Re: A86: Re: _createreal


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Re: A86: Re: _createreal




It would be easier if column and row were separate, so you'd do something 
like this instead:

15.02->a   ;15=col, 02=row

That way the asm prog could just load one byte for the column (the first 2 
digits) and another byte for the row (the next two digits).


In a message dated 12/27/99 11:57:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
malcolmj1@juno.com writes:

> that's a good idea. maybe store
>  the real number where the first digit
>  in the number (the exponent doesn't
>  matter) is the row while the
>  second and third digits in
>  the next two bcd memory areas
>  constitute the columns.
>  
>  so to put the number on row
>  2, column 15:
>  :215->A
>  :Asm(PutRAM)
>  which would be the same
>  as
>  :2.15->A
>  or
>  :21.5->A
>  because we won't be looking
>  at the exponent (that
>  $fc00) thing, but instead
>  move straight
>  to the bcd digits.
>  
>  the first nibble is
>  the row, the second
>  and third nibbles
>  are the columns.
>  
>  that might work? what do
>  you think?



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