# 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.

- 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/wayoftheexplodingfist>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/pobtastic/wayoftheexplodingfist/blob/fbd083d486836baafa5d4d34930dad78859ffdb9/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/way-of-the-exploding-fist-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/way-of-the-exploding-fist-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/way-of-the-exploding-fist-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Own the original game to disassemble its code.
- Install SkoolKit or make it available through SKOOLKIT_HOME to build the HTML views.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/pobtastic/wayoftheexplodingfist/blob/fbd083d486836baafa5d4d34930dad78859ffdb9/README.md>

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