Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org
Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org

Far Cry 1.34 Complete : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/534501
Relevevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36547801
Who does one get the hands on something like this? Just by accident or through an insider or is it possible to reverse engineer something like that? Sorry for the dumb question, I am a programming noob.
Most likely not legally. Possibly by luck, possibly through compromised systems or people.
Or the people who coded it left it on a hard drive that was auctioned off or obtained by whatever means.