SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Aug 16 06:49:46 2001

> > > Most assemblers haven't got a PRINT statement, so, no, I don't think so.
>
> > Depends upon the environment. Under AmigaOS you have RawDoFmt(), which
is
> > part of Exec and available to Assembly language programmers (and it works
> > similar to C's printf()). Under MS-DOS you have INT 21h, funtion 9, which
> > prints a text string (ended by a `$'). But all you really need is a way
to
> > print out characters, leaving printing of numeric values as a programming
> > exercise.
>
> Besides, why not steal such stuff from BASIC ROM? On the C64, print a string
> from memory by setting A/Y to the localtion and jsr $ab1e, and use the
routine
> at $bdcd that LIST uses to print line numbers for 16-bit unsigned int.

This is the kind of thing on the PC that I was ranting about...

C64, my dog ain't in that fight...

Oh well...
-dq
Received on Thu Aug 16 2001 - 06:49:46 BST