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		Someone on Jan 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy in the World A9 xx xx is load accumulator absolute Make that A9 xx; The 6502 accumulator is 8 bits.

exception on Jan 4, 2011 [–]

Thanks for the correction, you're right A9 is load immediate I was mixing it up with AD xx xx which follows as 8D is the equivalent store.

I wasn't saying that the accumulator was 16 bit though, rather that the load is from an absolute 16 bit address.

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