Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social), page 2

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@foone What's the go-to tool for Win32 executables?

@foone It's all the same. One is a Russian version, the other one is an English version.

@foone I sort of wanna do it myself. As far as I know there's nothing in the code that's hidden or encrypted, and the original patch just introduced a jump or two. What are the chances that I can just look at the original & edited executables in whatever a modern tool is (do they really reverse into C now?), find the change, and then just edit the same piece in the other executable?

Here's a question:
I'm expecting to get a game for which I'd like to patch the executable to create a no-cd version, as one doesn't exist currently.

How would I go about it, considering these factors:
- It's a 32 bit Windows 9x application.
- I have no knowledge of any modern reverse engineering tools.
- A no-cd patch for a different version of the same game already exists, and I can compare original & patched executables.
- I have a basic knowledge of assembly, but idk if it applies anymore.

Some DOS games that are turning 30 this year:
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Jazz Jackrabbit
X-COM
WarCraft
Heretic
Beneath a Steel Sky
Ecstatica
Hocus Pocus
Magic Carpet
Little Big Adventure
System Shock
Under a Killing Moon
Wacky Wheels
Theme Park
Ultima 8
Raptor
Cyberia
TIE Fighter
Corridor 7
DreamWeb
TES: Arena

Ooh, I need a dirty MIDI
Ooh, I need a dirty song

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Here's to 15 more years! 🥂

On February 12th 2009 this guy put up his first video review on YouTube. Happy 15th, DOS Nostalgia! 🎉🎂🍾🥂💾

The *only* Superb Owl.

It appears that a new revision of Book 8088 has been selling on Aliexpress. And it's quite a bit more useful because it adds serial and parallel ports, as well as VGA graphics option.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805347831866.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt

I learned recently that Cosmology of Kyoto, a Japanese edutainment-horror masterpiece, apparently had a sequel which was considered lost, but recently surfaced
https://youtu.be/nyNu15DkZTQ

Alcatraz (221B Software Development/Infogrames, 1992) #DOSGaming

The sound of data. 🔊💾💾💾💾

Hmmm... 🤔

There's a showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail soon, and there's no way I would go to see that. There's absolutely 0% chance that everyone in the audience will manage to resist an impulse to quote the whole thing.

So I just found a file on my SSD that I can't read fully anymore. Worried. Got the stats. I don't really know much about SSDs. Does this mean this one might begin failing on me?

After a full scan. Ouch.

Btw, did you know that if you have a file that can't be read, and you ask Windows 10 to compress it, it'll successfully create a zip archive with only the readable part of the file, and NOT PUT UP A SINGLE ERROR MESSAGE?! Now you know.

If you'd like to help out a fellow nerd, and want to contribute to my new SSD fund: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic

I've been in a paycheck-to-playcheck situation for the past couple of years, so even something as trivial as getting new storage can be a bit difficult for me.