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		renewedrebecca on Feb 6, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first ass... And you'd have to spend a ton of time porting to each target system. OTOH, the Z80 is better for this, because you can at least get CP/M up and running with a minimum of trouble.

musicale on Feb 7, 2025 [–]

With an 8088 you could port DOS (which resembles CP/M-86) though games would require more memory and a video chip. But we've kind of left true 8-bit territory at this point.

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