[vcf-midatlantic] Furby 6502 subset

Gregg Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 01:15:07 UTC 2022


Hello!
You're not the only one. One of the Japanese vendors I believe did
that, since the R6502 is available as a core for gate arrays and then
promptly created the whole business and added more instructions to the
 mix.  It came up in a Hack A Day article not all that long ago, and
got me surprised. The rumor that they were banned from certain US
Government offices because of their ability to repeat what they've
heard is sadly still around, even though the Feds have insisted it was
not the case.
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 7:46 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> I'm toying with some 6800, 6809, FLEX and RT68MX (hardware and software) and came
> across this:
>
> The Furby CPU was based on the 6502
>
> Furby (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17751599 , actually a 6502-subset)
> http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf
>
> Never knew that.
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