# 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.

- 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/trashman>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/pobtastic/trashman/blob/c42b47572024dd7711e88946abf5d21a58c7cee2/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/trashman-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/trashman-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/trashman-disassembly-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/pobtastic/trashman/blob/c42b47572024dd7711e88946abf5d21a58c7cee2/README.md>

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