my 'bag of tricks' includes:
- Ultra-Edit32 version 11 (Hex editor)
- HexWorkshop (Hex editor - DD introduced me to this!)
- PhotoShop 5.0
- Windows Notepad
- FloatConvert (for converting to/from Float32 and decimal)
- Maya
- Wings3D
- Pack3D
- TimeTraveller's tools
- Visio32 (for building heirarchy trees of the files to visually 'see' it)
- Windows XP Calculator (for those to/from hex)