18 Apr
2018
18 Apr
'18
7:17 p.m.
On Apr 18, 2018, at 2:50 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via
cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Since it has not been mentioned yet: NF6X's dismantler supports the
8085 (and a couple of other CPUs): https://github.com/NF6X/dismantler
It is written in Python, so it should run on any platform where Python
is available. From the description "semiautomatic code recognition"
and "allows binary files to be disassembled from the command line".
My main motivation for writing dismantler was that I was intrigued by recursive-descent
disassemblers such as IDA (which I had seen in use in videos, blog posts and
presentations), but didn't want to pay for IDA at the time. I've recently
purchased IDA Starter, so I may not use my own disassembler any more for future reverse
engineering projects. Dismantler is a pale shadow of IDA, but it's still a big
improvement over the simple disassemblers I've used in previous reverse engineering
projects.
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.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/