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# PowerRomDasm
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An attempt to disassemble a Power Macintosh ROM using widely available disassemblers
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will likely lead to disappointing results. While some state-of-the-art disassemblers
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employ various heurictics for distinguishing embedded data from executable code,
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a lot of additional manual work still need to be done to produce a nice disassembly.
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Additionally, Power Macintosh ROMs contain code for several CPU architectures
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(68k, PowerPC, FCode) so a multi-architecture disassembler is required for telling
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all this stuff apart.
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The purpose of this repository is to provide a tool for producing a nice disassembly
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for the existing Power Macintosh ROM dumps annotated with various symbols like
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function names, entry points etc. The resulting text dump can be used for easier debugging
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of MacOS system software and emulator development.
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## Prerequisites
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The following components are required to run PowerRomDasm:
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- Python 3
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- Python bindings for [Capstone disassembler framework](https://www.capstone-engine.org)
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## Usage
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```
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python3 PowerRomDasm.py --rom_path=[path to a Power Macintosh ROM dump] --start=0 --end=0x300
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