Some years ago Jordan Mechner published his fascinating story of the development of Prince of Persia for the Apple ][.

He thought the source was lost (although he had published his design notes (pdf)) but recently he rediscovered the floppies...

Meantime, mrsid took on the project of reversing the game from a memory dump and rebuilding it for the C64. He too has published his fascinating story, and his annotated disassembly (zip file)

(For an unrelated but also interesting development story, see Andy Gavin's series on Crash Bandicoot.)

Cheers
Ed

(via HN, although I'd read two of these tales before.)

Great game, I remember playing the pc version when i was a kid(I think i still have a copy in my pc)!

The Prince of Persia original source code is up on github now. README

Some supporting materials from the restoration:
photos of the kit
original rotoscoping

Story in wired.

Cool story. Tony Diaz is a friend of mine. will have to ask him about those adventures.

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