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TempleOS Reverse Engineering


Firmware and Hacking TempleOS (https://www.templeos.org/) is an operating system written by Terry A Davis. Terry suffered from a severe mental illness that eventually claimed him, but he also produced this very interesting piece of software without the source code.

Terry suffered from a severe mental illness that eventually claimed him, but he also produced this very interesting piece of software without the source code. TempleOS is part of the public domain, and I wanted to take a look at it to come to an understanding of how it works to honor Terry’s struggle. Additionally, there are no ASCII or UNICODE strings in 0000Boot/0000Kernel.BIN.C, making the reverse engineering process pretty tedious.

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