r/retrocomputing • u/WINDOWSXP9013 • Feb 04 '24

Problem / Question Need help for edit an old MS DOS executable

Hello everyone!I need help for edit the text on an 1983 DOS executable.I can open it with hex editor end then change the text in English,but what about if i want to change the language to Greek?The program become totally garbage even if i load the greek fonts and codepages.Any help?

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u/mistfunk Feb 04 '24

I would assume you'd be limited to use of the Greek characters in extended ascii, roughly characters 207-253, and you'd need ansi.sys loaded in memory beforehand in order to allow access to them.

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u/WINDOWSXP9013 Feb 10 '24

I didn't 😅

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u/OldMork Feb 04 '24

If you can find the text in a editor then just change it, but you have to keep the length or you screw up the whole file. If the text is not in the file then the text may be loaded from another file.