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Create my own ROM

ChristianVirtual

ChristianVirtual

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May 10, 2010
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rabidz7 said:
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If I am correct, which I am not sure i am, my decompiler has done it's deeds well.
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That's a beautiful hexdump of ... something. But a decompiler (or deassembler) would you give something more readable.
The dump you showed could be even just content of the video memory.

By the way: depend on where you live decompiling might be illegal; just something to check on aswell.
 
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old-wiz

macrumors G3
Mar 26, 2008
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The image is a hexdump as others mention. Not much you can do with that, even with a decompiler or disassembler. I remember messing around with them long ago and the tools would try to turn data into code, which resulted in some really weird and useless code. We still needed to find the source code before we could do anything useful.
 
rabidz7

rabidz7

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Original poster
Jun 24, 2012
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old-wiz said:
The image is a hexdump as others mention. Not much you can do with that, even with a decompiler or disassembler. I remember messing around with them long ago and the tools would try to turn data into code, which resulted in some really weird and useless code. We still needed to find the source code before we could do anything useful.
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So, If I give you the code for a 7970, and pay cash you could build an open firmware ROM.
 
ybz90

ybz90

macrumors 6502a
Jul 10, 2009
609
2
rabidz7 said:
So, If I give you the code for a 7970, and pay cash you could build an open firmware ROM.
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One, no. It'd still be very difficult to do and likely to be impossible for all intents and purposes. Two, no, because you don't have the code.
 
rjcalifornia

rjcalifornia

macrumors 6502a
Oct 4, 2012
668
7
El Salvador
rabidz7 said:
So, If I give you the code for a 7970, and pay cash you could build an open firmware ROM.
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Are you serious? Please tell me you are joking. Weren't you the one who was all like "I can do it, I can decompile it" and now you want to pay someone to do something that's very impossible?

Please, please, someone close this senseless thread. We had more than enough.

:rolleyes:
 
Goftrey

Goftrey

macrumors 68000
May 20, 2011
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rabidz7 said:
So, If I give you the code for a 7970, and pay cash you could build an open firmware ROM.
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steve-ballmer-facepalm.jpg
 
ybz90

ybz90

macrumors 6502a
Jul 10, 2009
609
2
rabidz7 said:
So, If I give you the code for a 7970, and pay cash you could build an open firmware ROM.
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Also, for the record, you couldn't afford to pay me to write you a ROM. In the professional/academic world, programmers can easily make 100-200/hr. Or alternately, we might be paid by lines, but well outside the range of the allowance your parents give you.
 
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