Agreed. As an electronics hobbyist, learning 6502 was almost stupidly easy (this was with past experience programming x86 assembly). Once I decided to actually

Agreed. As an electronics hobbyist, learning 6502 was almost stupidly easy (this was with past experience programming x86 assembly). Once I decided to actually implement a motherboard with an 8080 processor, I gave up after a few hours tearing my hair out over the datasheet. The timings are horrid, and the fact that memory locations intersect each other based on seemingly random equations...too complicated. I'm sure given enough time I could have figured it out, but all the external chips needed to deal with memory locations and IO would have been a nightmare.