Me too. I'm going to be reverse-engineering Elite PC (original version) and I can't help but think the source is lost. The developer seems to have totally dropped off the face of the Earth. I've contacted others who might know and nobody knows where they are.
Even the game I was a developer on which was published by Eidos in ~1998 is probably lost source. I can't think that anyone has the Visual Source Safe database backup CDs lying around, but I could be wrong.
You mean 1991 Elite Plus? The whole series has been reverse-engineered to death and back. Maybe you mean some other game?
Anyway, for those old titles I don't think not having source is that much of a problem. I participated in two reimplementations of 1994 XCOM : UFO2000 and OpenXcom, helped the 1oom project (first Master of Orion) and I don't think having original source would have helped much.
qingcharles|13 days ago
Even the game I was a developer on which was published by Eidos in ~1998 is probably lost source. I can't think that anyone has the Visual Source Safe database backup CDs lying around, but I could be wrong.
lstodd|12 days ago
Anyway, for those old titles I don't think not having source is that much of a problem. I participated in two reimplementations of 1994 XCOM : UFO2000 and OpenXcom, helped the 1oom project (first Master of Orion) and I don't think having original source would have helped much.
the_biot|12 days ago