Starflight reverse engineering
Reverse engineering of the 1986 space-exploration game Starflight, recovered into C code.
Decompilation Human-led wipFacts
- Original
- Starflight (1986)
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Method
- Decompilation
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2016, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- none
- Team
- s-macke
- Started
- 2016-05
- Runs on
- Linux, Windows
- 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 Starflight you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was decompiled by s-macke. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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