Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Classic arcade (and console) game source code projects

For a while now I have been trying to create the Definitive Galaga Dis-assembly Listing. Naturally I took an interest as to whether anyone had attempted any such similarly pointless and futile endeavor. I posted the initial versions of the code some time ago, but it was very rough. However, I am gratified that it has been noticed by at least a few people.

My reference links for similar projects::

Atari 7800 Source Code and Tool Archives (straight from the dumpsters at Atari!)

Donkey Kong Source Code (for 8-bit Atari comp?) posted by Curt Vendel.

Tempest (found in AtariAge forum)

Commented dis-assemblies of Pacman/MsPacman (go to "Video Game Links")

Analysis of Galaga Sound CPU.

Computer Archeology - lots of info on Galaga and several others.

Pacman Galaga Donkey Kong and several others..

Porting Qbert to GameBoy - no source but interesting commentary.

Boulderdash info by Peter Broadribb now hosted by Maarten Egmond. Not so much source code as much as it is a technical specification (reverse-engineered of course!)

Pacman Documentation.

Bombjack... on Spritesmind, a great reference source for the Sega MegaDrive.

Even those works based on the lowly Atari 2600 VCS are worthy of honor... Here is the Definitive Combat Dis-assembly Listing on AtariAge.

Pac-Man a tribute project.

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