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• History – The History of the SD-8516.
• Code Gremlins
• Zero Page Technology VC-2 Part I
• The SD-8510 Unveiled VC-2 Part II
• Mode 6 Test Chamber VC-3 series

• This machine does not exist
• Flag Operations are Free – A discussion of flag operations via profiling various instructions
• Emulation Benchmarks – How SD-8516 emulates various systems
• AssemblyScript in C – A practical, real-world look at how C can be used to compliment AssemblyScript
• Music File Format
• SD-8516 ISA Review – A critical review of the decisions that went into the SD-8516 ISA
• One Instruction Per Cycle – “flag operations are free” part II
• What's a Language – What's a programming language, anyways?
• TinyC-1 - Bootstrapping 'tc1', a typical Tiny C compiler, on the SD-8516
• 256k vs 512k
• TinyC for the SD-8516
• SD-8516 PPU

• Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
• r/SD8516 on Reddit
• March 2026 Closed Beta
• Hall of Fame