Assembler Editor No Strings?

[+therealbountybob]

Quick question:

 

In MAC/65 there is .SBYTE "SKDJFGFSNJMDP", Synassembler has .AS/.AT which lets you easily put text onto the screen, but in Assembler/Editor there is only .BYTE so you end up with the control characters instead of the letters. In Tom Hudson's bootcamp for As/Ed the only text use I found was using the IO routines to print it to screen. From that I guess the answer is no but is there an equivalent of .SBYTE or a modifier command option?

Thanks

[Rybags]

There's no provision for screen codes as such.  And no provision either for doing such things as adding an constant value, setting or flipping the high bit or other tricks that modern cross-platform assemblers usually have as standard.

 

The OS just runs the character codes through a translation based on the top 2 bits and text mode in use, so you could do the same.  Try and put all the text screen assets in a continuous block then do a single run over at startup time assuming it's a Ram-based program.