Re: A85: BCD

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Subject: Re: A85: BCD
From: mgp4007@omega.uta.edu (Michael Pearce)
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:05:57 GMT
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On Thu, 21 May 1998 09:06:57 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>
>Now that I'm on vacation I can finish the BCD routines I started about a
>year ago; am I the world's laziest programmer or what?
>
>After that's done I'll feature the routines in my first game... I promise.
>
i think i have you beat on laziness... i've been working on Solomon's
Key for over 2 years.  as for BCD, why don't you just use normal
binary arithmetic with the "UNPACK_HL" instruction in the ROM to
display the characters?  is there some specific reason to use BCD?

-mike pearce

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