OSWRCH

[Ric]

Completing simple VDU commands in assembler like VDU 5 is a simple process

mov al, 5
call "oswrch"

but how do you complete more complicated commands like

VDU 25,4,500,500

Can someone please help

Ric

[guest]

but how do you complete more complicated commands like
VDU 25,4,500,500

They are not really "more complicated". Separating the parameters with commas is equivalent to using individual VDU statements, it's just a shorthand. So your example is exactly equivalent to (but probably slightly faster than):

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      VDU 25 : VDU 4 : VDU 500 : VDU 500

However I would want to point out that VDU sends a byte stream so only values in the range 0 to 255 can be sent; larger values (such as your 500) will be evaluated 'MOD 256' so in fact what you are really doing is this:

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      VDU 25 : VDU 4 : VDU 244 : VDU 244

Or in x86 assembly language:

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      mov al,25 : call "oswrch"
      mov al,4 : call "oswrch"
      mov al,244 : call "oswrch"
      mov al,244 : call "oswrch"

Unless you intended to use semicolons rather than commas in your example, of course. VDU 25,4,500;500; would be:

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      mov al,25 : call "oswrch"
      mov al,4 : call "oswrch"
      mov al,244 : call "oswrch"
      mov al,1 : call "oswrch"
      mov al,244 : call "oswrch"
      mov al,1 : call "oswrch"

Richard.

[Ric]

Thanks Richard
I feel abit silly for asking now because I should have remembered back to the good old days and the 6502 instructions.
Regards Ric