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+A simulator of the venerable MOS 6502 microprocessor written in pure Julia.
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+A couple of things to note:
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+- This is a full-blown simulator of the 6502, not a performance-oriented emulation.  Of course the 6502 came out in 1975 so in theory most modern systems
+    shouldn't have much trouble running full-blown games with this simulator (if I ever get that far).  However, poor performance should not be interpretted as
+    poor performance of the wonderful and very performant Julia language!
+- Currently I'm making no effort to make this simulation generic.  It is designed only for the 6502.