7th August 2007, 10:22 AM
Actually if they still had the old source code, they wouldn't really need to do that much reprogramming of the old game. Most of the code and assets should be transferrable pretty well. I get the impression though that a lot of the time this old source code gets somehow misplaced.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)