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DOSBox is not a source port for old games

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First post, by twiz11

Posted on 2021-09-30, 01:15

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It will not change the underlying code to the already compiled games unless DOSBox has a way of reverse engineering said game or if it can extract the source code out of it.

Reply 1 of 2, by leileilol

Posted on 2021-09-30, 09:36

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no one said it was.

The DOSBox debugger however, was instrumental for certain reverse engineering projects that lead to some source ports.

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Reply 2 of 2, by twiz11

Posted on 2021-09-30, 18:25

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leileilol wrote on 2021-09-30, 09:36:

no one said it was.

The DOSBox debugger however, was instrumental for certain reverse engineering projects that lead to some source ports.

I didn't know the debugger could be used like that, I assume it was dealing with decompiled code

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