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by antirez 1735 days ago
Strange exercise because Rust and the 6502 original programming mood are totally different: a word of cleverness and the most obscure side effects in order to squeeze the last clock cycle. But everything is "hack value", I will respect.
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I don't think you can get past that the 6502 was meant to be programmed in assembly. Some of the tricks needed to optimally use memory just don't lend themselves to higher level languages. I started with a lot of basic and then moved to assembler because it was the easiest path.