Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This was a video i made where i was trying and get the only assembly language program i have for the Commodore 64 working, so i could try and write a program to inspect how an actual 6502 processor works.
This is to aid in creating a correct emulator for the processor.
However, i couldn't get this program to do what i wanted, but it was interesting to try out 1983 software and see how it works.
It's not in the video but i found that this program is actually a BASIC program which explains why it assembles so slowly (even just a 3 line program seemed to take nearly a second). But impressive none the less that somebody decided to write a machine code assembler in BASIC.
I couldn't find a way to actually run the assembled program without having to reboot the computer and reload the softare (which is tedious from tape). So i didn't persevere.
This was a video i made where i was trying and get the only assembly language program i have for the Commodore 64 working, so i could try and write a program to inspect how an actual 6502 processor works.
This is to aid in creating a correct emulator for the processor.
However, i couldn't get this program to do what i wanted, but it was interesting to try out 1983 software and see how it works.
It's not in the video but i found that this program is actually a BASIC program which explains why it assembles so slowly (even just a 3 line program seemed to take nearly a second). But impressive none the less that somebody decided to write a machine code assembler in BASIC.
I couldn't find a way to actually run the assembled program without having to reboot the computer and reload the softare (which is tedious from tape). So i didn't persevere.
