wraggster
December 30th, 2013, 21:50
Last year, Jordan Mechner, the creator of the Prince of Persia video game franchise, released the long-thought-lost (http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/04/17/2043200/prince-of-persia-source-code-released-on-github)original Apple II source code for Prince of Persia. Today marks the release of version 2.0 of apoplexy (http://www.popot.org/news.php?id=apoplexy-2.0), the free and open-source level editor of Prince of Persia for DOS. Roughly 5.5 years after its initial release, support has been added for editing Prince of Persia 2 levels in both GNU/Linux and Windows. The game has its 25th anniversary next year, but the original trilogy only has a (very) small fan community (http://forum.princed.org/). Will old games such as this also interest future generations or will they gradually lose their appeal because of technological advances?"
http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/12/28/2013252/prince-of-persia-level-editor-apoplexy-reaches-20
http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/12/28/2013252/prince-of-persia-level-editor-apoplexy-reaches-20