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It's the source code for the seminal Atari 8-bit computer game, Star Raiders, complete with comments.
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**Reviewer:** [Frank Ch. Eigler][137] \- \- October 16, 2015
**Subject:** go for the PDF, skip the text version
The OCR text can't do justice to the nice old dot-matrix-printed assembler source code.
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