SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Aug 2001

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   > 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
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   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
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  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