[Coco] Assembly lang questions

tim lindner tlindner at macmess.org
Fri Oct 12 09:38:34 EDT 2018


On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:39 PM Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> This is the difference between how characters are represented in Ascii vs
> how they are represented in the CoCo's screen memory,

To put this concept in another way...

The CoCo's VDG does not use ASCII as it's internal representation of
character data.

To speculate, I would assume this is because a big chunk of ASCII is
unprintable and it would be a waste of character data.

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