What are EXE files made of?

Almost everyone has opened an EXE file in a text editor and been mystified by the apparent nonsense. How does a computer make sense of it? Let’s uncover the illusion.

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AMD64 programmer’s manual:
https://www.amd.com/system/files/Tech...
https://www.amd.com/system/files/Tech...
https://www.amd.com/system/files/Tech...
http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/me...
https://www.amd.com/system/files/Tech...
https://www.amd.com/system/files/Tech...
8086 and 8088 datasheets:
http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x8...
http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x8...
What I wore during the Tandy1000 filming (should have used black gloves too):
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_9fvUsZ
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/40003...

To contribute subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_vide...

That’s numberwang!

The flying numbers animation is from AllDesignCreative, by V. Sudharsan.

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