X-HEAD version 1.1

INTRODUCTION

This tool prints headers of an Atari executable file. It shows, into which memory areas the file loads, and what are init and run addresses.

Important note: X-HEAD is an extremely simple tool. Jindrich Kubec wrote a tool with similar purpose, but much more features (disassembly in different formats, including X-Assembler), called ChkExe. You can find it on http://jindroush.atari.org.

CHANGES

Version 1.1

.OBX is default extension of Atari executable

Version 1.0

first release

USAGE

Simply run X-HEAD with executable filename. No options are supported.

X-HEAD will read the file and display its headers in following format:

 bbbb-eeee xxxx

where bbbb is the begin, eeee - the end of the block, and xxxx is the execution (init or run) address.

The summary includes:
xxxx bytes - length of file, including headers
xxxx blocks - number of headers
xxxx inits - number of init blocks (02e2-02e3)
xxxx modules - number of FFFF headers (one at the beginning is required)

All displayed numbers are hexadecimal, of course.

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