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		coldcode on May 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Floating Point Routines for the 6502 (1976) I remember coding for the 6502, such an amazingly small set of opcodes.

karmakaze on May 10, 2015 [–]

And I remember the small amount of memory and registers. Only the free fast zero page memory could save you.

ddingus on May 10, 2015 | [–]

Or, self modifying code.

karmakaze on May 11, 2015 | | [–]

So true, it gave you performance and seemingly additional addressing modes--wasn't just to obfuscate or be cute.

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