atleast...
No, that was lost when Rockstar bought Barkingdog and wiped all their servers.
Fuck Rockstar. People say it's all Take Two, but Rockstar is just as much of a bastard.
Someone pls grab the source code for "Stay Tooned!" so we can finally get it working on post-Windows 2000 operating systems...
Screw Larry release the code for the original Softporn adventure.
atleast they can put out a somewhat decent game
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