Questions tagged [mos-650x]
For questions on the MOS Technology 650x family of processors. For questions about the 6502 use the "6502" tag.
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What does MOS 6507 do in Atari 2600 when you turn it on without a cartridge?
MOS 6500 family hardware manual says that during a reset (or a start up), processor will fetch program counter from addresses 0xFFFC and 0xFFFD. On Atari 2600 this memory region is mapped to ROM, once ...
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Why does MOS 6502 require an external clock if it has an internal oscillator?
I have a trouble understanding how the MOS 6502 clock works. Possibly due to my extremely low knowledge regarding electronics in general.
According to the Wikipedia:
MOS would introduce two ...
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Who ended up owning Commodore's semiconductor IP?
The question of ownership of Amiga-related intellectual property post-Commodore is famously difficult to answer. My question is: does anyone "own" Commodore's semiconductor IP now, and if so,...
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Were any Apple 1s sold with non-ROR 6502s?
The first production runs of the MOS 6502, in mid-1975, had a bug in
the ROR instruction that caused MOS to "remove" it from the
instruction set by omitting it in the intial documentation. ...
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MOS 8502, just a 6510B?
I'm looking over what little I can find on the 8502, and from what I can see it appears to be a 2 MHz version of the 6510 with an extra I/O pin.
Much ado about the speed, but the Atari's 6502B's were ...
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65C816: Inputs TTL-compatible?
New 65C816 datasheets say that Vih (for the data bus in particular) is 0.8Vdd, i.e. not TTL-compaible.
Old data sheets (for example, the one published in Apple IIgs Hardware Reference) say that at 5V ...
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6510 I/O port initialisation
TL;DR: With what values are the I/O port registers (locations $00 and $01) on the 6510 initialised when it is powered on?
I'm writing a Commodore 64 emulation. The Commodore 64 uses a 6510 ...
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Commodore-Motorola lawsuit in 1984
According to Commodore: The Amiga Years, the reason the Commodore UNIX machine project in the early 80s used the Z8000 rather than the 68000 was an ongoing lawsuit with Motorola:
With the Commodore-...
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6502 branch offset calculation
This question expands on How does the 6502 implement its branch instructions?
I'm working on a cycle accurate VHDL implementation on an FPGA. I have much of the program logic already written, but I ...
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How did the Atari 2600's 6507 handle zero page and stack with only 128 bytes of RAM?
The Atari 2600 used a cut-down version of the 6502 called the 6507. The 6507 was cost reduced by not supporting interrupts and (more importantly) having fewer address lines resulting in that it only ...
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How does the 6502 implement its branch instructions?
The 6502's decode ROM takes an input which tells it when to start the next instruction. In the case of something like an INX or LDA #7F, it is obvious that once the output from the ALU has been ...
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Why did Commodore sell CPUs to its competitors?
Many of the most popular personal computers and video game consoles of the 1970s and 1980s, including those made by Commodore, Apple, and Atari, used the 6502 CPU (or some close relative, such as the ...
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Is it possible to procedurally determine the number of cycles a particular instruction takes on a 6502?
Most emulators store the number of cycles a particular instruction takes in an array, and then adds any conditional cycles if needed (when crossing page boundaries, for example).
I'm wondering if ...
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Use of undocumented opcodes
I figure this is fitting for Retrocomputing.SE because CPUs like the 6502 and Z80 and the PDP-8, and probably others, have undocumented instructions and will happily execute them, in contrast with ...
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What is a use case for the JAM instruction on the MOS Technology 650x family of processors?
I was reading about undocumented opcodes for the 650x family of processors and discovered JAM, an instruction "which simply causes the CPU to freeze, requiring a hardware reset or power cycle to ...
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