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It used the MOS 6502 CPU, which was also used for the Apple I, Apple II, the Commodores and Atari and Nintendo (NES, SNES) game consoles! https://www.youtube.c
by 7373737373 6y ago
It used the MOS 6502 CPU, which was also used for the Apple I, Apple II, the Commodores and Atari and Nintendo (NES, SNES) game consoles!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqBmmPQP40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqBmmPQP40
http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
https://eater.net/6502 https://eater.net/6502
- the-dude 6y agoYou are not wrong, but at least the C64 used the 6510 ( a variant ).
- royjacobs 6y agoThat CPU is still going strong. In fact, I'm currently building an assembler for the 6502 in Rust. https://mos.datatra.sh https://mos.datatra.sh
- elvis70 6y agoAnd clocked at 2 MHz! Twice the frequency of the Apple II or the C64.
- OnlyMortal 6y agoLuxury! Though I did have a VIC 2 and SID to solve many problems. Elite was very slow on the C64 because of the CPU speed. Line drawing and hidden surface removal were expensive.