togster510

GETIN ($FFE4) returns zero if there are no characters in the keyboard buffer, I think. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In that routine, you could also consider handling return characters, which don’t have a screen code but would allow you to have longer bits of text. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is also https://style64.org/petscii/ which is good for exploring the relationships between different character encodings Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That I think is the problem. When writing directly to vera you need to use screencodes rather than petscii values. However, PRINT uses petscii. For a discussion of this, see https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7529/why-the-disparity-between-the-screencodes-and-the-character-codes . The assemblers I've tried have all had a mechanism to translate text to screencodesfor you, but I couldn't find documentation for c64 studio (which I believe is what you're using). Maybe search in the help for screencodes and see what you can find.

Could you try changing the !text directive to !scr ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How are you getting the text into ram? I suspect it's an encoding problem.

Also, typing ‘m A134’ in the debugger will show the memory values in the lower section. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Could you post what it is supposed to say? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The 6502 is little endian. This means that when using a 16 bit number (like an address) it expects the 'low' byte to come before the 'high' byte in memory. So you need to swap some bytes round. For your example, you should have startLo = $14, startHi = $15, then lda (startLo),x. Hope that helps.

Thanks for the info.

Quick question: is it possible to view the contents of vram in the debugger? If so, how? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is a system function listed in the programmer's reference called screen_set_charset to do exactly this. LDA #3 and then JSR $FF62 will switch to PET upper/lower.

I think what many people called it this year was either ‘pub reopening day’ or ‘haircut day’ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk