[Zenst]

Erm you don't run assembly languages you still compile them to machine code!

Fixed width is easier to process and not necasaryly to write. Remember it is about learning a assembler here - not pandaring towards limited computer memory and processing approaches of the time. THAT is a seprate issue and on that note thanks for the mod down point ;|.

[timthorn]

As pjmlp points out, not everyone compiled to machine code by hand - I talked about assemblers being faster, not assembly. Those who did work by hand would also appreciate fixed width and short opcodes, and squared paper...

If this is about learning 6502, then rewriting the official assembly into something new would be antiproductive. But don't blame me for touching your mod points.

[Zenst]

IF its about learning 6502 then its not hard to run a SED script and convert your version into the official version. Work with what you find easiest and use the computer to do the hard work.

I've done hand coding and those who have will agree, its a education in futility in painful uneeded processing for sadists. Coding sheets are fun but when you can type faster than you can write then they are very annoying.

Now back in early home micro days you had no real choice but to hand code your assembly into machine code and in that fixed coding sheets realy made no difference at all and if anything I found got in the way apart from screen design.

Point is in thsis day and age - impossing and having to be forced into learning TLA's when you can have something meaningful is something realy not needed, but thats another story.

Is this about learning 6502 or learning assembler as they are both seperate area's. 6502 has a nice history of reading and was done back in the time were one chap could invent a CPU, one man could write a application etc etc. Nowadays its not as easy due to size/complexity etcetc.

If you want to teach somebody something then imposing artificial limitations of the days - is that realy needed as a extra level of distraction, we can agree to disagree upon that.

[pjmlp]

You still needed to write the program before assembling it, so your suggestion would be taking too much memory in the assembler editor.

[Zenst]

memory is not a issue thesedays for assembly language. to impose such limits today for the sake of history then you may as well cut up bits of cereal box's, get a hole punch and make your own punched cards!

[batista]

6502 is also not for "these days". That said, its a tutorial about _learning_ it, not redesigning it to be modern and easier.