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Comment on 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"

carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

to clarify: the decompilation is done. so we have the source code, one way or another.

(well, it’s not completely done since it doesn’t compile to the exact same binary, but it’s very close - just go watch the video OP linked, it’s good)

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altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Decomp isn’t the original source code, though. It’s just code written in a way that’s going to produce similar to exact same results as the original.

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- carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  yea, for historical preservation purposes, having the original source code will always be better
  
  but in practice, what we have now is good enough to do basically anything you’d want the source code for
  
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