Right said frhed - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: PerranOak
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 02:37:50 pm
content: I’m looking for a good hex viewer (Windows). I only really want to view hex files from various sources, I don’t need to edit disks directly or anything.frhed seems a popular one.Any good or shall I keep looking?

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 05:37:53 pm
content: When I have manipulated some hex files I used this to calculate the check sum:https://www.fischl.de/hex_checksum_calculator/The files themselves were viewed inNotebookNotepad (Windows). I program in Assembly so going to Hex is not a big issue.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 05:39:31 pm
content: I use HxD:https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 05:54:52 pm
content: Plain Hex, I use HXD.For Intelhex, S etc. etc. that you might find I just download a demo version of device/EPROM programmer software and use that.They'll usually give you a demo mode and allow you to load up files, split them, combine, interleave, edit etc. and save the result out.

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 06:27:37 pm
content: I like XVI32http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

author: David Hess
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 09:04:46 pm
content: I used to use HexEdit but it has been out of development for a while:http://hexeditpro.blogspot.com/2016/10/hexedit-50.htmlWikipedia has a good list of options:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors

author: cfbsoftware
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 09:36:31 pm
content: Quote from: rsjsouza on October 05, 2021, 06:27:37 pmMe too.

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 09:46:56 pm
content: Quote from: David Hess on October 05, 2021, 09:04:46 pmDavid, it seems that most of the Hex editors mentioned here have been stable for quite a number of years. The one that is the title of this thread, for example, is dated back to 2009. XVI32 is from 2012.TBH, if it is not broken, there is no need to change it.

author: David Hess
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2021, 10:24:30 pm
content: Quote from: rsjsouza on October 05, 2021, 09:46:56 pmI agree, which is why I use Hexedit_4. I did not know that it had fallen out of support years ago until I looked it up for this discussion.

author: nali
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 06, 2021, 08:13:01 am
content: I've found hex viewers / editors to be pretty same-y and on the occasions I've needed one on a system that doesn't have one just install whatever I find after a couple of minutes researching. Which is how I found HxD, and that's my go-to now.Prior to that I used to use Total Commander for quick viewing mainly because I used to use the old Norton DOS software before they got to the Symantec bloatware they are nowadays. (Still use Midnight Commander on Linux, it's a kind of muscle memory thing)

author: PerranOak
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 06, 2021, 12:52:20 pm
content: Beaut! Cheers all.

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 06, 2021, 09:26:05 pm
content: I can heartily recommend 010 Editor:https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/What makes the difference is you can overlay templates on the binary data, so it decodes what you're seeing as high-level data even though you're looking at binary stuff. And other magic too.It is paid-for software (and why shouldn't it be), but very soon (like perhaps tomorrow or the next day) you can get it for 60% off here:https://www.bitsdujour.com/software/010-editor/in=upcoming-discounts