Get a hex editor that allows you to view a file in binary? That would be the most obvious solution. There are scores of freeware and shareware hex editors out there.

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...

If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard to do. About the worst thing you might have to deal with is attempts to fake line endings across ...

Linux systems support a number of file editors – like vi, vim, neovim, ne, GNU Emacs etc. But you can also install an editor that allows you to view the contents of and make changes to binary ...

DO NOT INSERT DEVICE YET! To use this page you must first create a file suitable for burning into your chip. For most chips we will create a *.hex file from running an *.asm file through the XASM ...