StarRaiders

About

Star Raiders is a space combat simulator video game created by Doug Neubauer and published in 1980 by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 400/800 computers, in which the player pilots a starship defending starbases from invading Zylons using a 3D cockpit view and a 2D galactic map. This project is a reverse-engineered, extensively documented assembly-language source code of Star Raiders, reconstructed directly from the ROM cartridge binary rather than from any leaked source, and completed in 2015 for the Atari 8-bit platform.

History

The reverse-engineered source was completed in 2015 as a hobby project; shortly after, official scans of the original Star Raiders source code resurfaced online, and comparison confirmed the reverse-engineered version's accuracy with only minor corrections needed.

Additional notes

Detail

The repo includes a 'genome sequence' visualization of the 8KB ROM, color-coded by code/data/bitmap regions, created for a PoC||GTFO article.