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corexor
Personal blog · corexor.wordpress.comprogrammingsystemssecurity
corexor is a personal blog at corexor.wordpress.com about programming, systems and security. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Sourcer and Windows Source – Disassembler (2015)”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts are about the Sourcer disassembler, used for patching old PC BIOSes, and Periscope manuals. Commenters point to them as reverse engineering references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ASM beyond Repair: blog about assembly related stuff
Most-linked posts?
- Sourcer and Windows Source – Disassembler (2015)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-01
What Hacker News says?
Sourcer is pretty amazing if you need to patch old BIOS, nothing can touch it in that niche https://corexor.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/sourcer-and-windows...
Comment linking /2015/12/09/sourcer-and-windows-source/
on “Decompiler Explorer”Submitted Sourcer and Windows Source – Disassembler (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPeriscope represent!!! https://corexor.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/periscope-manuals/
Comment linking /2016/03/01/periscope-manuals/
on “SoftICE”The Undocumented PC, A Programmer's Guide to I/O, CPUs, and Fixed Memory Areas by Frank van Gilluwe is great. Frank van Gilluwe is the author of Sourcer disassembler https://corexor.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/sourcer-and-windows...
Comment linking /2015/12/09/sourcer-and-windows-source/
on “An Inside Look at MS-DOS – The design decisions behind the popular OS (1983)”>Enriching the disassembly with known constants and labels is great speaking of PC BIOSes there is/was a great disassembler called Sourcer https://corexor.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/sourcer-and-windows... with its Bios Preprocessor producing very readable sources full of comments and enumerated hardware IO.
Comment linking /2015/12/09/sourcer-and-windows-source/
on “Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2”