well, i actually like assembly language (i've played on the 6502, z80, 8085/6, and actually had a class on assembly language for the pdp-11 series and the 68k). if you're not familiar with assembly, the 6502 will make you hate it, it's almost a risc architecture in some ways. i played with the 6502 in high school in an apple IIe hand assembling a couple of pieces of short code, it's not too bad for something simple, for anything serious i'd hate to assembly program any thing other than a 68k family device or one of the related microcontrollers. they have a really, really nice, clean instruction set and the 68k chips at least have lots of instructions that are great for writing complex code and keeping things nice, and even allowing recursion very easily. if you like 6502 assembly programing, more power to you, it's not for the faint of heart or those who give up easily. i would be interested if you know of a good assembler program for the 6502 (preferably free ware or share ware), doubtless once i play with mine again i'll want to write some small subroutines at least, it's nice that the basic plays well with assembly which is mostly how i've used it in the past.
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