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This is amazing. It brings back memories of the first time I taught myself 6502 assembly, there was a book called “The Visual Computer” that came with an emulator on a floppy disk. It was very eye opening! I found a PDF of the book [1] but not sure if the software on the floppy survives anywhere.

[1] https://files.commodore.software/reference-material/books/c6...

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Not sure about the C64 one but I've seen the Apple ][ one on the software archive sites before sites before. It's The Visible Computer, a reference to these educational models:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_214319

'Visual 6502' is the name of the modern gate and transistor level 6502 simulators:

http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

Thank you, you’re right, I remembered the name wrong. It was The Visible Computer. I was learning on an Apple //c

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