LisaList2

General Category => LisaList2 => Lisa Project Ideas => Topic started by: Eschaton on February 21, 2026, 06:00:30 PM

Title: A couple of tools, lisafs and lisaobj
Post by: Eschaton on February 21, 2026, 06:00:30 PM
A little while ago I published a tool I wrote for listing and extracting files from Lisa filesystems on DiskCopy 4.2 disk images, lisafs: https://github.com/eschaton/lisafs

And just now, I published a tool for dumping the contents of Lisa object files, which can hopefully grow into a more comprehensive RE tool, lisaobj: https://github.com/eschaton/lisaobj

Both are ANSI C99, both are under the MIT license, and (since we need to specify nowadays) I didn't use an LLM in the process of creating either, just the documentation on Bitsavers and the Lisa OS source code.
Title: Re: A couple of tools, lisafs and lisaobj
Post by: AlexTheCat123 on February 21, 2026, 07:48:07 PM
Ah, so this is why you wanted to figure out the packing algorithm!

Nice work; I bet this will prove to be a really useful tool!
Title: Re: A couple of tools, lisafs and lisaobj
Post by: Eschaton on February 21, 2026, 08:15:17 PM
Thanks! I'm hoping that this will help us towards, say, disassembling things like the Workshop shell so they can be hacked on to fix bugs, add features, etc.