# Green Beret: a documented ZX Spectrum disassembly

> Green Beret documents reverse-engineered assembly for the 1986 ZX Spectrum conversion. Its notes explain an eight-character scrolling region, reusable sprite masks and compressed level-map blocks, alongside the assembly source.

- 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/Paulie68000/ZXSpectrumGreenBeret>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Paulie68000/ZXSpectrumGreenBeret/blob/006484529ac29dd0de8af02b1c2a1040368b1f09/Readme.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/zx-spectrum-green-beret-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/zx-spectrum-green-beret-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/zx-spectrum-green-beret-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Paulie68000/ZXSpectrumGreenBeret/blob/006484529ac29dd0de8af02b1c2a1040368b1f09/Readme.md>

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