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Luca91 · 12 September 2023, 20:38

Hi all, I'm Luca from Italy.

When I was in primary school I got an A500 from my uncle, with a box full of floppies (Another World and Toki were among them!). I had also an Atari monitor.

Nowadays I code for work, but in my free time I love to reverse engineer and document old DRMs, viruses and packers (you will find some technical papers on my website).

After all these years I'd like to start reverse engineering the protection of some of these Amiga games and document them. After all, my interested in RE started in that period, watching those nice cracktros for literaly hours.

I know nothing about Motorola asm, so it will be a fun adventure!

I plan to use these tools:
- AR3 or Hrtmon: as disassembler/debugger
- Deksid: as hex editor
- XCopy: to get information about the protection
- IPF of game floppy & empty ADF virtual file
- UAE as emu
- Various packers/crunchers on game-by-game basis
am I missing something?

EDIT: oh forgot to say that I'm interested in reverse engineering bootblock viruses too! If you have a bootblock virus, feel free to send me te ADF or just the bootblock dump!

12 September 2023, 20:38	#1
Luca91 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2023 Location: Italy Posts: 4	Hello from a reverse engineering addicted! (Italy) Hi all, I'm Luca from Italy. When I was in primary school I got an A500 from my uncle, with a box full of floppies (Another World and Toki were among them!). I had also an Atari monitor. Nowadays I code for work, but in my free time I love to reverse engineer and document old DRMs, viruses and packers (you will find some technical papers on my website). After all these years I'd like to start reverse engineering the protection of some of these Amiga games and document them. After all, my interested in RE started in that period, watching those nice cracktros for literaly hours. I know nothing about Motorola asm, so it will be a fun adventure! I plan to use these tools: - AR3 or Hrtmon: as disassembler/debugger - Deksid: as hex editor - XCopy: to get information about the protection - IPF of game floppy & empty ADF virtual file - UAE as emu - Various packers/crunchers on game-by-game basis am I missing something? EDIT: oh forgot to say that I'm interested in reverse engineering bootblock viruses too! If you have a bootblock virus, feel free to send me te ADF or just the bootblock dump!