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1The ray of hope I'm chasing is the way the cross-assemblers support a global PETSCII flag. My hope was that, if a lot of programs worked in a way where that was useful, I could do the same thing in reverse and automatically handle a lot of common cases. I'm getting the sense that I can't expect the automated approach to work quite as well as it does for other systems.fadden– fadden2019-07-31 14:58:43 +00:00Commented Jul 31, 2019 at 14:58
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1Well, the vast majority of programs will use either PETSCII or "screen code" for storing/handling text. If you let the user decide, you might be able to build something useful. I'm not sure "screen code" is the same on all CBM machines though, I would doubt that. And my core point was, there will be no 100% solution because basically, programs could use any (8-bit) encoding they like. PETSCII is not a good choice for performance-critical programs as it always involves conversion for output...Felix Palmen– Felix Palmen2019-08-01 06:56:29 +00:00Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 6:56
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