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From: rhyde@hubbell.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
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Subject: Re: Replies to LISA questions
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Date: 20 May 91 22:34:03 GMT
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Another question:  How to access sixteen-bit constants?

LISA uses a syntax based on the SC-Assembler (tells you how old the original
product was).  LISA uses different symbols to select the immediate mode
as follows:

	lda	#expr		;Loads L.O. byte of expr into acc
	lda	/expr		;Loads H.O. byte of expr into acc
	lda	\expr		;Loads bank byte of expr into acc
	lda	|expr		;Loads the 16-bit value of expr into acc

The LISA manual claims "long" and "short" work just like ORCA, but I
never got them to work for me.  Presumably the ".assume" directive was
to handle this, but
I *know* it's not working.
*** Randy Hyde

Note: To those having problems unpacking the stuff on UCRMATH, I will
attempt to
repost *uncompressed* files before too long.  I've had a dozen different
suggestions on which compression technique to use.  I've come to the
conclusion that *no* scheme at all is the best.