File explorers come in many shapes and layouts, either sophisticated and feature-packed, or as simplistic as possible, especially created for beginners. The same applies to hex viewers and the users who are nostalgic about the look of DOS applications can give Hiew a try.
It does not need to be installed onto the host computer and does not use a lot of PC resources, therefore it does not affect the overall computer performance.
The interface of Hiew is inspired by the old look of DOS tools, and to keep this old-school feeling it can only be operated using the keyboard. In other words, users who prefer to rely on the mouse in all of their actions might encounter difficulties in working with this software solution.
However, by experimenting with the tool and pressing keys one can get familiarized with the app’s numerous functions, even though they are not very obvious at first glance.
Features:
view and edit files of any length in text, hex, and decode modes
x86-64 disassembler & assembler
physical & logical drive view & edit
support for NE, LE, LX, PE/PE32+ and little-endian ELF/ELF64 executable formats
support for Netware Loadable Modules like NLM, DSK, LAN,...
following direct call/jmp instructions in any executable file with one touch
pattern search in disassembler
built-in simple 64bit decrypt/crypt system
built-in powerful 64bit calculator
block operations: read, write, fill, copy, move, insert, delete, crypt
multifile search and replace
keyboard macros
unicode support
Hiew Extrenal Module (HEM) support
ArmV6 disassembler