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Neen10do · 2003-04-19T10:55:46

my hard drive crashed and i lost everything on it.... now a friend of mine has a copy of the game i was developing, with the pictures and the .exe file. it was compiled and created in microsoft visual c++ 6.0. is there a way i can "Decompile" the executable to get my code back? ---------------------- i code therefore i am. Aero DX - Coming to a bored Monitor near you!

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Started by Neen10do April 17, 2003 08:55 PM

19 comments, last by Neen10do 21 years ago

superpig

1,826

April 18, 2003 05:05 PM

quote:Original post by beaton_john
Here''s a project idea... write a 3d programming language - you drag & drop blocks of code (eg for loop, etc)....

Been watching Swordfish, beaton_john?

I know some people who lost their entire projects, but went back and recoded - as a result, the quality improved massively, because (a) they''d done it before, and (b) they had a better idea of the code as a whole (allowing them to plan better for future modules when developing).

Superpig
- saving pigs from untimely fates, and when he''s not doing that, runs The Binary Refinery.

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Basiror

241

April 18, 2003 05:07 PM

i have 10 years of experience on PCs and i only 1 hard drive crashed and was broken
the rest of the HDs just messed up the old FAT32 partitions

now i have converted everything to NTFS and all the problems are gone

http://www.8ung.at/basiror/theironcross.html

$fractionMan$

fractionMan

122

April 18, 2003 05:30 PM

Mine went once, but I managed to get it back, thus saving all my data. Took a lot of fiddling though.

Anonymous

April 18, 2003 05:42 PM

I once lost 3 drives during the same month! Didn''t lose too much data, though. Got rid of the motherboard shortly after that

)

alnite

3,454

April 18, 2003 05:47 PM

we had the same problems pal, we lost our project files...

that should teach us a lesson, always back up your project files...

Current project: 2D in Direct3D engine.
% completed: ~50%
Status: Active.

Caminman

187

April 18, 2003 06:15 PM

If your (new) harddrive fails, change the powersupply of the comp aswell, because this I believe is the most common reason why harddrives break down, a malfunctioning powersupply ruins them.

/Caminman

Snash

122

April 18, 2003 06:17 PM

Whats the best way to backup the project files?
Just copy the project folder ?

Anonymous

April 18, 2003 06:19 PM

The best way? Some sort of version control. SourceSafe, CVS, etc.

Anonymous

April 18, 2003 06:21 PM

if the exe is a debug build, it will contain all of your code.

superpig

1,826

April 18, 2003 07:48 PM

quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
if the exe is a debug build, it will contain all of your code.

Nope. It''ll contain many of the ''symbols'' - names of functions, etc - but no actual source code. Just enough info for something that *does* have the code to sync the two.

Superpig
- saving pigs from untimely fates, and when he''s not doing that, runs The Binary Refinery.

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