Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!amdahl!pacbell!pbhyd!ldcol From: ldcol@PacBell.COM (Larry D Colton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Assembler FP routine usage Message-ID: <1405@pbhyd.PacBell.COM> Date: 15 Jul 89 15:19:11 GMT References: <354*rdlanctot@instr.okanagan.bc.ca> Reply-To: ldcol@PacBell.COM (Larry D Colton) Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Diego Lines: 22 In article <354*rdlanctot@instr.okanagan.bc.ca> rdlanctot@instr.okanagan.bc.ca (Ryan Lanctot) writes: > >Hi. I found the article on using floating point numbers. It's in the >September 1986 issue of Nibble (Vol 7, no 9) on page 74. > >Ryan Lanctot > >or try > I'm not sure what information the original poster was seeking, but the Nibble article shows the reader how to use the FP routines built in the Applesoft in ROM. This may suffice if the intent is to write some routines that will always run on an Apple. If the intent was to learn how to write 6502 code that will handle FP math, then the Nibble article will not be sufficient. It will probalby be necessary to make a trip to a bookstore and look through the table of contents of the various 6502 programming books. -- Larry Colton {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!ldcol