Handplanes work really well (if they're sharp).

Old-school FTW!

BugBear

By way of a thank you to the group...

I was looking in to the existence of m4 on OS-9 (the 6809 OS, not the Macintosh one).

It's not there, but a google-daisy-chain let me to m4's father,
GPM (general purpose macrogenerator) by Christopher Strachey, circa 1965.

There's a paragraph on the use of ...

Can I just thank all the good folks of 6502-land for their work on this;
I hope you're finding it as interesting as I do.



BugBear

Thank you very much for doing that - most interesting, and surprisingly rare.

(I'd love to see the numbers for a 15 minute run of Elite, but that would
be much harder to do, as I understand matters)

BugBear

The one little piece of data I did find when this last came up was in Blargg's Emulation Notes .

Apart from instrumenting an emulator - and there are so many, in so many languages - the difficulty is deciding what program to run. A graphics demo? A game? A Basic interpreter? (Running what kind of ...

During my thread on the narrow topic of ADD/ADC/CLC, instructions set statistics were mentioned.

Whilst it is fairly easy to gather static statistics (unless someone's been really clever
with interspersed opcodes, the BIT trick, and/or SWEET16), dynamic statistics would have
been a good deal harder ...

(I have been sent here from the 8 bit computer Clique facebook group, where I couldn't get a good answer)

Does anyone know enough about CPU design and layout to comment on whether the 6502's omission of an ADD instruction (in addition to the ADC instruction) was a carefully considered decision or a ...

I started programming when my school was sending of coding form in Algol
to the local University.

Then a friend got a Sinclair MK14.
Then he got an Acorn System 1.
Then the school got a PET 2001, which we learnt to program on.

I will never forget the PET revealed, and learnt
that the Pet could ...