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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq