Using PDP-11 to build 6502 makes a lot of sense but using that 6502 to prototype for a even simpler processer is very clever. I'm just getting into electronics as something to do over COVID; I feel I'm re-visiting a bit of that era.

The 8-bit computer I'm working on 6502-based. One of the first things I did after "Hello World" on the hardware was write an emulator/debugger for the whole system in C#. I also get to use a pretty nice macro assembler compared to what you would have had back in the day.

You may have encouraged me to go back to a project I've put on hold: I started writing a high-level language that compiles to 6502 assembly. I could use C but it's not very 8-bit friendly and I want to go higher level than that but still keep the 8-bit-ness in mind. I've created a lot of macros but that only gets you so far.