19 Apr
2018
19 Apr
'18
12:19 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Some of the future reverse engineering projects I have
on my to-do list
involve the CDP1802 processor, which IDA presently doesn't support. When I
get to them I'll have to decide whether to use dismantler vs. learning how
to add CDP1802 support to IDA. I'm leaning towards the latter, because IDA
is so much fancier than dismantler is.
I'd vote for adding it to dismantler.
I had an IDA Pro license at one point, but I seem to have misplaced it, and
it is too old to get me any discount on a new release. I imagine that IDA
has probably improved a lot since back then, but at the time it had a
pretty awful user interface.
If I had an actual business need to reverse-engineer something using a
processor that IDA supported, I'd certainly buy a new IDA license, but I
wouldn't personally invest any time in building add-ons for expensive
commercial software, when there are open source alternatives that may not
be as good, but are generally good enough.
For the 1802, I've used a really crude disassembler written in C. The 1802
instruction set isn't very complicated, so a disassembler for it isn't
either. It's been so many years since I actually disassembled 1802 code
that I'm not sure I still have the disassembler around.