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Timeline for Shortest infinite loop producing no output

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Jun 17, 2020 at 9:04 history edited Community Bot
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S Apr 11, 2016 at 16:32 history suggested Erik the Outgolfer CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 11, 2015 at 6:56 comment added Dewi Morgan Back in the day, a particularly nasty "trick" (imho vandalism) that customers would play on unsuspecting computer store owners was to place two bytes akin to this but for the X86, at the beginning of the bootloader, using DOS' debug. This would effectively brick the machine, and most shop staff lacked the nous to know it wasn't just a dead drive.
Oct 7, 2015 at 13:10 comment added Damian Yerrick @steveverrill This is machine code for any 6502 machine that guarantees carry is clear at program start. The C64 OS specifies this, but machines that leave this unspecified need an additional CLC opcode (18ドル) at start for a 1-byte penalty.
Oct 5, 2015 at 20:15 comment added psmears @Random832: Actually some of the later 6502 descendants did have an unconditional branch instruction (BRA, 0x80) - see for example this page (search for "BRA").
Oct 4, 2015 at 18:27 history edited James King CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 3, 2015 at 20:54 comment added ETHproductions It takes a minute after it's submitted to show up/update. I've changed the formatting slightly; hopefully it's better now. Also, if you want to have an actual strikethrough through the word "Assembly", you can just use <s>Assembly</s>.
Oct 3, 2015 at 19:32 history edited James King CC BY-SA 3.0
Added a link to an original, scanned reference manual
Oct 3, 2015 at 19:16 comment added James King It wasn't showing up, thought maybe I misunderstood what I was supposed to do with that snippet :) Already removed, and I'm showing up now... though the format of the results is terrible in both fx and ie
Oct 3, 2015 at 19:10 history edited James King CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 3, 2015 at 19:08 history edited James King CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 3, 2015 at 17:35 history edited James King CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 3, 2015 at 17:32 comment added James King Steveverrill, touché, it is machine code, indeed. And yes, I thought more people would recognize the Commodore 64 than the 65xx family in general :) The VIC-20 used the 6502 and would have been able to run this. So, technically, would my 1541 floppy drive... I vaguely recall being able to reprogram the controller on that. Ah, I still miss my C64 :)
Oct 3, 2015 at 17:18 comment added James King Ya, what Random832 said... I had thought there might be an unconditional branch, but when I checked my (old, old, cracked-plastic-binder) reference manual, there was not. EB was "reserved for future expansion", though, so maybe that was added in to a later version of the chip.
Oct 2, 2015 at 22:21 comment added Random832 @user45891 EB FE is x86. 6502/6510 doesn't have an unconditional short jump instruction.
Oct 2, 2015 at 20:40 comment added Knetic +1 for making an actual program that is small, instead of trying to find the most obscure language that just so happens to have the least characters to represent the structure.
Oct 2, 2015 at 19:54 comment added Level River St Shouldn't this work on any machine with a 6502 / 6510 family processor, not just a C64? Also, what you've written is machine code. The assembly would be BNE -2
Oct 2, 2015 at 19:47 comment added user45891 Or EB FE for the unconditional jump
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Oct 2, 2015 at 18:47 history answered James King CC BY-SA 3.0
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