For this lab, we were given a very simple task, to loop through some numbers and print them out. In any programming language this is one of the first things you learn to do and is super easy. Though assembly is not so simple and as such we had to work at it.
The first problem was getting the number displayed, the counting was easy, start with zero and loop till you reach a number, but getting that number displayed was a bit tricky. Luckily numbers are offset as characters by a set amount per digit and so as long as we could split the digits we could make the numbers into characters. This was far easier in x86 and Aarm64 vs 6502 as we had division operation we could do to separate the digits and thus get the characters.
After properly getting the characters we had to figure out how to add them to the display. After some trial and error and a bit of googling it was discovered that we could simply make the string for the loop have extra blank characters and replace the memory in those addresses with out characters thus giving us the proper output of a loop, printing out numbers.
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