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by shakna 314 days ago
They often only have a binary that you would have to reverse engineer. Source code gets lost.

To step outside just utility programs, the reason why Command & Conquer didn't have a remaster was:

> I'm not going to get into this conversation, but I feel this needs to be answered. During this project of getting the games on Steam, no source code from any legacy games showed up in the archives.