[Gllug] BBC and acorn bits

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 17:20 +0000, John Winters wrote:
> - Tethys wrote:
> > On 11/16/06, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
> > 
> >> 6502 crap. Real game programers wrote in Z80 machine code
> > 
> > I'd have to disagree there. 6502/6510 is a beautiful chip to work with.
> 
> <AOL>  I cut my assembler teeth on the Z80 and couldn't believe how much 
> nicer the 6502 was when I switched to that.  The Z80 looks attractive 
> initially because of the number of registers, the number of instructions 
> and the clock speed, but when you actually try producing lean mean and 
> clean code the 6502 beats it hands down.  It also produces significantly 
> better performance from lower clock speeds.  A sort of proto-RISC chip.

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