RP2040 - Bare Metal 6502 Emulator - BMA 09

A Pico 6502 emulator - BMA09

Join David as he presents a 6502 emulator that he designed to run on a Raspberry Pi Pico. He describes the design considerations for the project and steps through how an op-code is decoded, parsed, operated on and then checked for condition flags.

Link to “Bare Metal Adventures, Chapter 08”:
   • RP2040 - Bare Metal Interrupts and De...  

Link to “TIM, 6502’s First Companion”:
   • The 6530-004, the 6502's First Compan...  





00:00 - Introduction
00:56 - Why make another emulator?
02:08 - Emulator Goals
03:02 - 6502 Review
05:18 - RP2040 SRAM
06:07 - Emulator Theory of Operations
09:11 - Fetching and Decoding an Instruction
11:55 - LDA ABS Instruction Demonstration
15:28 - Relative Branching
17:04 - JMP and JSR Instructions
17:57 - Arithmetic Functions
18:37 - X and Y Indexes
19:32 - Closing

Music:
(Pinnacle 25 royalty-free music):
Pulsing Dance
City Night Groove