Ill-Green wrote:It was his youtube channel that gave him away, somebody recognized him and followed him here. It was bananas, the uproar!
But he did try to hack the 500 and pleaded to Akai for the source code.
Okay okay I remember that now. Yeesh
Okay serious answer, back on topic.
inflict3, first you would need to take a look at the service manual and identify which chip the OS would be stored on. Then, you would have to de-solder that chip from it's respective pcb. Next, you need to find hardware and software that can interface with the chip. There are some commercial options you can choose from to pull the memory from the chip. This task will require an extensive bit of research and is something on the level of what Sciguy would do. With that said, this is the easy part.
Now that you have the OS at your disposal, you will need to de-compile/ dis-assemble it. You will need to find a de-compiler for the assembly language for that particular chip, then you can proceed to reverse engineer it. I'm going to stop right here.
To call this challenging is a huge understatement.
If you're really passionate about this, your time would be better spent going to a university and studying software engineering. After six to eight years, once you earn a graduate degree of some kind, you can make your own damn mpc software. It would probably take you less time to do that than learning how to reverse engineer the assembly code of some obscure chip on your own.