how to … jokes So-so, honestly. Was okay at the time. Sorry for not sharing it, but that’s how I feel. Btw, reading and calculating hex is not that hard. In H

how to … jokes So-so, honestly. Was okay at the time. Sorry for not sharing it, but that’s how I feel. Btw, reading and calculating hex is not that hard. In Hiew (and other hex/asm binary file editors that showed hex together with mnemonics) you quickly learn that e.g. B8 xx xx is “mov ax, imm” and C9/CB is a return. You can actually spot these in an 8-bit hex view, and yes, code has a pretty distinct feel in hex and ascii/exts. Zips and data don’t look like code. For me hex code was read-only, but I remember my granddad entering programs through literally 8 on-off switches plus some more on a pre-sinclair “computer”. I could input hex values. He could input D0-D7 and #CLK itself. That said there’s not much “hacker” in it. It’s just a knowledge induced by a relatively low level tooling and the times. We did what we did out of interest, not for social attitude. So yeah.