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Transcription effort (seeking volunteers) from scanned printed copies here: https://github.com/XioNYC/StarRaiders

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From this discussion on AtariAge:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/243904-star-raiders-source-...

...is this github repo of the source:

https://github.com/robmcmullen/Atari8bit_StarRaiders

The thread is very interesting itself, much technical info to be gleaned.

Can't you just disassemble the binary opcodes and diff with the OCR to place the comments in the right places?

The "Distributed Proofreaders" project uses a similar technique to crowd-source OCR transcription of old public domain books in the browsers using side-by-side comparisons:

http://www.pgdp.net/c/

The results of the OCR are not very great:

https://archive.org/stream/AtariStarRaidersSourceCode/Atari_...

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