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mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
I recently watched this video on programming a 6502 which I thought was a very clear demonstration how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8vPW5hydQ

Obviously this isn't the first hardware or software, but you can totally see how the EPROM could be replaced with a tape reader that just seeks to the requested address. I never really had to look into how processors fetch data or instructions in detail but this immediately made sense in a way that blinking LEDs didn't.

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mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

FalseNegative posted:

I'd recommend working through Ben Eater's entire 8-bit CPU series (and build one!) It's great fun, isn't too expensive given the other hobbies in these threads and quite relaxing.

The only real caveat is buy nice breadboards. Shoddy power cause a lot of ghosts in the machine and frustrating issues. Don't skimp on the power supply either, mine is pulling down 2-3 amps at 5.2v or so.



Yeah the who series is great and I second the recommendation, but while I do have unreasonable amounts of patience, I think I'd start murdering people indiscriminately by the time I got eve a third of those wires down

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