Feb 4 · 7 min read · When you're developing an assembler for vintage hardware, you need a way to test your output. Running generated binaries on original hardware isn't practical for automated testing, and full-featured emulators like VICE are overkill when all you need ...
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Feb 2 · 11 min read · Introduction The Commodore 64 refuses to die. Four decades after its release, a passionate community continues to push the hardware to its limits, and 2026 marks an exciting milestone: the Commodore 64 Ultimate is finally shipping. This modern reimag...
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Aug 3, 2025 · 20 min read · Introduction Have you ever wondered what happens under the hood when you run a computer program? How does a CPU interpret instructions? How does memory work? In this post, I'll take you through building a virtual machine (VM) from scratch using Rust....
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Mar 22, 2025 · 3 min read · While I based my hardware designs completely off of Beneater’s videos and schematics, many lessons were learned while building and troubleshooting this machine. Before this project, the most ambitious hardware projects involved using an Arduino, sens...
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Feb 25, 2025 · 1 min read · Introduction In this project, I modified a 6502 Assembly program originally designed for addition and turned it into a subtraction calculator. I used and adapted code from Krins Kumar’s blog post. This post satisfies that requirement by clearly label...
Join discussionFeb 3, 2025 · 13 min read · Hello! In this article, I will be talking about strings inside the 6502 processor. Before I dive into this aspect, let’s discuss what we mean by a string exactly. What is a String? A string is a data type that contains characters enclosed in double q...
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Feb 2, 2025 · 5 min read · Our project is a basic calculator that does the following: Clears the screen using a ROM routine. Displays a title (“Calculator”). Prompts the user to enter two numbers (each from 0 to 99). Adds the two numbers together using Binary-Coded Decimal...
Join discussionJan 28, 2025 · 23 min read · Some of you may have read the title and said ew, math (I kind of do this at times). Jokes aside, we can agree that math is a fundamental concept of programming. In fact, for assembly language I believe it does require a much more logical understandin...
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