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μCOM-87: The Strangest Architecture You've Never Worked With
A short article about NEC's strange and mostly forgotten μCOM-87 processor architecture, as well as the Casio CZ-101 synthesiser that it powers.
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How Does Ada's Memory Safety Compare Against Rust?
A comparison of how well Rust and Ada prevent the most common memory-related software errors.
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Introduction to Reverse-Engineering Vintage Synth Firmware
A gentle introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synthesiser ROMs using the Ghidra disassembler.
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The Identity of The Sanctimonious Kid
Exploring the historic background of Jack Black's 'You Can't Win', and investigating the identity of The Sanctimonious Kid.
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How Far Back in Time Can I Take My Website's Design
A look back through web-browser history, as I test my site against the browsers of the past.
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Hacking the Yamaha DX9 To Turn It Into a DX7
A brief account of hacking the Yamaha DX9's firmware ROM to make its functionality more closely match the DX7.
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How the Yamaha FM Synth Cassette Interface Works
A technical overview of how the cassette interface used in Yamaha's FM synthesisers encodes, and decodes patch data for external storage.
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Yamaha DX7 Official Technical Analysis
A chance discovery on eBay has surfaced some of Yamaha's original technical documentation for the DX7 synthesiser.
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Yamaha DX7 Firmware ROM Disassembly
A brief update regarding the reverse-engineering of the Yamaha DX7's firmware ROM.
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Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis
An introductory technical analysis of the Yamaha DX7, detailing some of the known information about the synthesiser's engineering.
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