[vcf-midatlantic] Woohoo!
Evan Koblentz
evan at vcfed.org
Sun Jul 30 13:09:35 EDT 2017
> There’s an entry for PRIMM, and if follow that page to the last version (by Russ Archer) you’ll see a very nice way of doing it. Just change to your local character-output subroutine.
>
> jsr PUTSTRI
> db “Hello world. Wow.”
> db 0
Interesting! What are the pros/cons of doing it this way vs. the way
Adam posted (http://ceos.io/dev/hello.s)?
> Suggestions on your original code:
>
> Use labels, not hard coded addresses (“magic numbers”). Most assemblers also allow character constants, like:
>
> lda #’H’
> jsr OUTCH
I'll try that. I suppose the book starts with hard-coded addresses to
teach readers what happens underneath.
> Etc. Use of magic numbers is highly discouraged and would fail pretty much any code review.
Understood.
> But… congrats on your first 6502 assembly language program!
Thanks!
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