Re: A86: OK, Hex and ASM Understanding (for Justin Karneges mainly)

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Subject: Re: A86: OK, Hex and ASM Understanding (for Justin Karneges mainly)
From: "Chris Flanigan" <cflan@granitecity.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:09:50 -0600
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Sorry to everyone about that. I'll quit posting the messages in HTML format.

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From: Nathan Haines <nhaines@ticalc.org>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 2:36 AM
Subject: RE: A86: OK, Hex and ASM Understanding (for Justin Karneges mainly)


>
>Please /don't/ post messages like that in HTML.  The large black letters at
>the beginning are annoying for those of us who have HTML support, and the
>HTML markup is even /more/ annoying to those who don't have HTML support.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
>[mailto:owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Chris Flanigan
>Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 7:35 PM
>To: 86 Assembly
>Subject: A86: OK, Hex and ASM Understanding (for Justin Karneges mainly)
>
>
>Sorry to those who don't care if I learn ASM! I want to get this stuff
>straight. I've got a lot of questions so...
>
>OK. If I understand this right.
>
>If I want to convert 25 from hex to decimal, I've got 2 16's and 5 1's that
>would be 37 right? So 25h = 37? Now I want to convert 67 from hex to
>decimal, I've got 6 16's and 7 1's. So 67h = 103? (6*16=96 +7=103) It's
very
>clear now. Again, thanks for the help Justin!! One day I'll ask you about
>bits. I know somewhat the idea. Don't worry about it now, I'm not ready to
>jump into that yet. I want to get the basics down.
>
>Maybe if I read a little, which I have been doing, I would find out how to
>get input from the user of the program. For now, could anyone give me a
>little documented, sample coding? Should I just be reading keypresses and
>comparing their values if required? How do I take the keypress and
translate
>it to the data needed? Say I wanted to have the user input a string. I
would
>use a getky routine that checks the keypresses right? Then what? How do I
>know that the 5, 7 and 9 characters of the string aren't digits? Does it
>matter?
>
>If I wanted to make a program (for example) that the user would input a
>number (a). The number that you programmed the calculator to use was 5 (b).
>I would make a loop that looped until their input was equal to b right? If
I
>wanted to allow them say...10 turns to guess the number. I'd initialize c
at
>the beginning of the program with 0. I'd then increment c every loop and
put
>the statement towards the bottom of the loop that if c=10 then jump out of
>the loop to the next location. Is this understanding right? I'm going for
>the concept now and the code later.
>
>When do the number bases change? I understand that hex is 16 based and
>binary is 2 based. Could anyone give an example of a different base?
>
>I feel that I'm bothering everyone but I want to learn this right so I
don't
>release a stupid, dumb, boring, unworthy game to the TI world.
>
>
>
>This message was written by Chris Flanigan.
>
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