You're most welcome! Yes, brings back the fun into actually making one of these things work. Good luck if you try a spot of experimenting with one yourself.
I had this video on while doing some data entry, so I might have missed if you pointed it out, but - is the program written in Assembly? Would there be a way to compile from C++ for a microprocessor like I might for a microcontroller?
A good question! In keeping with all my own micro' work, I wrote this in machine code. (I always do things the hard way!) The idea behind using this technique for my videos is to keep things as simple as possible. I remember when I started writing my first few lines of code, I didn't own a computer at that point and knew nothing of assemblers either. For this reason you can see why machine code was the only way forward for me. Obviously for a beginners perspective today, using an assembler must be the logical way forward, as everyone must at least have access to a computer. As far as compiling from C++ is concerned, according to a quickie Google search, there are plenty of them out there that will. Do check this out yourself and see if any suit your purposes. It goes without saying, that there are many assemblers for the 6502 if that's your choice in the end.
Now you've really got me interested in playing about with these old microprocessors! Really enjoy these videos aimed at beginners, thank you!
You're most welcome! Yes, brings back the fun into actually making one of these things work. Good luck if you try a spot of experimenting with one yourself.
Nice series.
Thank you. One always hopes that someone will find them either useful or interesting!
Хорошая работа, спасибо.
Спасибо :-)
I had this video on while doing some data entry, so I might have missed if you pointed it out, but - is the program written in Assembly? Would there be a way to compile from C++ for a microprocessor like I might for a microcontroller?
A good question! In keeping with all my own micro' work, I wrote this in machine code. (I always do things the hard way!) The idea behind using this technique for my videos is to keep things as simple as possible. I remember when I started writing my first few lines of code, I didn't own a computer at that point and knew nothing of assemblers either. For this reason you can see why machine code was the only way forward for me. Obviously for a beginners perspective today, using an assembler must be the logical way forward, as everyone must at least have access to a computer.
As far as compiling from C++ is concerned, according to a quickie Google search, there are plenty of them out there that will. Do check this out yourself and see if any suit your purposes. It goes without saying, that there are many assemblers for the 6502 if that's your choice in the end.