Choplifter reverse engineering
Documented source for Choplifter reverse engineered clean-room style from only the disk image, rebuilding to a binary identical to the original apart from a replaced floppy loader.
Matching decomp Not stated wipFacts
- Original
- Choplifter (1982)
- Platform
- Apple II
- Method
- Matching decomp
- Provenance
- Not stated what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- none
- Team
- blondie7575
- Started
- 2024-05
- Runs on
- Apple II
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Choplifter you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was decompiled by blondie7575. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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