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Here's another series of articles on reverse-engineering a DOS game, using the original toolchain as part of the process of decompiling it: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/f15-se2

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Here is my approach to reverse-engineer a DOS game: Starflight [1]. Actually, all the tools failed to disassemble the code and I had to write all tools myself.

What I find most fascinating is that reverse engineering these kind of games is very satisfying and even more fun than playing them.

[1] https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse

If you want to be very authentic and use "legacy" tools, such as SoftICE, then you can't beat the old articles that +fravia put together.

Although he moved on to search-based research, and sadly died, there are still mirrors out there of the old content, frozen in time.

https://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/academy.ht...

fravias pages have had an outsize effect on today's Infosec environment.

So many famous people started their path there.

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