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DMala
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Re: Old Arcade game source code
05/16/14 06:32 AM


> Does anyone know what happened to the source code for ancient arcade games like SPACE
> INVADERS, GORF, FROGGER, GALAXIAN, DOUBLE DRAGON, SPY HUNTER?

Just a guess, but I'd say most of it is probably gone. Any that still exists is likely on random floppies/tapes/hardcopy buried deep in the back of some developer's closet. I seem to recall the Gorf developer has the source exactly like that.

> If nobody's kept their dot-matrix printed source code any longer, I wonder if there's
> any teams out there who like to reverse engineer old games to understand how they
> work.....

There is a team that does that! They have a funny name... I can't think of it, starts with an M or something.







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* Old Arcade game source code tunstals 05/15/14 01:26 PM
. * Re: Old Arcade game source code R. Belmont  07/09/14 04:59 PM
. * Re: Old Arcade game source code SmitdoggAdministrator  07/03/14 04:53 AM
. * Re: Old Arcade game source code Justin Kerk  07/15/14 03:37 AM
. * Re: Old Arcade game source code DMala  05/16/14 06:32 AM
. * Re: Old Arcade game source code grog  05/16/14 01:08 AM
. * Re: Old Arcade game source code ASI  03/11/15 10:38 AM

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