Re: [stella] Binary to Decimal routine (small!)

[Greg Miller <gmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Davie wrote:

> I needed a binary-to-decimal conversion routine, to convert my binary (2
> byte) score into 5 decimal digits for use by the previously posted
> double-height 6-digit score routine.  The last digit is 0 in my game.  As I
> only use two bytes for my score (binary), my range is 0-65535 (ie: score is
> 0-655350)

I'm going to be lazy here... Rather than write a version of the score 
handling to compare it, I'm going to make a suggestion and let you do 
the hard part ;)

Have you tried doing all your score calcs in BCD? That may save you a 
few instructions.
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