Can this make games for NES?
Explaining my fast 6502 code generator
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Re: Explaining my fast 6502 code generator
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think of retro-computing as an activity limited solely to the hardware and software that existed at a given time, that's far too restrictive for me. 6502 is an architecture, not a specific machine, nor even the set of machines that supported that architecture in the past. The architecture is and remains interesting on its own! (6502 assembly remains a really good intro to assembly, for instance, even for peop…
> 6502 assembly remains a really good intro to assembly It... really is not, though. It doesn't teach you macro assemblers as they exist in the modern world. It doesn't teach you interaction with the linker except in the simplest ways. And while the instruction set is "simple" in the sense that it can be understood on a page of paper, lots of critically important ideas don't exist in a meaningful way. Modern techniqu…
> It... really is not, though. It doesn't teach you macro assemblers as they exist in the modern world. It doesn't teach you interaction with the linker except in the simplest ways.
What does the processor/instruction set have to do with the available tooling?!
FYI back in the day much of Acorn's (BBC Micro = 6502) software was written using a very capable macro assembler (source: I worked there).