I was thinking of something like this: http://hackaday.com/2012/11/16/avr-minecraft-server-lets-you-toggle-pins-from-the-virtual-world/

If the Atmega328 can do it, a 6502 probably can.

The software is open-source, so maybe it can be ported?

https://github.com/cnlohr/avrcraft

Not looking at ...

Damn, bro... good stuff. Site bookmarked.

However, I don't remember ever having to page-align anything in 65c02 anyway. The only use I can think of for page alignment is if something had to be cycle-exact for timing a loop or process, . . .
Reasons I have seen for alignment on (NMOS) 6502:

Branching in cycle-exact code -- timing only ...

I disagree. An assembler with conditional macros could easily interrogate the program counter and emit either depending on what it found. It would still be a "true assembler".
Sure, fine with me. Hence my statement " So why not let the assembler provide such scripts that are activated using pseudo ...

Oh, another one, relating to 65816... Let assembler automatically choose near or far jmp based or target... Do assemblers already do that, or does it have to be adjusted manually?

BTW BigDumbDinosaur, I love your posts and have great respect for you... just debating with you here.

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This whole discussion makes me wonder whether it would be useful to write in a slightly higher level of abstraction...Then again, I suppose that might be just reinventing another language that already exists.
Assembly language is used to get close to the bare metal ...

Oh yeah... BigEd just deleted a line of text... not a whole message.
And.... that is why I have a no-rant policy

I suspect it might have been that RDY was only originally needed for reads - specifically, for ROM reads, as RAM at the time of introduction was fast enough but ROM likely to be the limiting factor on system clock rate.

Ahhhhh.... that makes sense.

Datasheet is helpful... mentions both DMA and ...

(BTW, as I might not be the only one to point out, RDY is active high, signalling that the memory subsystem is ReaDY. So no need for a slash, bar, asterisk or other sign that it might be active low.)

Yeah, realized that after I posted... fixed with an edit. Thanks!

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Ahhhh.... Thank you. I looked at the sub-items for every link EXCEPT for user profile it seems...

It's well known that in order to do asynchronous DMA on the 6502 you need to wait 3 cycles between deasserting RDY and accessing the bus. I am intrigued by the fact that a DMA operation is allowed to interrupt the CPU in the middle of an instruction, but not when a write is about to happen.

Does ...

I clicked "forgot password" and got my password reset... was able to login with the new password, but I can find no way to change the password to something I want! Most password reset systems will force you to choose a new password anytime you do a reset, but this one did not. Only place I can ...