Guide To Kingdoms: By Pritchard

[Anonymous]

worth noting that if tha program wasn't compiled with "stabs" (or whateverits called) i.e. fbc.exe -g prog.bas or gcc prog.c -g, you won't actually see the source lines, you'll see asm.

[Torahteen]

That might work, but I can never install those. Why can't they just give you a pre-compiled version!?

[DrV]

If by "those" you mean gdb, there's a precompiled version included with FreeBASIC. If you mean Insight, I think there's a Dev-C++ package with a prebuilt binary. Failing that, it should be able to be built from source with a standard mingw installation.

[Pritchard]

^.^;; All your pwnz are belong to us. Dev-C++ ownz.

[Torahteen]

Hehe, I will need step by step instructions. I'm slow with these things.

[Pritchard]

Hehe, I will need step by step instructions. I'm slow with these things.

I write step by step guides to games, not compiling programs ^_~;;

[yetifoot]

@torahteen

heres a rough tutorial i wrote to using Insight (a GUI version of gdb), on the page you can also download a pre-compiled version.

http://www.streetcds.co.uk/insight.html

@pritchard

the &H400 offset was found using PE Explorer, its the offset to the actual code section. It's not always &H400, so its best to check it out.

[Pritchard]

@pritchard

the &H400 offset was found using PE Explorer, its the offset to the actual code section. It's not always &H400, so its best to check it out.

PE Explorer, got it.

I want to know how *They* know what the offset to the real code is though. If I could figure out how they determine it, maybe I can do it myself

[yetifoot]

I expect it's in the PE header at the start of the exe. If you were to look on a formats site like wotsit.org, they probably have the details.

[TheAdventMaster]

Oh! Well the PE header's simple. I had it somewhere. I was trying to use FB to write binary exe's and it worked I think