Re: A86: getkey program

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Subject: Re: A86: getkey program
From: Dark Ryder <DarkRyder@cyberdude.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 20:45:04 -0700
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BrncAvFan2@aol.com wrote:
> I need a program that will tell me the number for the key. I mean like if I
> push F1, it will display 11, and so forth.  I could do it the long way whereas
> I would have to do a cp k1, etc. but I was wondering if there was a shorter
> way.

I'm afraid you've bumped into one of the differences between BASIC and Asm.  I
assembly, the keys are represented by a number from $00 to $38 (or 0 to 56,
decimal) instead of the row,column code that BASIC uses.  If you call GET_KEY,
the BASIC scancode will be in OP2 (but I don't remember how to retrieve numbers
from the OPs ;), and the $00-$38 code is in the 'a' register.  A list of which
key each of these codes correspods to is at the bottom of ASM86.H (you probably
already have this).

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Re: A86: getkey program

From: BrncAvFan2@aol.com