# Haunted House: a commented Atari 2600 disassembly

> Haunted House reconstructs the Atari 2600 game's code as commented assembly in haunted.asm. A DASM command and Makefile build a ROM that can be played in the Stella emulator.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/brandonrobertz/haunted_house_disassembly>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/brandonrobertz/haunted_house_disassembly/blob/054e781b849335973c12c2f80acd2053b415173f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/haunted-house-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/haunted-house-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/haunted-house-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** DASM to assemble the ROM; Stella to play it in the documented emulator workflow.
- **Limits:** The commented disassembly is a work in progress.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/brandonrobertz/haunted_house_disassembly/blob/054e781b849335973c12c2f80acd2053b415173f/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/brandonrobertz/haunted_house_disassembly/blob/054e781b849335973c12c2f80acd2053b415173f/Makefile>

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