Help With SoftIce

If I remember right, you are trying to follow +ORC's tutorial. Your problem is caused by the sice version - you need sice 2.6 or 2.8, those versions are for DOS. Those versions can be found on the net(try to look at Crackz's site), if you won't succeed, I can help you (I have them, along with some other tools).
Good luck,
least

Thanks least. I wondered if that might be the problem. I'm not used to running in DOS but maybe it would be a good lesson. Is there a good beginner tut to use the version of SI that I already have? I have seen so many tuts and they all seem to use a different version of SI. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,
d

I'm affraid that with your current version of Sice you won't succeed, because if I remember right, +ORC uses features (like memory snaps) that is only in Sice for DOS v2.6 (?); If you don't want to run in DOS, consider trying VMWARE, it is virtual machine, where you can install any OS. I have one with DOS and both old versions of SICE installed and it seems to be usable.
On the other hand, when talking about newer Sice versions (lets say from 3.2), the commands aren't changing very much so it isn't big issue when you have other version.
Regards,
least

Thanks least. I appreciate the input. I will have a look at VMWARE and see if this works for me. On the other hand I would like also to try running in DOS. Can you tell me the beginnings of what I must do to load the programs or point me to a tut on DOS and how to load and run programs?

Again many thanks,
d

Well,
in VMWARE you can run dos, it is just like other PC;
Concerning the dos, I can write you some basic commands, but tomorow I'll put here help for MSDOS.

DIR lists files and directories
CD changes directory
A: example of change of the current disk to A: (diskette)
COPY copies file
MD make directory
DEL deletes file
RD remove directory

When you need help on certain command just type it with " /?" it will print help.
These are the basic, but for more user friendly environment try to look for some volkov commander or old norton commander
Hope it helps,
least

Thanks least this helps quite a bit. How do I get to DOS from 98 or XP?. Do I use the command line or do I have to boot to dos. One more thing, after I'm in DOS how do I run a program. This probably seems pretty elementary but I never have had any real need to learn DOS until now. I also have found a few helpful sites: hxxp://www.uv.tietgen.dk/staff/mlha/index.htm. Lots of good programming info there. Once again thanks for your help, it is very much appreciated.

d

For the first steps the commandline is good enough. But if you plan using Sice for dos, it have to be booted to dos. In XP there is no way how to do this I think; in W98 you can press F8 at the very start - it will show you menu where you can chose to run dos. The other thing is that you can write yourself structured config - it will let you choose the whole configuration.

But I would really recomend you to use that VMWARE - (it must seem to you like advertisment because if something goes wrong, then almost no harm is done, since you can backup those VMs. You can learn on it safely how to use fdisk, format, and other commands that you wouldn't try on your machine. Here you can practice safely...

Concerning running the files, just type in the filename and and press enter; beside that there are three types of executables - EXE,COM and BAT - exe and com are normal executables, bat are batch files. One more notice, there exists environment variable called path, it contains paths that are searched for executables. To be more clear - when you try to run executable, the system first looks into current directory, and then searches the path.
And the last thing - (I hope I remember it right) if files with the same name but different extensions, then bat is executed as default; if there is just com and exe then com is run.
Hope it helps,
least