{
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "game",
  "description_en": "TA: Byte Tactics is a matching decompilation of Total Annihilation (Cavedog, 1997). The C++ in src/ is written to compile with Visual C++ 5.0 into the same bytes as TotalA.exe. The README says all 3,267 game functions match.",
  "description_zh": "TA: Byte Tactics 是 Total Annihilation（Cavedog，1997）的匹配反编译。src/ 里的 C++ 用 Visual C++ 5.0 编译后与 TotalA.exe 的字节一致。README 写明全部 3,267 个游戏函数都已匹配。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/byte-tactics/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/byte-tactics/",
  "evidence_class": 2,
  "evidence_status": "observed",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/HectorBailey/byte-tactics/blob/3ef535b5f7834a7f64f1d57ee1cbc61e872b240b/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "byte-tactics",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/byte-tactics/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/byte-tactics/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/byte-tactics/index.md",
  "name": "TA: Byte Tactics — byte-matching Total Annihilation source reconstruction",
  "name_zh": "TA: Byte Tactics：《横扫千军》的字节匹配源码重建",
  "reconstruction_method": "matching-decompilation",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirements": [
    "The matching target is TotalA.exe, MD5 8e74a1dffa1f5988624c52048f5b20cd. The player supplies Total Annihilation. The setup script fetches the compiler.",
    "Tooling in tools/ is MIT. The README says the reconstructed code in src/ is not offered under a license."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "匹配目标是 TotalA.exe，MD5 为 8e74a1dffa1f5988624c52048f5b20cd。玩家提供 Total Annihilation。安装脚本会获取编译器。",
    "tools/ 里的工具是 MIT。README 写明 src/ 里重建的代码不按任何许可证提供。"
  ],
  "scope": "unknown",
  "targets": [
    "game"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/HectorBailey/byte-tactics",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-07"
}