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This reminds me of a neat trick I saw in an old 4k demo: adding text (e.g. the creator's name) at the very beginning of the binary. They'd figured out what the
by jcl 17y ago
This reminds me of a neat trick I saw in an old 4k demo: adding text (e.g. the creator's name) at the very beginning of the binary. They'd figured out what the text meant in machine language, then added a few opcodes after to undo the effects of executing the text directly.
- bitwize 17y agoDid they tack a ^Z after the text so that when you TYPE the executable, you get just the "hi mom from bitphr33k / n3cr0ph1li4" or whatever?
- jcl 17y agoIIRC, they did not, but that would have been a great idea.
- warp 17y agoBack in 2001 I created an executable this way which runs on both linux and dos: http://320x200.org/attic/files/doslinux.asm http://320x200.org/attic/files/doslinux.asm