Re: [ros-dev] FreeWin95

[Alex Ionescu]

Emanuele Aliberti wrote:

>   Alex Ionescu wrote:
>
> > >   I
> > > actually didn't understand if Russinovich was paid by MS to show 
> > >  that,  
> >
> >
> >  I feel a bit insulted. What does Russniovich have to do with 
> >  anything? The screenshots above show a program which I alone have 
> >  worked on, and that no other "NT hacker" has attempted in doing before. 
>
>  Sorry, I took it for what Russinovich showed in his blog (killing the 
>  SM and LSA):
>
>  Sunday, July 24, 2005
>  Running Windows with No Services
>
>  http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/ 
Ah... nice blog article. Too bad he stole it from a post I made on the 
private Microsoft newsgroups about 2 years earlier (Yes,this is an 
assumption, but I had posted the exact same screenshot and explenation a 
full two years earlier on a newgroup I know he has access to!).

>  
>  Actually, P. Dabak published the code of a native application that did 
>  keyboard I/O
>
>  Prasad Dabak   28 Feb 2000 10:00
>
>  Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode
>  From: Prasad Dabak <prasadNOprS...(a)cybermedia.co.in.invalid>
>  Date: 2000/02/28
>  Subject: Re: Keyboard input in Windows NT native application 
The code doesn't work on Win 2003 anymore, although it was a good read. 
The hard part is scancode->character conversion, as well as proper 
display output, including "backspace" (which requires buffering the 
line-data and using some simple algos to emulate backspace.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu