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Re: Looking for a kid friendly 6502 assembly language book
by mwillega 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

I always recommend the MOS Technology hardware and software manuals as good starting points for understanding the 6502. Never seen anything better, when it comes to describing how the 6502 works and how to program it. Those two books are all I needed back in the 70s to come up to speed on 6502 assembly programming. Your mileage may vary. Regards, Mike Willegal

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vcfed site intermittant/latency
by Bill Degnan 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Hey all...Bill Degnan here sorry I have been out of pocket lately but I have a good reason. .dramatic pause to install wonder. Anyhoo, noticed the vcfed.org was not doing so well the hosting server is very slow to serve web pages. Bill

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Re: Looking for a kid friendly 6502 assembly language book
by Jeff G 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

I'd suggest some of the online emulators, like: https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ or https://www.masswerk.at/6502/assembler.html The difference here is that these are pure 6502 and no hardware, which yeah does limit you but at least gets your feet wet, and more importantly, you see the status of the registers, memory, etc as you work with it, which isn't as easy on real hardware. >From there then you can perhaps choose a platform (Apple, Commodore, trainer, etc). What would be really cool, is to see if maybe that first link works for you..have him write some code, then transfer that to a real platform, perhaps even burn a rom (if you can) and see it in action. I did this to test the ram on the sound board of a pinball machine that was 6502 based - had it turn on an LED if the ram was bad (it was). Jeff (aka Bags)

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Eberhard correction
by Fred Terry 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

In an earlier email, I misspelled Martin Eberhard’s name. It should have been Eberhard who is the individual who wrote an excellent manual on the repair of the Persai 277 disc drive. Fred Terry

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Looking for a kid friendly 6502 assembly language book
by corey cohen 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

I’m going to try to see if my 12 year old son might want to learn 6502 assembly. He knows some basic but I want him to learn how computers really work which means he should learn assembly. All my assembly books assume a lot and I figure 6502 is basic enough since he won’t have to worry about memory segments and stuff like that. The best guideline I can think of is... if it’s a book Evan can learn to program in assembly on an Apple II, then it would be perfect for Ben to learn. @Evan, I think you’ll agree here. Thanks, Corey corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ Sent from my iPhone

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Martin Eberhard contact info
by William Sudbrink 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Martin regularly posts to the "altair computer club", Cromemco and S-100 mailing lists. It would probably be polite to approach him through one of those lists. Bill S. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Martin Eberhard contact info
by Fred Terry 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Can someone provide me an email address or other method to get in touch with Martin Eberhard? I have some very useful information for him. Thanks, Fred Terry

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Festivus Movies and a reminder (Dec. 7 & 8)
by Evan Koblentz 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

>> Do you guys make use of a projector to show on a large screen? Yes. We have an LED projector and a 100-inch portable screen. On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 10:35 AM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Hey > Do you guys make use of a projector to show on a large screen? > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Aug 31, 2019, at 9:24 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > As a reminder Festivus is Dec 7 & 8 starting at 10am Dec. 7 and ending > Dec. > > 8 at 5pm. > > Signup here: < > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x0oSxqZXh8tmqqbUsP3KS3OywiNsEAOOmtq… > >> > > > > So I have tried in the past to show movies in a separate room and found > few > > were interested. So my new thought is to show some TV shows and movies > with > > low volume on the cafeteria TV for anyone to watch and as mostly > background > > noise. Bernie S. gave me this idea. The idea is for casual viewing as > most > > people are interested in casual conversations, eating, drinking and > playing > > video games, but some might stop and look for a few minutes. > > > > The first DVD will be "Whiz Kids". A show in the 80's > > Bring whatever movies or suggestions to Festivus. > > I have the following streaming service accounts: Netflix, Amazon Prime > > Video, YouTube Premium, Disney+ > > -- > > ========================================= > > Jeff Brace > > Vice President > > Vintage Computer Federation > >

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Museum Report 2019-09-01 September 1, 2019
by Jeffrey Brace 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

A slow day at the museum with a few moderate interest people getting a half hour tour. And also a dozen light interest people. Bill Intereidden stopped by to size up parts for the rack that holds the TR-20. He is working on getting this machine working as well as improving the display. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Cool yet sad rescue coming up this fall
by Evan Koblentz 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Everyone, Sometime this fall, we're going to rescue a pair of SGI cabinets from the Princeton University data center. SGI customized the cabinets in black and orange ... because Princeton Tigers. Their data center VP said these systems almost certainly can't ever run again. Too much disassembly already happened. So all he's promising us are the actual cabinets, not the remaining innards. However, he asked if we can help disassemble those remaining innards, in order to make the cabinets lighter/safer to move. I said what if we agree, but in exchange our guys get to keep those parts if desired? :) Waiting to hear back. I don't yet know much about the system. VP is asking some of his old-timers to write down its history for us. Here is a picture: https://tinyurl.com/y6ldajlb

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