Enlarge / Tim Berners-Lee showing off the early World Wide Web at CERN. (credit: Courtesy Sotheby’s) Next week, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will auction an NFT of the original source code he used to create the World Wide Web. The centerpiece of the digital collectible will be 9,555 lines of time-stamped source code split among files created by […]
Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. A group of dedicated coders has generated complete reverse-engineered raw source code for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City in a years-long process that comprises hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ […]
Enlarge / The Days of Thunder NES prototype source code on these disks sat in his basement for 30 years before being uncovered upon his death. (credit: VGHF) When most people think of preserving video game history, they probably imagine a museum full of boxed consoles and cartridges, or maybe a massive, digital database of […]