Modern 6502

Modern 6502 Posted: March 27, 2016 Updated: April 16, 2016 Introduction A few years ago while searching for electronic parts, I stumbled on the Western Design Center W65C02 processor. Even though it's in a DIP packaging, which makes it easy for a hobbyist like me to breadboard, it would still have required RAM and other chips to make it useful. Considering this chip was the first processor I learned to program on, the 6502 is more like a religious thing for me so I got two of them. I ended up mounting one of them on the side of the door at the entrance to my house for spiritual protection. A few years later while doing my daily hackaday.com reading, I discovered the W65C265SXB board, a modern microcontroller with a 6502 (actually 65C816) at its core. I did a really good job resisting buying one for a while, but eventually gave in. To put this board to use I decided to put up this page with 3 small projects (added a 4th more recently) to show off some things that can be done with ... Read full article.