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!BIOS

The purpose of!BIOS is to simplify most work related to BIOSes, ranging backing up settings, recovering passwords, to tweaking BIOS settings. The program was developed by bluefish, aided by other members of the eleventh alliance and the ibiosdev mailinglist.

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!BIOS

The purpose of!BIOS is to simplify most work related to BIOSes, ranging backing up settings, recovering passwords, to tweaking BIOS settings. The program was developed by bluefish, aided by other members of the eleventh alliance and the ibiosdev mailinglist.

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--- . [ !BIOS - PC BIOS Security & Maintains Toolkit ] .

---
Copyright 1996-2000

Main design/coding by Bluefish, aided by other members


of the eleventh alliance and the ibiosdev mailinglist.
___ [email protected] ___
[email protected]
http://www.11a.nu
[========================================================================]
The purpose of !BIOS is to simplify most work related to BIOSes, ranging
backing up settings, recovering passwords, to tweaking BIOS settings.
Sometime 1996 at a late evening a few friends and I was playing around
with some computers we had setup in a network. Suddenly one of my friends
had a problem - he had a laptop to which he didn't remember the BIOS
password and he really needed to change it's setup.
We managed to put together a program which removed this password, but I
kept on developing the program - who knows when the next time would come
around and I need to remove a password?
And the program grew, and since then I've recieved numerous mails from
happy users who has used my program to remove or recover passwords with
it.
!BIOS is open source. If your copy of !BIOS didn't come with the source
code included, look at http://www.11a.nu/
[========================================================================]
Important contributers:
* Juergen Gloeckner for aid with Award 4.60 master password crack
* Mladen Zelic, for information and analyzes of the DTK notebook
* CaveMan for a simple analyze as well as dumps of a Phoenix BIOS
* Jan Stohner for developing a better Award enginee
* Christophe Grenier for usefull opinions, sources etc
* Bugs for developing the original Ami cracker
Other people credits are due to:
* SWAG, for distribuating various usefull free source code
* Fidonet 80XXX writers for various useful posts
* Padgett Peterson and Ralph Brown, for their work with the PC Interrupt
list and the CMOS.LST file that contains information on CMOS layout
for various BIOSes. Their work has simplified the development a lot.
Additional credits may be in comments in the source code.
[========================================================================]
The documentation contains a "How To", "Tips" & "Password" sections. Those
are very usefull.
[========================================================================]
Unfortunatly !BIOS is based upon now unsupported old MS-DOS software,
Borland Pascal, which makes it hard to maintain and to find new
developers which are interested in the working on the project. Because
of that, the !BIOS project be terminated sometime in the year 2000.
After that, I will put my efforts - if I still feel like working with
these kind of tools - on aiding Christophe Grenier with the development
of CmosPwd. URL: http://www.esiea.fr/public_html/Christophe.GRENIER/
Source and binaries of !BIOS will be available at http://www.11a.nu/ in
some years, so if anyone wants to take up the development it's only to
pick up the old source and work on it.
[========================================================================]
BIOSLOGO.SCX is a 8bit 320x200 image. If you don't like the image being
displayed when !BIOS starts for some reason, just rename, move or delete
the file. If you don't got the file or it has been damaged in some way,
you could download !BIOS from www.11a.nu.
Just place BIOSLOGO.SCX in the very same directory as you got !BIOS in
and the logo will be displayed when !BIOS starts. You could put any
RIX raw 320x200x256 picture here.
[========================================================================]

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