Re: [cc65] Apple 2 ASCII with MSB on

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From: Groepaz (groepaz_at_gmx.net)
Date: 2003-05-10 21:51:15


On Saturday 10 May 2003 19:54, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> It *is* true! Additionally to the swapped case the msb is set.
> Translating his code with '-t c64' produces C5 CA C5 C3 D4 for "EJECT",
> exactly as he wanted.
>
> The c64 manual lists the "normal" ASCII values with swapped case and
> says codes 192-233 and 224-254 are the same as 96-127 and 160-190 (all
> decimal). The ROM routines are using the higher ones. It was fun to
> debug a piece of code, developed with a cross assembler which produced
> just case swapped ASCII code. There was a filename in there and that
> damn thing always ran into a "file not found". I've listed the dir and
> looked at the filename with a monitor but couldn't tell a difference -
> until I examined the dir with a disk editor and found out it was exatly
> the same name but with msb set. :-/

oooh...yes you are probably right :O) its just that i usually dont use the rom 
routines at all :=P

gpz
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