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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fallout source is gone too. There was just no reliable way to store source code back then, a lot of times it was just one of the developers that had it sitting in a desk drawer.

  If it’s new enough, maybe a burnt CD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes licenses get in the way, it’s possible they bought em engine or tech from a 3rd party and don’t have the legal standing (or don’t know if they do or not) to release the source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always suspected that these never actually cleaned anything⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all cd players had an accessible lens. A car deck had a slot insert and there was no way to get at the lens without disassembling the whole thing.

  Computer CD players also had a tray that extended so the lens was mostly hidden.

  Boomboxes and portable CD players had pop up lids where you could see the lens, but there were probably an equal number of players where you couldn’t access it.