i'm a total noob at axe and i need some help understanding
pointers because pretty much can't do anything without them 

Hey there, I'd recommend this.

Hope you get it. Read it slowly, perhaps twice.

thanks

No problem, you're welcome. Just keep in mind that text was written by Deep Thought.

look at it this way:
pointers reference a certain point in your calculator's memory.
For example, L1 points to a 'safe area' of memory which you can use to store stuff.
so the pointer {L1+2} would be 2 bytes after the start of L1
To access a certain point that you previously stored, just use the same pointer again.
1 --> {L1+2}      //stores 1 to 2 bytes after L1
                           //now to check if that byte is 1:
If {L1+2} = 1
[insert code here]
End

Yeah... that could help
welcome, spud. I hope you enjoy omni
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If you're confused about pointers, remember that every piece of memory (called a byte) is assigned an address in hexadecimal by the processor, starting from 0x0000. A pointer is just the address of a particular memory location, meaning that it's a 16 bit number that identifies one byte in memory. They're called pointers because the numbers "point" to that address. Since pointers are numbers, you can do the normal mathematical operations on them like addition and subtraction to change them.

Take this Axe code as an example:

[0123456789ABCDEF00]->Str1
.The contents of Str1 are placed somewhere in the program by Axe and the symbol Str1 becomes a pointer to the memory holding the first value
Text(40,40,Str1>char
.Since characters are hexadecimal, we can print the string
.The pointer that is Str1 tells the text( directive to print the string starting from the address pointed to by Str1
Text(40,40,Str1+4>char
.We can also print only part of the string by adding 4 to the pointer. This means that that value Str1+4 points to the location four bytes after the location pointed to by Str1, which is partway through the string.


 know that but what i can't figure put is how to identify whats were in the calc and i dont know anything about hex codes

i know that but i want to be able to draw sprites