16 bit support

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16 bit support

Closed this issue 3 months ago · 5 comments

FYI there's already some support
https://github.com/BartmanAbyss/ghidra-amiga
https://github.com/czietz/ghidraScripts_for_Atari
https://github.com/gnulnulf/Ghidra-TMS9900

Answer 1 · 2024-08-30T10:07:57.000Z

Yep I think I've starred all of those.

I started work on an Amiga hunk loader and found out the first files I tried it on (from the oldest Fish Disk) broke every Hunk Parser on GitHub so I decided it must be hard to implement correctly.

I have stub loaders for Amiga and Atari binary executable formats that recognize them but don't load them yet.

I may have gotten further with the Sharp X68000 or Sinclair QL loaders. M68K is one of the CPUs I used to code in assembly back in the day.

Answer 2 · 2024-09-01T13:38:43.000Z

I'll stay tuned.

Answer 3 · 2024-09-02T05:12:49.000Z

I just pushed a working Sinclair QL loader and I pushed the working Atari ST loader a couple of days ago. The 68000-based Mac loader has been working for a long time. I'll do at least one of the Sharp X68000 executable formats next.

Are you using TI 99-4/A? What file formats are most popular?

Note that disk image formats are a lot harder and I'll be doing them as proper Ghidra FileSystems a bit later. So for now I'm working with native executable formats, machine state snapshot formats, cartridge formats, and the like that just represent a single program.

Answer 4 · 2024-09-02T17:35:35.000Z

There's no executable format, maybe https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/TIFILES_format.
BTW https://wiki.freepascal.org/Sinclair_QL#Setting_metadata_format.

Answer 5 · 2024-09-02T23:00:42.000Z

I also noticed that the TMS9900 CPU support doesn't work in current Ghidra. It hasn't been updated in two years. But I made a quick TIFILES recognizer, I hadn't found that format and it seems perfect.