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Prince of Persia Source Code Found

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First post, by DosFreak

Posted on 2012-03-31, 23:48

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http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/03/prince- … urce-code-found

My Dad (yep, the same guy who composed the music for the original Karateka and Prince of Persia) called from New York to tell me he was doing some spring cleaning and had shipped me a carton of old games and other stuff of mine he’d found in the back of a closet.
The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside.

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Reply 1 of 8, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2012-04-01, 00:55

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That's an interesting story though I didn't know that the code was lost in the first place.

Just shows that the loss of digital information is a real issue and more care needs to be taken.

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Reply 2 of 8, by wd

Posted on 2012-04-01, 09:13

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Wonder if that appeared around end of march or 1st or april.

Reply 3 of 8, by F2bnp

Posted on 2012-04-01, 12:23

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wd wrote:
Wonder if that appeared around end of march or 1st or april.

This was actually posted on March 29, so it probably is legit!
Cool stuff 😁

Reply 4 of 8, by peterferrie

Posted on 2012-04-03, 00:10

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It's real. I talked to him several years ago about it, and he wanted to share the source but couldn't find it.

Reply 5 of 8, by robertmo

Posted on 2012-04-03, 09:06

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What about "Prince of Persia 2" sourcecode?

Reply 6 of 8, by Miki Maus

Posted on 2012-04-03, 16:25

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So if the source code is in 6502 assembly-language, what is the difference between that source code and disassembled executable (except comments)?

Reply 7 of 8, by wd

Posted on 2012-04-03, 18:50

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Labels, variable names (memory locations) etc.

Reply 8 of 8, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-04-17, 09:29

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https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

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