8-Bit CPUs — 6502/6510 & Z80
- 1. Two Chips, One Era
- 2. The 6502 — Design Philosophy: Minimalism
- 3. 6502 Registers and the Stack
- 4. 6502 Addressing Modes — Zero Page as "Extra Registers"
- 5. The Z80 — Design Philosophy: Richness and Compatibility
- 6. Z80 Registers — Main, Shadow, and Index
- 7. Z80 Addressing Modes and the Stack
- 8. Writing the Same Program in Both
- 9. Interrupts — NMI/IRQ/BRK vs. IM 0/1/2
- 10. Where These Chips Actually Lived
- 11. RISC vs. CISC — The Debate These Two Chips Actually Preview
- 12. Capstone — Building and Comparing Two Small Programs