Reached through UPDATES. A place given graphic 12 at a new game (INIT_SPECIAL_OBJECTS) is an extra life, put in one of the two place records as its room is built (FIND_SPECIAL_OBJS_HERE). If the robot's legs touch it -- their box widened by 1 in U and V -- it becomes graphic 64, the first of a two-frame vanish (SPARKLE_STEP, SPARKLE_END_PLACE), its place is emptied so it never comes back, the drop latch is cleared, and LIVES goes up by one, is reprinted on the panel and copied to the screen. Either way it then falls and settles like other things. As Knight Lore's upd_103, the extra life, but through the table of places rather than Knight Lore's special-object table.