Beye
 BEYE screenshot | |
| Original author(s) | Nickols Kurshev, Andrew Golovnia |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1994 |
| Stable release | 6.1.0
/ 12 December 2009 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Utility |
| License | 2013: GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only[1] 2000: GPL-2.0-only 1994: Proprietary |
| Website | beye |
BEYE (short for Binary EYE, also known as BIEW or Binary View) is a multiplatform portable viewer designed for examining binary files. It includes a built-in editor and operates in binary, hexadecimal, and disassembler modes. Developed by Nickols Kurshev and Andrew Golovnia, BEYE utilizes native Intel syntax for disassembly.
Features of BEYE include disassemblers for various architectures such as AVR, Java, x86 (i386), AMD64, ARM, XScale, and PPC64. Additionally, it offers a Russian code pages converter and a code navigator. The software supports full preview of MZ, NE, PE, NLM, COFF32, and ELF formats, with partial support for a.out, LE, LX, and Phar Lap formats.
Initially released as proprietary software in 1994, BEYE later transitioned to open-source licensing. As of 2013, it is licensed under either GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only.
See also
Comparison of hex editors List of hex editors
References
- ^ "[r138] meke beye as bi-licensed project". 18 May 2013.
External links
History
BEYE was developed in 1994 by Nickols Kurshev[1] and Andrew Golovnia[2] under the name "View". In February of 2010 the program was renamed to BEYE, even though poll votes were mostly against its rename. BEYE's creators stated, that the previous name had some negative associations in English,[3] and the new one doesn't conflict with other projects.[4]
At that time, compilers were not able to create highly optimized executables, and CPUs were not as efficient, which caused many programmers to code in assembly language. Many countries, including Russia, had poor accessibility to the Internet, and it was problematic to find information about CPUs. Many programs produced errors, and it was too difficult to understand the source of the problems.
After spending a long time trying to understand the causes of the defects in his programs, the developers of BEYE coded their disassembler. Perhaps the needs of the creators couldn't have been covered by existing disassemblers, and so he wrote his own.
Initially, BEYE was closed-source, but friends helped to improve the project with new ideas and in some cases with new code. Later, after purchasing a modem, Nickols and Andrew decided to release the source and publish BEYE on the Internet.
In 2000, the sources were published at SourceForge.[4]
Beye no longer works in Windows 11.[4]
Features
BEYE's features include:[3]
- Built-in AVR/Java/x86-i386-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC64 disassemblers.
- Saving and restoring parts of files.
- Support for a-out, arch, coff-386, ELF, MZ, jvmclass, LMF, LE and LX, NE, NLM-386, PharLap, PE, RDOFF, SIS and SISX executable formats.
- Instruction highlighting.
- A code navigator.
- A CPU performance utility.
- A built-in 64-bit calculator.
- Support for the formats: ASF, AVI, BMP, JPEG, mov, MP3, MPEG, RealMedia, WAV multimedia.
- Console-input viewer.
- Pattern searching in different modes: disassembler, hexadecimal and binary.
- Russian code-page converter.
See also
Notes
References
- ^ "konst / Profile". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ^ "andrew_golovnia / Profile". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ^ a b "Beye introduction". Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ a b c beye. sourceforge.net (2010-02-14)