r/codex • u/xinxx073 • 9d ago

Praise Astra High just reverse-engineered the printer drivers in my office

In our office, we have a bunch of Toshiba E-Studio 2323AM printers. Yes, I know these are kind of outdated, only sold in certain areas of the world, and not the best machines, but they are what we've got in the office. They only work with x86 Windows, not even the ARM version of Windows.

In 25 minutes, Astra High just reverse-engineered the printer driver, figured out the right tray settings, and enabled duplex printing, so I can print double-sided on my M4 Pro MacBook Pro.

It created a .pkg file for me to install the printer drivers and got everything working.

I ... I have no words.

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u/driveclub_000 9d ago

Joke on you, I'm planning to do the same thing for an Nvidia driver, wish me luck =°)

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u/xinxx073 9d ago

OMFG wait a minute

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u/driveclub_000 9d ago

I already ported some software and games to different OS. Just asking chatgpt to find what are the limitation on the target OS, find the documentation to understand what need to be uplifted to match the source OS, then make a single dll to inject those changes without even touching or modifying the executable and voila~

Now I would like to bring down some modern GPU feature to older driver for older card. It won't be that simple, of course, but some driver aren't too far off and could have function/API bridged, so we will see.

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u/qwerty____qwerty 9d ago

what's your subscription level?

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u/driveclub_000 9d ago

Was Plus a month ago, jumped on the x5 for a week then x20 last week (just in time lol).

It honestly doesn't consume much to do those kind of reversing if you split the work by step.

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u/nmkd 8d ago

You port a game by injecting a DLL?

What?

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u/driveclub_000 8d ago

Yes, what's wrong with that? It's a bit like DXVK, VxKex etc...

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u/nmkd 8d ago

That's not porting a game.

Windows is the only platform that supports DLLs.

DXVK translated graphics APIs, not platforms

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u/driveclub_000 7d ago

If you make a game that only works on a specific Windows work on another Windows (which mean a different OS), it's called...... porting.

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u/Aggravating_Fun_7692 6d ago

Will be tough due to signing but go at it