Atari 7800 Crossbow

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Image of the original game, Crossbow. This project has no screenshots of its own yet.

Crossbow (original game, not this project) — Image of the original game, Crossbow. This project has no screenshots of its own yet.

About

This repository preserves the original 1988 6502 source code and batch build files for the Atari 7800 version of Crossbow, released as-is together with the original developer's final release notes, via a video-game-preservation project.

History

The included documentation is programmer Scott Marshall's own 1988 release notes, describing the final code's multi-bank memory layout and build/maintenance batch files.

Known issues & limitations

features: Light gun code is a dummy subroutine with 512 bytes available for implementation.

Controls

The source includes a placeholder ("dummy") light-gun input routine that always reports no input — light-gun support was apparently never finished, leaving joystick as the only working control method.