Tempest

Tempest (Arcade, 1981) has an official source code release, historicalsource/tempest, and 1 other public project, including an AI-assisted decompilation. An agent environment already wraps it.

Projects

historicalsource/tempest

Source releaseoriginal assembler sources (period toolchains: Atari PDP-11 MAC65/coi…36 starspushed 2021-10-15no license

A game about shooting downwards

Original developer source listings archived by historicalsource (2021 Williams/Midway/Atari coin-op drops); no license, copyright owners' code. Raw listings; may need period assembler to rebuild.

Tempest-Full-Disassembly-and-C-Portnew, unvetted

AI-assisted decompC (1:1 port) + assembler listing; Windows build (OpenGL)1 starspushed 2026-09-18GPL-2.0 license

Tempest (Atari, 1981): full disassembly with Atari's original names, byte-exact against the ROMs, and a playable 1:1 C port verified call by call against the running ROM - no emulation at runtime

Complete playable 1:1 C port + byte-exact disassembly (Sep-Oct 2026)

What you need

Check each project for what game data it needs. Code here is linked, never game files.

Agent environments

MAMEToolkit (M-J-Murray/MAMEToolkit) can wrap any MAME game

More on Arcade

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ARCStreet Fighter II: Champion EditionAgent environment19926.5k2025-04-13 ARCOut RunSource releaseReimplementation+219868792026-10-11 ARCDefenderSource releaseStatic recomp+219816432026-07-20 ARCSpace InvadersReimplementationDisassembly19787982022-09-18 ARCPac-ManSource releaseMatching decomp+519805942026-10-10 ARCOmega RaceSource releaseAI-assisted decomp+119815142026-09-17 ARCWizard of WorSource releaseDisassembly19805142026-09-20 ARCOutRunReimplementation19868792023-12-26

Found via mwenge/tempest, mwenge/tempest_fun, computerarcheology.com/Arcade/Tempest/

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