Lab 2 Preparation

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Hi all,

I unfortunately missed the SPO600 class on Monday this week. From the description of this class given to me by other students, it seems that what we covered the previous Friday was extended upon. As well, looking at the requirements for lab 2, it seems this class was highly relevant. Because of this, I will have to catch up.

I recognize a few things. For one, the code we looked at last Friday is the code we are working with for lab two. As well, the TYA command we are told to enter transfers the Y register to the accumulator. The result from adding the TYA command should be vertical stripes, just like we saw last Friday.

I am enjoying working with the 6502 emulator so far. Assembly is confusing, but the operations themselves are easy to parse since they are so simple. I look forward to the remainder of lab 2.

Final thing, I have managed to get my hands on an Assembly and Microprocessors textbook (found in the depths of my basement). While the resources in this book are likely less relevant to the 6502 than the documents provided in class or through the wiki, I hope it will shed some light on some of the more arcane processes.

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