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- From: count0@mail.hb.provi.de (Count Zero)
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- Subject: Re: Is there a 6502 CPU in a Nintendo?
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 23:33:57 GMT
- Organization: Forplay Germany
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- STEVE MELLO (mello.med@shands.ufl.edu) wrote:
- : I've been told that there is a 6502 CPU in a Nintendo game
- : console and some of the other ones. Does anyone know if this is
- : true?
-
- NO ! There is a 65c816 ... The Command-Set of that CPU is quite
- similar to the one used in the 6502 and it for real is just an
- advanced verision of the 6502.
-
-
- : If so, how do they do there development?
- :
-
- Using crossassemblers from the PC mostly ... Sceners use a
- back-up station to get the stuff running on the SNES then,
- others use a development system which Nintendo sells for some
- thousand $$ ...
-
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