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It's difficult to find a succinct overview. Here is a slide deck buried among links: http://www.capstone-engine.org/BHUSA2014-capstone.pdf


Capstone is sort of an "industry standard" open source multi-architectural disassembler library, especially for security tooling.

This is a useful page to get a sense of what it's about (ie, what you're getting out of it vs. something more like objdump):

https://www.capstone-engine.org/beyond_llvm.html


Oh, I thought this was an OSS remake Dune II. How sad... heh.


Me too. But this might be even better. While I really like Fusion 360, it is proprietary. I've tried FreeCAD, but as much as I want to love it, it's painful to use.

Thrilled to have another option to check out.


OMG, I remember copying official 5.25 disks back in the 90s...


Clunk, clunk, clunk, bzt-urg, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk... :)

While hole punchers and opaque tape worked for notching and denotching, there were also floppy notchers. It turns out these bits of accessories are rarely found on secondary markets or go for something like $80 USD. There are still quite a few 5.25" drive cleaning kits still for sale.

I don't miss floppies because they were slow, fragile, and prone to developing unrecoverable errors. I did discover through experimentation that 3.5" floppies were fairly resistant to crude direct magenetic attack. I had to open the window and touch the media surface to a small speaker's magnet to induce errors. Praise be to the greaseweazle and the Copy II PC Deluxe Option Board 2.0 (the 1.0 doesn't support 3.5" 1.44 MB).

2.88 MB drives are worth a small fortune because they are still used for industrial purposes. Also, SCSI floppy drives exist.


Nice!

P.S. who remembers the legendary Phrozen Crew cracks? They were minimal byte patches that often toggled a conditional jump in an MS-DOS app/game...


Razor1991 is the GOAT crew


The "Mike Hunt" Cubase for atari hack.


Is there x86-x64 assembler? If so, I would have put that on the front page...


Sorry for the late answer. Yes, there is. We hoped a Keystone-based[1] plugin would be a better alternative since it's based on the LLVM code, but the project looks abandoned now[2].

[1] https://github.com/keystone-engine/keystone/

[2] https://github.com/keystone-engine/keystone/issues/560


LOL, shout out to SEN - I used his tool, Hiew back in 1994 for the first time. Good times.

P.S. I still use it from time to time - it has a nice built-in assembler for x86/x86-x64.


LOL, behold the MS-branded VNC!


You laugh, but RDP is actually one of the few things Microsoft does right. It (can) tightly integrate to the window layer, so it's way more responsive and uses less bandwidth. VNC just does screen grabs, and X11+forwarding only works for a few minutes before crashing (that's been my experience).


Did they fold the LSM idea? What about the single global namespace in which all records live?


Oh, wow, that's right. That note is here: https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki


LOL, I remember compiling a tiny C program that sent a TCP packet to NT 4.0 to trigger a hang...


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