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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160; This page on a website called WikiZero has a long and very extensive list of games whose source code is available. That doesn&#8217;t always mean you can build the game. Many games are very old and in BASIC or assembly (.g. Elite is available in various forms). It might have been created for a [&#8230;]</p>
The post <a href="https://learncgames.com/browsing-the-source-code-of-old-and-commercial-games/">Browsing the source code of old and commercial games</a> first appeared on <a href="https://learncgames.com">Learn C Games Programming Blog</a>.]]></description>
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<p><a title="Link to Games with source code on Wikizero" href="https://www.wikizero.com/en/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This page</a> on a website called WikiZero has a long and very extensive list of games whose source code is available. That doesn&#8217;t always mean you can build the game. Many games are very old and in BASIC or assembly (.g. Elite is available in various forms).</p>
<p>It might have been created for a different platform or more likely the source code is available but the graphics and sound assets aren&#8217;t, unless you have bought the game, perhaps from sites like gog.com and so have them.</p>
<p>One thing to be aware of, many of the links on WikiZero go to the excellent <a title="Link to wayback machine" href="https://archive.org/web/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wayback machine</a> which is part of archive.org. This is <a title="LInk to blog entry about wayback machine being sued" href="http://blog.archive.org/2020/06/01/four-commercial-publishers-filed-a-complaint-about-the-internet-archives-lending-of-digitized-books/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">under threat</a> by some commercial publishers because they have lent ebooks during the Covid lockdown period without any limitation.  So if you are interested in anything I suggest you check it out sooner rather than later, just in case.</p>
<p>For instance <a title="Link to paravia source code" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141129011448/http://planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=7183&amp;lngWId=3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here is the C source code</a> for a TRS-80 game from 1979 called Paravia. It looks like a much expanded version of the Classic Computer game Hammurabi.  Note the wayback machine can take a few seconds to retrieve a webpage. They have a very large chunk of the web&#8217;s websites in there&#8230;</p>The post <a href="https://learncgames.com/browsing-the-source-code-of-old-and-commercial-games/">Browsing the source code of old and commercial games</a> first appeared on <a href="https://learncgames.com">Learn C Games Programming Blog</a>.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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