Fallout 1 and 2’s source code isn’t lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: ‘I made it a quest to snapshot everything’
Fallout 1 and 2’s source code isn’t lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: ‘I made it a quest to snapshot everything’
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Fortunately, it turns out Interplay cofounder and programmer Rebecca Heineman kept copies of the source code for Fallout 1 and 2, as she told VideoGamer.
In 1993, Interplay published a CD collecting one game it published in each of the previous 10 years, including Battle Chess, Bard’s Tale, The Lord of the Rings Vol. I, and the original Wasteland. Heineman put the anthology together using her own copies of the source code of those games, except for Wasteland. When she went looking for it, she discovered others weren’t putting as much effort into backups.
Dear Todd, I have seen what you have done for others, and I want you to do that for me.
either this is an excuse for marketing for some project they have coming up, or a trap to see who has the source code lol
I watch Tim Cain’s YouTube channel regularly so I’ve heard him talk a few times about how unfortunately Interplay made him destroy everything he had on the games, which meant a few years later when they came to him because they lost it he couldn’t give them anything.
It’s great to see that despite that, the source code for it and others was saved.
Now then Todd, you know what you must do: Enhanced Editions.
Ok
I would cream if the source was made public
Now what about Icewind Dale 2?
I wish they could give fallout 1 and 2 to larian studios to remake them similar to baldurs gate 3 while still keeping the fallout style. Would be fantastic.
So this means a remake/reboot/remaster of Fallout 1 and 2?
I like them both, but I’d love to see them redone but keeping their spirits intact. That means don’t change them to a FPS