[Gllug] BBC and acorn bits

[John Winters]

- 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.

John
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