In a message dated 8/27/98 8:36:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DieKenny97@aol.com writes: > ld hl,(Var) > > Var: > .db 0 the only problem with this is that hl is 2 bytes and Var is only one. you could do this: ld a,(Var) Var: .db 0 or: ld hl,(Var) Var: .db 0,0 ;or .dw 0