The goal is to try to understand the behaviour of the AI in Sabotage (Copyright 1981, Mark Allen), and more generally to do some reverse engineering on this game for educational purpose. I'm taking notes in this gist, I will try to produce something easier to read later. Archive.org got an online playable version of this game : https://archive.org/details/a2_asimov_sabotage
I first used LinApple emulator to make a dump of the memory, then, I used a disassembler to try to understand the game. I also used the Mame debugger to disable various parts of the game and understand their purpose.