• nthcdr@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    (format t “Hello ~a” 'World). If I’m on vacation and come back to the land of C based languages I will have reverted to the only syntax I enjoy working in.

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      @anders @nthcdr lda #0 ; Load accumulator with character code for NULL
      sta $0400 ; Store it in the screen memory to clear the screen
      ldx #0 ; Initialize X register to 0
      loop lda message,x ; Load the next character from the message
      beq done ; If the character is NULL (end of string), we are done
      sta $0400,x ; Store the character in the screen memory
      inx ; Increment X register
      bne loop ; Branch back to the loop
      done rts ; Return from subroutine
      message .text “Hello World!”,0 ; Null-terminated string