6502 as a Service
Published on: 2025-05-23 10:34:10
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6502 Available in the Chiplab
Run your programs against a real 6502. 6502 As A Service.
The 6502 is now available in the Chiplab! This allows you to upload your programs to be queued for running against a real 6502 chip. For each cycle of execution, you can observe the values of all the busses of the physical chip.
This can be used in place of an emulator for a highly accurate way to test your 6502 programs. It can also be used to research the behavior of this chip, which I believe will be an effective way of developing highly accurate emulators. Towards the end of the article I’ll share a repo in case you’d like to help.
You can run your programs against a real 6502 chip today. The rest of this post will cover some technical details involved in getting the chip online.
Using the 6502 Chiplab.
The system is designed to allow you to write code in assembly language, or upload your pre-assembled programs. These will be queued for execution on the chip. After it is y
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