Karateka

Karateka (Apple II, 1984) has a full disassembly, Miasmark/Karateka-7800-Disassembly, and 3 other public projects, including a decompilation.

Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry

Projects

Karateka-7800-Disassemblynew, unvetted

Disassemblya7800-toolkit (Miasmark), 6502 assembler2 starspushed 2026-09-24MIT license

Reverse-engineering toolkit for Atari 7800 cartridges, and a full analysis of Karateka (NTSC 1987): the Forth image, its scheduler, the scroll machinery, the audio driver, and 40+ patches. No ROM dat…

full analysis (Forth image, scheduler, scroll machine) + a7800 RE toolkit ()

karateka-decompiled

DecompC decompilation of the DOS version, buildable1 starspushed 2024-05-30no license

Buildable source code (decompiled) of the MSDOS version the legendary game Karateka by Jordan Mechner

Buildable decompiled source of the MS-DOS Karateka.

Miasmark/Karateka-XE-to-7800-portnew, unvetted

DisassemblyXE cartridge 6502 code relocated & rebuilt for 7800 (MARIA/TIA)0 starspushed 2026-10-08MIT license

Karateka: the Atari XE cartridge ported to the Atari 7800. Bring your own Karateka.car; the build writes the .a78.

Build reads user dump and reassembles as 7800 cart

Karateka (Apple II)

RE candidate6502 disassembly (SourceGen) + AppleWin oracle

No public decomp/disassembly found (as of 2026-10).

What you need

You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.

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Found via Miasmark/a7800-toolkit, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karateka_(video_game)

GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.