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On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, paul sutton wrote:
On 16/01/12 20:38, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Rob Beard wrote:I figured something like the 6502 would probably be well documented these days and I'm sure I can probably find a book on it. I want to learn something simple so I thought 8-Bits would be a good start :-)The 6502 is so well documented that someone has done this: http://visual6502.org/JSSim/ Come back when you know the difference between Indexed Indirect and Indirect Indexed addressing :-) You might want to look at AVR (Arduino) though - relatively cheap to get into with a "proper" :) assembler and C compiler. The AVR instruction set is quite nice and easy on the eyes too... I have to say though - it's just too easy to jump to C... The C compilers for the 8-bit chips really are quite good - I did a lot of PIC stuff using SDCC which took away all the hassles of it's bank-switched nastiness... Then again, Atari asteroids was coded in under 8KB of 6502 assembler...Neat, this is something that would make a good talk at a lug meet or similar as I don't really understand how to use this properly
How to use what properly? If you mean Arduino, then don't look at me ... I do use it properly - which is by using Makefiles and pure C - none of this Java based IDE and C++ they supply it with ;-) ... then again, we need to get more people to a meet, and at a location where it's possible to give a half decent talk and demo ... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq