Eastern Front (1941)#

Copyright (C) 1981-1983 by Chris Crawford, Atari, Inc. and (APX-10050) ; includes source code (APX-20095), scenario editor (APX-20233) and front scenarios (APX-10232) & (APX-20232)

Background#

Eastern Front 1941 is by far one of the most important games ever written for the Atari. Chris Crawford, a genius of his own, even used AI in his program! Please look for yourself in the source code below. Maybe, the reader can imagine, how far ahead he was of his time and still is! Besides this, publishing the source code was a revolution! Chris opened by this a complete new field, which was a giant leap to make Atari great. AtariWiki respects his work by inserting the chapter 'Source Code'. This site is still under construction, because it takes some time to follow a genius's thoughts.

CAR Images#

• Eastern_Front_(1941)_(1982)(Atari)(US).car

BIN Images#

• Eastern_Front_(1941).bin

ATR Images#

• Eastern_Front_1941.zip ; size: 583 KB ; collection of many ATR images, including source codes and scenario editor APX-20233
• Eastern_Front_1941_Source_Code.ATR ; source code for Eastern Front 1941 on an ATR image published via APX-20095 ; thank you so much Allan Bushman for preserving this software! Please go ahead! :-)))
• Eastern_Front_1941_scenario_editor.ATR ; scenario editor for Eastern Front 1941 on an ATR image published via APX-20233 ; requires Eastern Front 1941 cartridge version ; Copyright (C) 1983 by Chris Crawford
• APX_Eastern_Front_Scenarios.ATR ; APX-10232 & 20232

CAS Image#

• Eastern_Front_85.cas ; Side 1 ; (cassette UKC1003) ; this is the UK rerelease by Atari Corp. UK. This cassette was released under the label "Atarisoft" as a budget cassette in 1985.

XEX Files#

coming soon...

Manual#

• Eastern Front 1941 manual ; size: 23.6 MB

Source Code#

• APX-20095 Source Code for Eastern Front 1941 Rev. 2 manual ; size: 56.7 MB ; thank you so much Allan Bushman for scanning this manual for the community. We really owe you very much. Please go ahead! :-)))

Pictures#

Eastern Front 1941 - XL-XE-Cover of the box ; thank you very much Atarimania for the picture

Eastern Front 1941 - image of the RX8039 cartridge from 1987, required for the scenario editor ; thank you very much Atarimania for the picture

Eastern Front 1941 - 1981 version from Chris Crawford - Screenshot 1

Eastern Front 1941 - 1981 version from Chris Crawford - Screenshot 2

Eastern Front 1941 - 1982 version from Atari, Inc. - Screenshot 3

Eastern Front 1941 - scenario editor ; Copyright (C) 1983 by Chris Crawford

Eastern Front 1941 - cover of the source code manual from APX-20095

Eastern Front 1941 - cassette cover of the 1985 rerelease

Eastern Front 1941 - image of the cassette from the 1985 rerelease

References#

• Atarimania collection about Eastern Front 1941