27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a great walkthrough of chip reverse engineering and the story of Visual 6502.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Christiaan008

Topic

cpu reverse engineering

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• There's a lot of information about reverse engineering some of the older CPUs around e.g. the MOS6502 (NES, Apple II, C64, etc). This is a great presentation showing how this CPU is reverse engineered: [VIDEO] Basically it comes down to the fact that you can't …

• If you have no experience in digital electronics at all, I would actually start with a book like Code by Charles Petzold. It's a pop-science book about electronics and goes from light bulbs and switches to simple logic blocks like adders. It covers the basic …

• Here's a nice talk video covering the story from the origins of the 6502 to the Visual 6502 (but not the wasm Remix): [VIDEO] .