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Whats a good Resource on Learning 6502 Assembly, for someone who has little to no experience Programming? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I've had the idea to try and learn how to Program 6502 Assembly for my Commodore PET, but I'm a little lost on what the best source is on learning this stuff, especially for a beginner who is yet unfamiliar with its full Architecture and Quirks!

Thus far I've tried looking at Books from the PETs Period, but those do expect quite a bit of pre-knowledge in Computing, which for me includes a tiny bit of Python and Commodore Basic...

Edit: Thank you all for Commenting! I'll try out the many Ideas you all had soon and see what works best with me! Thank you all for the Suggestions!

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[โ€“] SanctimoniousApe 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Internet Archive has tons of old scanned books on the subject. Computers were new to a LOT of people at the time most of these were published, so they usually assume minimal knowledge.

Personally, I grew up on COMPUTE! magazine, and found their books to be very good when I was a kid learning this stuff.