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by scarface74 2772 days ago
Don’t ask me why I remember that the lazy non performant way to put a character on the screen in assembly was to store the ASCII number in the A register and

JSR $FDED

The fast way was to copy the bytes directly to the $400-$7FF address space and figure out the non contiguous memory map -> screen yourself.

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(After a "...I never used that in QBasic!", google explained that this is for the 6502)