6502
Everything on this page runs on a transistor-level MOS 6502: not a model of one, the die itself, simulated switch by switch. The fastest way in is to make it run something of yours.
Learn
The lesson: from a token to a published cart, then one instruction followed into the silicon.
Cart
Mint a token, build a cartridge by hand or by AI, play it, publish it, and the chip measures it.
Lab and tools
The instruments: the die lit by what it is doing, the tracer, the schematic, the Halfwave Lab. One chip, many views.
Archive
visual6502.org as it was: the wiki rebuilt from its wikitext and the die photography made browsable again.
Where each part answers
| Part | What it is | Answers today | Lands at | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explorer | The die itself, lit by what it is doing, plus the measured tables and the primer. | 6502.tinymachines.ai | /6502/explorer | here |
| The long reads | Every tool's prose as an article, listed longest first: what each instrument is doing, written to be read end to end rather than operated. | tinymachines.ai/6502/reading | /6502/reading | here |
| 6502 API | A transistor-level MOS 6502 over HTTP, one half-cycle at a time. The reference checks itself against the running service. | tinymachines.ai/6502/api/ | /6502/api | here; the subdomain still answers too, until the forward (notes/forward.md) |
| Die Runner | Die Runner: a console whose frames are run on the real die. The builder pages and the cartridge editor live beside it. | games.tinymachines.ai | /6502/games | here |
| Editor | Claim a handle, edit your page, publish a ROM: the registry's writing half, signed in with your token. | games.tinymachines.ai/manage | /6502/manage | here |
| Registry | Everyone publishing cartridges, and what they published. | games.tinymachines.ai/builders | /6502/builders | here |
| Halfwave Lab | A 6502, half a clock phase at a time. The research bench, and it stays one. | halfwave.tinymachines.ai | /6502/lab | here |
| visual6502 Archive | visual6502.org recovered from the Wayback Machine, 174 MB of it: the wiki rebuilt from its wikitext and the die photography made browsable again. | 6502.tinymachines.ai/archive/ | /6502/archive | here |