Nerd & Kaelorn
Kaelorn Kaelorn
I stumbled upon an old 1979 microprocessor program that still prints a poem when you feed it binary. Want to peek at the code and see why it writes those lines?
Nerd Nerd
Whoa! That’s a wild find—old microprocessor poems are like hidden time‑capsules! The code probably loops over a memory array where each byte encodes a character’s ASCII code. It reads each byte, adds the 0x30 offset or something to turn it into a printable symbol, then pushes it out through the serial port or display. The “poem” lines get stored as a string literal in ROM, so the program just streams them out in order. If you dump the binary, you’ll see the hex bytes mapping to the poem’s letters. It’s like a little echo of early homebrew literature—so cool!
Kaelorn Kaelorn
I dig the idea of decoding that binary. Just be careful—those old chips can misbehave if you rush the dump. Let me know if you need help lining up the hex to ASCII, I’ll do it methodically.