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neuviemeporte’s journal
Personal blog · neuviemeporte.github.ioprogrammingsystemsgames
neuviemeporte’s journal is a personal blog at neuviemeporte.github.io about programming, systems and games. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its multi-part series on reverse engineering and reconstructing the DOS game F-15 Strike Eagle II, covering its origins, Ghidra work, DOS memory models and compiler matching.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Misadventures in 16bit reverse engineering, programming WTFs and general rants about the IT industry.
Most-linked posts?
- /category/f15-se23 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-02
- DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-13
- Ghidra to the Rescue2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-13
What Hacker News says?
Normally we'd suggest picking the most interesting article from the list, but given that there's a clear sequence here, I think this submission is ok. For people who want to start at the beginning: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2022/06/05/origins.h... The most recent article in the sequence is interesting own its own: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2024/05/05/ghidra.ht... .
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on “DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories”Submitted DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories as a story · 230 points
HN discussionSee: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2023/07/12/overlays.... From this series: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/f15-se2.html Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347662
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on “Revisiting the DOS Memory Models”Submitted DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTutorials are hard, but there are some great writeups like this which discuss some of the specific problems and trial/error involved https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/f15-se2 In this case one hard part was trying to get code to compile to identical byte for byte output. Which meant working out which compiler options were used, and which specific compiler too. That gives you a hint of what kinda things are inv…
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on “Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering”Submitted The first reconstructed F-15 Strike Eagle II executable is playable as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's another series of articles on reverse-engineering a DOS game, using the original toolchain as part of the process of decompiling it: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/f15-se2
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on “Reverse Engineering DOS Software as If It Were 1990”Submitted Ghidra to the Rescue as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI assume the stories mentioned in the title are here: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/f15-se2
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on “DOS game "F15 SE II" reversing: more stories and now on GitHub”Submitted Trying to think like a compiler, Part 3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Sausage Is Made as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The compiler has dirty tricks as a story · 1 points
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