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What modern debuggers/tool can do what SoftICE did? How do you debug services and device drivers modern Windows?
Who else had a monochrome monitor to display Soft-ICE info while debugging video-intensive programs? Text at B000:0000 instead of B800:0000.
Oh man, SoftICE was the shit. It was a bit inconvenient to have to reboot with it enabled, but it allowed you to debug things no other debugger did. I was equally impressed with OllyDBG later on, it was more convenient (if less powerful but always seemed like amazing software for just one author.
OllyDbg is dead too though, I recommend to use x32dbg/x64dbg[1]. It's open source and actively developed by a team of maintenances. And it's extendable with plugins and scripting. [1] https://x64dbg.com/
I recall those lessons for script-kiddies “Crack [software name here] with SoftICE” in early 2000s.
Orc+, I still have a copy of those tutorials somewhere
Who else had a monochrome monitor to display Soft-ICE info while debugging video-intensive programs? Text at B000:0000 instead of B800:0000.
We also used the mono monitor when developing games in the 90s. We were able to display log messages and stats on a separate screen. It was a super useful trick.
Ancient? Ughh. I remember using SoftICE to cheat in games back in the 1990’s. Wonderful software, I wish I would’ve been knowledgeable to do something more useful than making myself invincible in Mortal Kombat or giving my characters super powers in UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka: X-Com outside North America). This was a great learning tool to understand how programs actually allocate and use memory. Long before I had taken…
SoftICE was awesome.
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I remember hanging out in #cracking4newbies on EFnet a lot. It was pretty toxic if you weren't part of the in-group, but I learnt a lot.
Ah efnet. That place was the wild west since they never adopted services. I remember channel takeovers and recoveries with extreme tactics like forcing netsplits with DOS attacks on the servers. Having to run an eggdrop bot to re-op people when they join a channel. Running your own bot to keep your nick from being stolen. Good times.