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☠️🚴☠️🚶💥🚚 ISIS terrorist in truck rammed people walking & bicycling in Lower Manhattan. Injured 12 & killed 8. 😈💥🔫👮 Ryan Nash of NYPD shot bad guy. 😈🔒👮 Terrorist in custody. ✈ Came from #Uzbekistan on a green card! 🏥🚑👮🙉👂 Officer Nash in hospital for ringing in ears. 🔇💥🔫✔ Unfair tax on suppressors! PIX11News/status/925444943912620032 pic.twitter.com/F0TexToiXd pic.twitter.com/nWhrxlqKFY #ManhattanAttack ?? #NYCStrong

Recently I've been reading up on PE files as I was curious about some things, for instance how demo scene prods can be 4KB when "hello world" programs are larger than that coming out of any compiler. I found that GoLink can link something with a 512-byte header, minimum 512-byte code section, and then another minimum 512-byte section for jump tables and imports if there are any imports (of course normally there are some). (There's also a tool called Crinkler, but I haven't looked into it yet.)

I happened across a number of references to Win32s, but not a lot of detail on it. It seems that MS axed it pretty quick when Win95 came along, and the only tools that targetted it were some ancient versions of Visual C. It was explained that Win32s required a PE file to have a relocation table to be able to even load it. Then I found out that GoLink will generate a reloc table if you specify a base address on the command line (even if it's the same address as the default 0x400000). For the sake of nostalgia I had to try making something that would run in Win3.1, which I had never bothered with before.

First I would have to install Win3.1 and Win32s on something. I was going to use the HP Vectra 486, but when I went to power it on I remembered I had borrowed the super long power cord that reaches the outlet on the other side of the room for something else. So instead I whipped out my Gateway Solo 2200. Booted Win98, got the Win3.1 installation files, and installed (only 7MB of stuff, doesn't take very long). It turns out the Win3.1 won't boot on top of Win98 DOS. So I dug up a copy of DOS 6.0, renamed its MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS to MSDOS.DOS and IO.DOS, and enabled the option in Win98's MSDOS.SYS to display "previous version of MS-DOS" on the startup menu. Then I could start Win3.1, and run the Win32s installer.

After that I could run a test program which was supposed to display a bitmap. It opened a window (oooh), and then disappeared (hmmm). I tried displaying text only. That seemed to work. I tried displaying a bitmap by calling setpixel a zillion times, and slowly made a black rectangle before the window disappeared. GoLink doesn't run under Win3.1 so every time I wanted to test something I had to copy it from another computer over RS232. As it happens, the Gateway's battery started getting low, as the magic smoke had come out of the old Radio Shack AC adaptor brick which had been powering it. So I ended my experiment there.

Later I was looking at some example win32 programs and noticed that their window procedure would take all the parameters from the stack and push them on the stack again to CALL DefWindowProc, and would return immediately afterward. They're the same parameters in the same order. Why not JMP to DefWindowProc? I disassembled some other random programs to see if they did the same thing, not all of them did. VLC had this interesting bit of opcode salad:

MOV EBP,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+48H]
MOV EDX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+3CH]
MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+40H]
MOV DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+60H],EBP
MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+44H]
MOV EBX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+4CH]
MOV DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+6CH],EDX
MOV ESI,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+50H]
MOV EDI,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+54H]
MOV DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+68H],ECX
MOV EBP,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+58H]
MOV DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+64H],EAX
ADD ESP, 5CH
JMP 62F01490

I like how the compiler staggered their stores and register usage to avoid pipeline stalls, heehee.

Very honored to have Governor @ricardorossello of #PuertoRico 🇵🇷 with us at the @WhiteHouse! We had a great time with him! He's a tremendous guy, very smart & very funny (as smart as the President of the Virgin Islands, who I met)! Unlike the disgraceful .@CarmenYulinCruz. I asked him, "do your folks have power yet, are they getting power?" He says "not politically." 😂

#PuertoRico is doing AMAZINGLY, we're doing a terrific job there. Like you've never seen in your life. In spite of massive, massive debt. We want to make sure that we put in debt and that is absolutely protected. Certainly any money that’s put in by people whether it’s public or private, they’re going to want to come in first position and that’s very important, and I think the governor understands that. I give ourselves a 10. We have provided so much, so fast. It was probably the most difficult when you talk about relief, when you talk about search, when you talk about all the different levels. Even when you talk about lives saved. If you look at the number, I mean this was, I think, it was worse than Katrina. It was in many ways worse than anything people have ever seen. It went right through the middle of the island, right through the middle of Puerto Rico. We were actually there before the storm hit. We did a great job. A perfect, perfect job. TEN OUT OF TEN! It’s very difficult for a disaster relief to be a 10. Ours is a 10, a really great job. The best. As brilliant as when I nominated Neil Gorsuch, of the Supreme Court, to the Supreme Court! #PRStrong pic.twitter.com/Op2xDZxvNc

Internet patriots! Are you as tired as I am of the very shameful display of disloyalty that the NFL has become? This has nothing to do with race or anything else. The issue of NFL kneeling has nothing to do with race. It has to do with respect for our country, our anthem, and our flag. Major League Baseball has a better moral character, a deeper concern for mankind, and a spirit of charity. It's alternative sports, without all the Black Identity Extremists, the BIE. And for the first time ever, the World Series is coming to the Internet, on YouTube TV. Tune in to Fox or YouTube TV on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 8:09 p.m. Eastern for game 1, the Houston Astros going up against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers used to play in my home town, in New York City. I was the best baseball player in New York when I was young. Said to be the best baseball player in the state of New York. Ask coach Ted Dobias. He said I'm the best he ever coached. I always knew I was good. I was always good at it. I was always the best athlete. Always the best player. Not only baseball, but every other sport too. Everybody wanted me to be a baseball player. But I also knew that it was very limited, because in those days you couldn't even make a lot of money playing baseball. But I was good at other things too. I was good at wrestling. I was really good at football. I was always good at sports. I was always the best at sports. So I know what I'm talking about when I tell you, it's going to be great. Tune in to the World Series. And tune out the NFL. Switch to baseball, and our country will win. We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go "Please, please, we can’t win any more." You’ve heard this one. You’ll say "Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win any more. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else." And I’m going to say "I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning." Let's Make America Great Again! 🇺🇸

The failing @NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem. Total disrespect for our great country! If you stand for our Flag, Anthem and Country, sign my petition. www.gop.com/stand-for-anthem-petition 🇺🇸

It's October 19. Big and historic day -- and big week -- ahead for our stock markets! Stocks going 📈up tremendously! A bull market the likes of which this world has never seen. Blowing through many, many milestones. Great, great things happening on #WallStreet. Get ready for the Dow to go to 24,000 and more!💸 #Dow24K#MAGA pic.twitter.com/GQ5f2eVvEI 🇺🇸

There's a big rally coming up for white folks and select supporters & allies. It's TODAY, Thursday the 19th at the Phillips Center for Performing Arts, on the University of Florida campus. 3201 Hull Road in Gainesville. @RichardBSpencer, President of the National Policy Institute, CEO of Washington Summit Publishers and founder of Alternative Right, will be speaking. http://www.alligator.org/news/article_e86f4a88-b2b6-11e7-8c07-3fce95cf484b.html

@ThatEliMosley, Leader of Identity Evropa and Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff and The Daily Shoah will also be speaking.

You'll need a ticket to get in. Unfortunately there are plans by "anti-fascists/anti-racists/liberals/social democrats" to sabotage. A lot of liberal bars said they would trade free beer for tickets, and give those tickets to very bad and disruptive people. So the tickets will be given out outside the Phillips Center, around 1:00-1:30 on the day of the event. The National Policy Institute wants this to be a safe space for white people. Meaning it's going to be selective so the tickets only go to white and white-supportive people. @CameronVPadgett (a young man who is a student) explains it in a video. pic.twitter.com/PNCSDRl5eo

Governor Rick Scott made a very smart move. He declared a state of emergency. Trust me, it isn't an emergency. It's so rules & regulations won't apply, so we can have law & order. Like Cameron says, it's "just a formality." So law enforcement can stop any sabotage.

"The emergency declaration — requested by Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell — allows state agencies to suspend rules and regulations, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Scott also activated gubernatorial authority to spend surplus money when he deems it necessary." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/16/state-emergency-declared-in-florida-county-ahead-richard-spencer-speech.html

"Okay so basically: this means the cops are going to be allowed to do whatever they want." https://dailystormer.ai/wat-florida-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-five-days-ahead-of-richard-spencer-event/

Some shit you just can't make up. I'd say more but I'm too busy laughing.

Big, big win against ISIS today! My guys conquered Raqqa, the capital of ISIS. And killed the White Widow, a MAJOR British terrorist who was on my kill list. Killed Sally Jones, I call her the White Widow. "Zapped" her while she was fleeing from Raqqa. A huge, huge victory. Which you can read about from Fox News. But the Dem #MSM doesn't want you to hear about it. Fiction writers at @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @ABC and @CNN won't tell you. And Dems running Internet sites don't want you to know.

Get your tickets for #Gainesville! #MAGA