[Coco] PEEK for detecting CoCo arrow keys, etc.?

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Fri Dec 19 18:54:32 EST 2014


Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>>
>> The last char read gets stored at $87 IKEYIM and that get special values for arrow keys. Look in the Unravelled series and your will see
>
> Thanks, Robert! I dug up a CoCo 1 technical service manual from archive.org and was trying to PEEK the PIAs up at $FF00 or something (wow, no &H hex in Color BASIC!) but was not getting what I was looking for.
>
> 		-- Allen
>

I won't swear that what I suggested will work with a Coco1. Try it and 
congratulate me when you find it works. :)

Robert



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