REFORGE
Atari 2600 / F235
BEING VERIFIED

BRK STACKS PC+2 AND STATUS BEFORE VECTOR TRANSFER

STATUS
BEING VERIFIED
AREA
CPU
RECORDED
2026-07-15
PUBLIC SOURCE
Research dossier / finding 235
RECORD ID
atari2600-f235
SNAPSHOT
d8dcf6d8dd492341

HYPOTHESIS: BRK behaves as a two-byte interrupt boundary despite its one-byte encoding: it pushes PC+2 high then low, pushes P with B/U set, sets live I, and loads the IRQ/BRK vector from $FFFE/$FFFF through the 6507 bus mirror.

Raw traces, ROM material, local paths, and personal data are not part of this public record.