Assembly 6502: comments

Explanation

Comments in assembly 6502 are used to state what a variable does or anything that you normaly use a comment for in other programming languages.

How to use comments

It is very easy to use comments in assembly here is an example:

; This is an assembly 6502 comment

Why do assembly 6502 comments exist

Assembly 6502 comments exist because if you breakdown and explain your code with them your future-self will remember what the code was for and thank your past-self.

Does assembly 6502 support multi-line comments

Assembly 6502 only supports line comments not multi-line comments because it was running on software typicaly under 64 KB

Can you pause a single line of code with assembly 6502 comments

You can "pause" a single line of code with nes comments by using the ; at the start, ; in assembly means "Start this comment only for this line"

If you do this your code line turns into a comment so it wont run

However remove the ; and your code runs again

Do assembly 6502 comments be treated the same in modern coding languages

Because 6502 assembly is limited to line comments in modern coding languages they usualy ignore comments just like assembly 6502.

Assembly 6502 comments are treated the same in modern coding languages however the NES can only handle so many comments before a Memory Overload

Notes

NOTE: The NES is different than the SNES in assembly.