Top 12 Assembly Retrogaming Projects

cassette-elite-beebasm

3 408 7.9 Assembly

Fully documented and annotated source code for the cassette version of Elite on the BBC Micro

Project mention: Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-18

nes-elite-beebasm

12 362 9.2 Assembly

Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

Project mention: BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29

One of the books was an entire annotated disassembly of the BASIC interpreter, if memory serves. I vaguely remember there being some sort of kerfuffle about that.
Another thing that one got: a printed circuit diagram of the machine.
As for today: One can get get an entire annotated disassembly for Elite, including the version that used the Second Processor: https://www.bbcelite.com

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
elite-harmless

3 92 1.6 Assembly

Disassembly (CA65) of the Commodore 64 port of the seminal space-sim Elite, by Ian Bell / David Braben.
c64-elite-flicker-free

4 74 6.3 Assembly

A patch for Commodore 64 and Plus/4 Elite that removes the flicker
8Blit

1 34 5.7 Assembly

Episode source code for the 8-bit Atari 2600 / VCS / Video Computer System, one of the pioneering home gaming consoles.
6502sp-elite-beebasm

1 31 8.3 Assembly

Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the BBC Micro with a 6502 Second Processor

Project mention: forAgesFiveAndUp | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 2023-12-05

revs-beebasm

2 27 6.9 Assembly

Fully documented and annotated source code for Revs on the BBC Micro
SaaSHub

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master-elite-beebasm

1 24 8.4 Assembly

Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the BBC Master

Project mention: Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" -- tech overview | /r/Demoscene | 2023-12-07

The fully documented source for the BBC Micro (6502) source is here: https://github.com/markmoxon/master-elite-beebasm

teletext-elite

2 19 8.5 Assembly

BBC Micro Elite… in teletext
wordlos

2 8 0.0 Assembly

WORDLE for DOS, written in assembly
DeathmazeFairPlay

2 6 4.7 Assembly

Deathmaze 5000 Fair Play Edition
sunset

2 1 0.0 Assembly

Retro sunset scene on NES (by ms0g)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

Assembly Retrogaming related posts

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2023
Fully documented and annotated source code for Revs on the BBC Micro

1 project | /r/bbcmicro | 24 Jun 2022
What are good systems to emulate for learning purposes?

3 projects | /r/EmuDev | 10 Dec 2021

Index

What are some of the best open-source Retrogaming projects in Assembly? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	cassette-elite-beebasm	408
2	nes-elite-beebasm	362
3	elite-harmless	92
4	c64-elite-flicker-free	74
5	8Blit	34
6	6502sp-elite-beebasm	31
7	revs-beebasm	27
8	master-elite-beebasm	24
9	teletext-elite	19
10	wordlos	8
11	DeathmazeFairPlay	6
12	sunset	1