Hi there, I'm a wannabe reverse guy, I'm a tech agnostic who enjoy to play with various tools on various targets on various OS for various reasons.
Thanks for letting me in, hope to be able to share knowledge sometimes

Old UNIX dog trying to preserve software
 

Hello

I'm a not so young developer with mostly experience in the UNIXes world. I'm looking forward to share the knowledge I have, and discuss software preservation with whomever might be interested.
By software preservation I mean the countless applications that literally vanished, evaporated from an entire era of computing. In most cases vendors went bankrupt, or were acquired, then acquired again, changed businesses. Even if you wanted a new key for your old Sparc Solaris license server for that critical piece of old obsolete software that is central to your business, no one now has the ability to generate them.
For most, getting the actual software itself is already a challenge. In most cases, impossible. Getting licenses, is a crazy proposition and leaves one to fend for himself. And what to do when you do find a way to get that crucial piece of software of vanished vendor X running on your OpenVMS server?
Someone somewhere might be interested in having a license too. Computer museums perhaps.
Anyway, now that the motivation was presented, you know a bit about me. I'm looking forward to having interesting discussions with you.
Best

L.

welcome to the forum.

Been a lurker for a long time, maybe I should introduce myself? I don't consider myself a programmer. I enjoy reverse engineering things mostly x86/x64.

I've been reversing games for what feels like a long time now, maybe not as long as some people I've seen on the board but started making trainers in VB6 a long time ago and sort of just continued reversing/documenting game engines without releasing public cheats or trainers.

Eventually got interested in different protections, unpacking, or defeating specific technologies and then got into cybersecurity as well which is where my career landed instead of reversing. Was added some time ago when the opportunity arose and happy to be here hopefully will post more often soon but always feel like any contribution, I have is nothing compared to what some people here offer (impostor syndrome I suppose).

welcome to this great site for reversing learning articles

Hello Friends!

Glad I was able to be invited in here. I‘m 43, Name is Eric. My interest for reverse engineering stems back from the first Shareware CDs appearing and younger me trying to break these protections.

Nowadays I‘m mostly interested in MS-DOS Stuff, where I‘m building up a Collection of Patches/Cracks for games that have never been (properly) cracked in the past or where the Crack is hard to come by. I‘m still learning a lot. Goal is to preserve as much MS-DOS Games as possible in an unprotected state. I‘m also building up a website for these patches together with a friend of mine, but I won‘t post it here as advertisment is prolly not allowed.


Thank you :)

Eric

Welcome to the forum Eric! Nowadays It is hard to find nice tools for MS-DOS platform. I hope you will also share some tutorials abut MS-DOS reversing!

Hi,Eric,I like dos game too. Which tools do you debug it? Softice?
Could you share your site,thanks! I'd like add to my favorite.

I have collected some dos game site:

https://boneash.oldgame.tw/

＞ online DOS game
https://dos.lol/
https://dos.zczc.cz/

＞
https://ddyx.me/

＞ DOS Zone
https://dos.zone/

＞ RGB Classic Games
https://www.classicdosgames.com/

＞ Play Classic Games Online
https://playclassic.games/

＞ Internet Archive MS-DOS Games
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

＞ DOSGames
https://dosgames.com/

＞ Old Games Download （download）
https://oldgamesdownload.com/

＞ DOS Games Archive （download）
https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/

＞ dos game （download )
https://github.com/skywind3000/preserve-cd

＞ My Abandonware （download）
https://www.myabandonware.com/

＞ ClassicReload （download）
https://classicreload.com/

I like the game ,"titus the fox",it brings me a lot of happiness before.

Introduction StormSeeker
 

Nice to meet you all and thanks for having accepted me in this community :-)
I'm a teacher and I'm interested in learning some techniques for reversing flexlm licensing software for Cisco old software.

By the way, do you know how I could be able to post a request?

Thank you very much in advance!

Hey!

Thanks for your answer. I wanted to differentiate the project from Abandonware Sites and only share xDelta diff patches for the corresponding games in an attempt to stay legal yet useful. This means you need to „own“ the game and only download and apply the patch. By using Batch Files and xDelta I also want the patches to stay as transparent as possible for the user. You can always check the .bat file to see what it does - no Self Extracting EXE is being used.

All Patches are on Archive here: https://archive.org/details/@xmarksthespot81

If you want to take a glimpse at the upcoming website, check: https://www.dosgame.at

The Website is not finished (most Sitelinks don‘t work yet and not all Patches are uploaded as we speak). Design is not final, but I want to keep it simple.

Which tools do I use: At the moment I use the DOSBox Debugger and Hiew for the most part, sometimes in conjunction with Gametools. For Sierra I use SCI Companion. A friend of mine is building a real DOS PC though for SICE, as some targets are too heavy for an emulated environment.

Keep in mind that I‘m still a Reversing Newbie and still learning a lot.

Let me know what you think. :)

- stoney

Hi, I saw your thanks :-) do you know how I could be able to post a request?

Hi, you could post a request here
https://forum.exetools.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

Note: read the rules below first
https://forum.exetools.com/showthread.php?t=3752

Unable to post
 

Nice to meet you and thanks for your help ;-)
Attached is a screenshot of the message I get trying to create a new thread in the room you linked to...please, let me know

Thanks!

Hi and nice to meet you; I share your same exact feeling and that's what brought me here: Cisco programs and licenses have precisely this problem, while their old software would be great to teach networking students in schools the fundamentals and Cisco would even benefit from this, because more people hired by companies would be familiar with Cisco products...market logic is so stupid sometimes (often due to blind executives and dumb shareholders, despite great technical people).

Would you be up to having a talk about the kind of licensing I need help about and to help me submit requests here (which I don't seem to be able to in the requests section)?

Thank you very much!