W13Patch is a binary patching program, you pass it your patch file, it'll generate a self extracting patch applier which you can pass to your users.
Currently it only reads IDA Professional dif files, but I plan to expand that.
Originally put together for my MechWarrior 2 XP patch, I decided to release it.
Features:
- Atomic operations (if it breaks half way through it'll undo all changes)
- Undo
- Upgrades
- 100% free and open source (BSD license)
- Tiny tiny overhead (39KB with 6 icons, 28KB without)
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