Decompile/Disassemble

[WeazleFuzion]

I would like to convert exe to C++ code to be edited in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. Simple Porgrams such as Solitaire or Pinball are examples of some to be reverse engineered. I would just like to edit them, and also learn from them. I have very little C++ experience, just HTML, but that is with MS Frontpage.

 

[Salem]

Short answer is - forget it.

Decompiling is like un-baking a cake - a compiler processes your source code into object code, it is not a simple mechanical translation which is easily reversible.

Sure you can find the odd tool around the web, but these only really work well on small test cases, and generally pretty poorly on any large program. Sure the results may be understandable by a compiler, but the results NEVER look like what the original programmer wrote, and NEVER anything which you would want to learn from.

If you really want source code to learn from, then try

http://www.google.com/search?q=solitaire+source+code