Re: 6502 Terminator code

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

John B. Matthews wrote:
> In article 
> <56b5b0b7-44b0-4f66-9b8a-6d8c2bc9189f@i28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
>  PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Many of us know about the 6502 assembly code from Nibble magazine that
> > was used in the original Terminator movie.  I just came across this
> > new page with some hi-def screenshots.
> >
> > http://www.pagetable.com/?p=64
>
> Aaiieee! Does anyone know what program this is?
>
> 8 ******************* 
> 9 
> 10 ORG $ 4000 
> 11 A1 = $ 3C 
> 12 A2 = $ 3E 
> 13 A4 = $ 42 
> 14 ALTMOVE = $ C311 
> 15 
> 16 **************************** 
> 17 * SETUP. move data for VTOC 
> 18 * and catalog to memory at 
> 19 * $ 000 - $ 3FF (pseudo TRK 11 
> 20 * # -1) 
> 21 ************************** 
> 22 SETUP LDA # <VTOC 
> 23 STA A1 
> 24 LDA #> VTOC 
> 25 STA A1 +1 
> 26 LDA # <END 
> 27 STA A2 
> 28 LDA #> END 
> 29 STA A2 +1 
> 30 LDA # $ 00 
> 31 STA A4 
> 32 LDA # $ 80 
> 33 STA A4 +1 
> 34 SEC 
> 35 JMP ALTMOVE
> 36

I'm guessing it's setting up a RAM disk in AUXMEM for a //e.

-michael

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