I plan to do some demonstrations of assembly language programming, so I thought I’d do a short intro. This is about the 6502 family of microprocessors, which were used in many computers of the 1980s, and are still produced by the millions for embedded hardware and hobby projects. The 6502 is a pretty easy CPU to program, because it has a fairly small set of instructions, and yet it’s powerful enough to do interesting things.

I did forget to mention a few instructions, mainly the ones having to do with comparing numbers and doing boolean operations. I think I’ll cover those in a video on the full instruction set, and maybe another video just on binary arithmetic and hexadecimal, since those are pretty much a necessity for assembly language work.

My camera kept refocusing once in a while, but I hope that’s not too distracting.