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  1. Floating point arithmetic at blistering speeds? Trigonometry faster than a speeding bullet? Transcendental functions in the blink of an eye? On a 6502? Of course you can! (... and it only took one bodge wire) #PAL2 #mos6502 #am9511a

  2. Fuck yeah, finally!

    May I present to you: Bad Apple, the (almost) complete Music Video, rendered as Outlines in 30x20 characters in glorious 1.86 FPS by a 6502 CPU running at 1MHz, outputting over RS232 serial at 19.200 Baud.

    Rendering Code and the Video sitting in 32 kilobytes of ROM.

    If you bought the 6502 breadboard computer kit from Ben Eater's website, you can do this on there too.

    #w65c02 #mos6502 #badapple #homebrewcomputing #beneater

  3. This is a cool Gnome app: learn 6502 assembler using a virtual old-school game console, with built-in tutorials.

    The 6502 cpu was used in many early home computers, and has a *very* simple, stripped down Instruction set. I was about 13 years old and knew nothing about programming, and still learned it without trouble. It's a great place to start learning assembly programming ideas.

    flathub.org/en/apps/eu.jumplin

  4. RE: digipres.club/@philpem/1166132

    There's an approach to Conway's Game of Life which computes small rectangular tiles of results, with a cunning coordinate transformation such that each tile depends on just 4 predecessor-neighbours instead of 9.

    The larger the tile, the less communication between neighbours.

    This might be a good match for a small transputer network.

    We made a nice 6502 version for the BBC Micro with 64k second processor - not as a general network, but separating compute from display.

    Thread here
    Conway's Game of Life for Atom, Beeb, Elk? stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi

    and see also
    Conway's Life on 6502 6502.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t

    Here's a 6502 life (expanded 6502 memory space) running a Turing Machine pattern
    youtube.com/watch?v=JjUb8g2kED0

    #bbcmicro #gol #mos6502 #transputer #retrocomputing

    @philpem
    @anachrocomputer

  5. Regenerator 2000 v0.9.14 released.
    Getting closer to v1.0.0.

    In particular, I like the new MCP Server + SKILL improvements.
    "Analyze this program" analyzes the entire game. So far the results are pretty good.

    github.com/ricardoquesada/rege

    Do you have a game/program that you want to be analyzed ? LMK. Happy to try to new MCP server+skills on it.

    #disassembly #c64 #retrocomputing #mcp #mos6502

  6. xtc, a new (cross) compiled c-like language for #Atari8bit computers, built around bank-switched memory and a 6502-aware optimiser atari-xt.com/ #atari #retroprogramming #mos6502

  7. @wyatt At least it isn't a Commodore 64, Atari 800, Apple II, or NES, where disabling TSX instructions will make a lot of software not work.

    #6502asm #mos6502

  8. Cross-compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.16 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS

    Calypsi is a collection of compilers and assemblers for Windows, Linux and Mac OS, that generatescode for various retro computers. New in version 5.16:

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-