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Re: Which program can you use to convert float into 5 bytes for ASM?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 3:20 pm
by mgkaiser
Is there a way to write an assembler macro that takes a float constant and a name and emits "name .byte $00 $00 $00 $00 $00" where "name" is the name specified and the bytes are the float constant?
Re: Which program can you use to convert float into 5 bytes for ASM?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 3:21 pm
by mgkaiser
Or even better, bake into one of the 6502 assembler a datatype called ".float" into which you put a float constant and it emits 5 bytes?
Re: Which program can you use to convert float into 5 bytes for ASM?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 8:15 pm
by PaulForgey
Mine has .df that does just that.
Re: Which program can you use to convert float into 5 bytes for ASM?
Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 7:31 pm
by mgkaiser
PaulForgey wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 8:15 pm
Mine has .df that does just that.
Which assembler is yours? Sounds like it might become mine too....
Re: Which program can you use to convert float into 5 bytes for ASM?
Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 4:27 pm
by PaulForgey
It’s my own project, github.com/PaulForgey/xasm
It’s very picky about petscii source, so be sure you are either natively on the system (I developed it on hardware) or converting your source files.