Case study

Elite: a symbolic MSX game disassembly

Elite is a disassembly of the 1987 MSX game organized by its boot sector, loader, main program and data files. The assembly assigns symbolic names to routines and data and uses macros to explain constants; the README documents the disk's sector layout.

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

Stars: 7
Last commit: 2026-07-17
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: sjasmplus to assemble the source.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{elite-msx-disassembly-case,
  title = {{Elite: a symbolic MSX game disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ricbit/elite}},
  url = {https://github.com/ricbit/elite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/elite-msx-disassembly-case/}}
}

Plain text

Elite: a symbolic MSX game disassembly. https://github.com/ricbit/elite (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/elite-msx-disassembly-case/

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README.md GitHub · ricbit/elite · Revision 6bfa450