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  1.  
  2.    IDA  stands  for  Interactive   DisAssembler.   Unlike   many   other
  3. disassemblers, IDA works together with you, allowing you to  modify  the
  4. disassembled text 'on the fly'. It  supports  many  processors,  various
  5. input file formats, can produce various output files e t.c.  IDA  has  a
  6. built-in C-like language and sports TVision user interface. This version
  7. of IDA works ONLY on 386 or higher!!!
  8.  
  9.   IDA works under MS DOS, under DOS extender and under OS/2.
  10.  
  11. Below is a small description of the features:
  12. ---------------------------------------------
  13.  
  14. Supported processors:           Intel 8080, 8085, Z80, HD 64180
  15.                                 Intel 8086/87
  16.                                 Intel 80286/287 real & protected
  17.                                 Intel 80386/387 real & protected
  18.                                 Intel 80486/487 real & protected
  19.                                 Intel Pentium   real & protected
  20.                                 Intel 860 XR, 860 XP (alpha!)
  21.                 Inter 8051 series (not in the shareware version)
  22.                 Motorola 6502 (not in the shareware version)
  23.  
  24. Input file types:               MS DOS EXE
  25.                                 MS DOS COM
  26.                                 MS DOS Driver
  27.                                 New Executable Format       (NE)
  28.                                 Linear Executable Format   (LX)
  29.                                 Linear Executable Format   (LE)
  30.                 Portable Executable Format (PE)
  31.                 COFF format (not finished, no relocations)
  32.                                 Intel Hex Object Format
  33.                                 MOS Technologies Hex Object Format
  34.                 Borland C overlayed files
  35.                 Novell Netware Module      (NLM)
  36.                                 Binary
  37.  
  38. Output file types:              EXE plain (patched input file)
  39.                                 COM (patched input file)
  40.                                 BIN (patched input file)
  41.                                 ASM (output source code)
  42.                                 MAP (output MAP file for debugging)
  43.                                 IDC (IDC program to recreate IDA database)
  44.  
  45. Input file patching:            YES
  46. Command language:               built-in C-like language
  47. MultiTasking:                   Background analysis
  48. Multisession:                   YES
  49. AutoComment:                    BIOS & DOS interrupts
  50.                                 (comments for all commands are available)
  51. Menu driven mode:               YES
  52. MultiWindow:                    YES
  53. Keyboard redefenition:          YES
  54. Built-in calculator:            YES
  55.  
  56. Limitations:
  57. ------------
  58.  
  59. Size of input file:             UNLIMITED
  60. Number of segments:             UNLIMITED
  61.                                  There is a limit on the number of
  62.                                  contigious memory chunks.
  63.                                  It is about 170.
  64. Address space available
  65. for disassembling:              32-bit, up to 0xFF000000
  66. Number of cross-references:     UNLIMITED
  67. Max length of one comment:      255 chars (but 1 instruction can have
  68.                                 many comment lines)
  69. Number of lines per
  70.         instruction/data        100
  71.  
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  73.  
  74.    Please read 'license.txt' - SHAREWARE VERSION LICENSE AGREEMENT.
  75.