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Disassembling Crossroads, Part 1


Dan’s MEGA65 Digest for November 2024

One of my all-time favorite games for the Commodore 64—and I know I’m not alone in this—is Crossroads, the single-screen maze shoot’em’up by Steve Harter, published in Compute!’s Gazette magazine as a type-in program in December 1987. Over the next two issues of this Digest, we’ll crack open the original Crossroads program and see what we can learn, using two modern reverse engineering tools for your PC. This isn’t news so much as just boasting, but last month I mentioned the sega-adapter project as a fun way to connect Sega Genesis-style game controllers to Commodore computers.

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