A Wild Register Appears: Hunting the 30-Year-Old World of Xeen MT-32 Crash (opens in new tab)

Might & Magic IV & V: World of Xeen freezes and corrupts itself when you play it with a Roland MT-32 — on emulators and on real hardware. Here’s the months-long hunt for the bug, and the ten bytes that fix it.

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