Speaking of 6502s, was Re: 70's micros still available - was 1802 problems

On Monday 02 January 2006 07:21 pm, Philip Pemberton wrote: Speaking of 6502s, I happen to have a whole bunch of those, and some 6510s, and 6522s and 6526s, and perhaps even some 6551 (?) UARTs too. Anybody have anything particularly nifty that these would be good for? I kinda like Garth Wilson's workbench computer, and definitely don't want to go the route that some have gone (found on the web) where multiple floppy drives and writing a bloody dos for it and all that sort of thing get involved. Anybody know of some simple monitor-type software that's out there? And, any suggestions for getting familiar with this stuff when most of my 8-bit thinking is the 8080/8085/z80 type parts? The idea of rom on top of address space and that whole zero-page bit and only a 256-byte stack still strike me as pretty strange... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin