DOS ain't dead

HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 (DOSX)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 09.08.2007, 01:49

> > Okay, first of all, HT 2.0.8 is precompiled as a Win32 binary
> only
> > (and src, too), but I was unable to compile via DJGPP (maybe b/c no
> flex
>
> DJGPP port is broken. That's why I called this thread "HX vs HT
> Editor".

The DOS port has been officially abandoned since 0.7.5. (However, I've been told it doesn't need flex or bison, but I still haven't tried compiling again yet. Supposedly, the author just opened RHIDE, added all files, and then compiled.)

Actually, I couldn't get it to compile in Damn Small Linux (0.33) either (GCC/G++ 3.2.3), so I dunno really. It mostly compiled but bombed out on that blasted "analyser".

EDIT: The author uses Cygwin to compile.

> > or bison installed?? I dunno). Anyways, it needed MSVCRT.DLL, so I
> didn't
> > really have that on my old cpu (only old old MSVCRT20.DLL from Win95,
> heh,
> > didn't work even when renamed, oh well).
>
> Copying MSVCRT.DLL should be easy.

I did that today (WinXP P4 cpu), copied MSVCRT.DLL (343k) and put \BIN\*.* from HXRT.ZIP and HXGUI.ZIP (just in case), then tried running HT 2.0.8 from within DOSBox 0.71. It kinda sorta loaded up okay (except weird extended ASCII chars), but always bugged out "wrong magic/format" when opening anything. And it did crash a few times (e.g. "exception C0000005", IIRC). And it didn't work in Wine 0.9.22 (Damn Small Linux 0.33) either.

> > What does this program do exactly besides fancy .EXE multi-header view,
> > hex editing, disassembling, etc.? ("analyze" ... show potential
> regs??).
> > It doesn't do (much else) that BIEW doesn't, does it?
>
> That's right.

BIEW is better for normal use. I still don't understand the huge advantage / usefulness of the "analyser".

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Complete thread:

• HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 23.07.2007, 09:56 (DOSX)
  • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Rugxulo, 25.07.2007, 00:57
    • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 25.07.2007, 12:51
      • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Japheth, 26.07.2007, 14:14
        • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 26.07.2007, 14:58
          • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Japheth, 26.07.2007, 15:11
            • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 26.07.2007, 15:19
            • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 27.07.2007, 10:09
              • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 27.07.2007, 11:43
                • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Japheth, 27.07.2007, 12:15
      • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Rugxulo, 03.08.2007, 05:16
        • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Rugxulo, 05.08.2007, 05:27
          • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 05.08.2007, 21:13
            • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Rugxulo, 09.08.2007, 01:49
              • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 09.08.2007, 10:26
              • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 09.08.2007, 10:32
  • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - rr, 17.08.2007, 13:26
    • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Japheth, 17.08.2007, 19:58
      • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Rugxulo, 18.08.2007, 05:53
        • HX 2.12 vs HT Editor 2.0.8 - Japheth, 18.08.2007, 16:34