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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Looking for a kid friendly 6502 assembly language book
by gsteemso 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

> mwillega said: > > 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. I confess to limited direct experience -- my only experience with teaching someone assembly language was teaching _myself_ -- but as far as I'm concerned, the late Jim Butterfield's books would be very hard to outdo. They're written on the assumption that the reader is using an 8-bit Commodore, with some insightful leveraging thereof to simplify tutelage, but the explanations of how and why each assembly-language instruction works are superlative. G.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Looking for a kid friendly 6502 assembly language book
by Andy Meyer 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

BTW, if you've got xscreensaver, there's a module called m6502 which looks like it might be useful for testing small 6502 programs. https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ Andy

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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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