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Original Fallout creator was ordered to destroy source code, then Interplay lost its official archive | Archives should always have redundancies
Tim Cain, one of Fallout's original creators, revealed that the production assets for the first game are probably lost. In a recent video on game preservation, he...
In a recent video on game preservation, he blamed publishers' hubris and carelessness as key barriers to safeguarding development history. Bethesda and Microsoft can continue re-releasing the original Fallout games thanks to Interplay's recovery of the final retail build and GOG's commitment to maintaining compatibility with modern Windows systems. Cain also explained that source code was often lost in earlier decades because some developers kept materials private and eventually misplaced them, making the same mistake as Interplay.
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