Case study

Defender: annotated arcade disassembly

Defender-Source-Code documents the Williams Defender arcade game in an annotated disassembly. It labels PCB registers, RAM variables and game routines, with separate notes for palette values and ROM check bytes.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 11
Last commit: 2022-01-08

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Limits: The disassembly is marked as work in progress.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{defender-arcade-disassembly-case,
  title = {{Defender: annotated arcade disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AaronBottegal/Defender-Source-Code}},
  url = {https://github.com/AaronBottegal/Defender-Source-Code},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/defender-arcade-disassembly-case/}}
}

Plain text

Defender: annotated arcade disassembly. https://github.com/AaronBottegal/Defender-Source-Code (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/defender-arcade-disassembly-case/

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SourceCode.txt GitHub · AaronBottegal/Defender-Source-Code · Revision 5f6030d
Notes.txt GitHub · AaronBottegal/Defender-Source-Code · Revision 5f6030d