3.9. Importing data

With the .import directive you can import data from external files into your code. You can import binary, C64, and text files: 

// import the bytes from the file 'music.bin'
.import binary "Music.bin"

// Import the bytes from the c64 file 'charset.c64'
// (Same as binary but skips the first two address bytes) 
.import c64 "charset.c64"

// Import the chars from the text file
// (Converts the bytes as a .text directive would do)
.import text "scroll.txt"

The binary, c64 and text import takes an offset and a length as optional parameters: 

// import the bytes from the file 'music.bin', but skip the first 100 bytes
.import binary "Music.bin", 100

// Imports $200 bytes starting from position $402 (the two extra bytes is because its a c64 file)  
.import c64 "charset.c64", $400, $200

As when importing sources files, the import directive also searches the folders given by the –libdir option when looking for a file.

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