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Space Invaders Emulator

Emulator of the Intel 8080 based Space Invaders arcade board with sound, save states, rewind and a debugger, runnable on desktops or a Meadow microcontroller board.

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Facts

Original
Space Invaders arcade hardware (Intel 8080) (1978)
Platform
Arcade
Method
Rewrite
Provenance
Human-led · Repo created 2019, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
Status
wip
Licence
none
Team
Justin-Credible
Started
2019-09
Runs on
Windows, macOS, Linux
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 Space Invaders arcade hardware (Intel 8080) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt by Justin-Credible. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction

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