diff --git a/src/disasm.rs b/src/disasm.rs
index 3742bca..7e9e375 100644
--- a/src/disasm.rs
+++ b/src/disasm.rs
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ impl Disassembler {
                 // byte extended version
                 let (target, reg) = self.parse_modrm_byte(Some(InstructionWidth::Word))?;
                 let imm = self.parse_byte()?;
-                Self::modrm_reg_to_grp1(reg, target, ImmediateOperand::Byte(imm))?
+                Self::modrm_reg_to_grp1(reg, target, ImmediateOperand::Byte(imm).sign_extend())?
             }
 
             0x84 => modrm_8b_register!(self, TEST),
diff --git a/src/interpreter/computer.rs b/src/interpreter/computer.rs
index 592041d..aeafeeb 100644
--- a/src/interpreter/computer.rs
+++ b/src/interpreter/computer.rs
@@ -239,7 +239,25 @@ impl Computer {
         dest: ModRmTarget,
         src: ArithmeticOperand,
     ) -> Result<(), InterpreterError> {
-        let op: fn(Lhs, Rhs) -> ArithmeticResult = |lhs, rhs| lhs - rhs;
+        let op: fn(Lhs, Rhs) -> ArithmeticResult = |lhs, rhs| {
+            // 0x80, with modrm byte selecting mem read from [%bx] is the only
+            // grp1 instruction, which does not state sign-extension, meaning
+            // that rhs really is just a byte, which means only the low byte
+            // of lhs should be compared to.
+            // With out this match here, the sub logic would sign extend the
+            // rhs to a word, which is not the desired logic.
+            match lhs {
+                ImmediateOperand::Word(lhsw) => match rhs {
+                    ImmediateOperand::Byte(_) => {
+                        let [low, _] = lhsw.to_be_bytes();
+                        return ImmediateOperand::Byte(low) - rhs;
+                    }
+                    _ => {}
+                },
+                _ => {}
+            }
+            lhs - rhs
+        };
         let flag_set: fn(&mut Flags, ArithmeticResult, Lhs, Rhs) = |flags, result, lhs, rhs| {
             // log::info!("{:?} {:?} {}", lhs, rhs, lhs < rhs);
             flags.cf = lhs < rhs;