I have an old (I think) Windows software on a cd-rom, that is basically a database and its interface for show the data it contains.I don't like the software view interface, want to make my own with visual studio or similar, but of course I can't access the database. All that I know is it's made of a good number of IDF files, they contains both data and photos/images shown on the screen through the software.My question is where to start if I want reverse engineering these files, getting the data with their relations. Would be enough have tables of strings and numbers. I have a little experience with rev.eng. made through Cheat Engine, for some games, but nothing more.
Reverse engineering proprietary database file format .IDF
windows;decryption