Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks

Re:Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source co... by bredren on Monday June 01, 2020 @03:21PM (#23382552)

It is really cool to see people go to such great lengths to recover lost software projects.

I wonder about what other interesting failed products from this time will later be found important enough to attempt to piece together and display to people in the future.

Perhaps an app that was prescient in its intent or the career of one of their makers seen as remarkable in some way that their digital detritus is dug up and placed under glass.

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Re:Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source co... by userbinator on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:04PM (#23386505)

With all the security paranoia these days, the future of "digital archaeology" seems pretty bleak. Even if you do manage to find the storage media, it's likely to have been encrypted with an algorithm that remains unbroken.

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Re:Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source co... by bredren on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:21PM (#23397723)

Perhaps, but it also may be cracking the password is a trivial endeavor.

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Re:Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source co... by mr-ron on Monday June 01, 2020 @09:16PM (#23386129)

At a glance there are a number of Daydream apps that are removed and unavailable anywhere right now. Likewise mobile games that get pulled for whatever reason.

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