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hackyhacky • yesterday at 9:31 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

The domain name reminds me of the venerable DOS "debug.com" command, which managed to combine an interactive and scriptable debugger, assembler, and disassembler into a program weighing a few kilobytes. I spent many long hours in my youth using it to reverse engineering copy protection on games. I really wish we had a similar tool for the modern era.

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WarOnPrivacy • yesterday at 10:57 PM

    The DEBUG utility was originally named DEBUG.COM in early versions
    of MS-DOS, but it was renamed to DEBUG.EXE starting with MS-DOS 3.2
Shoutout to the 12 of us who remember debug> g=c800:5
trollbridge • today at 12:37 AM

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of this.

And yes, some of us are either old enough that we remember DEBUG.COM, or we got started way too young.

mthoms • today at 12:10 AM

Oh wow. I remember doing this as well... with little to no success.

The debug.com binary only showed one measly ASM instruction at a time as I recall. Shudder.

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modeless • yesterday at 10:14 PM

WinDbg?

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