Haunted House Commented Disassembly

Reverse-engineering and disassembly of the Atari 2600 game Haunted House designed by James Andreasen, the original survival horror game. This is a work in progress. The disassembled and commented code is in haunted.asm. I would appreciate any tips or advice anyone may have as a PR or Issue.

Building/Playing the ROM

I'm using DASM. You can build the ROM by running make and you'll get a ROM, haunted.bin. This can be played using the Stella 2600 emulator.

If you don't have make, the correct DASM command to build the ROM is:

dasm haunted.asm -ohaunted.bin -f3

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