Re: [stella] Re: Help with efficient code

[Greg Miller <gmiller@xxxxxxxx>]

> >                 lda  blocks,x   ;I'm still a little fuzzy on what exactly
> >                 sta  TEMP       ;this part here is doing and how
> >                 lda  blocks+1,x ;it's doing it, but I guess it'll be in
> >                 sta  TEMP+1     ;my 6502 book.
> 
> All you are doing is getting the full 16 bit address of the particular
> "block" of data you want into a 16 bit variable (low order byte/high
> order byte) in the zero page.  Once the address is loaded, you then read
> the data using this variable address, rather than having to hardcode
> each of the addresses somehow...

BTW: Another tactic is to push them on the stack and RTS instead of using the
STAs and JMP.
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