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I don't have any documentation but I would imagine that as these chips have been in existence for so long, its behaviour is extremely well understood, including most, if not all, of its weak points. The work around for these weak points should also be well known.



The nice thing about the 6502 is that it is completely reverse engineered down to the transistor level, so it's possible to explore what exactly is going on in the chip for each clock cycle even when the original design documents had been lost:

http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

(and shameless plug, my own 'remix' with better performance and more features: https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/)


I wonder if that makes finding replacements easier too, since you can comfortably find (or even make) new ones.


Blank black window for the remix. What should I be seeing?

[Edit: It's webgl. I don't have webgl in QubesOS :(.]




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