On 1/18/2017 12:08 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
​just use the other two beginner books I posted along with those to learn about Opcodes You can jump back n forth betwee those beginner books to grasp a better understanding Dan
Okay, I downloaded this one:
Using 6502 assembly language : how anyone can program the Apple II https://archive.org/details/Using_6502_Assembly_Language_1982_Datamost how anyone can program the Apple II
Well that sounds like a winner!
Eh. I skimmed the first chapter (skipping the binary math lesson which I already understand). There's something about all these books so far which just makes my eyes glaze over (could it be that low-level languages require .... patience and hard work? Ack!)
Maybe I ought to stick with BASIC and just extend my knowledge beyond what I learned in 7th grade. Argument for that perspective: I'm probably not ready to learn assembly if I haven't even learned PEEK and POKE yet.
If you are satisfied with BASIC as a solution, peek and poke should be sufficient for control if the motor control hardware is memory mapped on the Apple. If machine language routines are actually needed, its likely that folks here can write them for you easily since Integrating them with BASIC is a known quantity.