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WozMon on the BE6502

Imagesource: https://youtu.be/HlLCtjJzHVI

And the story continues – or rather: It's being written further, with no end in sight. After Ben Eater – @ben_eater on Twitter – has equipped his BE6502 breadboard computer with a serial terminal adapter, it's now time for the software side of the next logical step.

A tool that makes it easier to get software into the thing. And what could be more suitable than the machine monitor known as WozMon, written by Steve Wozniak for the Apple I?

The direction that Ben is taking with this video is interesting – WozMon, along with SWEET16, are milestones in the history of software development, and studying the sources of both is more than worthwhile. For the BE6502, there could also be other directions than Cupertino ... but maybe the current video is just a brief discourse, and we can look forward to something completely new with the next one.

As always, wonderfully prepared by Ben, although a real walk-through of the diff would have been even even more interesting.

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