User guide

these conditions firstly to benefit the end-user, so that they will (hopefully) encounter the correct and up to date
version and not spin-offs; and secondly to benefit myself, as I’ve been ripped off before and taken flak for problems in
software versions that were not my own. Once bitten, twice shy.
9. I am a British citizen living in France.
This entire software product, and all documentation, was created within the confines of département 35, France.
Thus, this software and its use is under the jurisdiction of appropriate French and European legislation.
The application of American law is expressly prohibited.
10. This software is enirely my own creation. I have used concepts (such as the “org” command) common in other
assembler, notably Acorn’s objasm and BBC BASIC II, but the actual implementation and source code is entirely
my own. I’m not going to discuss the appalling crap known as “infringement of software patents”. Such nonsense,
very thankfully, is untenable within the European Union... let’s keep it that way!
Them’s the rules.
If you don’t like them, you know what you can do about it...
Contact
You can email me at:
heyrick1973 -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- uk
I request that you do not make this email address ‘public’ with the ‘@’ and the ‘.’; and
certainly do not write it in a newsgroup posting! At all!
The Amélie project can be found at:
http://www.heyrick.co.uk/amelie/
Misc
6502asm was mostly written while sitting in bed feeling ill. Ironically, this document was first written about a
year after the first version of 6502asm was made... having just been to the dentist and having all four nerves
removed from a rear molar awaiting a crown fixing, and one nerve totally refused to stop, aaaaaaagh! The
revision was written whilst feeling very ill from eating something which is best described as “possibly
tainted”. It isn’t at all helpful that the toilet is the other end of the house through half a dozen doors and windy
passageways...
There must be something about 6502asm and pain. Gee, and silly little me thought that x86 code was where
true pain lay?
A technical achievement, the first working versions were written on a DOS-based laptop that used a 256
colour LCD panel comprising of four segments...and only segments 1 and 3 (top quarter height and middle-
lower quarter) worked! I listened to various CDs, mainly Evanescence’s “Fallen”, The Corrs’ “Unplugged”,
Alizée’s “Mes Courants Electriques”, and Laura Pausini’s “(Best Of) e ritorno da te”.
For the updates and the user guide, I listened to Dido’s “Life For Rent” album, as well as Sita’s “L’Envers Du
Décor” album. I also borrowed an album of Céline Dion’s from the library just to see what she did with her
cover of the song “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”. A choice word might be “calamitous”.
Please excuse any typing errors – I was watching (again) “La Morte Vivante” (or “The Living Dead Girl” in
English), while writing this. :-)
6502asm user guide – prerelease version
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