Coder's Guild Mailing List

Re: memory...

Posted by Dan Nuffer on 1999-06-14

From: Emre <amoeba@xxxx.xxx>
> Hey, i wish to make a cheat program for games. I need to modify memory
> allocated by the game so i can modify some portions, but i don't know how
> to get access to memory allocated by other programs. Anybody have ways of
> doing this? I know there must be a way, since there are other programs
that
> do that. btw, it's for windows.

You can do it using the debugging functions, basically your program becomes
a "debugger" and you can do whatever you want to the other program.

Look in the MSDN under Platform SDK/Windows Base Services/Debugging and
Error Handling

or search for the DebugActiveProcess function.

Dan Nuffer

To signoff go to http://www.giga.or.at/others/tcg/webinterface