From All Star Western #2, out today. From a classic Wonderbra advert that was purported to have caused traffic accidents near where it was positioned. What? They're exactly the same! In Swipe File we ...

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...

Get a hex editor that allows you to view a file in binary? That would be the most obvious solution. There are scores of freeware and shareware hex editors out there.

Linux systems support a number of file editors – like vi, vim, neovim, ne, GNU Emacs etc. But you can also install an editor that allows you to view the contents of and make changes to binary ...

I want to be able to view the records in a file created by a proprietary application for the Mac. Nothing even remotely nefarious; I'm just involved in a technical argument over the feasibility of an ...

This video shows the method of importing and programming a pre-built .HEX file using MPLAB® X IDE. Watch the step by step procedure of this tutorial thoroughly. For ...

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If you can’t stand the thought of using an application in your browser, you might as well jump ahead to the comments and start flaming. Still with us? Imagine this scenario. You are at the office, at ...

DO NOT INSERT DEVICE YET! To use this page you must first create a file suitable for burning into your chip. For most chips we will create a *.hex file from running an *.asm file through the XASM ...