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They don't have the original sources anymore? Do you have a reference for this? What a terrible loss that would be.

considering that they've laid off a huge fraction of their veteran programmers and have been outsourcing development overseas, this doesn't surprise me in the least.

Even if they did have it, there's a good chance their systems aren't compatible with whatever they used to render them.

The game is nearly 20 years old, a millennia in video game time. Oh my goodness... 20 years!

16 years... come on, don't let us feel THAT old yet.

Actually that works in their favor. It's been long enough that they can probably run the original system and software on an emulator with a faster CPU setting.

I've heard that from a few comments on various forums, but no official confirmation. Surely one person in a company of hundreds would have thought to take a backup of the company's most important (at the time) data?

I would love to see this.