2026-08-05 22:08 UTC
ok how do we even initalize something to 0?
8F F0 is an undocumented alias for POP AX.
guess what DOS pushes to the stack for you when your COM program starts.
that's right. a 0. now we have 0 in AX.
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space 2026-08-05 22:10
i was worried that this was going to be too stupid to be plausible, or require something like 32KiB of brainfuck-level shenanigans, but i actually think this is going to work
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@trcwm@mastodon.social 2026-08-05 22:55
@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space is that shorter than xor ax,ax?