Greetings from Brooklyn

[cmd]

Hi all! Catharine from Brooklyn here. I'm not quite old enough to have been an 8-bit child, was born '86, so I've always thought of myself as of the 386 generation. Plus our family computer was a 386SX until 1997, so I spent a lot of time poking DOS to see what would happen. But someone turned me on to Ben Eater's breadboard computer series about a year ago, and I got interested in the 6502. I picked up one of those WDC 65816 single-board computers (w65c816sxb) back in September, and spent several weeks with various datasheets, the board schematic, and a disassembly of the ROM bootloader to figure out how to use it. I had to write a simple disassembler, the one in the cc65 suite didn't do 65816... Keeping track of register widths is a bit hairy (though not really an issue with the bootloader code).

I actually only heard about the Commander X16 about two weeks ago, but the $00/$01 banking mechanism and the auto-incrementing VRAM addresses sounded so elegant I had to know how it felt to use them. So now I have one :) Glad to be here!

-cmd
(my initials, no relation to Commander or Commodore)

[desertfish]

Hello welcome
Do you have a physical commander x16 machine? Very nice

It's not for everyone, but a lot of activity is also taking place in the Commander X16 Discord you might want to consider joining that too

[cmd]

I do! It came on Monday I'll check out the discord, thanks for the heads up.