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Re: [LUG] A slice of Pi gets closer...

 

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...
>
> Gordon
>
>

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

Paul

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