I don't really know what's going on for you. I use the <>-operators all the time to refer to lo/hi-byte of an adress. (We ARE speaking of Turbo Assembler on the c64, right?) Are you sure you have set the adress where the code should go?

* = $0810

test nop
ldx #<test
ldy #>test

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I guess the ...

This might sound like a really screwed up question, but does anyone know of a 6510-emulator written in 6510 machine code? I don't wanna write one if it really exists.

If someone feel they need an explanation, here it is:
I need to be able to test automatically generated code (on a c64) before ...