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# perfect6502
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*perfect6502* is a MOS 6502 CPU emulator that performs a simulation of the original NMOS 6502 netlist that was extracted by the [visual6502.org](http://www.visual6502.org/) project.
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Consequently, *perfect6502* is
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* *perfect*: It is not a reimplementation of the 6502, but a simulation of the original transistors. Its complete behavior, its internal state and its outputs are half-cycle exact.
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* *slow*: Even though *perfect6502* is highly optimized C code, achieves only 1/150 of the speed of a 1 MHz 6502 on a high-end CPU of 2014.
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*perfect6502* is useful for
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* understanding and reverse engineering the 6502
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* debugging 6502 emulators by running them side by side with *perfect6502*
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## Usage
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As a demonstration and as a performance/regression test, *perfect6502* is hooked up to [Commodore BASIC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_BASIC) (cbmbasic).
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You can compile the project with
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$ make
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and run it with
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$ ./cbmbasic
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You should get the following output:
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**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ****
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64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
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READY.
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# Credits
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*perfect6502* is is written by [Michael Steil](http://www.pagetable.com/) and derived from the JavaScript [visual6502](https://github.com/trebonian/visual6502) implementation by Greg James, Brian Silverman and Barry Silverman.
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# Contributing
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Further performance optimizations are gladly accepted. |