| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Hi - I'm looking for a deassembler/debugger that will deassemble
programs. specifically, I'd like to find out some of the 'secrets'
that some of these copy protected programs use. I've seen something
like this for the IBM that touts that it will even display the
developers comments.
Anything for the Amy ?
Jim Lince
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1575.1 | Hmmmmm... | LOWLIF::DAVIS | That's not a BUG, it's a FEATURE! | Wed Aug 03 1988 18:37 | 7 |
> I've seen something like this for the IBM that touts that it will even > display the developers comments. That's weird, the compiler/assembler ignores comments. If it didn't we could/should get some pretty huge executables! :-) ...richard | |||||
| 1575.2 | Perhaps you misread it | MILRAT::WALLACE | Wed Aug 03 1988 18:46 | 5 | |
I've seen ads for disassemblers that allow you to associate symbols
with code locations and ADD comments to the disassemlbed listing.
But I concur with .1 you can't get comments where there are none.
Ray
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| 1575.3 | Found on the net | NAC::PLOUFF | Beautiful downtown Littleton | Thu Aug 11 1988 17:54 | 22 |
Two public domain disassemblers are on-line at:
MVCAD3::USER0:[AMIGA.USENET]DIS*.SH
MVCAD3::USER0:[AMIGA.FF128]DIS.ARC
The first (two files) is in Unix shell format and needs both 'shar'
and 'uudecode' to unpack. I have tried this one and it works, though
is no great shakes.
Several ads for disassemblers have appeared lately in the backs
of magazines. Simple ones (like the PD stuff) just disassemble
over the range of addresses given, and maybe allow you to build
symbol tables manually. I would expect commercial products worth
buying to do things like know symbols for library functions, do
branch testing to identify all code segments, and be fairly smart
about deciding if a section is code or data.
Re: show the developers' comments. I remember a product for CP/M
which was a disassembler, but would give you a copy of the operating
system source code with many labels and comments! This was a thin
subterfuge to allow the publisher to sell source code without getting
into trouble with Digital Research, the CP/M vendor.
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