Hi all
I've been coding on the C64 for about 4 weeks now and I'm stuck on a certain part of the demo in Hex 8.

I just cannot get the scolling text to show upper or lowercase letters. It will only show numbers and punctuation, etc?!

I use TMP by SounDemon in my MMC Replay in my breadbox 64 with Kernel-03.
I've triple-quadruple checked my code against the pic_demo.asm code and it's the same, apart from that I load the music,sines,chars,sprites and bitmap to the correct addresses instead of .incbin (which doesn't work in TMP).
I load:
music to $1000
sines to $3e00
chars to $4000
sprites to $4400
bitmap to $5800

I also changed:
message .scrl "welcome to yet another scrolling "
.scrl "message erfg er fg er oded for "
to:
message .text "welcome to yet another scrolling "
.text "message erfg er fg er oded for "

because TMP uses .text not .scrl.
Is this right?

Any ideas? Anyone else found this problem?

I've tested my code on a breadbox with Kernel-02, a breadbox with Kernel-03, a C64C and even in Vice, but get exactly the same result.

Please help... I've been really scraping through the code in detail but haven't fixed this one yet.
cheers

Oh... and did I say hi
The Hex files series of tutorials has been really, really good.. Much thanks D

Well, i've never been a fan of Turbo Assembler personally so i'm not entirely sure if my memory is right on this one, but if it is then this is the problem; i believe that the .text command doesn't write the same data to memory as .scrl will from C64Asm, rather than screen codes, i believe it produces PETSCII and the characters in that format don't align up to the font (or indeed the upper case ROM font for that matter). For the original version of the articles, the text had to be distributed as a binary file in the same way the graphics and music are, this and my dislike of the assembler itself were a couple of the main reasons that the articles were migrated away from Turbo Assembler when the OSG "remixes" were done.

ok. cheers.
I had actually created and compiled a new object file with just:

*=$2800
message .text "dfdfhgdfhfhdfh df hdf"
.text "dfg fdhg dh tgh h rth rt hr"
.text "dfg fdhg dh tgh h rth rt hr"
.text "dfg fdhg dh tgh h rth rt hr"
.text "dfg fdhg dh tgh h rth rt hr"
.text "dfg fdhg dh tgh h rth rt hr"
.text "dfg fdhg dh tgh h rth rt hr"
.text "dfg fdhg dh tgh h rth rt hr"
.byte $00

and then loaded it to address $2800.
When I go into my monitor and do '.I 2800 2840' I see my text there.
Are you saying that the .scrl command will do something other than put the text into $2800 and beyond?
Please scuse tha noob

It'll write the text into exactly the same place but not use the same values; .scrl "a" will put $01 into memory and, if i'm remembering correctly, .text "a" will write $41 - the I command in the AR or RR monitor will translate PETSCII codes into screen codes to display them, the command to read screen codes from memory is I*