Re: A89: Overwriting ROM (was Re: Linux Port)
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Re: A89: Overwriting ROM (was Re: Linux Port)
yeye.. all the info you really need is at http://alh.dhs.org/ti89/ if you dont
understand it, you should probably not try it. I have said this before..
//Olle - the guy noone listens to.
S43R80@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 99-07-18 21:51:56 EDT, you write:
>
> > The secret of overwriting portions of the ROM will probably never be shared
> > by those of us who know it - it's too powerful. Wormhole (one of the
> French
> > guys) actually DID write a successful virus, and tested it himself - he
> > couldn't FLASH over his calc. And his antivirus didn't work, so he
> actually
> > had to go into his ROM hex editor (I want one of those =) and fix it. . .
> > then again, I'm sure that he could have just screwed it up worse and sent
> in
> > to TI to fix it =)
>
> without sharing the secret...how the hell were they able to find this bug
> anyway? also how many people no specifically how to utilize it???...do you
> just randomly right to different addresses (definately not)...but how was it
> found?...perhaps it will be shared once the bug/whatever_it_is in a latter
> version of the rom...although i really wouldn't have much use for it...
>
> -Steven
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