This repository contains a few examples of executable Unicode characters.
These files represent 8088 machine code, which can be executed directly in MS-DOS as a COM file, if a 0100h base address is assumed. All the examples should run in most versions of DosBox.
Each TXT file is identical to the corresponding COM file, except for extension.
A basic explanation of how to construct executable Emoji can be found here.
Your basic "Hello World!" program.
The basic concept is to implement enough code in Unicode codepoints to emit a first-stage decoder, the source of which is in /asm/decoder.asm. This decoder then emits native code to print "Hello World!" and jumps to it.
Hello World using displayable color Emoji. Requires an 8088 CPU or lenient emulator such as DosBox due to the UD-producing lock lahf prefix on most Emoji codepoints.
Size: 838 bytes
MD5: e7684474f9d77bcfab3fd89321a327cb
SHA-256: 7c0f4b56c3d929a2b4b5fff49cc9ff393b57998a609b2687205cabf0436edc31
Disassembly
Hello world in Korean Hangul.
Size: 552 bytes
MD5: 50d38d1f31322b24ee9a384de0d53728
SHA-256: d32d5b96913bfe793d65cbb7b7317c400e8cfc743c1f2f126ee377f47373c1ec
Disassembly
Hello World in a mix of Japanese Katakana and Hiragana. Doing this in just one or the other is left as an exercise for the reader.
Size: 609 bytes
MD5: 8df97d77cf17a9ad64b22d554eaebd37
SHA-256: 4f3e2d11427cef293d9ae0d6f20fd7ee4373dbe530251fc6573ad35ead6e0b78
Disassembly
Hello World in Braille + newlines.
Size: 57,836 bytes
MD5: 4d3108c581bc67cd3e0c49a074d2d835
SHA-256: b2089f833b9f8f01b3c42636ca89972f8e233e89d7d583900116cf9e06478abf
BRAILLE.COM is not entirely Braille characters; it includes newlines to make it rectangular. This allows to include some cheeky "pixel" art. Visualization below:
BRAILLE.COM is by necessity quite large because most of the available memory offsets are above E000.
Hello World in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Note: Windows notepad.exe and other text editors may incorrectly interpret this file as UTF-16, displaying various CJK ideographs instead.
Size: 684 bytes
MD5: d0fc8b3233592cabafcd338a682fafac
SHA-256: 328e5e57590c2c29c45c366a0ba6965137135db14091cf71dbff55c2a5bc8590
Disassembly
A Mode 13h VGA Mandelbrot generator with the default VGA palette.
Mandelbrot generator in Emoji. Requires an 8088 CPU or lenient emulator such as DosBox due to the UD-producing lock lahf prefix on most Emoji codepoints.
Size: 1,092 bytes
MD5: 95482be7ae8d8ddcefca5a1ebbc7363f
SHA-256: 35666a686743b66824ceb72eae7230c9c0aa392ee2ea39e4328084d330111cb5
Disassembly