I started off in Basic too, way back when. The 6502 was used in the early Atari video game, and I did quite a lot of programming on that processor. It had a fun instruction set because there were so many different combinations of address modes and operands that there was always a way to squeeze out another instruction or two.
the only instruction, I know from the head is NOP, no operation. I used it often. It costs processor-time.
It could be that this processor was used in the Atati video games. Beginning 1979 you had also the Tandy computer ( the name I am forgotten) but I thought his heart where also the 6502.
It was/is a slow processor, but that time I was enthusiastic.
I used that time the PET from Commodore.
8 K RAM. Upgraded then to 32 K. That was large for that time.
Here in holland, where that time not much people who used privately a computer.
I have had , more cumputer-models from commodore.
I small time I did flowcharting on programming the 6502.
But all of that, programming and electronics , i did it about the same time.
You could do a lot of things with the PET. He has a IEEE.
so there where lotse of electronic schema of building things for it.
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Frits
