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Where would you suggest someone starts if they want to get into this stuff? Start writing an emulator? Which one would you recommend?


I found playing with AVR microcontrollers to be a nice intro to assembly, and it can be quite rewarding to get some physical response from your code, like a display or turning a servo. I did already have some electronics experience going in though


Low-Level Programming: C, Assembly, and Program Execution on Intel x86-64 Architecture by Igor Zhirkov.


A chip8 emulator


As in the article, try the hello world example in Hatari emulator.




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