A8Atari 8-bit · 1981 · Wargame
Eastern Front (1941)
Eastern Front (1941) (Atari 8-bit, 1981) has a source port, patricksurry/eastern-front-1941, and 3 other public projects, including an official source code release.
Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry
Projects
Typescript port of Chris Crawford's Eastern Front 1941
Faithful TS port of Crawford's original (from released source).
Chris Crawford's released sources: Eastern Front 1941, Legionnaire, Scram, Gossip, Energy Czar (Atari 8-bit) plus Balance of Power/Planet etc.
development complete; status playable; A killer app for Atari computers, It was widely lauded in the press and was Creative Computing's Game of the Year in 1981
Chris Crawford published source code of his games (Eastern Front 1941, Scram, Excalibur, Legionnaire, Gossip, Balance of the Planet, Patton Strikes Back, Trust & Betrayal) on his site.
What you need
You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.
More on Atari 8-bit
Found via historicalsource/Chris_Crawford_games, osgameclones.com/, erasmatazz.com/library/source-code/index.html
GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.