[Coco] Keypress Poller

[Arthur Flexser]

If you do a JSR $A1C1, the ascii value of the key pressed should be in the A
register, with a zero indicating no keypress.  (You want to keep looping back to
it until you get a nonzero value.)  JSR $A1B1 will give you a blinking cursor
while it waits for a keypress.  (This is from memory, after a lapse of a fair
number of years.)

Art

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Charles Shrader wrote:

> Hi fellow Coco Fans!
> 
> My latest "hobby" is in full swing now.  Got my Coco 3 running and I
> just received EDTASM+ and some joysticks from "Cloud 9".  I programmed
> in that assembler program I was having problems with and it works great
> using the EDTASM Cartridge.
> 
> I'm going to learn assembler little by little.  I'm hoping to write a
> very simple routine that simply polls for a keypress (not including any
> 'system keys' and writes the keypress to the screen in the upper left
> hand corner.  The program then polls for the next press and displays
> that character to the right of the first one.  Maybe later I'll get
> fancy and try to code handling a backspace key press, but not yet.  Does
> anyone know if there's a subroutine I can call that polls for a
> keypress?  Does the ASCII value of the keypress end up in a register
> after a key is pressed?
> 
> My Coco 3 ROCKS!!  :-)  Thanks Mark (of Cloud 9) for helping me get back
> into the hobby!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chuck
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