Re:Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates
by colejohnson66 on Sunday May 10, 2020 @11:24AM
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It’s worth mentioning how simple the computer is. While the Gigatron is an 8-bit computer running at ~8 MHz (and probably more powerful than an 8086), it only has... seventeen instructions (with a few encodings for different operands). The instruction set is so limited, they created Gigatron Control Language (GCL) to allow you to write in a slightly higher level assembly.
So getting an emulator running is quite an achievement.
Re:Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates
by djmips on Sunday May 10, 2020 @02:16PM
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Getting an 6502 emulator up and running is not too difficult and you saw how the author did it "quickly" which I took to mean in a couple of days / a week.
So getting an emulator running is quite an achievement.