; This part of the file just dumps out $00-$0F repeatedly with ; different forms, bracketed by $00s and then $60s. .advance $10, ^ .byte 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 .word 256, $0302, $0504, $0706, $0908, $0b0a, $0d0c, $0f0e .dword $03020100, $07060504, $0b0a0908, $0f0e0d0c .wordbe 1, $0203, $0405, $0607, $0809, $0a0b, $0c0d, $0e0f .dwordbe $010203, $04050607, $08090a0b, $0c0d0e0f .advance $70, ^ ; To verify that that these numbers match up, we use the following ; BASIC program, which works on both the C64 and the VIC-20. ; 10 clr:v=0:pv=peek(45)+256*peek(46)+2 ; 20 input "convert what";v ; 30 for i=0 to 4:print peek(pv+i);:next i ; 40 print:if v<>0 then 10 .cbmfloat "0.0", "0.125","9.8","90","100","180" ; The program tells us that these are the right answers. ; We'd like to test more exotic choices like the 4.3e12 or what have you, ; but the fact that these are two different kinds of floating point ; results in slight variations at the very bottom of the mantissa. ; caveat emptor. ; .byte 0,0,0,0,0,126,0,0,0,0,132,28,204,204,204,135,52,0,0,0 ; .byte 135,72,0,0,0,136,52,0,0,0