# The Hobbit: a SkoolKit disassembly of the ZX Spectrum game

> The Hobbit documents a disassembly of the ZX Spectrum game in SkoolKit source files. The repository includes annotations and scripts that generate browsable hexadecimal or decimal disassembly pages.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/pobtastic/hobbit>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/pobtastic/hobbit/blob/5b9ac055569ac645296ce74b3b9eb70fb2635eeb/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hobbit-spectrum-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hobbit-spectrum-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/hobbit-spectrum-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** SkoolKit or a SkoolKit checkout is required to generate the development HTML pages.
- **Prerequisites:** The author states that an original game copy is needed to disassemble its code.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/pobtastic/hobbit/blob/5b9ac055569ac645296ce74b3b9eb70fb2635eeb/README.md>

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