Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 17 hours agoSometimes licenses get in the way, it’s possible they bought em engine or tech from a 3rd party and don’t have the legal standing (or don’t know if they do or not) to release the source.
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
someone else here suggested that the source code for TS/RA2 was lost. which wouldnt surprise me.
These are games that were made when and before the Zoomers were being born. they are ancient by most people’s standards.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Fallout source is gone too. There was just no reliable way to store source code back then, a lot of times it was just one of the developers that had it sitting in a desk drawer.
If it’s new enough, maybe a burnt CD.
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
still susceptible to disc rot