Tim Kane, the first generation of Fallout, recently expressed regret for the loss of early development materials in Fallout.When he left Interplay, he was told to delete copies of earlier versions, even his notes at the development conference.Apparently, since then, Interplay has lost not only its source code, but its original artwork from Fallout, as well as those clay models that have been scanned to make 3D avatars of some NPCs.

Fortunately, as Interplay co-founder and programmer Rebecca Heineman revealed, she retained a copy of the source code of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2.

In 1993, Interplay released a disc containing a game the company has released every year over the past decade, including Battle Chess, Bard's Tale, The Lord of the Rings Vol. I, and the first generation Wasteland.Heinemann compiled this collection with the source code of these games he saved, except for "Wasteland".When she went looking for the source code for Wasteland, she discovered that others didn't put much effort into backup work.

She explained: "When I asked for the source code, I got a blank response. I went to the COO's office and he gave me a carton that looked like I was run over by a truck, with some floppy disks in it. Finally, I contacted my friends at EA and got the copy of the source code we sent them when the Wasteland was released."

Since then, Heinemann has been archiving code snapshots for every game she has worked on on Interplay, as well as for games she has ported on MacPlay.MacPlay was originally a division of Interplay and was later authorized to operate independently.

"I took snapshots of everything and archived them on CD as a task," Heinemann said. "When I left Interplay in 1995, I had copies of every game we did, without exception. When I left Interplay, I took snapshots of every game we transplanted, including Fallout 1 and Fallout 2."

Heinemann previously released the source code of Doom 3DO version for free on Github."I wrote the code, so I allowed myself to do it, and I asked id Software, and they said 'Of course!' I need permission from Bethesda for the source code for Fallout. Before I could ask them, they were on my plan list."