There is a small but slowly growing hobby around retroprogramming for old PCs and compatibles. This hobby has existed for decades for other platforms, as evidenced by the active demoscenes on each retro platform, but the IBM PC (and other 4.77MHz 8088 compatibles) has only recently started to gain that same sort of attention. As a public service to the 8088 retroprogramming community — “All four of you, huh?” — I’ve decided to write a crash-course on optimizing your code for maximum speed on the 8088. This information is targeted to people who already know either modern x86 assembly or assembly for other CPUs, and are programming for the 8088 or 8086 for the first time (or the first time in a long while).
Archive for January 10th, 2013
Optimizing for the 8088 and 8086 CPU: Part 1
Posted by Trixter on January 10, 2013
Posted in Programming, Vintage Computing | 28 Comments »
Oldskooler Ramblings 