{"id":64,"date":"2009-05-05T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T08:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2009-05-05T00:01:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T08:01:54","slug":"terminator-6502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"The 6502 in "The Terminator""},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first Terminator<\/a> movie, the audience sees the world from the T-800’s view several times. It is well-known<\/a> that in two instances, there is 6502 assembly code on the T-800’s HUD<\/a>, and many<\/a> sites<\/a> have analyzed the contents: It’s Apple-II code taken from Nibble Magazine<\/a>. Here are HD versions of the shots, thanks to Dominik Wagner:<\/p>\n

This is the first assembly snippet:<\/p>\n

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This is the second assembly snippet:<\/p>\n

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There are some assembly equates:<\/p>\n

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On the left, these are the assembled opcodes of the second assembly listing, reaching from “LDY#10” to “SEC”. On the right, there is output of a run of the checksum application Key Perfect<\/a> on a file names “OVLY.OBJ”, which prints a 16 bit checksum for every 0x50 bytes:<\/p>\n

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In the first Terminator movie, the audience sees the world from the T-800’s view several times. It is well-known that in two instances, there is 6502 assembly code on the T-800’s HUD, and many sites have analyzed the contents: It’s Apple-II code taken from Nibble Magazine. Here are HD versions of the shots, thanks to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-archeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}