The father of Jordan Mechner, creator and programmer of the original Prince of Persia, the source code found of the platformer that released in 1989 for the Apple II. Mechner the source code online.
Mechner was recently called by his father, with the statement that that clearing up of a cabinet is a box with old software had found. Father Mechner took the sin of the box to throw away and so sent he the whole to his son. Who discovered upon arrival that in the box the source code of Prince of Persia, the platformer from 1989, which at the time caused a sensation by the smooth animation of the Persian prince. Mechner was already looking for the source code and had to everyone who contributed to the game already inquired. Apparently he had not remembered his father, while yet the music for the game composed.
Mechner is now planning to make the source code to publish, although, as he himself that it may take some time before everything is online. So looking for Mechner to a way to Apple ProDOS disks of 3.5-inch to convert to a format that today’s equipment is not readable. Mechner has no illusions about the value of the company, because there are few people who have the 6502 assembly code to read and understand.
The game that Mechner the source code online is going places was good for a whole series of successors, of which the last, The Forgotten Sands, was released in 2010. The rights to the series are now in the hands of publisher Ubisoft. In the same year appeared also a movie based on the series. Mechner worked on the script of the film.
