[stella] A tiny tip

Subject: [stella] A tiny tip
From: Erik Mooney <erik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:22:51 -0400
Not sure if this has come up here before, but I just discovered it.  To
waste an odd number of cycles, we usually use the unofficial instruction
NOP $00.  Exactly the same effect (3 cycle delay, no registers or flags
affected) can be achieved legally (using one more byte of ROM) by doing:

JMP *+3


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