WHY2025

How assembly turns vintage Sanyo computers into a musical instrument
2025-08-11 , Serendiep
Language: English

I love my Sanyo MBC-555 computer from 1983. It’s a NOT-so-IBM-compatible 8088 PC. It has no real ROM-BIOS and a very inconvenient VRAM mapping. It shipped with MS-DOS 1.25, Sanyo BASIC and DEBUG.COM. That got me into 8088 assembly programming back in the days (1993).


By Rick Companje