Re: [cc65] Apple 2 ASCII with MSB on

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From: Justin England (jengland_at_enetis.net)
Date: 2003-05-11 00:21:17 

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:

>
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:38:22PM -0600, Justin England wrote:
> > Is there an equivalent to 'msb on' in ca65?  I have looked though the
> > docs, but couldn't find anything that looked like it was what I needed.
>
> This would mean that the translation table used in the assembler is wrong. A
> quick fix is to encode the strings as numbers, or to write a macro
>
>         .macro  string  s
>                 .repeat .strlen(s), i
>                         .byte   .strat(s,i) | $80
>                  .endrepeat
>         .endmacro
>
> Can someone explain me how characters work in the apple? This is the first
> time I hear something about the usage of bit 7.



I have pleanty of Apple docs... I will do some digging and post the info.

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