Okay okay okay. Can I just say that topics like this are why I adore hobby forums like this?

I'm of the same mindset as most people here. I first ask myself, "B-but why tho?" And then my baser nerd instincts kick in and I'm like, "But I kinda wanna see it done anyway. Just because I wanna see if ...

Ba-Boom!

https://archive.org/details/65816programmanual

I would still buy it though. I love having a physical book in my lap when I'm working on a project.

Much of the issues you're seeing for the lack of definitions is due to the limits of the javascript assembler I'm using.

Equates are far better, but it handles equates fairly awkwardly since it's mostly designed as a teaching tool rather than a serious assembler. I've had to make compromises ...

The Game Gear's screen wasn't too bad, but holy mackerel, the Lynx's screen is almost completely unwatchable at points.

I've been thinking about making a VGA compatible console machine someday. Controller inputs actually seem easier to keep track of than all the of the ASCII codes required for ...

Okay, I'm still figuring out the basics of the other subroutines, but in the meantime I coded a "framework" to seamlessly insert the collision and momentum subroutines later as I figure them out. Just to keep it all organized and save me the trouble later ...

I was one of the kids in the 90s that got a Game Gear. Can confirm.

Well, I stand corrected then. It must have been the surrounding hardware that was the issue.

Yeah, all my previous projects have built-in 3.7v LiPo cells, they're pretty easy to work with most of the time. The AAAs thing was just something I was considering.
Oh, you're wayyyyy ahead of me then. What kind of screen are you thinking of using?

I admit, I've never installed anything more ...

The Atari Lynx was an interesting piece of hardware under the hood with a few decent games.

You're better off using an emulator if you wanna test programs on it though. The actual physical hardware on it was notoriously bad. Particularly the screen, which was extremely prone to ghost images and ...

The handheld Atari Lynx ran on a 65SC02, if I recall correctly. Which was a CMOS 6502 without bit instructions.

Coincidentally, I recall it having a battery life, so short, that you could bake muffins to it. I wonder why. lol

More than the old SID chips, I just ran into the FPGASID 6581 and 8580 SID replacement available to buy, based on a modern FPGA. It has cycle-exact reproduction of the original parts, exact modeling of the analog parts leading to a result that is almost indistinguishable from the original, but ...

I know that it a bit early for me to be thinking about this kinda thing since I'm quite new to building a computer, but I've been slowly but surely thinking of designs in my head for different pieces of hardware I could use in my future project. I've been sort of fixated on the idea of putting in a ...

Oh, I didn't even think of bouncing. Thats a good idea.

I was just going to use it to let the dot fall after it jumped or fell off a platform.

I gotta say, its super fun trying something and failing again and again until that one magical moment when the code is finally lines up in a way that makes what you're trying to do actually kinda work.

After having that happen to me a few times while learning 6502 in the last couple months, I can ...

Okay, I lied. That confetti draw subroutine was bugging me and I had to streamline it.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Waiting for input ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Press W to Pop Confetti Forever! ;
; Press O to Pop Confetti Just Once ;
; Press Q to End Program ...