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#asm

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Any 6502 wonks among my followers?

I've got an intriguing one disassemblng this ROM and wonder if it was common on embedded stuff. This pattern appears quite a lot in disassembled code:

LDA $AAAA
LDA #$FF

I'm quite sure the second op overwrites whatever happened in the first op (which makes LDA $AAAA superfluous). Or is it some magic foo on the 6502 to (eg.) force a reset?

(CS lines has this reading from the EPROM in this case, and A12..A15 aren't connected either so it masks...)

#asm #6502

I'm start thinking about writing my own (floppy) OS. Something more sophisticated that "run first block of code and die" that I have now for my boot-games. I did some investigation and turns out using Real mode it will be super easy and fun.

First the hardest part: the name :)

p.s. Perplexity is super good with explaining everything in my level of senior knowledge (describe it in your profile!)