diff --git a/TitanEngine/Helper.cpp b/TitanEngine/Helper.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..823349d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TitanEngine/Helper.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#include "stdafx.h"
+#include "Helper.h"
+
+
+
+bool IsStrEqual( const char* const a, const char* const b, bool considercase/*=true*/ )
+{
+    const int stringlen = std::strlen(a);
+    if(stringlen != std::strlen(b))
+        return false; //cheap
+
+    if(considercase)
+    {
+        //plain old strcmp
+        return std::strcmp(a, b)==0;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        for(int i=0; i<stringlen; i++)
+        {
+            if (tolower(a[i]) != tolower(b[i]))
+                return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+}
+
+void* MemAlloc( size_t sz )
+{
+    void* r = malloc(sz);
+    if(r)
+        memset(r, 0, sz);
+    return r;
+}
+
+void MemFree( void* mem )
+{
+    free(mem);
+}
diff --git a/TitanEngine/Helper.h b/TitanEngine/Helper.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2300519
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TitanEngine/Helper.h
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#ifndef Helper_h__
+#define Helper_h__
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+/*
+Compares two strings
+a : string 1
+b : string 2
+considercase : casesensitivity
+*/
+bool IsStrEqual(const char* const a, const char* const b, bool considercase=true);
+
+/*
+A basic dynamic buffer, exception free.
+*/
+class DynBuf
+{
+public:
+    DynBuf(size_t sz=0)
+    {
+        Allocate(sz);
+    }
+    typedef std::vector<char> DynBufVec;
+
+    void* Allocate(size_t sz)
+    {
+        void* r=NULL;
+        try
+        {
+            if(Size() < sz)
+                mem.resize(sz);
+            if(Size())
+                r = GetPtr(); 
+            if(r && sz)
+                memset(r, 0, sz);
+        }
+        catch(...)
+        {
+        }
+
+        return r;
+    }
+    void* GetPtr()
+    {
+        if(Size())
+            return &mem.front(); //in c++11: .data()
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    void Free()
+    {
+        mem.clear();
+    }
+    DynBufVec& GetVector() {return mem;}
+    const DynBufVec& GetVector() const {return mem;}
+    size_t Size() const {return mem.size();}
+
+
+protected:
+    char& operator[](std::size_t idx)
+    {
+        return mem[idx];
+    };
+    const char& operator[](std::size_t idx) const
+    {
+        return mem[idx];
+    };
+
+    DynBufVec mem;
+};
+
+
+//Unused malloc/free wrappers
+
+/*
+malloc wrapper
+*/
+void* MemAlloc(size_t sz);
+
+/*
+free wrapper
+*/
+void MemFree(void* mem);
+
+
+
+#endif // Helper_h__
+
diff --git a/TitanEngine/stdafx.h b/TitanEngine/stdafx.h
index f3e4476..734fab9 100644
--- a/TitanEngine/stdafx.h
+++ b/TitanEngine/stdafx.h
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 #include "aplib.h"
 #include "LzmaDec.h"
 
+#include "Helper.h"
+
 #define STATUS_SUCCESS ((NTSTATUS)0x00000000L) // ntsubauth
 
 // Engine.Internal: