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skilldrick.github.io is a personal blog at skilldrick.github.io about programming and hardware. Since 2013, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language24 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2016-11-15
- Easy 650210 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2013-09-07
- Easy Forth (2015)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
- Show HN: Easy Forth2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-25
What Hacker News says?
My son and I went through this excellent interactive 6502 tutorial after completing HRM: https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
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on “Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets”Submitted Easy 6502 as a story · 222 points
HN discussionYes. http://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
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on “The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing”Submitted Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language as a story · 207 points
HN discussionA little bit of Easy 6502 [0] but mostly Richard Haskell's Apple II-6502 Assembly Language Tutor [1][2] along with Virtual][ [3] . Basically I'm trying to use assorted manuals I could find in my childhood home's basement, most of which seem to be out of print (although there are some books floating around on archive.org). [0] https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ [1] https://www.amazon.com/Apple-II-6502-assembly-la…
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on “Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]”Submitted Easy Forth (2015) as a story · 206 points
HN discussionThe link he gives in the article, Easy 6502, is a great way to learn 6502. I do recommend it. https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
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on “Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 opcodes on the NES”Submitted Easy 6502 as a story · 172 points
HN discussion6502 is easy to learn. Have some fun here https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ For me the challenge with the NES itself was getting a good tutorial and then with making a game, getting your art from your mind into the tiles and sprites and in your project. Your art 'pipeline'. Once that's established it becomes easier.
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on “Technical Breakdown of a new NES game written in Lisp”Submitted Easy 6502 as a story · 151 points
HN discussionHow would you recommend getting further acquainted with 6502 Assembly? After reading 'Easy 6502' ( https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ ), I'm not sure where to go after that. Awesome project, btw!
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on “Slack client for Commodore 64”Submitted Show HN: Easy Forth as a story · 122 points
HN discussionThere's a nice interactive 6502 tutorial at https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
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on “The Art of Assembly Language (1996)”Submitted Easy Forth: Learn forth with REPL in the browser as a story · 100 points
HN discussion+1 for https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ You can go through that in one pleasant sitting.
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on “I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language”Submitted Easy 6502 as a story · 46 points
HN discussionThanks! 8bitworkshop is a great resource. I am currently working through this online course by Gustavo Pezzi called "6502 Assembly Language for the Atari 2600". https://courses.pikuma.com/courses/atari2600 It has been excellent. Just the pace and level of detail that I need. I am lucky to have stumbled upon it. I am also reading "Making Games for the Atari 2600" by Steven Hugg. Previously I was simply exploring what…
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Learning?”Submitted Show HN: Easy Forth as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAnd yet a million programs were written and sold for it, and it became legendary, and begat a computer revolution. It's so primitive that it can be understood . Relevant fun: https://monster6502.com/ https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
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on “Laptop Based on 6502 CPU”Submitted Easy 6502 – Get started writing 6502 assembly language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis one is quite fun: https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
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on “x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger”Submitted Easy 6502 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recommend the 6502[1] if you're just starting. What you learn applies almost everywhere, and it's very much a what-you-write-is-what-happens sort of processor. No branch prediction, no caches, no fancy features. Its op-set is very small and highly expressive. They still make them, in fact. That said, whether you choose to start with it or RISC-V, from personal experience SiFive's implementations are phenomenal. I…
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on “SiFive Introduces 7 Series RISC-V Cores with E7, S7 and the U7 Series”Submitted Easy Forth: learn Forth in the browser (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEasy 6502 is pretty fun as well: http://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ Since it's a javascript 6502 emulator, you get maybe 60% of the fun of programming for a C64, but just by visiting a web page. On a single page, they take you from making 3 colored pixels to a functioning snake game with explanations of what's happening along the way.
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on “A quick start guide to Commodore 64 assembly programming on Windows (2011)”Submitted 6502 Processor: Tutorial as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLately, I've been reliving my youth of writing 6502 assembly language, inspired in part by one of Ben Eater's videos[1], and with the aid of Easy 6502[2]. I think that programming in assembly language is compelling because it is "rightsized" for the human brain. You spend a lot of time solving small, manageable puzzles about the best way to do achieve small victories like trying to squeeze every last cycle or byte o…
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on “Assembly Nights”Submitted Easy 6502 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDecide for yourself: https://skilldrick.github.io/easyforth/
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on “Forth – Is it still relevant?”6502 and its variants were used in many platforms, particularly video game systems and TV computers like the Apple II family, BBC Micro, Commodore Pet/VIC-20/64, Atari 400/800, Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom, and TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine. Introductory information about it tends to be oriented toward those platforms rather than the chip itself. https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ might be a good starting poi…
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on “Verilog 6502 (2016)”
