Interesting Article: Where Games Go To Sleep

[Erik_Twice]

Very sad to see how much disrespect companies had for maintaining and storing their source codes and materials.

They really don't deserve the source code back.

I think you are really lacking historical perspective. You know why they didn't save those codes? Because they never thought they were important. Now we know they are but we couldn't know that back then!

It's not as easy as you make it look. Take trains for example, do you think that back in the XIX century it made sense to preserve one of each of your locomotives?

Right now an old draft of Don Quixote would be invaluable but it would have been silly for Cervantes to keep every single revision.

Anyways, often it's the blame of a very reduced group of people as Mod Man said concerning Tramiel.

[ChuChu Flamingo]

Very sad to see how much disrespect companies had for maintaining and storing their source codes and materials.

They really don't deserve the source code back.

I think you are really lacking historical perspective. You know why they didn't save those codes? Because they never thought they were important. Now we know they are but we couldn't know that back then!

It's not as easy as you make it look. Take trains for example, do you think that back in the XIX century it made sense to preserve one of each of your locomotives?

Right now an old draft of Don Quixote would be invaluable but it would have been silly for Cervantes to keep every single revision.

Anyways, often it's the blame of a very reduced group of people as Mod Man said concerning Tramiel.

Only reason, in my opinion, that they want the source code back is for porting their games easier for quick cash.

Your argument is much like why a lot of vintage video games don't have boxes/manuals. Most people did not give a shit and simply tossed them . Some people did and that is why we have some left. I would like to think everyone treats their stuff with care, but that is sadly the opposite.

For every Atari incident where they had no control over it, there are other countless examples of those that could. Heck, would be worth it to keep it just for future reference.

I'm just saying that most of these companies don't deserve their source code back.