ASM6 syntax

[picccca]

Hi, some questions about ASM6, in NESASM you write:

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LDA #HIGH(background)

to load the accumulator with the high byte of address to label "background". But how do you write in ASM6? do you write

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LDA >background

Is this correct? then I also have one more question

I have used tokumaru's ASM6 NROM template from this thread. My question is where in this code can I put the nametable, attributetable and palettes? is it normal to put them right before NMI label?

[MottZilla]

Example:

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GFX_FONT:
	.incbin "Font.CHR"

	LDA #>GFX_FONT	; Load High Byte of Font Address
	LDA #<GFX_FONT	; Load Low Byte of Font Address

You can include data whereever you want in your ROM. If you have 32K or less of PRG, it doesn't matter at all where you put things. But when you start using memory mapper hardware you'll want to put critical code and data in the Fixed/Permanent program bank and data and code only accessed at certain times into the swappable banks.[/code]

[tokumaru]

My question is where in this code can I put the nametable, attributetable and palettes? is it normal to put them right before NMI label?

You can put it anywhere where it won't be accidentally interpreted as code (yeah, I've seen people including data right in the middle of a block of instructions).

Personally, I like to place the data before the code, from the beginning of the ROM up. I guess I do this because it's easier to page-align data that shouldn't cross pages.

If I put the data after the code it would be pushed up in the ROM as the code grew... I guess I just like to have more control over what data goes where, which is easier to do if I place it at the beginning.

[picccca]

Ok, thanks for the help. It's difficult somethimes
I also found another line that was wrong in my code. It is easy to mix up when following NESASM examples and using ASM6 assembler. But you learn all the time.

NESASM:

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LDA [pointerLo], y

ASM6:

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LDA (pointerLo), y

[tokumaru]

NESASM:

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LDA [pointerLo], y

ASM6:

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LDA (pointerLo), y

This is probably the biggest discrepancy of NESASM, as it's the only 6502 assembler to use [] for indirection, all others, not only ASM6, use ().

[Bregalad]

You should double check your statements.
Wla works with either [] or (). You can even use [) if you want.