Mouser Sells Classic 6502 "Antique" Processor
The 8-bit MOS Technology 6502, launched in 1975 and later used in computers by Apple and Commodore, is available as W65C02S6TPG-14 from Mouser Electronics.
Designed by Western Design Center (WDC), the processor is pin- as well as software compatible to the original 6502 and runs at up to 14 MHz. Its ancestor topped out at 1 MHz. Mouser says the 65C02 consumes about 300µA at a clock speed of 1 MHz. Mouser also offers an IP core of the 65C02 for use in FPGAs.
The 6502 was originally a spin-off of Motorola's 6800 processor, which was initially rejected by customers as being too expensive. Compared to the $300 price tag of the 6800, the 6502 sold for $25. Mouser offers the 65C02 for $6.95 today.
Supreme Geekage
Rmember the days of compute and computes gazette and even run. Typing in all those numbers out of a magazine to play a game, then LOAD "*",8,1
Then there was the almight SID chip with square wave, sawtooth, triangle and noise.
Rmember the days of compute and computes gazette and even run. Typing in all those numbers out of a magazine to play a game, then LOAD "*",8,1
Then there was the almight SID chip with square wave, sawtooth, triangle and noise.
I totally remember doing that. Typing for 30-40mins to watch some program run for like 3 mins. The best was loading games from cassette tapes.
Supreme Geekage
Well, it is a CPU, and it is programmable. So I guess the limit is your own skill and creativity. Also, I could see some nice homebrew commodore project being based off this if a guy could get ahold of the original boot rooms, which really should be easy, if it isn't already floating around on the net already.
Your comment kinda explains your IQ. Not that high, is it. lol
Mr. Perry, please keep an eye out for people making use of this as i would love to see a follow up article to this !
Actually I just returned an Apple II+ I rented to recover some old floppy data. I used ADTPro (Java-based) to boot ProDOS on it. I had to use the cassette port because it didn't have a serial port and I wasn't going to pay $100+ USD for an Ethernet card (they do exist). The cassette port was hooked to my sound card. Crazy but it worked. I was able to dump the floppies (at least the ones that were readable) back to my Ubuntu desktop system and load them in a IIe emulation in MESS.
Seeing Locksmith boot brought back some fond memories. Those were the days.
Wow, that takes me back. I remember playing Ultima 3 on the C64 and thinking how awesome the graphics and sound were (and for the time, they were really good). Seems like another lifetime ago.
So when people COMPLAIN about the high prices of technology (which we are used to nowadays) - they don't know squat! I still have my 1571 drive, its bigger and much heavier than my ThinkPad.
$400 iPad is expensive... blah!
14Mhz 6502 CPU?! geez! Talk about serious upgrade for a C=64!
But yeah, when Apple was buying 6502s for their APPLE IIs, they are buying them from C=
And yes Hoofhearted, I remember the days of LOAD "*",8,1 - I don't miss them.
I of course upgraded to the Amiga 1000 (7Mhz / 512K of RAM / 880k 3.5 floppy drive) which very quickly meant my C=128 was soon put in the closet. Back in 1986~87, the 2MB ram expander for my A1000 had a retail price of about $1600! I got mine used for $300, still have it and its HEAVIER than my ThinkPad, it can be used as a murder weapon. I still use my 1986 era C= 1802C RGB monitor for my video equipment... its the only CRT I still have left. This 12~13" monitor does 640x200 folks, 640x400 in flickering interlace, the picture was far better than a TV, but crap compared to a 60hz VGA screen... but back then, a VGA monitor was $600~1200.
You can take one of these chips and build a commodore like computer from the ground up, for learning of course.
I still remember how to turn on / off the Auxilary Memory (in order for the 16bit address space to address 128k of memory)
How to to bootstrapping, hack games with the *monitor* (entry point call -151)
How to turn on and off the FDD stepper motor, and writing into 1/2 of track when truning on two magent at the same time. (Disk protection technique)
How to calculate and draw in the Hires and Double Hires memory buffer.
Use of the undocumented instruction in the 65C02 instruction set for anti debugging.
etc...etc...etc....