Recommended software and tools for TI "hacking"

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Recommended software and tools for TI 'hacking'

General

• dis68k - Modern fork of the public domain dis68k 68000 disassembler
• radare2 - Binary analysis and reverse-engineering toolkit
• Ghidra - NSA software reverse engineering platform
• r2ghidra - Ghidra decompiler plugin for radare2
• IDA - Interactive disassembler and binary code analysis tool
• G - Portable, general purpose, programmable text editor and calculator, with macro facility
• biew - TUI curses hex editor and binary viewer with disassembler inspired by hiew

Editors

• hyx - Fast curses hex editor with large-file support
• bvi-lf - The bvi curses hex editor enhanced with large-file support
• bviplus - Full-featured curses hex editor derived from bviplus
• bviplusplus - Another curses hex editor derived from bviplus

Calculators

• hp - Georgia Tech Software Tools Subsystem command-line RPN calculator

Viewers

• ansifilter - Filtering and conversion tool for ANSI terminal escape codes
• bat - Pager with syntax highlighting and git integration
• hexyl - Command-line hex viewer utility

Diff/Patch tools

• gbsed - Command-line binary stream editor, based on AT&T's bsed
• Xdelta3 - Command-line binary diff tool with delta compression using VCDIFF/RFC‑3284 streams
• delta - Syntax-highlighting pager and postprocessor for git, diff, and grep output
• Beyond Compare - Intelligent comparison tool
• ExamDiff Pro - Visual file and directory comparison tool

Filesystem tools

• s5fstool - TI System V filesystem access and extraction utility
• unixtool - TI/LMI System V filesystem access and extraction utility

Supporting packages

• IBM Semeru Runtime - IBM/Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM with OpenJDK class libraries
• fd - Find entries in a filesystem
• rg - Fast, recursive, line-oriented, and git-aware regex-based search tool
• tmux - Terminal multiplexer for UNIX-like systems
• C-Kermit - Portable communications program for file transfers, data conversion, and scripting
• μC֊Kermit - Minimalist Kermit implementation for embedded or resource constrained systems
• ECU - Research and engineering asynchronous serial and TELNET communications program
• ooRexx - Open source IBM Object REXX interpreter