Re: A86: Asm newbie question


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Re: A86: Asm newbie question




At 06:52 PM 2/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I'm writing just a simple program just for the sake of learning asm. 
>What I want to do is to push a number, then later pop the number and
>display it on the screen.
>
>HOWEVER
>
>it doesnt want to display this
>
>ld hl,bc		;where bc is the number i just poped
>
>
>
>Is there a different way to display a stored number?  Please answer
>using SIMPLE terms :)
>
>Thanks, 
>	Matt Gabbert
>
>

you can't do "ld hl,bc"  you have to do "ex de,hl"  (or maybe switch the
order, not sure).  this command exchanges the values in hl and de.

Robby Gutmann
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