Case study
Trashman: a SkoolKit disassembly of the ZX Spectrum game
Trashman documents a disassembly of the ZX Spectrum game using SkoolKit. The repository contains SkoolKit source and scripts for generating browsable hexadecimal or decimal HTML listings.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C2 code & docs, no demo or download
- Stars
- 4
- Last commit
- 2026-11-09
- Language
- Visual Basic 6.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence
- Observed
- Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
- Checked
- 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: SkoolKit, or a SkoolKit checkout configured through SKOOLKIT_HOME, is needed to build the development HTML pages.
- Prerequisites: An original copy of Trashman is needed to disassemble its code.
- License: No licence file in the repository.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{trashman-disassembly-case,
title = {{Trashman: a SkoolKit disassembly of the ZX Spectrum game}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pobtastic/trashman}},
url = {https://github.com/pobtastic/trashman},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/trashman-disassembly-case/}}
}Plain text
Trashman: a SkoolKit disassembly of the ZX Spectrum game. https://github.com/pobtastic/trashman (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/trashman-disassembly-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · pobtastic/trashman · Revision c42b475
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