On 07/30/2017 08:19 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 7/30/2017 4:52 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
This popped into my mind: what if you want to display a large amount of text? I assume there's some better way than loading each individual character. The book I'm reading may explain it in a later chapter, and maybe it's counterproductive for me to ask at this point! Not looking for a code example right now. But someone please assure me assembly isn't always * this tedious *.
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It depends on what you need by a larger amount of text. A line or a couple of lines, you'd use a loop. A lot more than that, you might have to read it off disk.. which is an entirely different conversation.
Check out this for a simple hello world Merlin style:
Thanks. Presumably/hopefully the "ASC" command is covered later in the book.
The BEQ and BPL instructions are what are called branch logic conditions...
I understand branching in theory but I don't understand most of your detailed explanation. Fortunately I don't * need * to understand that right now. Will save your message for when the right time arrives.