Who needs Ghidra when you have autism and a box of markers?

[rey@toot.cat]

@gloriouscow @foone having a big "wait, that counts as reverse engineering? oh gods, yeah, it would have to, wouldn't it" moment over here

tractor feed was so good for this

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@rey @foone

i didn't say I was a good reverser

[blue_on@qdon.space]

@gloriouscow
isn't it tedious?

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@blue_on You'd think so, but it's more methodical. I remember just laying on the floor with the listings spread out and listening to music while doing. After a while you just zone out, it's meditative

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@blue_on the closest experience i have to it now is tracing out boards in KiCad. put on some music, and just follow traces with the mouse from chip to chip. thousands and thousands of traces...

[furrybeta@shark.community]

@gloriouscow I sometimes think that might be better than ghidra

[fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe]

@gloriouscow @goosey Dot matrix printed source code is the best! I had tons of it, at one time, all marked up like you’ve done here.

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@gloriouscow I do, because I threw out my tractor feed dot matrix printers over two decades ago.

[ask@infosec.exchange]

@gloriouscow wow amazing. How much time did all this take?

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@ask I worked on this over a period of two years as best as I can figure

[taleb@wetdry.world]

@gloriouscow this is unbelievably crazy for a gamedev, what type of game even is this produced for?

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@taleb it's a point and click adventure game, very similar to LucasArts's SCUMM engine.

[peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange]

@gloriouscow read long enough, the listings let you write c-code translation ️

[abrasive@digipres.club]

@gloriouscow I really love that you disassembled this in IDA, with all its interactive abilities for markup and analysis, in order to print it and go ham with the pencils!

Not snark, in case that's not obvious -- I genuinely do. I wish I still had the time to sit with things in this way and with this depth, though I never had your penmanship! And I have a lot of admiration for anyone with the short-term memory to be able to cohere a linear disassembly into a coherent picture

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@gloriouscow Is that why I like my coloured pens?

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@gloriouscow the limit is paper

[magnetic_tape@infosec.exchange]

@gloriouscow
... And a glorious dot matrix printer!

[dabeaz@mastodon.social]

@gloriouscow Whoa. How'd you manage to get a photograph of my middle school social life?!?

[capeta@ursal.zone]

@gloriouscow this post is an absolute banger. brutal

[gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@gloriouscow this whole thread hits solidly in my core-memories of programming in the 80s. Thanks! 🥰