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Don't have any experience with the 6502, but I was able to pick up z80 assembly syntax pretty easily. Very user friendly in my opinion, but I've met people who
by caseymarquis 10y ago
Don't have any experience with the 6502, but I was able to pick up z80 assembly syntax pretty easily. Very user friendly in my opinion, but I've met people who swear it's terrible and awkward in comparison to their preferred instruction set, so ymmv.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoCompared to the 6809 or the m68k, it's awkward as all hell. Compared to the 6502, it's still awkward. Comparing Z80 assembler to 6502 assembler is like comparing CL to Scheme. The Z80 gets some things Right that the 6502 doesn't, but the 6502 does the Right Thing more often, and is very elegant and minimal. However, the Z80 has a ton of useful building blocks that the 6502 sacrifices to keep that elegance. I prefer Scheme to CL, but I think I like Z80 better than 6502. Go figure...
- caseymarquis 10y agoI'm working on likely the last product we'll ever make with z80 based assembly, so hopefully I'll be trying some alternatives in the next year or so. Thanks for the comparison.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoHuh, really? What's the product?