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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

Good thinking!

All this was done cause of me I feel guilty now

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JMP $FFD2

No reason to feel guilty. This is something that should have been around long ago.

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x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't NEED no stinking x86!

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

I'd like to quote a sentence I read many years ago :
(translated from French, the best I can do) "Sharing Knowledge makes it grow"

the original one was "La Connaissance s'accroît quand on la partage", by the late Jean-Claude Bellamy (Electricité de France engineer), who was a fine Windows connaisseur. May he rest in peace.

Marc

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

― Confucius

The corollary to that one is "Dumb questions are much easier to handle than dumb mistakes."

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x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't NEED no stinking x86!

Dumb questions are less of a problem than dumb answers.

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. ...Jan van de Snepscheut

Ha! Just seeing the "welcoming newcomers to the 6502 world" topic made me feel welcomed. I'm pretty new to 6502 programming, but not to C, Python, or pretty much anything higher level than assembly. Back in March, a friend of mine recommended I get into the 6502 and so I started down this road. It's amazing how much information there is, but it's quite the chore to make sense of it. Now that I have the PAL, though, it's crazy how much fun it is to learn about this little microprocessor and even to think about it's impact on the world. Having been brought up in the world of the 8088/8086 and its successors, it's quite refreshing to be messing about with the 6502 - quite satisfying... and quite sane .

Hello all,

It's nice to find this forum, and thread.

I grew up on both DOS and Apple II computers, and subsequently 68k/PPC macs etc. I learned to solder when I was a teenager to break import protections on home consoles, primarily to play fighting games etc. that weren't released in the US.

Over the last 10 years or so I have done a lot of arcade repair, and a lot of arcade boards are very similar to older microcomputers. Many arcade motherboards / PCBs consist primarily of a 68k, Z80, sound / video amps, EPROMS and GALs.

I've always had a fascination with the IIe since it was the first Apple computer I got to use. A few years ago I got an IIgs, and then recently also restored a nice IIe platinum.

Eventually, after enough shopping for all the Apple II stuff on the market, I noticed ReActive Micro sells Briel Computers 'Replica 1 Plus' kits. It's a really nice Apple I clone, and so far, I have been able to get both the P-LAB SD expansion (with help of the developer) and 'Uncle Bernie's improved Cassette interface (ACI) working in the Briel replica. So functionally I am able to load programs from USB->Serial (slowest), Tape (not too bad), or SD (almost instant). I don't use a bus extender though, so I only use one card or the other (cassette interface or SD card) at a time.

While I've done a ton of stuff like BASH scripting over the years, and wrote my first programs in BASIC, I never really did anything on my own with machine code. Between working on arcade games (dumping, verifying, modifying, burning ROMS) and my own skills/experiences with computers, I was recently able to make a small 3 byte change to WozMon to enable auto-boot of the SD interface. So, I guess the 6502 is officially the first microprocessor I personally wrote/modified machine code for. I'm not a youtuber in the sense of going after subscribers and stuff but I did make a video demonstration of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUwAQ8LuqgM

Cheers,
Alex

Welcome, Alex, and thanks for sharing your story, and your video.

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Hello, Garth. I finally got around that pesky block AT&T was putting on this site.

I don't, I'm glad I asked. Least I release The Magic Smoke. I've been known to do that a few times in my life.

Most spectacular time was when I plugged in old Cyrix 486 in the wrong way (the pins weren't keyed back then), glorious times were had by me, and another trip to the computer store. I look back and laugh now, but I was not so happy to have to buy a new CPU then.