https://github.com/mist64/perfect6502
perfect6502 is a MOS 6502 CPU emulator that performs a simulation of the original NMOS 6502 netlist that was extracted by the visual6502.org project.
Consequently, perfect6502 is
- 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.
- slow: Even though perfect6502 is highly optimized C code, achieves only 1/30 of the speed of a 1 MHz 6502 on a high-end CPU of 2020.
perfect6502 is useful for
- understanding and reverse engineering the 6502
- debugging 6502 emulators by running them side by side with perfect6502