Date   : Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:32:44 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Visual 6502

On 20/09/2010 13:51, beeb@... wrote:

> See what the 6502 is doing when running! Hot, racey diagrams of a 6502
> with no clothes on!

Nice concept, but slow and memory-hungry in an epic sense. I hope the 
C++ version gets done soon so a native Windows executable (and, yes, for 
other systems too!) can be created.

I briefly thought about seeing if I could port the JS to VB to roll my 
own. Then I looked at the data embedded in the script and thought that 
my free time is way too short to wade through all of that. The operation 
looks fairly simple and to the point. Implementation, on the other hand...


That said, it is nice to finally get a peek into the inner workings of 
such a thing as a processor.


Best wishes,

Rick.

PS: The person running the site says he is open to offers regarding
     hardware to examine, yet he puts a date of "before 1985". I think
     the A305/A310 turned up in 1987, I wonder if we might swing it to
     ask if an ARM2 could receive the same treatment based upon the
     original ARM dating from "around then"? I have, somewhere, some old
     chips - I wonder if an ARM2 is one of them? I have a horrible
     suspicion it's the original MEMC...

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