Okay, so I was messing around with this “1260h” thing, trying to get a simple list displayed. It wasn’t as straightforward as I initially thought, let me tell you.
First, I fumbled around trying to understand what 1260h even was. Turns out, it’s related to how some older systems, handle display stuff. Not super important for what I wanted to do, but good to know, I guess.
I decided to use a basic approach. My plan was to create some data and then display it in a list format. I wanted something simple, like:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
I started by getting my tools ready. That means an assembler and something to display the result. I played with some codes, just to initialize things and get my bearings.
Next, I worked on creating the actual data for the list. I went with some simple numbers, just to keep things easy. I just needed something to display. I’ll skip some code to be brief.
Then came the tricky part – actually displaying the list. This is where I spent most of my time, honestly. I had to figure out how to loop through my data and print each item to the screen, one after another. Lots of trial and error here, believe me!
I iterated through my tiny data, one item at a time. I put some basic output routines, that shows each item on a new line. The real pain was getting the spacing and formatting right. I spent lots of time to get the spacing between items, the line breaks, all that jazz.
After a bunch of tweaking and debugging, I finally got it working! It wasn’t perfect, but it was a list, and it displayed correctly. I was pretty happy with that.
So, that’s my little adventure with 1260h and making a simple list. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it was a fun little project to get my hands dirty with some low-level stuff.