Monthly Archives: December 2008

Boxing Day

Posted on December 26, 2008 by MXH

Since it’s a holiday week, I’m just going to do a quick followup to a loose end from last week. In that post, I hypothesized that the function located at CS:3A30 in my run-time copy of the Neuromancer executable existed … Continue reading →

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Neuromancer Codewheel – Part 2

Posted on December 19, 2008 by MXH

Editorial note: This is the second of a two-part tutorial on reverse engineering executables. Today, we’ll walk through the process of analyzing a series of assembly instructions. These instructions implement the codewheel verification check from the 1989 game “Neuromancer”. We … Continue reading →

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Neuromancer Codewheel – Part 1

Posted on December 12, 2008 by MXH

Editorial note: This is the first of a two-part tutorial on reverse engineering executables. Today, we’ll walk through the process of finding the section of an executable responsible for performing a certain task, and next week we’ll analyze the assembly … Continue reading →

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Python Constants

Posted on December 5, 2008 by MXH

A recent project required me to handle a large-ish number of symbolic constants, and I found it useful to develop a little utility class to help me manage them. Weighing in at only 8 lines, it made my life a … Continue reading →

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