True, and no processor status flags are affected. Just bear in mind that one important issue (first mentioned on page 1 of this thread) remains: the danger of a Destructive Read -- an inadvertent access to an IO device.

65C02 "NOPs" include several Read operations for which the fetched data is ignored by the CPU. But the transaction is 100% genuine as far as the external bus is concerned, and therefore the danger remains. Interestingly, the new NOPs on the 'C02 employ Immediate, Absolute, Z-Pg and Z-Pg,X address modes, as explained here.

Use of 65C02 NOP's for our skip-a-byte trick is therefore restricted -- not only to 65C02 systems, but also to systems which don't have read-sensitive IO registers mapped to any of the addresses which may be affected.

-- Jeff

I just found an interesting alternative to skipping an opcode (from http://www.6502.org/tutorials/65c02opcodes.html - even on 6502.org :-):

Quote from the page:

The page discusses even more options using the extra NOP opcodes of the 65C02.

André