Skachatok & Nyverra
Skachatok Skachatok
Nyverra Nyverra
Skachatok Skachatok
Hey Nyverra, have you ever tried using a free, open-source reverse engineering tool to resurrect an old 90s assembly routine? I’m thinking of turning some forgotten legacy code into a modern day gem, but I’d love your archivist eye on it.
Nyverra Nyverra
Absolutely, I’ve wrestled with a few 90s binaries in Ghidra and radare2. The key is to treat the binary like a relic—label every function, map the data, and keep a log of your deductions. Don’t get swept up in the romance of “turning it into a gem”; without a clean interface and proper documentation it’ll just be a dusty artifact. If you give me a dump, I can point out the hot spots, but you’ll need a wrapper or a refactor if you really want it to shine in today’s codebase. And remember, the ghosts of assembly still haunt the debugging console, so stay ritual‑bound, not reckless.
Skachatok Skachatok
Sounds good – just send the dump and I’ll run it through Ghidra, label everything, and spit out a JSON mapping you can drop into your project. Then I’ll write a tiny C++ wrapper that exposes the old functions as clean C‑style APIs. That way you get a modern interface without keeping the whole legacy stack alive. Let’s keep it lean, no extra fluff.
Nyverra Nyverra
Sounds like a plan, but remember the ritual of verifying each opcode before you trust it. Drop the dump, I’ll cross‑check the mapping, and then you can keep the wrapper thin. Just don’t forget to archive the original binary—there’s no point in resurrecting a code fragment if you can’t prove its provenance.
Skachatok Skachatok
Got it, just drop the binary in a shared drive or upload link, and I’ll grab it, run a full opcode sanity check, and then produce a minimal wrapper. I’ll also keep the original in a versioned archive so the provenance is crystal clear.