MartyPC Creator Daniel Balsom Turns Emojis Into Working Executable Files for MS-DOS Systems
Daniel Balsom, creator of the cycle-accurate MartyPC emulator for classic IBM Personal Computers and compatibles, has figured out a new programming language for classic computers: emojis.
"This particular [project] comes out of left field a bit," Balsom says by way of background. "I was playing around with a web application I had made — an online disassembler for the x86 [instruction set architecture] — when I noticed that emoji were being encoded into the URL. I pasted a goat emoji, 🐐, and I noticed the encoding %F0%9F%90%90."
It might not look like a breakthrough, but this one-word output is the result of an MS-DOS executable made from nothing but emojis. (📷: Daniel Balsom)
"Now," Balsom continues, " if you're familiar with x86 assembly language at all, hexadecimal 90h is probably familiar to you. It's the opcode for a null operation or NOP. As it turns out, the vast majority of...
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