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A comment on The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder.

Re:The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder by jandrese on Thursday May 23, 2024 @12:44PM (#40456931)
I wonder if this is the only copy of that source code that survives? It's extremely common for source code from that era to be lost to time, especially from defunct companies. From a historical and preservation viewpoint this "blunder" may be a miracle.
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Re:The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder by lance_ewing on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:19PM (#40457353)
It happened twice at Sierra, around the same time in fact. I have found part of the AGI interpreter source code on a King's Quest III disk (version 2.14, 720KB version, disk 1). There is nowhere near as much, but lucky for us, it happens to include a few complete files that were not on the SQ2 disk. So that increases the total amount of source a bit.

I have checked other Sierra disks, and so far the SQ2 and KQ3 occurrences are the only ones I know of.

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