You’re speaking with prior knowledge then? How would you know what it starts with if it’s not decoded yet. 
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Ah, I thought you meant that the data itself is already a C64 program. 
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Pasting the hex code into 6502 Disssembler shows that most of the bytes are invalid opcodes, and the ones that are valid don’t really look like sane assembly to me (disclaimer: I only know x86 assembly, not MOS6502).
Ha! Did that too. 
Plus: “a3” would be an odd starting address…
I don’t think there is any hidden message. The way I see it, the compiled code would take 629 floppies, and this one only has the contents of what would be on disk 22/629. In Monkey Island the disk 22 was missing. Now we are just missing all but the #22 
I don’t know. If you’d have the chance to leave a file like this on a disk for players to dissect, would you just take some bytes from /dev/random or something meaningfull instead?
if it was me, I would’ve just added an animated gif with a view from the top of a hollow tree stump down to a tunnel. There would also be the alerts “Insert Disk 36 and Press Button to Continue” and “Insert Disk 114 and Press Button to Continue”.
The next game’s box would include the disk 36 
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This. And then loughing at the stupid nerds who are trying to interpret something into several random numbers. 
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Nah, that’s not Ron’s style. 
I’m stubborn.
The file size of 1600 bytes is also rather uncommon for splitting a file into chunks. It does fit however to a 40x40 8-bit image file, so I’ve just taken the raw data as a black&white image (there is nothing that looks like a palette in it), and this is the result (scaled up 10x):
Now I’m squeezing my eyes trying to find a pattern, or maybe a mars face or something, to no avail. There is not enough entropy for encryption, but probably enough entropy for some sort of compression. But for a compressed file, 1600 is just too round to make sense, so we really need to find floppy #1 for the resolution.
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I figured I’d scan it as a barcode. 
And now to apply silly numerology.
0 - control number
27 - age?
1 - January
18 - day in January
81 - the year 1981
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January 27, 1880 would have been the date Thomas Edison received a patent for his incandescent lamp. (patents.google.com)
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Wow! Really a lot of speck of dusts…
Looks like a German telephone number. 0271 is the area code for the German city of Siegen. I’ve never been there. So I can’t tell if Delores lives there…
Could also be 20x80, 25x64, 32x50 (or the other way round) and then some more unlikely numbers. Though if it’s just a strip of text it could easily be 160x10 or 200x8. Keep trying 
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Edit: never mind. I got curious myself and whipped up a quick and dirty python script that converts the data into PGM format and then I looked at all the possible sizes, to no avail. Wondering if it could be RGBA (or a variant thereof) instead, however. Though that would make it really small. 20x20 or 25x16. Doesn’t seem likely.
Edit 2: Nope
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I think this is a “Secret of Monkey Island” kind of thing.
(there isn’t one)
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If there is the sentence “Password from Delores: gL2%KZq*GwJh-!oXFy9x” then I would assume that the data is encrypted. There was a running gag about XOR encryption. So it would be very likely that you have to decrypt the data first.
I tried to decrypt it using the password some time ago, but nothing of interest came out. I haven’t tried to interpret the decrypted values as pixels though
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@frenzie discovered the secret Ghost of Thimbleweed Park!
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XOR-decrypted chuck data with the Delores password:
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