Ooh! I grew up with this game; someone brought a working Atari 800 to the Maker Faire a couple of years ago, and I was able to play a game from start to finish without referencing the manual. The Internet Archive has:<p>* the game in an emulator, so you can play it in your browser: <a href="https://archive.org/details/a8b_cart_Star_Raiders_1979_Atari_US" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/a8b_cart_Star_Raiders_1979_Atari...</a><p>* the manual: <a href="https://archive.org/details/agm_star_raiders" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/agm_star_raiders</a><p>* the unreleased sequel: <a href="https://archive.org/details/StarRaidersII_Wilmunder" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/StarRaidersII_Wilmunder</a>
Nice!<p>If you're interested in this kind of thing - this site: <a href="http://www.computerarcheology.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.computerarcheology.com</a> has a detailed disassembly of arcade Space Invaders(<a href="http://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/" rel="nofollow">http://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/</a>). The site also contains partial disassembly of many other games e.g. Asteroids, Defender, Frogger, Galaga & Robotron.<p>"Pacman Dossier" had a great disassembly of Pac Man arcade, however rumour has it that Namco took it down.<p>Additionally, a little bit of Google-fu will also find you the commented disassembly of Donkey Kong arcade.<p>I can't help to be fascinated by the innovation shown in some of these early games.
Seems like there have been a lot of cool projects like this lately. Have new tools sparked a renaissance in reverse engineering old apps so they can be built on any modern architecture? For example we have had the port of SGI ElectroPaint screensaver[1] and starcraft ported to ARM[2].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/drvink/electroportis" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/drvink/electroportis</a><p>[2] <a href="https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/" rel="nofollow">https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/</a>