Case study
The Way of the Exploding Fist: a SkoolKit disassembly
The Way of the Exploding Fist presents a SkoolKit disassembly of the ZX Spectrum game. Its source files and scripts generate browsable hexadecimal and decimal HTML views.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C2 code & docs, no demo or download
- Stars
- 12
- 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
- Own the original game to disassemble its code.
- Install SkoolKit or make it available through SKOOLKIT_HOME to build the HTML views.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{way-of-the-exploding-fist-disassembly-case,
title = {{The Way of the Exploding Fist: a SkoolKit disassembly}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pobtastic/wayoftheexplodingfist}},
url = {https://github.com/pobtastic/wayoftheexplodingfist},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/way-of-the-exploding-fist-disassembly-case/}}
}Plain text
The Way of the Exploding Fist: a SkoolKit disassembly. https://github.com/pobtastic/wayoftheexplodingfist (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/way-of-the-exploding-fist-disassembly-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · pobtastic/wayoftheexplodingfist · Revision fbd083d
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