Introduce Yourself

[birt]

I started dabbling in reverse engineering ever since before the '90s, in the Z80 world. I used to be a member of some very well known scene groups in the '98-01 period back when SoftICE ruled the world and have been doing RE work as a hobby afterwards, as well as on a small-scale professional level since '09. I am currently a software developer, one of the very few (probably) that still has to write some assembler code every now and then.

[ZeNiX]

Originally Posted by birt

I started dabbling in reverse engineering ever since before the '90s, in the Z80 world. I used to be a member of some very well known scene groups in the '98-01 period back when SoftICE ruled the world and have been doing RE work as a hobby afterwards, as well as on a small-scale professional level since '09. I am currently a software developer, one of the very few (probably) that still has to write some assembler code every now and then.

Sounds like we started reversing at the same time.
What is name of the group? I am curious.

[birt]

The highlight would be CLS/FLT. Was OGN before that and several relatively minor apps groups that I don't even remember the names of. I started reversing PC stuff around '96 or '97 with Phrozen Crew, heh.

[x000x]

Hello everybody,

my name is Peter and my alias is x000x since about 1995. At that time I developed more or less meaningless "tools" for AOL {America Online} in Delphi. (No, I'm not really proud of that ◔̯◔ )
That was my learning phase ... In 2000 I made my hobby to the profession, first in c under Linux, then long time in Delphi and since one year in C#.

I'm happy to be here

[Crudd[RET]]

Originally Posted by birt

... period back when SoftICE ruled the world ...

Man I miss those days... Nothing seems to have the raw power that SI use to have...

[birt]

Originally Posted by Crudd[RET]

Man I miss those days... Nothing seems to have the raw power that SI use to have...

Yeah, I completely agree, the only downside was having to take notes on actual paper. I remember having notebooks full of seemingly random addresses.

I figure it wouldn't be impossible to make a similar kernel-level debugger nowadays, but the effort would probably be disproportionately large when compared to the payout so nobody really wants to do it. I'm guessing Compuware discontinued SI because it wasn't particularly lucrative.

[dosprog]

Originally Posted by birt

I'm guessing Compuware discontinued SI because it wasn't particularly lucrative.

Also, the fact that people are aging and leaving the industry.
Young people are not capable.
imho.

.. and the fact that the OS has become much more complicated over the last twenty years ..

[chants]

The terminal forced people to have to learn before use. Now the touch screen and social media mania has seemed to create a generation whose focus is more convenient for political control than the area of computing. And as far as is told, businesses are feeling this already.