Category : Utilities for DOS and Windows Machines
Archive   : VAMPIRE2.ZIP
Filename : VAMPIRE.C

 
Output of file : VAMPIRE.C contained in archive : VAMPIRE2.ZIP
#include

#define SEGMENT 0xf000

main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
static char Sccsid[] = "@(#)vampire.c 2.0 - Ryugen Fisher, 1987";
unsigned char file[16];

if(argc > 1)
{
printf(" vampire - sucks the BIOS rom contents out of the PC on which\n");
printf(" it is executed. The rom contents are placed into \n");
printf(" binary files named 'BIOS.ROM' and OTHER.ROM \n");
printf(" The contents of those files can then be HEX'd with \n");
printf(" ZAPLOAD by T. Jennings, HEX86 by Manx, or \n");
printf(" BIN2HEX by Robert Pasky \n");
printf(" version 2.0 by En-Crypts SoftSystems \n");
exit(0);
}
/*
** initialize
*/

printf("ROM contents are being copied to files BIOS8.ROM,\n");
printf("BIOS16.ROM, BIOS32.ROM, and OTHER.ROM\n");

/*
** extract bios rom contents starting at 'offset'
*/

strcpy(file,"BIOS8.ROM");
rom2file(file,0x2000,0xe000); /* where IBM-PC BIOS resides */

strcpy(file,"BIOS16.ROM");
rom2file(file,0x4000,0xe000); /* where IBM-PC BIOS resides */

strcpy(file,"BIOS32.ROM");
rom2file(file,0x8000,0xe000); /* where IBM-PC BIOS resides */

strcpy(file,"BIOS64.ROM");
rom2file(file,0x10000,0xe000); /* where IBM-PC BIOS resides */

strcpy(file,"OTHER.ROM");
rom2file(file,0x8000,0x6000); /* where basic is (if present) */
}

/*
** create a file containing the contents of the specified memory
*/
rom2file(fname,siz,off)
unsigned char *fname;
unsigned int off,siz;
{
register unsigned int size, offset;
FILE *ofd;

if((ofd = fopen(fname,"w")) == NULL)
{
printf("cannot create output file %s\n,fname");
exit(0);
}

size = siz;
offset = off;

printf("FILE <%s> contains %u bytes from %04x:%04x to %04x:%04x\n",
fname,size,SEGMENT,offset,SEGMENT,offset+(size-1));
for(;size;size--)
{
putc(peekbyte(offset++,SEGMENT),ofd);
}
fclose(ofd);
}


  3 Responses to “Category : Utilities for DOS and Windows Machines
Archive   : VAMPIRE2.ZIP
Filename : VAMPIRE.C
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  1. Daniel says:
    January 27, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. Joshie says:
    March 18, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. DiskingRound says:
    January 14, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/