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what does this code do? trying to learn the basics

the_future
the_future over 9 years ago

i think i have a good idea of what this code does i was thinking it was better to hear it from the experts

 

;assex2b.asm

     .AREA  CODE1 (ABS);

     .RADIX H;

     .ORG 1000;

      LD   SP,#1100;

      LD   A,#98;

     OUT   (03), A;

 

again:       IN A,(00);

                 AND   A,(00);

                 JP Z,again;

                 LD   A,#00;

LOOP:      OUT  (01),A;

                 CALL DELAY;

                 INC  A;

                JP LOOP;

DELAY:    PUSH AF;

                LD    D,#0FF;

DECR:     DEC D;

               JP    NZ,DECR;

               POP AF;

               RET;

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  • Robert Peter Oakes
    Robert Peter Oakes over 9 years ago in reply to Robert Peter Oakes +3
    the scary thing is, I have not work with this assembly code in over 40 years but it still makes sense to me and seems easy to decode the functionality....
  • D_Hersey
    D_Hersey over 9 years ago +2
    What uP is this for? Squinting at this so early, seems to have a coupla infinite loops and a redundancy.
  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago +2 suggested
    This is assembler for an unknown processor. Out of context, not much can be implied. Maybe if you gave the source where it was found?
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  • Workshopshed
    0 Workshopshed over 9 years ago

    The first line is a comment, it probably is an abbreviation for "Assembly Exercise 2b".

    The lines beginning with a . are specific to your particular assembler and are typically instructions to help it compile the code as you require.

    The rest has already been explained above. Yes, it does look very like Z80 code. I used to use JR in preference to JP as I had a very limited memory JR - z80 Heaven

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    0 bwelsby over 9 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

    Happy days, spent many months/years  developing in Z80 assembler for industrial display systems, trying to squeeze everything into 2K EPROMs and counting instruction cycles where tight timing was important.

    It does look very much like Z80  but there's one instruction in there that from memory isn't valid so it could be a derivative chip with an enhanced instruction set.

    Then again that could be part of the test!  image

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    0 Robert Peter Oakes over 9 years ago in reply to bwelsby

    One of the nicest features of the Z80 IMO was the DUAL Register set. That made it so easy to make simple calls without having to push pop the set to memory. It did not cover everything but was great 90% of the time

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    0 Workshopshed over 9 years ago in reply to bwelsby

    I also was counting instructions cycles as I was making primitive sound effects and music so needed to have the same timing for different routes through the code.

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    0 Workshopshed over 9 years ago in reply to bwelsby

    I also was counting instructions cycles as I was making primitive sound effects and music so needed to have the same timing for different routes through the code.

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