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Post #AoOX1xmrU8nomg2mZs by [email protected] |
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Bad idea: build a captcha library that embeds DOSBox so it can make you beat le… |
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Post #AoOX4jJjjvhkm9jx3o by [email protected] |
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Honestly just making it do The Incredible Machine puzzles would be hilarious |
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Post #AoOX7KmLQjFfXVMZVI by [email protected] |
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Same form lemmings... God, is it just all puzzle games? |
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Post #AoOXArN4i0AFUYDz1M by [email protected] |
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@foone "Get anywhere at all in Zaxxon" |
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Post #AoOXDXn1y5Ypd7e3Wa by [email protected] |
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I have thought about adapting Simon Tatham's puzzle collection to a captcha… |
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Post #AoOXQqtGGRkGdLuBH6 by [email protected] |
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@foone I like his game that has dense graphs that you have to untangle so none … |
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Post #AoOXWuWZfL0hdsBN7A by [email protected] |
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!Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego!You catch the culprit of the current cas… |
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Post #AoOXZdHAFg6J11Gx3g by [email protected] |
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Oregon Trail would also be funny.To prove you are a human, get to Oregon. |
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Post #AoOXcJhpT843Bn1afQ by [email protected] |
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We use geo-ip to automatically allow anyone showing up as accessing the site fr… |
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Post #AoOXep71fhJlAp0Oxc by [email protected] |
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(that is only one slight degree sillier than something I have done professional… |
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Post #AoOXkcAehUX4m2SrxY by [email protected] |
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Chip's Challenge levels would also be funny. |
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Post #AoOXn2ztvmeSYPauf2 by [email protected] |
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@foone Make them play a game of "Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego&… |
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Post #AoOXyKyLRPKnUIFYQ4 by [email protected] |
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The edutainment puzzles from the doors in Super Solvers: Gizmos and Gadgets! |
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Post #AoOY1NodKGrnAu9y1Q by [email protected] |
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@foone brb adding an error handler that says BUMMER whenever the API returns a … |
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Post #AoOY4GJze5iSniCWcC by [email protected] |
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You know, I was just thinking yesterday I should reverse engineer that game, bu… |
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Post #AoOYA9DuwsjUWZAKJs by [email protected] |
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"have a population of at least 20,000 within 5 years in this game of SimCi… |
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Post #AoOYUmFZYf13M4mCy8 by [email protected] |
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@foone I had this as a kiddo, and nobody I've ever mentioned it to, has hea… |
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Post #AoOYZ9VD35Y0d3B1Sy by [email protected] |
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Just throwing surfers randomly in point and click adventures and then telling t… |
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Post #AoOYydpNRAUJv8lRGC by [email protected] |
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@foone Oh, I'd be snookered in that case |
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Post #AoOZ2wl100e5mvmE1w by [email protected] |
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@foone Would Lode Runner levels be a bit too actiony? |
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Post #AoOZ939Y8Is7MUA9ke by [email protected] |
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@foone Beat Super Metroid in under 3 hours. |
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Post #AoOZGoGbMbJZVeA51U by [email protected] |
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@foone how about an incredible machine *with* lemmings? |
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Post #AoOZL1HguGGf2bg8SO by [email protected] |
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@gryzor madness! |
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Post #AoOZmc5oA6PP1EHIyu by [email protected] |
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@foone "I finished 'Secret of Monkey Island' just so I could prove… |
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Post #AoOZpybuthgNj2tsuG by [email protected] |
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@foone something like doom captcha?https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/ |
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Post #AoOZwzmExVPTN24ltI by [email protected] |
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@foone Unless there is a significant random element in those levels then it wou… |
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Post #AoOa2oIGZCvvUbpQn2 by [email protected] |
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@itec yes but running the actual game |
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Post #AoOaBcmcjPdkOsENua by [email protected] |
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@foone warioware but as captcha |
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Post #AoOaIi3TWsxwmGUXcu by [email protected] |
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@foone get out of the cave labyrinth in Kyrandia before you run out of fire ber… |
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Post #AoOaKW3h6Rgo9NSIW8 by [email protected] |
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@lritter that'd be fun! significantly more likely to get your ass sued off,… |
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Post #AoOaOCxa3Lro4jM9HU by [email protected] |
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@foone I would refresh the page with all kind of funny headers and user agents … |
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Post #AoOaPBB8A6MAq89ojQ by [email protected] |
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@foone if you use that name, sure |
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Post #AoOaaBthpTFGFsG2tc by [email protected] |
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@foone finish the desert in KQV without dying of thirst |
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Post #AoOas5aG2fENszhBgm by [email protected] |
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Seems Gizmos and Gadgets is a 16-bit EXE compiled with Borland Turbo C++ (no fl… |
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Post #AoOb0p8KZcwHTKnXPM by [email protected] |
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oh goody my favorite, OVERLAYS! as if segmented code wasn't enough of a pai… |
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Post #AoOb416OWx2RSfPmsa by [email protected] |
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@foone Or for the non-gamers: “Edit these CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files s… |
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Post #AoOb7aUpOOtg6RXv96 by [email protected] |
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step up: find the fade out.see the game fades out when you go into a door. find… |
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Post #AoObAXv3QjbwymDwvo by [email protected] |
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@foone *flashbacks from 8051 assembly programming* |
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Post #AoObGtLChJ2f9gTski by [email protected] |
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@foone I assume the test of being human is whether you abandon the boring task … |
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Post #AoObKmcZcj8NTLSemm by [email protected] |
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@gh oh that'd be fun. |
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Post #AoObT77FJCGdLtmREW by [email protected] |
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found 5 places the palette is reprogrammedand all are in overlays. ugh. |
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Post #AoObWrHu6CdvQ8YE3U by [email protected] |
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OKAY realistically this is a game that features several different games you can… |
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Post #AoObtQHEgsN0JBzwkC by [email protected] |
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looks like the separate game engines are called puzzler, electric, and simple. |
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Post #AoObwBt4eDF4Y414xk by [email protected] |
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I love when games use __FILE__ in their assertions. please tell me all your fil… |
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Post #AoObzYVuylu5aln2O0 by [email protected] |
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@foone I'm pretty sure a computer would be better at playing PoP than me �… |
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Post #AoOcamaJcunJwlb8fg by [email protected] |
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can I not set an I/O breakpoint in dosbox-x's debugger? I forget. |
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Post #AoOcmjrdZFwIz4Ow2y by [email protected] |
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@foone How about WarioWare minigames instead? Takes less than 10 seconds and sh… |
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Post #AoOdI6maPIaH2dzrhw by [email protected] |
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@foone some of these could probably do double duty as age verification challeng… |
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Post #AoOdPfBwsCwtmpSjDM by [email protected] |
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@enno meanbut yeah, clearly. |
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Post #AoOdvhm6nvv745eeIq by [email protected] |
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oh sweet laser jesus I found the upload palette function and THEY UNROLLED IT |
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Post #AoOe4SemNnhMmbOxlY by [email protected] |
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why do:for(int i=0;i<256;i++){ upload_color(i,palette[i]);}when you can do… |
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Post #AoOe8DWKbKNwzsF0Rk by [email protected] |
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the worst part is that this was done with a compiler from 1991 so there's n… |
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Post #AoOedegJfPQyDEu06C by [email protected] |
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@foone Any idea why? I have extremely little experience with programming in tha… |
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Post #AoOegUF6w0FShpWl84 by [email protected] |
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@foone Oh, what a great opportunity for various foot and paste errors 🥴 |
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Post #AoOejSm6qdyR1SNi6q by [email protected] |
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@foone If we had shorter workweeks, maybe people wouldn't need to waste tim… |
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Post #AoOemkAwbrSTrGYuVE by [email protected] |
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@saua it runs slightly faster. like a couple cycles per "iteration".T… |
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Post #AoOey1QinYPcYcJsdk by [email protected] |
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@foone No compiler flags that would do this? 🤔🤷♂️ |
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Post #AoOf1Dk3TnWdbut7GS by [email protected] |
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@foone I am surprised a game from 1991 would make such a large tradeoff against… |
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Post #AoOfYkoXXRPzjryYOO by [email protected] |
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@foone yea, then you can easily reverse the 0 and 255 entries for gifs! |
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Post #AoOfiS9vkgdGmFbcfo by [email protected] |
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@foone LOOK how many lines of code you wrote today! wow, your SO productive!!!!… |
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Post #AoOgMWBEDncUpbJjYu by [email protected] |
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oh that's cute. their set_palette function takes two arguments: a pointer t… |
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Post #AoOgQG5E0kfU4AIDPk by [email protected] |
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@simonzerafa in 1991? I don't think so. Not a for loop this big. |
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Post #AoOgaX6fZdJll6rrbU by [email protected] |
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"hey ghidra what calls set_palette?""I don't know! you'r… |
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Post #AoOgsEXBMdLNN0i1jM by [email protected] |
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@foone Reminds me of an Apple II educational game I wrote where some of the cod… |
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Post #AoOh2Amk9po8dej9VY by [email protected] |
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@foone @catsalad hyperventilates |
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Post #AoOh8xMOTBsh1qdYO0 by [email protected] |
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@foone @catsalad Except it would only be 250 more times, or you'd get an OO… |
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Post #AoOhdx8hLCwdJx0ksa by [email protected] |
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ahh, nope! I misidentified it.the second parameter on set_palette is how many f… |
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Post #AoOhlxvQIqdQ4hcfgm by [email protected] |
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@foone the only thing better than __FILE__ is __func__ |
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Post #AoOi1Ja44RDBa8x3ZI by [email protected] |
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@foone This is why C++ is superior: template<int i> void upload_colors() … |
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Post #AoOi3XJA0Hgejg6VNY by [email protected] |
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or maybe not? it's too 2am to tell.ANYWAY I'm currently debugging throu… |
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Post #AoOi6QXXciY6c7D196 by [email protected] |
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(approximately 1536 times) |
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Post #AoOiAvnpKcLwjPySlU by [email protected] |
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@th yup |
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Post #AoOiV2PUTUpd13B8SW by [email protected] |
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this set_palette code got loaded into the segment 0BBC, one of the only 16-bit … |
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Post #AoOjCRWcyOUBMSDKgi by [email protected] |
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interesting: the same function is called to fade a palette TO black and to fade… |
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Post #AoOjFd6aNLIq91YKaO by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] maybe they wanted to experience the joys of funroll-loops … |
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Post #AoOjFdHvhANQiCrOGe by [email protected] |
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@aud good point, it was a famously uneventful year |
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Post #AoOjIdcwtJhydG7nqy by [email protected] |
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@foone @simonzerafa there were, but perhaps only 16 entries at a time.They were… |
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Post #AoOjUrcSh7i1VFj7Ka by [email protected] |
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I'm staring at this code going "if it was less 2am, I could understand… |
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Post #AoOjXQmCx4yp7WVe64 by [email protected] |
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this math: local_8 = (int)(0x3f / (long)param_1) + 1; iVar6 = 0; do { uVar7… |
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Post #AoOjc5Z5FBCUmVakGO by [email protected] |
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@foone Loop unrolling is older than that though. Although maybe not on these pl… |
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Post #AoOjdwkkybrw20wBvM by [email protected] |
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@foone you also wouldn't have posted about fading the palette to blackness … |
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Post #AoOjhGwwLK13XSDpVw by [email protected] |
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@nazgul I know it existed before, I just don't think DOS compilers of the t… |
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Post #AoOjjtGMrjoWwcYdHs by [email protected] |
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@oblomov FACKyeah |
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Post #AoOjvVVqzi0ql9LAO0 by [email protected] |
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@foone Probably not. I doubt the Aztec C compiler I used on the Apple II game d… |
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Post #AoOk182VBGu5hBI9aa by [email protected] |
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@fooneThis is a wonderful idea. What about solving Ruckingenur levels (one of t… |
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Post #AoOk5olYGZFhMsbE4O by [email protected] |
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@foone mafs |
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Post #AoOkEwJ5bAnBMVdUHo by [email protected] |
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@foone this is why i love binja and can't stand hexrayswho tf *wants* this … |
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Post #AoOlwFyeRMSIm6IN1M by [email protected] |
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found the INT31! we've got OVERLAYS FOR SURE! |
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Post #AoOm1OiNNjytK08NRQ by [email protected] |
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wasn't there some kind of tool that could flatten out an overlay'd file… |
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Post #AoOmNSxaHKzIrJlq4W by [email protected] |
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https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/5543oh this is more com… |
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Post #AoOobamiBQrz5aY56e by [email protected] |
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@foone "+ '\x01'"How many levels of hell down for this code t… |
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Post #AoOpwUIzZJC91sAvOS by [email protected] |
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@foone Y E S !I LOVED THAT GAME |
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Post #AoOtp2MBTvO08cN3x2 by [email protected] |
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@foone Copy'n'Paste Driven Development (CPDD) for experts! |
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Post #AoOw911GMbuzgqEuDg by [email protected] |
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@whitequark @foone fwiw, as someone who once loved hex-rays, (a) this is ghidra… |
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Post #AoOwNzGx8ns0cEiXVw by [email protected] |
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@dougall @foone yeah. i recognized that it's ghidra, but i also made a (per… |
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Post #AoOwhSu1CXIU0vHHTk by [email protected] |
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@dougall @foone ... but also, this is useful context i haven't considered, … |
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Post #AoOzTpNx76fxYFT4j2 by [email protected] |
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@foone Reminds me of the Doom Captcha, but I guess your idea is more NES Remix.… |
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Post #AoOzWoCJzAIOjkRtmS by [email protected] |
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@fooneAnd Lasertank ones!https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserTank |
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Post #AoP0odoNRKLVgvJfgu by [email protected] |
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@whitequark @foone heh, I looked into it – ghidra's decompiler (classifie… |
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Post #AoP4gkBoF65eyKlZuS by [email protected] |
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@foone @simontatham You two should talk, I love this idea so much. |
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Post #AoP9z7xF7fzhf4XQsi by [email protected] |
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@foone it’s bad enough that Cloudflare keeps telling me I’m a robot, I don�… |
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Post #AoPAbgdOdFoEDudqOu by [email protected] |
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@dougall @foone oh wow, i have not expected this! |
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Post #AoPBs2f8bFjz86opZg by [email protected] |
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@foone @catsalad "Ha! You're not so 'stop playing those stupid vid… |
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Post #AoPH6lvZbMZ1LGLjqy by [email protected] |
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@foone maybe they shaved 512 CPU cycle |
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Post #AoPKSvlC1amQ4QkgTY by [email protected] |
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@foone Playing games is one of the earliest things that machines did better tha… |
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Post #AoPKylyvuqgf0gMWx6 by [email protected] |
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@foone there are no original ideas:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rensenware |
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Post #AoPjUtZpbv7WjTTHjE by [email protected] |
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@ckape Carmen Sandiego Go is the obvious next step, yeah! |
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Post #AoPjfAnKRzPZ1ngYhk by [email protected] |
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@MedeaVanamonde that "foone" punk posts a LOT |
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Post #AoPjzOI9yfaGgGkNDk by [email protected] |
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@dougall @whitequark yeah this is early decompilation. I haven't told it of… |
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I like that this program using overlays is only 209kb."oh no, we can't… |
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Post #AoPmLYpTgEiVdo1wH2 by [email protected] |
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@foone Human: Eat pie and die.Machine: I have not eaten the pie. I will throw … |
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Post #AoPmSwqMnHZ09By7FI by [email protected] |
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oh hey, there is a 32bit windows version of this game? that might be way easier… |
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Post #AoPmVrjYFUevATAjFg by [email protected] |
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you know, because of pointers that actually point |
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Post #AoPmrHL0FU64ettsMS by [email protected] |
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@foone "The only thing 32 bits ever got us was 64 bits, and now a browser … |
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Post #AoPn07XM3baarttThA by [email protected] |
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I can't play it because MIDI doesn't work on Windows 10 |
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Post #AoPnIXQQXmbWN7R4Rk by [email protected] |
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sticking a zero byte file at C:\Windows\SysWOW64\midimap.cfg fixed that. It run… |
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Post #AoPnLt78MUlGVW0bFg by [email protected] |
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if there's a game you grew up with and love on platform X, never play a che… |
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Post #AoPnP59o2gXyj8mWuG by [email protected] |
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@foone I guess it's less 2am now, but, assuming 16-bit ints:uVar2 = (int)uV… |
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Post #AoPnWENc9PobMFeJQu by [email protected] |
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@foone Tempest 2000? |
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Post #AoPngVrlzXQwUFetNY by [email protected] |
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@foone it's also pretty painful to see what a lot of the games we grew up w… |
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Post #AoPoA8Pbl5PwQrbq1A by [email protected] |
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@foone oh its so true C&C did not play well on PS1. |
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Post #AoPoLdNSyCM9eh5hAW by [email protected] |
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@dashasierra has an RTS EVER played well on a console?Maybe an FPS-RTS hybrid, … |
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Post #AoPp5cC1hqDhIofJei by [email protected] |
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@foone @dashasierra Lego Battles existed, I guess? |
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Post #AoPp89vrEfAQWQJdOC by [email protected] |
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@tess 1997 port of a 1993 game, so yeah |
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Post #AoPpCuyCIBK3Z6gAUa by [email protected] |
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wait, ghidra autodetects the 32bit version as being DELPHI?!The DOS one is defi… |
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Post #AoPpDjZU9orIVEVeYS by [email protected] |
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@foone @dashasierra I've heard that weirdly enough the N64 had some!(I'… |
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Post #AoPpHKoQ9YJAs8DEIK by [email protected] |
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maybe they compiled the games into DLLs and had a delphi shell around it? |
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Post #AoPpPkxKppbOGwOif2 by [email protected] |
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I think that's exactly what they did.on the CD there's a bunch of DAT f… |
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Post #AoPpS5LQ0CQe5KlzBw by [email protected] |
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loadLibrary()ing a .DAT file? naughty naughty. |
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Post #AoPpcgec8nA4h7o5pI by [email protected] |
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@foone Pascal calling convention got way out of hand |
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Post #AoPpl6DMzVX2Hn4hpg by [email protected] |
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Language ID:x86:LE:16:Protected Mode (2.13)what do you mean 16bit protected mod… |
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Post #AoPpnzW0M7nSNQAcEK by [email protected] |
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that can't be right. I'm on a 64bit system. those DLLs shouldn't ev… |
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Post #AoPpsFJjXuqSXoSXku by [email protected] |
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@foone Windows 10: so backwards-compatible, even the error dialogs look 16-bit … |
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Post #AoPpvJF1PfyFaDiSn2 by [email protected] |
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@foone You’re on a Foone system. Those DLLs will somehow load. |
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Post #AoPq0O6OlfEy6h6Wa8 by [email protected] |
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These are NE executables. So windows 3.x. Those... shouldn't be loading. Un… |
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Post #AoPq4CYDeninRJw4i8 by [email protected] |
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@foone Mark Zbikovski likes this. |
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Post #AoPq6svh478JSCCALY by [email protected] |
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all this is telling me "give up on the windows version and go back to hack… |
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Post #AoPqBtVuJyIUiHWSpc by [email protected] |
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@foone I always loved that Xenix could even run on a stock XT with no memory pr… |
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Post #AoPqDfwHlIl1Bwi5Dc by [email protected] |
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@dg3hda He goes by Zark Mbikovski in little-endian cultures |
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Post #AoPqHCyfNlmuWkVZpo by [email protected] |
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because this smells like it's either brilliant or a crime against man and G… |
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Post #AoPqKGBzsxkfMpCOLw by [email protected] |
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@foone win64 runs 32 bit programs in an emulator that runs 16 bit programs in a… |
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Post #AoPqNzhX8rEZNWjL4y by [email protected] |
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@onfy ugh. if this is a trend for them, I might have to get all their 90s games… |
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Post #AoPqR9wXWDhI0pG5gG by [email protected] |
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@foone that is my learning of the evening. |
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Post #AoPqV0qRHvpKx7F5qy by [email protected] |
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@foone “same thing”-parents when buying presents |
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Post #AoPqYPO2UxTxw8ZtNg by [email protected] |
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WAITI was using this ancient version of ghidra for GBA hackingI'm doing x86… |
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Post #AoPqbZqW4EilFDPOym by [email protected] |
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@foone Are they possibly using the.DAT/.DLLs to load puzzle data into a recreat… |
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Post #AoPqeQgMaulngz1IEC by [email protected] |
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it's only a matter of time before someone invents one of those Version Mana… |
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Post #AoPqhWeCs97z3tUHWS by [email protected] |
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I'm on my laptop now (disability reasons) but my Real Workstation has like … |
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Post #AoPqkQxEUnIeH1m1AW by [email protected] |
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@ScotttSee it's certainly possible. resource dlls are a thing. |
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Post #AoPqx1nJLqQ60Q8cdM by [email protected] |
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@foone Why stop at video games? Captchas already make people do slave labor (la… |
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Post #AoPr1L9XJpqRCfadqS by [email protected] |
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you're... making int21h calls?in a DLL? your'e making raw DOS interrupt… |
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Post #AoPr556iuvReb83ffc by [email protected] |
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I'm starting to think none of these DLLs are actually ever used |
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Post #AoPr8J6dKMD2slYQIS by [email protected] |
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procmon time. what do you do, game? |
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Post #AoPrGIbb4Y67e8qdma by [email protected] |
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they didn't bother to make the animations play at the right speed :( |
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Post #AoPrMKxrDM80hU8hP6 by [email protected] |
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@foone DOS interrupt calls were the pinnacle of civilization. |
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Post #AoPrQzkjVSLgMTDnZQ by [email protected] |
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they are indeed using those files.I'm wondering if they're just using t… |
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Post #AoPrdKzkM1uLiZ85gG by [email protected] |
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@foone My XT only *has* 256kB, the entire first kilobyte goes poof for the inte… |
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Post #AoPrhAoe8qRbJ3laQC by [email protected] |
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@gabe 1993! with minimum requirements of 640kb |
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Post #AoPrlFaYL4UzGc7P4y by [email protected] |
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@foone yeah that's what I'm thinking. either that or they're hotpat… |
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Post #AoPro5DbLqiRyOjYjw by [email protected] |
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@foone >rustup>zigup>espupghiddy-up |
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Post #AoPrqzzLFjrAcaSE8u by [email protected] |
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@fooneWindow 11 has a chance to make itself better than Windows 10 if they fix … |
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Post #AoPsGNUb0CVQl2AtkG by [email protected] |
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@fooneCome, join the light side |
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Post #AoPtO0p5GqyqihxiWu by [email protected] |
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@foone oh yeah, you mentioned VGA.Damn gamers and their high-end hardware. |
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Post #AoPtQs6EA2rcX8LPKC by [email protected] |
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@foone remember the goat puzzle? |
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Post #AoPzGPYG2ut0p4qnUu by [email protected] |
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@foone https://github.com/Honeypot95/asdf-ghidra |
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Post #AoPzGPhTUeG7HfA9rc by [email protected] |
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@SpindleyQ AHHH |
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Post #AoPzhvFSJ3WOwnAs2i by [email protected] |
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@jonn which one? |
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Post #AoPzkzrdbKxU8EV2w4 by [email protected] |
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@foone are they passing LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE_EXCLUSIVE or LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_I… |
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Post #AoPzl0095hlQYcTqCG by [email protected] |
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@gsuberland haven't found out yet but i suspect so |
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Post #AoQ0wUNOb7SPu4Ojy4 by [email protected] |
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@foone Broken Sword. I won't spoil. If you didn't play it, play it when… |
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Post #AoQ5wW5yhotv0Q5FVA by [email protected] |
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@foone haters gonna hate, pointers gonna point… |
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Post #AoQ7jn0sh75ZcRl5sW by [email protected] |
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@foone captchas that get smaller and quicker and more spastic to play before th… |
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Post #AoQ81dVclkqXM4eGLg by [email protected] |
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@foone … but… why? |
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Post #AoQ8GBYeyNE90h0QJE by [email protected] |
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@mmu_man different plugins target different versions. compiling between version… |
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Post #AoQ8MGJSCw4RUhn6Rs by [email protected] |
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@foone it seems like you've solved this, but, I have previously dealt with … |
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Post #AoQ8MGSfefRXxI6Soa by [email protected] |
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@greg ooh, nasty. I'm not sure if that's what's happening here, but… |
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Post #AoQ8VUWKkkFIAIDSwC by [email protected] |
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@foone and I thought r2 was complex 😅 |
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Post #AoQ97hvPMcvAk5ARQ8 by [email protected] |
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obviously the first thing you call GetProcAddress on is "GetProcAddress&qu… |
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Post #AoQ9Cfw6BaTw1PrLG4 by [email protected] |
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you know, just in case the address has changed between compile time and run time |
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Post #AoQ9hcoJr9UlIzyj3Y by [email protected] |
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@foone or to obfuscate subsequent calls? |
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Post #AoQ9kL6CAFcJF5dNFA by [email protected] |
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oh it's trying to load WinG32.dllthat's a pre-directx windows library f… |
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Post #AoQ9uf9WSaYUKk74Hg by [email protected] |
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hah! it works!it turns out they installed this pre-win95 graphics library into … |
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Post #AoQA3o9SN6P6qjRWOu by [email protected] |
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okay I'm running in a debugger now, with breakpoints on LoadLibrary/GetProc… |
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Post #AoQA6F5nB2C6z5tE9Y by [email protected] |
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@foone Now I'll have "thunk" and "twunk" stuck in my he… |
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Post #AoQA8VLDjdilxUBWdc by [email protected] |
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I wonder if these fuckers just skipped using the windows DLL loader and wrote t… |
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Post #AoQCKHO7dds24CHhs8 by [email protected] |
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oh goody, they're not using the regular CreateFilethey're using _lopen.… |
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Post #AoQCPCmSCFYjDz0wds by [email protected] |
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@foone woag i am so here for this :Di’ve also been reverse engineering gizmos… |
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Post #AoQCPCzDQnldrYz8XA by [email protected] |
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@delan oh, awesome! I'll have to look through what you've found so far. |
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Post #AoQCXx9ve6NrNkALTs by [email protected] |
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and CreateFile.they use both. fun! |
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Post #AoQCx7GbCedzyBHhSa by [email protected] |
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@foone mom said its my turn on the DAT/EXE file |
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Post #AoQD0dqcWYzPt1oXs8 by [email protected] |
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see the cool thing about reversing 32bit or 64bit code is that it's not seg… |
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Post #AoQD6cBJdFOKSMLIUy by [email protected] |
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this may seem "boring" and "mundane" and "how debugger… |
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Post #AoQF2yXekr3GYWBVJ2 by [email protected] |
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I've been doing too much GBA reverse engineering. I saw a 32bit pointer sta… |
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Post #AoQF5lrqKmzc7DxZI0 by [email protected] |
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now let me copy this program onto this SD card in my laptop's built-in SD c… |
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Post #AoQF9cCeCz39IfWXlA by [email protected] |
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@foone Well there certainly aren’t going to be any with that attitude. |
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Post #AoQFCBCp2WfGRFpQbg by [email protected] |
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@foone but what if there were cartridges? 🤔 |
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Post #AoQFR5AzjuEA5A512e by [email protected] |
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@north this thought experiment gave us the IBM PCjr, which was a massive flop. |
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Post #AoQGIuxbwCu22HUSbw by [email protected] |
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@foone couldn't have written a little script to write that for them? or do … |
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@Canageek probably a macro in their compiler. little scripts are rarer then, bu… |
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Post #AoQHP5oYb0GnOGlPqy by [email protected] |
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yeah this is some windows 3.x-ass code. They definitely recompiled it as 32bit … |
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Post #AoQHnbDvT87rkpJcmm by [email protected] |
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@foone This thread has been a JOURNEY. I don't understand all of it, but st… |
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Post #AoQIEJCmZLB3gpW5ui by [email protected] |
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@foone I love seeing your posts come up in my feed because I have legit no idea… |
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Post #AoQJ12d8yyI0TQ5IvI by [email protected] |
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@foone 16-bits should be more than enough for anyone |
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Post #AoQJ3eXP0xxEcWe0Su by [email protected] |
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WHAT IN THE BORLAND TURBO C PLUS PLUS IS GOING ON HERE? |
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Post #AoQJ6Ufe9l7ot3r4ka by [email protected] |
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Ghidra is better at reversing MSVC-style arguments than Borland-style. Makes se… |
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Post #AoQJFfV1GViL4sG7gO by [email protected] |
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What happened: I'm looking at a function that's clearly a strcmp of som… |
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Post #AoQJPz73CKomnry1B2 by [email protected] |
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@foone Borland stuff is so cursed. especially if it's anything to do with s… |
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Post #AoQJSuYcahQ3XnG5mS by [email protected] |
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there's some nonsense going on here with pascal calling convention but I th… |
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Post #AoQJWNGeItnBSJVH7I by [email protected] |
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but the bottom line is that it's not a 4-argument function, it's a 3-ar… |
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Post #AoQJZWzOcCS2TYwGR6 by [email protected] |
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so I live another day, safe from the horror that is the 4-argument strcmp. what… |
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Post #AoQJpnhYFOhuwPLlCq by [email protected] |
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I figured out the hypothetical 4-argument strcmp: it's a locale-specific st… |
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Post #AoQK1CKyzXk2X9EDgW by [email protected] |
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and you might say "why would you compare two strings you know are of diffe… |
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Post #AoQKSK9o1gDSbYw2me by [email protected] |
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To greatly oversimplify, the german letter "ß" is lowercase, and in … |
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Post #AoQKVyiLgy8HG8pp0C by [email protected] |
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Try it out on your local javascript console:>> "Straße".length… |
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Post #AoQKdC3kTPqkfxHiuu by [email protected] |
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so yeah hypothetically if you had a version of stricmp that was strncmp and com… |
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Post #AoQKfmdPSVRcgtCSiO by [email protected] |
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enough writing about FICTIONAL C LIBRARY FUNCTIONS, what the hell writing brain… |
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Post #AoQKsVBhdZ5kLRIyZM by [email protected] |
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someone should write a fictional programming library reference book. like, fit … |
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Post #AoQKvtsWIK7Tn2x8Sm by [email protected] |
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@foone this is a wonderful example of Why Internationalization is Hard! |
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Post #AoQKxZc8bioJWM5WMq by [email protected] |
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@foone you have got me wondering if it supports the recent uppercase addition, … |
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Post #AoQL40ImIPP41r6C5Q by [email protected] |
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@foone huh, it'd fit right in with the debugging simulator / mystery game I… |
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@clayote lemme know if you do (or just wanna share your ideas), it sounds exact… |
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@foone I've had thoughts about writing a story told through just news artic… |
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Post #AoQLFyErnB9r6ayY0O by [email protected] |
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writer-brain grabs the mic:C'S MEMORY HANDLING IS SO BAD IT CAN BE EXPLOITE… |
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Post #AoQLG3b1sCrBimNokC by [email protected] |
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@foone capital ẞ exists |
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@lizzy let me point you at the first three words of my post :) |
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Post #AoQLRdIlSgrze3MMxU by [email protected] |
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@foone The idea is that a fictionalized version of the Hans Reiser murder happe… |
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Post #AoQLfMOX7O8LGNbUbA by [email protected] |
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@fooneOn the edge of my damn seat with this thread |
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Post #AoQLluWj81vSrMYljk by [email protected] |
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@foone I actually had notes on making a book that'd tell the story through … |
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Post #AoQLr5qKTzL3P7CSMC by [email protected] |
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@foone SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY |
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Post #AoQLz63bZQfkNvE3ua by [email protected] |
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@clayote that sounds awesome! |
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Post #AoQN6QFazS3mzjtKJU by [email protected] |
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@foone properly locking and unlocking handles? Rather than the win32 way of jus… |
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Post #AoQOEcggjXc7q22Pke by [email protected] |
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@foone #this. because it will take a lifetime to unravel |
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Post #AoQOOj1E3604N0Sefo by [email protected] |
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@foone You don't even need to use German majuscule/minuscule: there are dif… |
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Post #AoQOnQrcgYbfIrkcOu by [email protected] |
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@foone Capital <ẞ> (viz lc <ß>) was actually added [... checks] … |
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Post #AoQOzcNdh3pAUnXLcm by [email protected] |
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@foone why, hand optimized code, doncha know? A human with their knowledge of d… |
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Post #AoQP21xxXMPUQafxQG by [email protected] |
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the funniest part? I'm back in reverse engineering mode.it's not even a… |
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Post #AoQPBDtkXjj82b5dzs by [email protected] |
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how do you confuse a two-argument function for a FOUR argument function?borland… |
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Post #AoQPbDZyLrjGa4EbyK by [email protected] |
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DirectSound?!this windows 3.x-ass program uses DirectX?! |
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Post #AoQPjajU9Siehrg2M4 by [email protected] |
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@foone was this windows 3.x-ass program written by copilot? |
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Post #AoQPmBCPXavUNuROee by [email protected] |
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@onelson It's been stuck on a CD-ROM since 1997, so NOPE |
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Post #AoQPsmUHohFHlmwwng by [email protected] |
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@foone so it was a skynet time travel situation. Got it. |
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Post #AoQQFCMYIGyMOK1Oj2 by [email protected] |
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haha, 1991-1997 programmer: you made the LoadDirectSoundFuncptrs return a 0 for… |
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Post #AoQQMH5N8H4n4AMNOa by [email protected] |
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you even check, in the calling code, that it returns 0 and not some other value… |
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Post #AoQQVldOvDfwPynr4S by [email protected] |
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correction, you're returning a boolean.and it's hardcoded to always ret… |
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Post #AoQQZD7DCn5AW7OAbo by [email protected] |
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I'm guessing this is dummying out code that didn't work |
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Post #AoQQh6OU4ySBzIEMvA by [email protected] |
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@foone 🎵I’m the epitome / of double arity |
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Post #AoQRw95sQIymevGSdE by [email protected] |
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yeah this code is just casually mixing pascal and stdcall calling conventions. … |
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Post #AoQSAWmv7ppKCRFuvQ by [email protected] |
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okay yeah. this is not remotely delphi. this is C++. ghidra mis-detected it, an… |
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Post #AoQSRAUrG0ZhzGk436 by [email protected] |
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yep and it's buggered every single function, even after changing language. … |
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Post #AoQSU7EXqVGGjfW7Wq by [email protected] |
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maybe I just need to delete every function and re-analyze from scratch |
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Post #AoQShxVYnmgGcu4pAe by [email protected] |
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(i just re-imported the EXE as a new file, and I'll manually port over the … |
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Post #AoQSnJCvYF2pNFudDk by [email protected] |
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BTW it turns out there's cheats in the windows version.maybe in the other v… |
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Post #AoQSq0mqUm0L710AtM by [email protected] |
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I spotted them in the EXE and googled to see if they were known. Yep. At least … |
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Post #AoQT1aFgyc6kI70pto by [email protected] |
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@foone "manage to hit the spider with the boulder on the desert planet in … |
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Post #AoQTEjKqW7UOE6gxaC by [email protected] |
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@foone isn't that just PICO-8? |
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Post #AoQThWsZuI5TzdCbTs by [email protected] |
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@foone Did T.L.C. use a common asset storage formats? I’m curious how I’d … |
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Post #AoQUA5CHuJYYXK2KwK by [email protected] |
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@foone could something like this be crowdsourced? Start on an OA document somew… |
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Post #AoQUOOjc42FlBXRyWu by [email protected] |
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@fooneYou could also use an uppercase ß, the ẞ |
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Post #AoQUW9otOvHJFCcU2S by [email protected] |
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@matt I'm not sure yet, I've not been looking at the datafiles yet, jus… |
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Post #AoQUmMMGYGX6lRxJRo by [email protected] |
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ah-ha! see that?They call GetVersion(), then no matter if it's below 4 or n… |
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Post #AoQUqu9aqHxIjoCAqW by [email protected] |
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@foone I always wanted to go back and design an updated game like the super sol… |
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Post #AoQV6P6I47K53r2bcO by [email protected] |
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yeah the EXE has a modification date of 1998, but the compile time inside the E… |
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Post #AoQVN39UvD5JueTjtY by [email protected] |
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They patched out this dialog box. |
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Post #AoQVPn3LEdAgqmuDtw by [email protected] |
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I think the typo in the name is a bug on my resource viewer |
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Post #AoQVrRCq3RCHCaX0fQ by [email protected] |
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yeah, there's other dialogs like "you need to be in 386 enhanced mode!… |
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Post #AoQVtvALdSi0hSYCAK by [email protected] |
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I just realized this is a game. fuck, half this should be on TCRF. I do not hav… |
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Post #AoQWMXI9Th1z3NqTce by [email protected] |
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@foone this is paradoxically making me anxious that they have left an orphaned … |
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Post #AoQX2k1eWXoCi3Fkjg by [email protected] |
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well that sure is a fuck of a thing.playing with the cheats and there's a p… |
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Post #AoQX5TjnXSXP3uCtVY by [email protected] |
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the funniest part? that's an image. like, in the game. they just screenshot… |
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Post #AoQXG38amGYnkTqRai by [email protected] |
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puzzle counts:43 scales40 electricity 33 energy42 force 42 gear20 jigsaw30 &quo… |
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Post #AoQXcHPaO4wAOEOTOS by [email protected] |
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I should automate this and dump screenshots of all 270 puzzles |
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Post #AoQXn0792UJjvbsdTU by [email protected] |
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btw: at first glance, no evidence of cheats in the DOS version |
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Post #AoQXvnDiLeOyXo94sa by [email protected] |
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@foone well I mean at the very least, they wouldn't have cheats looking lik… |
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Post #AoQYjZ7N3QyVHmuaR6 by [email protected] |
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the documented cheats are missing at least one: ctrl-wI have no idea what it do… |
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Post #AoQZ086qixmcRZZAhs by [email protected] |
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the producer was Sid Weber |
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Post #AoQZ5MAxqxadW9z26S by [email protected] |
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@foone magnetizm is the kind of thing a techbro would name a startup (likely un… |
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Post #AoQauDucR8bWby9nBw by [email protected] |
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@foone though nowadays uppercase sharp-s exists and is allowed to be used as we… |
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Post #AoQb3TfZDlco5VWsQC by [email protected] |
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@foone a pitty. Was already looking forward to some Delphi stuff 😢 |
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Post #AoQb84fPbhqJzYeHFQ by [email protected] |
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a linked list of fonts, indexed by number.that's an interesting approach to… |
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Post #AoQbY90C6yfKxyngzw by [email protected] |
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@foone Oh wow.. I remember playing this game as a kid |
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Post #AoQdIHnbpvanWbTolk by [email protected] |
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found another byte-level patch:there's a debug-printf function which has a … |
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Post #AoQevbNb4RRJV5ckNs by [email protected] |
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the game's EnsureFontLoaded function seems to be called with 2 font numbers… |
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Post #AoQf7eHk5rbvzFd7T6 by [email protected] |
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okay and I can spot a chunk index I sorta understand inside FONTS.DAT which spe… |
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Post #AoQfAbqpbFPjJ4SE4G by [email protected] |
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@foone The one used for, like, Windows 3.x Standard mode. (And also Xenix, of c… |
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Post #AoQfDJPgbjWUzX2v56 by [email protected] |
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so it seems to identify chunks by a 4-digit character string (like NFNT) and a … |
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Post #AoQh2Ex53R6hsTVwcC by [email protected] |
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so I think what's going on is these weirdos abused the 16bit linker to buil… |
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Post #AoQhGmqBqxY32JEB6W by [email protected] |
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so it seems the NE files have multiple resource sections, and the first one has… |
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Post #AoQhJeOhhZKHibjjyS by [email protected] |
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I don't know if they wrote their own NE executable header parser or there&#… |
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Post #AoQhvZBtVZ0EZgpCuO by [email protected] |
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oh goody it emulates file numbers on top of the whole windows Handle thing.so i… |
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Post #AoQi37mbIIRRt3b864 by [email protected] |
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@foone what about upperestcase and lowerestcase? https://sigbovik.org/2021/proc… |
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Post #AoQjVzynU9p22OdQIq by [email protected] |
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correction: 30 files |
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Post #AoQniIcqNylz9tUHEu by [email protected] |
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okay yeah they're parsing their own EXE Files. absolutely wild. |
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Post #AoQo2zHFW8prESFeCm by [email protected] |
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Borland Turbo C++: I know compilers who merge constant strings and they're … |
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Post #AoQoCA2Msi1PD4fIVU by [email protected] |
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I think I found the "load this resource by type+ID" function.I had te… |
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Post #AoQqeSgZLARx405j2u by [email protected] |
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@foone ...and other dialects of German further do this with diacritics:toupper(… |
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Post #AoR0bESwkf5ldPonr6 by [email protected] |
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@foone wait, this was years before Unicode, surely? Did anyone implement this b… |
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Post #AoRJFOvp3eNcqsd1ou by [email protected] |
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@foone ahhh, just seemed similar to stuff I've done with sed or awk when I … |
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Post #AoRUi00lt9ElSOmZg8 by [email protected] |
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@foone Just wanted to say I love this thread- enjoyed Gizmos and Gadgets a ton. |
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Post #AoRqrsTgx0ptynQQhk by [email protected] |
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@foone To be really nitpicky, JS is a bit outdated here (since 2017): https://w… |
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Post #AoT030IBKaHQ98NiuO by [email protected] |
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@foone maybe we need to rollback the German language to the pre 2017.06 release… |
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Post #AoT8JKVwiGu3897EJM by [email protected] |
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@foone Isn't that a bit like the INTERCAL reference manual, from 1973?https… |
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Post #AoWxRJNMVY3J3KXlXk by [email protected] |
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I have altered the gear puzzlepray I do not alter it any further |
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Post #AoWxmPzX6dmBeUSidU by [email protected] |
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@foone "Who are you calling a crank?" |
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Post #AoWz5OYskKqefpbpgW by [email protected] |
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@foone cutiee |
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Post #AobIgMYDrOCyuiTugS by [email protected] |
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it does nothing to stop you from just copying the files onto the PC and just ch… |
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Post #AobJ199IspB1QhjiIi by [email protected] |
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set your CDDrive to C:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\… |
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Post #AobJ3gA7726yOgK4rQ by [email protected] |
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I know programmers who use strncpy and they're all cowards |
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Post #AobKHvKVcG7xRmXcps by [email protected] |
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@foone input bound checking is the hallmark of a nanny state. The users are adu… |
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Post #AobM5vC6UhPJSa0xns by [email protected] |
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I thought I'd figured out where it loads images. Nope! This is for palettes. |
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Post #AobMtk0CNcJXEBCZbk by [email protected] |
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looks like ASEQ is the image format.Here, I've used it to make this electri… |
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Post #AobMyrLmUGvxSujml6 by [email protected] |
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@foone Palette here made this look very sci fi which was causing that bottom ri… |
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Post #AobN3dC6Xx4V0cUEls by [email protected] |
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ahh, the most obscure of the electrical components, the zeppelin |
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Post #AobNzqVjC6An6aQMue by [email protected] |
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Post #AobQqdNYwpTZdNu7SC by [email protected] |
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@foone I swear i haven seen these graphic assets (the coil etc) in a (learning)… |
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Post #AobRLxP8XmdaidZnWa by [email protected] |
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@Sweepi Super Solvers Gizmos and Gadgets is what I'm hacking on |
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Post #AobRdiqVPXj0mLqhXc by [email protected] |
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@foone Does the zeppelin catch fire when you connect it to the lightning bolt? |
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Post #AobRdiwt1opT68pnUG by [email protected] |
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@snowfox sadly not |
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Post #AobT2emzjLYnOJf0O8 by [email protected] |
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yeah these punks just wrote their own code to parse NE headers. presumably beca… |
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Post #AobylcVEAx5nuTGnsO by [email protected] |
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@foone is this aLED Zeppelin? |
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Post #AocW5zpUSBzYXH4UmO by [email protected] |
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@foone what no stpncpy |
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Post #AocW5zxHzCEKvSiiw4 by [email protected] |
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@kevingranade this code was originally written in ~1993 with Borland Turbo C++.… |
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hResInfo = FindResourceA(*(HMODULE *)((int)&pLVar3[3].prev + 2), … |
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Post #AocjC6XhhqRoUuzl1k by [email protected] |
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So it seems this code is using a C-based (I have seen no hint of C++ in this co… |
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Post #AocjFU3qinLSJ8dseG by [email protected] |
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since it's C, that means they're using some kind of macro system that&#… |
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Post #AocjLLews5i1zJn8N6 by [email protected] |
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because they've got functions I've called SafeNodeGetNext and UnsafeNod… |
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Post #AocjTYgeJsVahzVBBo by [email protected] |
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that's what the "pLVar3[3].prev" nonsense is about. The code is a… |
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Post #AocjoClB2SgSmhSrxI by [email protected] |
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it's not. It's actually just a member access to some resource id in a c… |
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Post #AocpNNarFdWsI4EJZg by [email protected] |
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@foone i think the worst one was “TEXT”, there are 39 copies of that string… |
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Post #AocpNNiInxU4f9iGB6 by [email protected] |
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@delan Wow. I'm wondering if that just means one per compilation unit? Like… |
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@foone maybe even one per literal 😱 |
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and the first problem with this is that I don't know how big ResourceListNo… |
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Post #AocqRvkmHr3rLebUrw by [email protected] |
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@foone yea i ran into this too, analysing as borlandcpp is better but far from … |
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Post #AocqRvqRwlb9dFG1i4 by [email protected] |
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@delan yeah, I just re-imported the exe as borlandcpp and went from there. But … |
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Post #Aod3P6BoKQb4FaEDQG by [email protected] |
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oh wait no, are these heterogeneous* linked lists? like there's different t… |
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Post #Aod3WlyTN6l5s3eHia by [email protected] |
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@foone No, that sounds right to me. |
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Post #Aod3aPl9uKOU8D9qLI by [email protected] |
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psVar1 = (short *)((int)&((LinkedListNode *)((int)pLVar3 + 8))->next + 2… |
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Post #Aod3dzeQv6vGJdibgG by [email protected] |
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@foone tuples |
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Post #Aod3z7ybA7QqDXECzA by [email protected] |
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so in the first chunk of the function, it iterates through the list, looking fo… |
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Post #Aod423iFTGUjrWyilk by [email protected] |
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so the obvious thing to assume is that the things in that list are 26 bytes eac… |
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questioning if my 26-byte-malloc is off. perhaps it's more like "alloc… |
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Post #Aod4gIn8pLtUDDSMHw by [email protected] |
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@foone your journeys. I love them. 😆 |
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Post #Aod5yumERAtHBjTClc by [email protected] |
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if the objects you stuff into the resource_linked_list collection are 26 bytes … |
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Post #Aod632A8v4X9FjcOwK by [email protected] |
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oh fuck, I think this is entirely my fault. I think there's two linked list… |
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Post #Aod69IXcw7rTmvadPc by [email protected] |
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so the second list probably has the 34-byte objects I originally thought this f… |
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Post #Aod6IJ4uJI2K3jS5ku by [email protected] |
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I just made them resources_26byte_list and resources_34byte_list |
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Post #Aod6R9q02FJm0ThREu by [email protected] |
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I should find all the global linked lists and systematically find out how big t… |
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Post #Aod6eryvDjVggIPZ9k by [email protected] |
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eww, the list definitely is heterogeneous. I just realized that the list always… |
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Post #Aod6iyGlmgi1LCiPEu by [email protected] |
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I'm sure there's some benefit to having an end-of-list marker instead o… |
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Post #Aod6zF6MyCv6B8bqc4 by [email protected] |
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yup found the allocate, it's a 34 after all. Maybe I should just look at th… |
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Post #Aod72XrDh3bpDW68xc by [email protected] |
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@foone you can do some funny branchless programing but it requires a lot of pre… |
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Post #Aod75F9PhUOI4ItX0K by [email protected] |
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the reverse engineer who worked on this before me* has helpfully named the allo… |
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Post #Aod7C5nor6e36P3mqm by [email protected] |
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nah. I went through the 51 calls to allocate_something, but most don't look… |
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Post #Aod7ZXOaQoP1LCRAO0 by [email protected] |
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oh nasty, this function picks which linked list to use based on a flag. I sure … |
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Post #Aod7nGNcUYHKcdWuWm by [email protected] |
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one annoying detail is that I'm pretty sure this program also uses pointers… |
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Post #Aod8V8nC3yuZpcPk1I by [email protected] |
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@foone this sounds like a nightmare I've been working with. Linked lists to… |
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Post #Aod8Y2ZxcZHNQhbiNs by [email protected] |
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@foone might simply have been the style at the time. i remember my cs profs sa… |
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Post #Aod8nAsV31S5VpUlVY by [email protected] |
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@foone How do you do all the reporting here and not break out of the flow? Each… |
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Post #Aod96wFv7f3lxCsGaO by [email protected] |
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their coding style has more than a few safe_frob(ptr) functions that are just i… |
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Post #Aod9DFHXITg4hRdZtA by [email protected] |
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@anathem advanced ADHD. focusing on two things at once is sometimes indistingui… |
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Post #Aod9XM2Pt5WrRf9bwu by [email protected] |
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@foone Aside: Since 2020 the standard suggests using the captial-ß ẞ instead… |
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Post #Aod9cJGBdvxSHGxRXE by [email protected] |
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over a half hour I checked all 160ish calls to UnsafeNodeGetNext and SafeNodeGe… |
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Post #Aod9hoj25EeFJU4nL6 by [email protected] |
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motherfuckers loved them some linked lists apparently. |
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Post #Aod9qxZkY17lMt5t5c by [email protected] |
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next search: 26 calls to AddToNodeList. presumably it'll get called on each… |
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Post #AodA0ZXYlVVNigeYQC by [email protected] |
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@foone if your memory accesses aren't spread out evenly, you'll have an… |
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Post #AodA94NA11Jxf2qBsW by [email protected] |
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@foone I feel that, but there's the ASD kicking in here, too, preventing me… |
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Post #AodAsjQaDhBo1TDOkq by [email protected] |
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oh good one of them is VARIABLE SIZE! |
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Post #AodDCoPNbz3jAaM4ae by [email protected] |
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I'm not sure what unknown lists 9,10, and 11 are for, but they're conne… |
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Post #AodFCrxKcb4i54OHmy by [email protected] |
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ahh, they've got an add function that looks like this:void func(LinkedListN… |
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Post #AodG1j9P7RBnXZHwqu by [email protected] |
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@momo @anathem yeah. as well as a reminder to myself about what I'm doing |
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Post #AodGf914sui93UBoBc by [email protected] |
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spotted a function an hour and a half ago and decided not to reverse it, but I … |
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Post #AodGqW5NSC35mychGa by [email protected] |
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3d Movie Maker does the same thing where they have chunk types that are 4 digit… |
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Post #AodHNbxAeukNXkZ7Me by [email protected] |
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@foone heh this one? |
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Post #AodHNc2qJpHfpLDeCm by [email protected] |
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@delan bingo! |
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Post #AodInLawCbJcI80AyG by [email protected] |
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@foone safe-ish frob |
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Post #AodLuqsSamjtCbT4Ns by [email protected] |
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@foone That’s exceedingly common in file formats. Many of the *doze ones pred… |
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Post #AodLuqzCBk7vXUcRsm by [email protected] |
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@cyberspice oh I know, I just meant more that I have plenty of experience with … |
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Post #AodM3DYY9mC3r98zuC by [email protected] |
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the game has a hard limit on how many allocations it can do: 500. |
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Post #AodMYS2cLsa9l26LYW by [email protected] |
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@foone this is what C's lack of complex static initialisation does to a mf |
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Post #AoddUPq2IabuzIsUoS by [email protected] |
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@foone 500 in use, or 500 ever? |
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Post #AoeGtRZYst4Foo66AC by [email protected] |
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@zbrown in use. they get recycled |
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Post #AoeGw6B8smZgKqwQVc by [email protected] |
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that's 500 in use at once. when you free the memory it goes back to the pool |
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Post #AoeH0OUUjy6iHu2dbU by [email protected] |
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still, 500 is pretty low, especially since they're using linked lists which… |
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Post #AoeH3Pn4Mh4rBfAc1A by [email protected] |
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although hardcoded it's adjustable by changing a line in the main() equival… |
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Post #AoeHN1SYXJC7WAvOro by [email protected] |
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@foone phew, well that's …less concerning, I guess |
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Post #AoeJmsbgH02jUzeNVI by [email protected] |
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WHAT THE PIXEL ART FUCK IS GOING ON IN THIS SCREENSHOT?the pixel art itself is … |
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Post #AoeKBZoNI4tGRiMdLU by [email protected] |
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The DOS game this is a port of, for comparison.The lack of DPI stretch is just … |
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Post #AoeKSAZ2Pf2J486Pnk by [email protected] |
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@foone accidentally creating the most cursed form of CRT light-bleed emulation |
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Post #AoeKSAfQ1w8lNv5VkO by [email protected] |
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@Foritus don't tempt me to load this game up on an actual CRT. |
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Post #AoeLlKeLEtClnlHhgW by [email protected] |
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this project just added a new stretch goal: unfuck the graphics for the win32 v… |
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Post #AoeM0NKlXcv0TEIkCm by [email protected] |
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@foone This is one of those Foone threads where a memory is forcibly pried up f… |
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Post #AoeMOdPjPKXbIABwki by [email protected] |
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GetAsyncKeyState considers the mouse to be a keyboard?! |
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Post #AoeMXQ50Lyn6Xhgabw by [email protected] |
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oh good and they're "sticky" in a way that only works reliably on… |
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Post #AoeMkaGZn6trttNLw8 by [email protected] |
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I need to start remembering to check if a function is ever called before I wast… |
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Post #AoeMoqY5CBlfYdb3sO by [email protected] |
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@foone oh you must be trying to dissect something I wrote! oh hi. |
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Post #AoeMu88DFbxxXO125g by [email protected] |
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JUST DID IT AGAIN RIGHT AFTER THIS POSTI'm a trusting soul, I assume code i… |
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Post #AoeN0GHZrHFKYTJsRc by [email protected] |
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@foone tests can't fail if they don't ever call the specified function |
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Post #AoeNOhDjM5M73GAhHc by [email protected] |
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else if ((uMsg != WM_NCACTIVATE) && (uMsg == WM_KEYDOWN)) {amazing comp… |
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Post #AoeNZb7ONpx9JMPBFw by [email protected] |
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@vxo possibly! did you work for The Learning Company in the 90s? |
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Post #AoeNaiIRBGmprb6TYG by [email protected] |
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@foone Hang on, isn't that the general case? Or are more modern games one o… |
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Post #AoeNaiOSorbiAHvHwe by [email protected] |
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@trini most newer stuff I've seen is compiled with a compiler that leaves o… |
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Post #AoeNe88rXn5utIFp3o by [email protected] |
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@foone Ah neat. I'm used to the part of the (linux) world where no one seem… |
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Post #AoeNe8Gf4nKhHTu3DU by [email protected] |
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@trini well I do a lot of hacking on console games, and over there saving space… |
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Post #AoeQUaONxFrrTTeh6m by [email protected] |
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hah. It takes all the keypresses from the WM_CHAR/WM_KEYDOWN messages and puts … |
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Post #AoeS69nJOSh9wNnGUK by [email protected] |
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WHY DOES IT HAVE A SECOND CIRCULAR KEYBOARD BUFFER |
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Post #AoeSTJeQucq5AggS12 by [email protected] |
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@foone possibly the compiler didn't know the values of the constants |
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Post #AoeSkGnImtQ3EXusFs by [email protected] |
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there might be a cheat code no one has found on the capslock key but I can'… |
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Post #AoeT8TJ3v268zQJQ0m by [email protected] |
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Help I'm in the statusbar |
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Post #AoeTLjZojnv1DQTPFY by [email protected] |
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@ironiridis I HOLD DOWN SHIFT VERY HARD |
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Post #AoeTWECbj9AL5xcYxE by [email protected] |
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the virtual screen height is 320 pixels?huh. that's a weird number for a HE… |
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@ironiridis no PCB, it's a membrane and I hate it |
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Post #AoeThCXiEo5l8Kj1G4 by [email protected] |
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oh no, it's worse, it's like ... 385? |
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Post #AoeTkmKbdJW4zyIgeO by [email protected] |
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oh, 384. less weird |
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the width is something north of 480 pixels, so I'm guessing 512? weirdly th… |
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Post #AoeVXPHaDTb1eqdchs by [email protected] |
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@foone it's to balance the gyroscope forces. One buffer circulates clockwi… |
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Post #AoeWuiX2uhb1yPY9bc by [email protected] |
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@onfy yeah this is a Mac program ported to DOS ported to win16 ported to win95.… |
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Post #AoeYbhqxPg3cH3vSoi by [email protected] |
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@foone “7 types of ass” sounds like the name of a band |
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Post #AoebGDlIOeBqjFiy6i by [email protected] |
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@foone if you think about it, a mouse is just a keyboard with only two buttons |
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Post #AoehlgY6146giEw8zA by [email protected] |
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@foone see also, https://fxtwitter.com/dazabani/status/1459549851868295176 |
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Post #Aoehlgi1QA2xD1a4SO by [email protected] |
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@delan oh neat! |
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Post #AoejMWDlTgzhLkYR4i by [email protected] |
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yeah the windows version runs as a 512x384 box inside a larger window, while th… |
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Post #AoejTf0dCaiAdIohbk by [email protected] |
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why in the fuck didn't they just make it 640x480 and upscale it by 2x? they… |
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Post #AoekyhyIL1gIkf5nP6 by [email protected] |
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I need to write some code to pull bitmaps from these datafiles. I gotta see if … |
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Post #Aoel1w0KcY9B8taFLU by [email protected] |
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I have some basic info on how the .DAT files work but I've not yet got the … |
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Post #AoeqAbrdN3313VTHt2 by [email protected] |
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@foone 512x384 is the 12“ color resolution of the Mac LC series - did they do… |
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Post #AoeqPN8GQR1ji3HzLE by [email protected] |
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@falk_ yep. And I bet what happened was they built the Mac one off the assets (… |
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Post #AoeqaqmEY0SkpuSRqy by [email protected] |
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@falk_ if this project goes on long enough I'll have to look at the mac ver… |
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Post #AoerSwCkaEy3J7eTCK by [email protected] |
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went looking for tools to look inside these dat/exe/dll hybrids and finally fou… |
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obviously everyone is yelling "just use objdump!" but I am running lo… |
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foone@pasilameli:~$ objdump -x plane256.datobjdump: plane256.dat: file format n… |
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well fuck you too, buddy! why wouldn't you just support a format that hasn&… |
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llvm-objdump is the same. I'm gonna need some kind of specialized tool if I… |
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I mean, I guess Ghidra kinda does? I could maybe export out of that into a file… |
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nah, if ghidra is doing this right, I'm not getting the chunk ids/fourccs. … |
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Post #AoetSe7e0sGN8OFh6O by [email protected] |
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oh hey, wrestool from icoutils seems to get something. |
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Post #AoetyPvMKwyYMlehSS by [email protected] |
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@foone when you inevitably write your own tool for this, i humbly request you n… |
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Post #AoeuHsrWyA5jcQ9BZ2 by [email protected] |
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@foone https://archive.org/details/MPSI013_GAG74DE_06252001-OR has a cue/bin ve… |
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Post #AoeufTia6hDoaKDCEK by [email protected] |
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openwacom says it has no resources, which is incorrect. |
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Post #Aoeuq2m6caEMCvtlA0 by [email protected] |
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@foone To prove you're human, develop your own tooling to reverse-engineer … |
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Post #AoeutVzKSnYbgCjr7Y by [email protected] |
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the NE file format uses an interesting trick to encode offsets: every offset gi… |
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I thought it sounded familiar, and then I realized:this is a floating point num… |
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Post #Aoev1tv3N970DWjmeO by [email protected] |
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it's a base-2 floating point number with an unsigned exponent |
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Post #Aoev6ZiJvHEv010i48 by [email protected] |
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@falk_ yeah, I'll grab that and then ask her tomorrow if her system is in w… |
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Post #AoevOfWP4INcDy42GO by [email protected] |
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Borland Resource Workshop v5.02 OPEN'S IT FUCKING PERFECTLY! of course. The… |
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Post #AoevW5k7yagLZk1UWG by [email protected] |
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They put together dummy DLL/EXEs with BRW containing all their assets, then wro… |
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Post #Aoevb982ocnBWYcVkm by [email protected] |
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that is very cool. Like, it's a very common thing for a game to have it'… |
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Post #Aoevehvbt9A0JzVCYS by [email protected] |
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but they skipped out on developing half the code they'd need to have their … |
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Post #AoevkjUwxq3ivbuBvM by [email protected] |
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but as neat as this trick is, I think this is actually the compromise version. … |
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Post #Aoevn3UDcT2JV2fdmC by [email protected] |
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hey why is there a windows 95 version? windows 95 can run windows 3.1 programs,… |
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Post #AoevrUqNqZANVQ9j0K by [email protected] |
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well I bet this trick is why they made a windows 95 version. I bet they used so… |
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Post #AoevviqRjWtO5UCTTc by [email protected] |
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So they came back to the project and swapped in their own parse-the-NE-file-and… |
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Post #Aoew3nQYa0rucGwNBA by [email protected] |
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To be clear: This is all conjecture, based on what I'm seeing in the files.… |
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Post #AoewIXDN8lPAg3nkWW by [email protected] |
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anyway as cool as this is, it only confirms my theory about how the resource-st… |
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Post #AoewR23KMxVKdW9fX6 by [email protected] |
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I have done way too much of the latter recently, so I'm trying to relax by … |
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Post #AoewVLOUOu4vmT6q5Q by [email protected] |
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@foone It's a floating-point *integer* |
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Post #AoewZ14VtrZbuXW6bY by [email protected] |
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I guess having this tool does help. If I'm correct that it is what made the… |
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Post #AoeyOwmLCsLHbnLL0a by [email protected] |
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I just love the sheer fucking 90s-developement it is that I told this thing to … |
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Post #AoeyRfsCW8Rk2uNu6a by [email protected] |
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What, objdump doesn't have a fully featured (for, like, 1993) image editor?… |
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Post #AoeyjQZU9Efdnh60I4 by [email protected] |
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@foone looking back on 90s gui shit in general, it's kind of amazing what w… |
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Post #Aoeym2cxcxhyPNy4CO by [email protected] |
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@foone it’s so bizarre to me how much effort has been made in the past to ful… |
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Post #AoezKXESLW3zAnxCTI by [email protected] |
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it has been zero days since I crashed explorer |
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Post #AoezUhmbyNienAmNAu by [email protected] |
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speaking crashing, I can't get this version of the resource explorer to com… |
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Post #Aof089stQW79EyWvYW by [email protected] |
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I'm gonna ignore the confusing reversed source for the funcs and just base … |
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Post #Aof0BACUhwJN5d8Cvo by [email protected] |
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hopefully that's close enough that once I have that, it won't be hard t… |
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Post #Aof0KU7W13lZTZFOPw by [email protected] |
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@foone for the mouse? |
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Post #Aof12iL8VbuUJqhzKi by [email protected] |
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why does this section say that each resource table entry is 8 bytes wide then c… |
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Post #Aof1Bj4T9xj5C2D4Sm by [email protected] |
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anyway the ones in this file are clearly 16 bytes long.so already we fell off t… |
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Post #Aof1DS1JWdmOtEYYts by [email protected] |
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@foone You always find the weirdest problems to have |
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Post #Aof1J3FUXOIlngrHfs by [email protected] |
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getting slightly tired of how many documents on "how windows works" a… |
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Post #Aof1K5YVRlXVFCFNCK by [email protected] |
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@SwiftOnSecurity look I just expect text files from the bowels of early 90s MSD… |
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Post #Aof1P6h6dmD2Dvf8HQ by [email protected] |
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what are the chances borland documented this behavior? I'm thinking low. I&… |
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Post #Aof1a1ADXjAAFyTvVY by [email protected] |
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"clearly 16 bytes long" NO THEY'RE 12 BYTES FOONE CAN'T YOU C… |
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Post #Aof1cW5zVgselkhEwK by [email protected] |
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still, 12 is equally not 8 (and equally not 9) as 16 was. The point is it's… |
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Post #Aof1vZvvSx9YAp4tM0 by [email protected] |
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@foone ASEQ + 8 bytes? |
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Post #Aof2bQc8VME7QumEHg by [email protected] |
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I think their fucking header is bigger too. The MSVC one is 1 byte, this makes … |
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Post #Aof3158iy72oMQFhpI by [email protected] |
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@foone I feel like I remember this being a problem back when I was doing Window… |
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Post #Aof3H99BpvDrQI88pc by [email protected] |
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@foone Yo, aseq! Any plans for the evening? |
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Post #Aof5ShYcRN4bEof7Ee by [email protected] |
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okay it has no header at all.They don't need the shift-floating header thin… |
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Post #Aof5shl6JYsbOKtqUa by [email protected] |
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There we go, that part seems to be working. It's a list of IDs and the chun… |
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Post #Aof7ckpfJpxYCPYaA4 by [email protected] |
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okay, the code I'm looking at doesn't make sense because of a very weir… |
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Post #Aof7tXDNCasCt6eCVE by [email protected] |
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@fooneYo aseq, mi aseq, tú aseq |
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Post #AofAQmYjN9dtwUcPnE by [email protected] |
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@foone I bet this is the reason DOS games were considered superior for years, e… |
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Post #AofAgA1OQFpF3MMGHI by [email protected] |
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they add a 22 byte header and cut the first 2 bytes from the file.what the fuck |
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Post #AofAtZgwIDpAQrBfuK by [email protected] |
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@foone why does it draw the text Ｂｉｔｍａｐ so stretched out in the oth… |
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Post #AofB8vAwhLtVPJXZD6 by [email protected] |
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@thorsummoner DPI weirdness |
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Post #AofBXoeO5zGiPSBMp6 by [email protected] |
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@foone There! Are! Twelve! Bytes! |
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Post #AofEmPYjxvbCnUByD2 by [email protected] |
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this code is broken or I don't understand it. maybe both |
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Post #AofF676eHdDfMERn4y by [email protected] |
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99% sure it's bugged. so if you have a file like this one which has the fol… |
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Post #AofGtjHvDFynv6wVO4 by [email protected] |
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I can't figure out what this FindFileResource is doing. there's too man… |
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Post #AofHV5HIPxbcpqShxA by [email protected] |
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@foone Borland Turbo C++? at this time of day? at this time of year? localized … |
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Post #AofHV5O20uzfAjc5S4 by [email protected] |
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@Jenetrix no virtual machines here! everything is running natively |
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Post #AofapWd2KvXSaB5kBM by [email protected] |
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@foone The mentions of 'NFNT' resources prompted me to try throwing Res… |
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Post #AofexIp3wzhjtggGZM by [email protected] |
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@foone i fuckin love gizmos n gadgets |
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Post #AofkhUWBIaWlGHh1AO by [email protected] |
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@foone that's a strange kind of cool |
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Post #AogClWcMER43eGIGZM by [email protected] |
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@foone Isn’t there a strcmp_s like that on Windows? With two lengths? |
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Post #AogCtp81IFnjNJ3oHY by [email protected] |
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@foone Fun fact: There is now officially an uppercase ß: ẞ |
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Post #AogScLe1G7u8HAiVYe by [email protected] |
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@uliwitness didn't see it while quickly looking at MSDN but it wouldn't… |
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Post #AogT87GOGNXiwMoSES by [email protected] |
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@foone … then I remembered that this game comes on a hybrid CD.The Mac versio… |
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Post #AogT87Qfe9lZSFcfFw by [email protected] |
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@boredzo @foone Came here to say this. ‘NFNT’ type and 16-bit ID? Sounds su… |
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Post #AogT87ZB8WZVsdbSW8 by [email protected] |
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@blitter @foone Yeah, that was my feeling from the first mention. I wouldn'… |
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Post #AogT87fujTxYDWkq12 by [email protected] |
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@boredzo @blitter Thanks for looking that up! I haven't taken a crack at th… |
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Post #AogTDhtLVWI5zNhRzM by [email protected] |
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@boredzo @blitter and I just realized, the program I learned this chunk+id styl… |
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Post #AogTK3O6UxPMOa73zc by [email protected] |
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@boredzo If you could dump one of the fonts that'd be handy. The binary of … |
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Post #AogUI0cptiljCeaoVM by [email protected] |
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I pointed binxelview at one of the font resources, and got nothing sensible.Are… |
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Post #AogURvoSe4URAnlHVY by [email protected] |
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I don't have any specific reason to hack the fonts, it's just my defaul… |
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Post #AogWN4li7YW3PQHtIG by [email protected] |
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@foone I see your edit but I was already 98% finished writing my resource extra… |
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Post #AogWmTPVdjav4f0tqy by [email protected] |
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@boredzo Thanks! |
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Post #AogXCxp9BZkYvfdYmW by [email protected] |
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@boredzo interesting. The ASEQ (image files) I checked is the same between Mac … |
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Post #AogXHwpsHsvzJPM0Jc by [email protected] |
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@boredzo oh wow. the NFNT is clearly the same file format, but the mac version … |
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Post #AogXMafu6m5E1su6l6 by [email protected] |
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@foone That makes sense. Better to byte-swap the PC version once when writing t… |
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Post #AogbCzIa6P2TJsfh1U by [email protected] |
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@foone Not just the 90s. |
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Post #AogbCzQ1eizfgy9dcu by [email protected] |
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@kawa that's the secret: the 90s never ended |
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Post #AogcsdteAIu93hR1wu by [email protected] |
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okay so @boredzo grabbed me some resources from the mac version, and they'r… |
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Post #AogdVilG0otjRL92lk by [email protected] |
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@foone Yeah, Macs were big-endian through the PowerPC era, so all the native re… |
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Post #AogdZG0kqWQ7Qp50pU by [email protected] |
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@boredzo it's definitely not a real NFNT, though. Unless it is, and I was c… |
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Post #Aogdc9SxdYLE08eZ96 by [email protected] |
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@boredzo wait does ResEdit natively support them? like, it thinks they're r… |
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Post #Aogdj5kXqvuCVCBgFk by [email protected] |
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@foone Yes. ResEdit has a built-in resource editor that can display 'NFNT&#… |
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Post #Aogdop9IUFdiklUxcW by [email protected] |
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@boredzo ok cool. that save me a lot of time. I basically need to write a "… |
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Post #Aogdrc9zEfz7L09SDI by [email protected] |
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oh god, I thought the font was a bespoke format but no, it's just the macin… |
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Post #AogduO0iIelaK38Tdg by [email protected] |
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little endian mac resources? what is the world coming to? |
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Post #AogdzWhxOGJ6kFoVBw by [email protected] |
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@foone More like TNFN amirite |
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Post #AogeIolAUxWCEYVxFA by [email protected] |
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@foone Sounds like a plan.The format is documented in Inside Macintosh: Text, u… |
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Post #AogeLdG1ihadQeI3V2 by [email protected] |
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@foone KILL IT WITH FIRE |
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Post #AogeTPd4H2PtTgmGKe by [email protected] |
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@foone that must have predated the QuickTime compatibility layer where all the … |
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Post #AogepEmPIAoeCSYKES by [email protected] |
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okay I'm going to intentionally ignore fonts right now. I don't need th… |
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Post #AoggkvJxtgUebFJth2 by [email protected] |
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ahh it's trying to call internal WING.DLL functions. lovely |
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Post #AoghOzJqS4LYaCMsN6 by [email protected] |
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my kingdom for multiple monitors. reverse engineering on just one small laptop … |
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Post #AoghbIHPmWlQrc6D0y by [email protected] |
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@foone I genuinely get a feeling of claustrophobia when working on stuff like t… |
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Post #AoghjAm7ZHHruADccy by [email protected] |
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thank god for WINE, Microsoft gave up on documenting WinG ages ago |
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Post #AoghlqQZfygbfPPl5c by [email protected] |
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@gsuberland same, yeah, and I'm already claustrophobic by nature. unfortuna… |
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Post #AoghqDenFg5Erz9RNQ by [email protected] |
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@foone :(hope things clear up for you soon and you can get back to a more comfo… |
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Post #AoghuJPJoWcxrXrfWK by [email protected] |
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@foone I didn't even think to check WINE. Here I've been using the HLP … |
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Post #AogieqJNoD61EaHAJ6 by [email protected] |
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for not the first or last time, either this code is stupid or it's not bein… |
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Post #Aogjlmrt6sEUXHI4TA by [email protected] |
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yeah this decompilation is just wrong |
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Post #AogklgjQ1dvlSQqV7I by [email protected] |
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aha! fastcall. for some reason it thought these win32 apis used fastcall . |
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Post #AogmA0nNBF9saXrEK8 by [email protected] |
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@foone Intel macs? If not then WT actual F |
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Post #AognOLDu7u3Jx8fEe0 by [email protected] |
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@beeoproblem in 1997? nope! |
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Post #AognbzzJsKeu9BM30K by [email protected] |
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The nice thing about hacking this particular game is that it uses so many fucki… |
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Post #AognflYpSQVWYmlCCW by [email protected] |
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@foone Oof. That's a big WTF there then. |
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Post #AogpDEu5TxTj4lEFbE by [email protected] |
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wait what?it has files like AUTO16.DAT and AUTO256.DATI assumed these were 16-c… |
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Post #AogpO6ZqmPlmRAwbdA by [email protected] |
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I hacked out the make-sure-we're-not-in-256-color-mode check and it just se… |
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Post #AogpWFKO84SntSat8q by [email protected] |
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this game is an entire archaeological dig in itself. It's like one of those… |
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Post #AogpYbRWsOvV3t3eXg by [email protected] |
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BUT THE FOURTH ONE STAYED UP, AND STILL RUNS ON WINDOWS 10 |
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Post #Aogq2prBqmx0S9TbiS by [email protected] |
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@foone it is, dare I say, the little-end of the world as we know it |
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Post #AogqBFe7qmfCknNXpA by [email protected] |
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@gregly nice |
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@foone This thread is like that. I actually scrolled back and back from this co… |
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Post #AogqVRCQbaQONS36TQ by [email protected] |
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@pseudonym thanks. I'll try! |
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Post #AogqXjAYlTIugmGcHA by [email protected] |
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just not very well. That's why I'm here. |
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Post #AogqthH2UblPBHm1T6 by [email protected] |
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@foone Ah, but is it like Paris and the catacombs (Everyone knows) or, well, I … |
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Post #AogsHdUOJcFSLazuzY by [email protected] |
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I'm going to need to modify ScreenCalculations to get the centering fixed. … |
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Post #AogsR2RitZWSM9EWH2 by [email protected] |
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ARGH MSDN TELL ME THE INTEGER VALUES OF YOUR FUCKING BITMASK FLAGS |
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Post #Aogu0C8sw9oEWAkXFg by [email protected] |
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@foone *cough* ctrl-click *cough* (that is assuming you're looking at sourc… |
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Post #AoguDWjdgW0I9MIYDY by [email protected] |
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@phoenixgee I'm not. I'm using Ghidra |
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I want to find the person who decide the x86 assembler in ghidra needed to be C… |
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Post #AogvMAkosXT2XOXL9c by [email protected] |
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I just want to talk |
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Post #AogvaZuG9ycibGozLc by [email protected] |
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@foone Finally, System 6 on VAX! |
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Post #AogvhJk6ees0UpHmYS by [email protected] |
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@foone wHAT |
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Post #AogvhJruBf6mt0w0i8 by [email protected] |
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@alilly type "mov" and it's like "invalid instruction" … |
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Post #AogvyDiEKQ4YiUT584 by [email protected] |
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@foone Ghidra RE detected |
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Post #Aogw6skbdI36JMi3t2 by [email protected] |
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@foone sudden desire to invent a cursed ISA where the assembly is case sensitiv… |
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Post #AogwbcgbPVMHStUmGW by [email protected] |
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@emily NO |
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Post #AogwmhvEHeGItCcewa by [email protected] |
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@foone correct! `NO` is an instruction that clears all flags, such that subsequ… |
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Post #Aogwz3Ry4K018Gp6gK by [email protected] |
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@cr1901 not surprising. I live inside Ghidra |
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Post #Aogxf3QEYxrbCy2UVM by [email protected] |
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I wrote my code and called it and it crashed instantly! |
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Post #AogxiG5XvUYdMQtHO4 by [email protected] |
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@foone I have a baseball bat with nails... |
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Post #AogxkVUVdA7Ji6dg5w by [email protected] |
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what, can you write x86 assembly and have it work fine the first time? |
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Post #AogxnIUUQDtYG8xbaC by [email protected] |
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@foone Not the worst outcome. |
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Post #AogxpniLIy4ffzdMC8 by [email protected] |
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yep I fucked the stack. Whoops |
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Post #Aogxst5JnGwRCYqu1Y by [email protected] |
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I'm pushing 9 arguments for an 8 argument function |
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Post #AogyBMSdJSvjWRZBpY by [email protected] |
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EAX and ECX look too similar on this high-DPI screen |
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Post #AogyNAMw61JZUkWyZs by [email protected] |
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@scottmichaud yeah! I'm not running this in a VM. I've had a debugger w… |
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Post #AogyUXZUEDtZU0ux5U by [email protected] |
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clearly not a problem Intel thought about when they created the 8086 architectu… |
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Post #AogyjTPDzvtquLEpea by [email protected] |
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it runs! with no major changes yet, but this is just a safety check that the ba… |
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Post #Aogym6xvt1VyBBjLsm by [email protected] |
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I've replaced the WinGBitBltWrapper with FooneBlit, a completely different … |
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Post #Aogytdz9WCyQcCtQ7U by [email protected] |
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I edited the wrong part of the function call and accidentally made the game hal… |
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Post #Aogz1WkAKKXaTKdr9M by [email protected] |
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instead of blitting a 512x384 image as 1024x768, it treated the original 512x38… |
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Post #Aogz5tNs5mjNqfINWa by [email protected] |
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DO NOT DO THIS |
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Post #Aogz9JjUaJzaR72deq by [email protected] |
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@foone this is the most threatening sentence. |
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Post #AogzAmES6uEZ7CDdPU by [email protected] |
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@foone HIGH-LEVEL LANG PEOPLE: It's tuple time!LOW-LEVEL LANG PEOPLE: What … |
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Post #AogzPtuLr1UxGU1pJ2 by [email protected] |
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or this |
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Post #AogzeGOx1KnV57BpZ2 by [email protected] |
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This kinda worked but then DPI scale turned on and it's fucked. I need to m… |
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Post #AogzqlbUpwK9KS1IDQ by [email protected] |
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There! properly 2x scaled. This is a proof of concept, for a real version I'… |
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Post #Aoh0fLe56nkRabLddA by [email protected] |
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@foone it's insane to me that you remember and are now running Super Solver… |
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Post #Aoh0oIpcwJkrT81CBE by [email protected] |
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@EMR Different game! It's Super Solvers Gizmos & Gadgets |
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Post #Aoh0v0lQVtZhSZFiO8 by [email protected] |
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@foone now I need to figure out which one I remember. |
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Post #Aoh1vTHuYuEZsaEKae by [email protected] |
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@crobbler They're square, but the assets aren't. |
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Post #Aoh2394vaGgBW9ogRE by [email protected] |
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Fixed centering but the mouse is still kfuct. I'll have to find where it ha… |
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Post #Aoh2P8OumfXPmqeOK8 by [email protected] |
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@foone did that resolution exist outside of early Macs? |
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Post #Aoh2oaORqUmhqMZIg4 by [email protected] |
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@foone no. absolutely not. that is the most important lesson that my father eve… |
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Post #Aoh36wifZn8iIcmWBs by [email protected] |
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@glyph nope. But the win32 version seems to be ported from the mac version |
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Post #Aoh438ANAvW2b4U4eG by [email protected] |
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I need to stuff a mouse scale somewhere but there's no room in winproc. I&#… |
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Post #Aoh4MSYvZEzJM9BbFI by [email protected] |
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@foone probably not, but Delphi malware definitely still exists |
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Post #Aoh5DJOcNUsSH8Z8dc by [email protected] |
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damn it. I was trying very hard to not optimize their code while moving it into… |
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Post #Aoh5LosHE4jgDjUlX6 by [email protected] |
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I think whoever wrote this code assumed they were on a system that can't do… |
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Post #Aoh5aXyuJfWoAgcS7k by [email protected] |
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I am ONE BYTE SHORT |
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Post #Aoh5csDQ3chNVOW4jg by [email protected] |
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I have the whole function but no room for a RET! |
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Post #Aoh5mJkz1q8xWtidlo by [email protected] |
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@foone y u no NOP? |
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Post #Aoh5mJsmYqNjv5MrvU by [email protected] |
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@apicultor NOPs take up more space! I have a 36 byte codecave to shove this into |
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Post #Aoh5sOQ6bURxjJqn4K by [email protected] |
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the above function has 5 NOPs in it, but moving the code around is a pain in Gh… |
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Post #Aoh69lld3KbL3xCgds by [email protected] |
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NEW CODE CAVE TIME |
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Post #Aoh6pEQxNMhzqMIyrg by [email protected] |
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it has been zero days since I exploded the stack |
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Post #Aoh6yI2xJRRNefOkTo by [email protected] |
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turns out my codecave was non-existent so it never actually ran |
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Post #Aoh70fuvX8xQGcmQVs by [email protected] |
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where am I going to find 37 spare bytes, in this day and age? |
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Post #Aoh74tJPfocqy9FAPo by [email protected] |
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@foone |
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Post #Aoh7A8G7Wq6Km3Ccu8 by [email protected] |
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"Borland C++ - Copyright 1995 Borland Intl." is 42 characters long... |
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Post #Aoh87M6rfwXGoh75HM by [email protected] |
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@foone @EMR oh dang a nostalgia trip! I couldn't get past the helicopter le… |
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Post #Aoh8MDKAcbQ9ufQDNw by [email protected] |
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@foone Turbo C++ was the first language I ever learned, Borland's dumber br… |
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Post #Aoh8YoBfONfviSRx3o by [email protected] |
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well that worked (as in didn't crash) but did nothing |
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Post #Aoh8k5SrUnlOUCs3PM by [email protected] |
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I have located another function that may be fucking things |
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Post #Aoh9eWEf9IRxjQ8cYi by [email protected] |
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unfortunately that function is 68 bytes long, and my fixed version will be 72 b… |
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Post #AohATedPgFo4YA69FA by [email protected] |
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the function after it is never used, though. time to just take over that space |
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Post #AohBLem1Ne10cNsITo by [email protected] |
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YES! it works. At least for the movement of the cursor in the game: clicking is… |
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Post #AohBwVIbZLBxwqgZMm by [email protected] |
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ugh I may have overstated the ease |
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Post #AohC2fltXtbCAJKM3U by [email protected] |
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I basically need a second copy of GetAdjustedMousePosition to fix this.the prob… |
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Post #AohHO1tgyeimdgyfQm by [email protected] |
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ugh. writing x86 assembly code in ghidra is no fun. |
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Post #AohHkXoJ0PtJzFC4qe by [email protected] |
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@foone isn't the "in ghidra" superfluous? ;) |
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Post #AohIyZKWFj2chxVqt6 by [email protected] |
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@rasur Nah. Ollydbg makes it easy to use, but I'm not using that debugger. … |
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Post #AohJ1nnqtlLESqm6NM by [email protected] |
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it's somehow generating calls to win32 functions that don't work at all. |
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Post #AohJ57bZjPvGkQcCq8 by [email protected] |
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FUCK ME FIXUPS |
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Post #AohJjcipSUiWq4JxGC by [email protected] |
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no I don't think there are fixups here. this is just... some other weirdnes… |
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Post #AohLXpiLWn3hZCbIsi by [email protected] |
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got it working. Ghidra has no idea what my code means, but it works.Clicking an… |
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Post #AohM2a1ju15DtIKhjE by [email protected] |
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found a bug! it saves the clipping RECT with a memset that only takes 8 bytes.a… |
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Post #AohM7t9aDZqMetX78C by [email protected] |
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@foone s/ in ghidra// <- fixed it for you 😜 |
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Post #AohMkrBvRnGJrnD6Cu by [email protected] |
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@foone when @phooky was hacking new features into the vt100 ROM the easiest pla… |
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Post #AohNBwQW5fZ9vFwxYO by [email protected] |
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ugh. now I have the SetClip function, I need to find somewhere to stuff 8 bytes… |
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Post #AohNEgLQL8VGugsIDY by [email protected] |
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instead of needing 8 bytes "in place" (where I don't have them) i… |
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Post #AohNNeenz0N8HoDccS by [email protected] |
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"Hey Foone? What did you just do?"Write a new function in the Ghidra … |
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Post #AohNjuGOdior3jPcAK by [email protected] |
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SHR, EAX 1 yeah that's how x86 assembly works |
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Post #AohNmaKjCCv07EiPxo by [email protected] |
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@foone i don’t think they thought about Thursday when they made the 8086. |
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Post #AohOL3dOlGcYpyt0Fs by [email protected] |
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there's a 50/50 chance that I'm passing the arguments in reverse order,… |
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Post #AohRA1jVn3CdcLB3rc by [email protected] |
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ok I've written FooneClip, my doubling function that calls SetClip. I just … |
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Post #AohREiYwUcehbpTEI4 by [email protected] |
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I'm patching the callsites instead of making SetClip detour to my own vers… |
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Post #AohRNEJcJw7oPCMRhw by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] I can never get the order right because of damn Intel synt… |
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Post #AohRNEPdxWwghtBG6K by [email protected] |
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@gwenthekween yeah! So annoying. I learned one, I'm not gonna do the other,… |
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Post #AohSCGvGO2ERGCJBey by [email protected] |
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ok. callsites patched. it sounds like a speedrunning trick, so let's see if… |
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Post #AohSF7EUryC24of24e by [email protected] |
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my guess? it crashes, but it'll tell me important info in the debugger to s… |
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Post #AohSgbwimo3V9QSPa4 by [email protected] |
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good lord, it works perfectly. or maybe it has a minor bug? I can't actuall… |
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Post #AohSom5OyBegusPUMS by [email protected] |
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I should inject some debugging to see where clipping rectangles actually are. I… |
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Post #AohT3XwtoV7pPlTdHU by [email protected] |
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yeah no, my clipping rectangles are completely buggered, I just didn't noti… |
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Post #AohT7Bb4rLxHFX0Oe0 by [email protected] |
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@foone ;) |
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Post #AohcWfgD35CrNPdJ8C by [email protected] |
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@foone eternal mood 😅 |
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Post #AohiXZM4eIbDm81gbg by [email protected] |
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@foone not triangles? |
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Post #Aoi783SAcSPwRroAUq by [email protected] |
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@foone Ah, what I remembered was memcpy_s() ! https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/s… |
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Post #AoiagzTYIVbuuySv7A by [email protected] |
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@foone This is expected of clipping rectangles... |
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Post #AoimbV6L05TAiPkutk by [email protected] |
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@foone currently typing on a Zeppelin46 mechanical keyboard 😤 something some… |
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Post #AoivRi7Gegsllwb5hg by [email protected] |
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@foone always one day lateFor once I'd like an ending I can celebrate |
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Post #AojYiBxXMbojAstaz2 by [email protected] |
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okay I now can re-manifest the EXE files, using the SDK's Manifest Tool. Th… |
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Post #AojZ4PZPRJIhl6Cmgq by [email protected] |
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I could also call a function, but then I'd need to write some code to load … |
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Post #AojeXpRYoz00AkNf60 by [email protected] |
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@foone IIRC, if the exe does *not* have an embedded manifest, you can just put … |
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Post #AoknjPxcU9vnMJw968 by [email protected] |
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@krono oh interesting |
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Post #AolAaBQTSAPOcVzzgO by [email protected] |
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@foone "If possible, you should embed the application manifest as a resour… |
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Post #AolAuQP7TU1Yrk18JE by [email protected] |
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@krono Good to know. And that definitely simplifies this: one less way I gotta … |
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Post #AolB0DltM6YFQKQt96 by [email protected] |
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@foone Exactly. |
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Post #AonINlcmkDgr4aGerA by [email protected] |
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you ever accidentally assemble code for the wrong processor? |
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Post #AonJRBXiw9e6HR5t56 by [email protected] |
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ugh. trying to undo that mess has somehow buggered my executable in a really st… |
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Post #AonJmpooO8hvH3PU24 by [email protected] |
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it's also now exporting as .exe.bin which is odd. |
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Post #AonK49K77gIugrJ8IC by [email protected] |
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@foone closest I got was a compiler making 68020 code when I told it to make 68… |
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Post #AonKyJHhH7JXngxMwq by [email protected] |
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hmm. all the previous EXEs are 347kb (except the manifest experiment, which was… |
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Post #AonL8mVHUgnxJlIsj2 by [email protected] |
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oh, I needed to export as "original executable" and make sure the che… |
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Post #AonNU6QWoYaT6ANJDc by [email protected] |
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Finally this blasted program understands my vision |
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Post #AonNxeHK2BlWU89pDM by [email protected] |
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@foone ohhh, yeah, the damn rebuild option. they really need to change that so … |
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Post #AonP2y85kuV3SDwOK8 by [email protected] |
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ok so I've moved the FooneClip function into a NASM-compiled file, which is… |
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Post #AonQMjOgL8gJVZgiR6 by [email protected] |
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actually... it works at least as well as it did before I started messing with s… |
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Post #AonRINdpNwPApWGHEu by [email protected] |
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There's definitely some minor math issue somewhere that's causing the c… |
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Post #AonTGAoCKGN8MKBgFE by [email protected] |
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ugh. There was some way to set up your file so that going over a size limit on … |
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Post #AonTJxtIIP57SBNZJY by [email protected] |
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because when I'm assembling code to fit into a small hole, I need it to fai… |
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Post #AonTgAMGchquUVW8Vk by [email protected] |
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actually that was long enough ago that I'm not sure it was even this assemb… |
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Post #AonTjxbdycmk6FWEbY by [email protected] |
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maybe when I write my eventual "import this binary function into ghidra wi… |
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@foone This thread is gold. Thank you! |
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Post #AonWYUSEK1u6MdL0lM by [email protected] |
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@foone does it say “made for Pentium Pro” on the box art? |
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Post #AonXzaJMkn4sInfvs0 by [email protected] |
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%local mouse_x:dword, mouse_y:wdord I don't know why this code isn't wo… |
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Post #Aona3B6ScQKfBfTpZo by [email protected] |
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@weargoggles no, but the Pentium I'm gonna test it on DOES have the FDIV bu… |
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Post #Aons1eIGut0aJdQQYS by [email protected] |
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I wrote some silly NASM macros so now my ASM files don't compile to flat bi… |
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Post #Aop4OYN2UvL3DKIrWS by [email protected] |
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%local mouse_x:dword, mouse_y:dword ; Get the current cursor positionLEA … |
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Post #Aop4S4dYzK5W9hi8Xo by [email protected] |
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EAX is 32bit. EBP is 32bit. mouse_x is a DWORD, whichi s 32bit. I'm trying … |
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Post #Aop4w1v9eSYYQ1DuHQ by [email protected] |
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@fooneDoes it still complain if the instruction is a literal LEA EAX, [ EBP + -… |
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Post #Aop4w21tFPwakuNHmK by [email protected] |
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@0xCYR Nope! that was the code beforehand, but now I'm trying to get the as… |
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Post #Aop5JItchhjjj8bYjQ by [email protected] |
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oh, it's because it's trying to be even more handy than I thoughtI need… |
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Post #Aop9H8Xed6h2qpYEbo by [email protected] |
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@foone It looks like you're poking down a rabbit hole I've been down be… |
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Post #AopCAUptdqavpZbosy by [email protected] |
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@foone should work just fine on 32 bit. Though the size of mouse x would be irr… |
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Post #AopCGH8jTcNZ5fAuwq by [email protected] |
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@foone nasm is quite good at computing the needed sizes based off the destinati… |
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Post #AopCYVcEOXOxCNfQoK by [email protected] |
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@foone if you're wanting the value stored you'll be wanting a mov not a… |
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Post #AopDNFtMcAP7CXsXI0 by [email protected] |
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somehow I overwrote FooneBlit with FooneClip. A completely different function! … |
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Post #AopDTCYBx1ioZjoL1E by [email protected] |
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and I can't really compare what the output is, because my IPS hack means th… |
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Post #AopDbYLKoJDwTrmNtY by [email protected] |
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crap, it's because I mixed up FooneBlit and FooneClip. But it's also a … |
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Post #AopEOA0I5nFzBP78Xg by [email protected] |
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@ChartreuseK DWORD I think you mean, it's always mad at me for using DWORD … |
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Post #AopETU7oi1MD2JAo5Y by [email protected] |
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@ChartreuseK yeah I did want the address, because I'm about to call GetCurs… |
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Post #AopEungQ6HzHVtNqZU by [email protected] |
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Done. It's MakeIPSPatch FooneBlit*code here*EndIPSnow. I just stuck a %assi… |
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Post #AopJ6yeNYC72opUUQy by [email protected] |
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@foone Quack quack. :] |
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Post #AopKijZc9cJv17pWCW by [email protected] |
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hmm. I'm trying to do macros for individual instructions and it's trick… |
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Post #AopMDvbVZh1PGD9cLA by [email protected] |
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I could do it like this:IPSSmallPatch 0x00406aa0, EndSizeCALL FooneClipEndSize:… |
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Post #Aorf0qBogGxK9HWuZs by [email protected] |
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I thought about writing a tool that modifies the EXE at runtime, and it just ha… |
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Post #AorfQegI5k1Zz85qDI by [email protected] |
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I might invert it, write my own DSL? Maybe just a fancy python file that's … |
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Post #AorfYAdZg4jz7ePFg0 by [email protected] |
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I'm basically going to make the computer do all the effort of if I actually… |
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Post #AorfawaKNeLKPOD5Um by [email protected] |
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but at the same time, keeping the patch file simple for what I have to write. l… |
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Post #AorfmSP0QNX6H2P7ya by [email protected] |
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although most of that is just because of how I do the IPS stuff inline, which m… |
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Post #AorfrTmUj271zwmmGW by [email protected] |
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I should probably be thinking about if I want to patch the other win32 versions… |
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Post #AorftyJSBFyrGlOH1E by [email protected] |
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but I don't think I'm gonna do that for now. I can always come back to … |
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Post #AoriVkIAxObohJvsXY by [email protected] |
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@foone I implemented something like this and ended up doing it pretty much that… |
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Post #AormxsfrmlxocSgXJo by [email protected] |
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@foone I finally made it back to the beginning of this thread! For a while, I w… |
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Post #AoronRKMnzPAojmHqK by [email protected] |
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@foone 😂 |
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Post #AorpKn1l99I3fsycwy by [email protected] |
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@foone I avoided that game when I was younger, because I twigged pretty early o… |
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Post #AorpbxCsYMOYAUMX0C by [email protected] |
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@foone I sometimes wish that in Australia, Oregon Trail was more popular, so I … |
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Post #AorqSexd7bzAvYMUwi by [email protected] |
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@foone 😯 |
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Post #AorqiGketmmKTdjo7U by [email protected] |
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@foone 😖 |
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Post #AorsD4OH0TnZ4TWB5E by [email protected] |
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@foone Pascal calling conventions are the opposite of C, aren't they? Pasca… |
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Post #AorsLtB449FatuXqwC by [email protected] |
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@foone That sounds great! |
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Post #AosmU4zFdZkPHEVABc by [email protected] |
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@amca heh. nah, I'm a pope, not a god. |
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Post #Aot8PF6gmYGgCu4z6u by [email protected] |
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So I've clearly found where the sprite is but at the same time I clear have… |
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Post #AotAkDEx7LOGPJ4Uq0 by [email protected] |
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@foone I LOVED Gizmos and Gadgets when I was a kid!!! This is a fun project to … |
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Post #AotJ8Blv1l12R8R1yi by [email protected] |
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@foone RLE? Restart markers? Compression? Weird alpha channel? Probably none of… |
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Post #AotNaFL7ktbtQXXJVg by [email protected] |
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@websterleone doesn't seem to be RLE or compression, since there's a lo… |
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Post #AotNdEKpwmIvBDpCFM by [email protected] |
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huh. I loaded the correct palette and the image colors aren't right.are the… |
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Post #AotNw84NSxWJFZ8bJ2 by [email protected] |
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@foone Yeah, my assumption was on like a "adds bits that define it but bas… |
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Post #AotYRO5Cyg5NQw4PTM by [email protected] |
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okay I confirmed something fun: The Windows 3.x version uses the same data file… |
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Post #AotYydIxP8h4CPLzXc by [email protected] |
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DOS version reports version 1.0, 1993. win 3.1: version 1.1, 95-96. win9x says … |
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Post #AotbzK9yN0AYyTAl3A by [email protected] |
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and the mac version says it's version 1.0, 1995. |
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Post #AotchgJzKqBORt0aSO by [email protected] |
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mmm, I looked at the palette info and it seems it's different for mac. At l… |
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Post #AotctBkCqVo55fl5oO by [email protected] |
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Compiled with Think C! a 1991 version. |
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Post #AotdO1JNgUQTi9ufS4 by [email protected] |
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the mac version has resources calling it version 1.03 internally though |
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Post #AotlVWaQbPeoMwyZWq by [email protected] |
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@foone I remember a bit of software like that, a payroll reporting program one … |
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Post #AotqgCv6YtjWKZYp4S by [email protected] |
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@foone can you find the translator gizmo in Space Quest 1? That bastard ruined … |
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Post #Aotv5ITZRSPGcOtuu8 by [email protected] |
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wait, if borland turbo c can compile code that deals with these DAT files as re… |
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Post #AotyLPR1dV4UhH5KAy by [email protected] |
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@foone but where's the type 3 fun in that approach? |
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Post #ApCgJjn2sWQe4ofzyi by [email protected] |
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I took another look at the DOS datafiles. no ASEQ so they are using a completel… |
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Post #ApCgN5FvWdWjWKmUEa by [email protected] |
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there's gizmo000.dat through gizmo004.dat but while the first dats are the … |
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Post #ApCgX9VQZwhDb6pg1o by [email protected] |
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the entropy of the other DAT files seems high enough that I think it's comp… |
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Post #ApE7l3sfBKoA7rW9Wi by [email protected] |
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back on the win32 version. trying to get my patches to apply |
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Post #ApE84Ju1pvM1JrL6QK by [email protected] |
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oh duh. I'm trying to patch in-RAM locations, not on-disk locations! those … |
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Post #ApEHdnUmhahUp4WVdo by [email protected] |
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and in fixing that, I broke it. I can't just translate them all to exe-loca… |
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Post #ApEHqZgtL4yflyHMTA by [email protected] |
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I've noticed a pattern: whenever a function in this game crashes, the funct… |
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Post #ApEIgubmoS13hpqbWy by [email protected] |
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it has been zero days since I destroyed my frame pointer by passing the wrong p… |
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Post #ApEJdXfLkvihdWTHFY by [email protected] |
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@foone 11 years and counting. Yes, I used the trivial solution. |
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Post #ApEKMQbgqdP0m5A9QG by [email protected] |
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arg. the game calculates where to put the in-game view based on where the windo… |
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Post #ApEKQ8G10sj71Sn5ZQ by [email protected] |
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but yeah, annoying resizing glitches aside, my new auto-patch nonsense is worki… |
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Post #ApEKTBtZwXfrAtkqye by [email protected] |
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now I just gotta inject my own code into the windowproc to handle WM_SIZE |
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Post #ApISuhhHOF7TtFTIzA by [email protected] |
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@foone |
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Post #ApjejASEJ6USwfZSYS by [email protected] |
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@foone https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/captcha_doom_nightmare/ |
