Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by fm77 85 days ago
Thank you very much for that super analysis done with the help of AI - I really enjoyed reading that. May I ask are you paying for that service? And if so, how much?

Anyhow, I downloaded your ZIP file and looked into the disassembly. It seems that the disassembler simply disassembled byte by byte not taking into account that TURBO.COM is both, code and data. Since the x86 instruction set is very tense, pretty much every byte sequence turns into legal instructions. Even the ASCII strings were disassembled. Look at address hex4864 in the file for example - it should be the string "Write block to file" but got disassembled. I wonder how AI managed that obscure file.

1 comments

I ran the analysis using regular Claude. I'm paying $200/month by the $20/month subscription should work fine too, and it might even work with the free plan.