Let's learn us some Atari 6502 assembly. Why? No idea! Let's discover what this computer system was all about and what it was like to program on it.

Today we are covering Bit Bytes and Binary, not quite doing assembly yet, but we're getting closer! I also get to do some penguin acrobatics, you'll see what I mean!

Book: https://www.atariarchives.org/roots/ Emulator: https://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html Assembler: https://www.mixinc.net/atari/mac65.htm Discord server - https://discord.com/invite/r4pMZAuKGC

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:20 - Bits, Bytes and Binary 00:03:24 - Penguin Math 00:13:32 - Bits, Bytes and Nybbles 00:20:29 - 8-bit Versus 16-bit Computers 00:22:16 - Your Computer's Memory Map 00:24:34 - Your Computer's Address Book 00:25:59 - What a Difference 8 Bits Make 00:28:24 - The Hexadecimal Number System 00:35:42 - Some Illustrative Programs 00:42:44 - Routine for Storing a 16-Bit Number in RAM 00:50:11 - Converting Binary Numbers to Decimal Numbers 00:57:47 - Binary-to-Hex and Hex-to-Binary conversions 00:59:41 - Doing it the Easy Way 01:02:11 - Decimal/Hexadecimal Conversion 01:03:34 - Something to Tide You Over 01:07:15 - Outro