Re: Trying to understand HAL


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Re: Trying to understand HAL



At 12:21 AM 8/7/97 -0400, e e wrote:
>I am trying to understand the point of HAL.  What I have gathered so far
>is that HAL allows you to take a program written in BASIC, and transfer
>it to ASM.  Ok, I understand that ASM gives you added features that BASIC
>doesn't have, such as gray-scale on the screen, but why in the world
>would you want to transfer a BASIC program to ASM?  It the same source
>code, right?  How is it going to be any better in ASM than in BASIC?

I can answer that in one word: SPEED.
=)


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