Date: 10/10/2005
| Back in the day, like I think 1994 I wrote an application in DOS that could extract a bitmap image out of a binary file of an unknown format. It did this by displaying an interactive view of the file on the screen, and you could change the parameters of the image, like width and bit depth in real time. This let you "explore" the binary data in visual form, which often lead to seeing patterns in the data, and those patterns were sometimes bitmaps (or pixmaps/DIBs etc), stored in the file.
Well I needed this sort of functionality the other day so rewrote it for windows. Thus the windows version of BitHack was born. If you want to play with it I suggest practising on a .bmp file. It's an easy way to get some data to play with.
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