Re: [stella] TASM

[Kevin Horton <khorton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:10 11/28/01 -0800, you wrote:
> At 08:43 PM 11/28/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > To define data bytes, you use the .db pseudo-op, or for words the .dw 
> > pseudo-op.  i.e.
> >
> > table1:  .db "this is text"
> >          .db 000h,0001h,002h,003h
> >          .db "null-terminated",0
> >          .db 001h,"mixed",034h
> >          .db label
>
> But it also supports .byte and .word syntax, correct?

I don't think it does.

> Does it also support < and > to reference low and high bytes?

No it doesn't.  You do this instead:

           lda #address & 255
           sta low_ptr
           lda #address >> 8
           sta high_ptr

Personally, I don't like the < and > operators anyways so this works good 
for me :-)

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