[sedatk]

Wow, the author's gone above and beyond. Pages and pages of useful information, and this statement is just in the middle of a sentence:

"turn this into a phony ELF binary"

That would alone take me days to tackle (convert a PowerPC PE into a PowerPC ELF). He mentions it like it's similar to copying a line on a text editor.

Totally amazed at the level of detail and amount of work went into this article. Thanks!

[classichasclass]

(author) Thank you! But this was actually not very difficult. The PE format is well-documented, so I just extracted the code segment addresses, then generated an ELF by emitting code like this with a hacky Perl script:

  .globl main
  main:
     trap
     .byte 0xfc
     .byte 0xff
     ...

etc. Assemble, run that in gdb, it traps immediately, and just disassemble from PC.

[qingcharles]

The entire article was like 100X what anyone deserves. It was an awesome amount of detail. I absolutely love when random lost pieces of hardware/software history end up right where they belong with exactly the right person to know what to do with them.