Re: A83: TI83 problem - how to disable the ON key?

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A83: TI83 problem - how to disable the ON key?
From: "D Weiss" <dwedit@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:01:04 CDT
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org


Don't use _getk, use _getcsc instead. It's faster and doesn't mess up when 
you hit on....

>From: "Rudolf Polzer" <rpolzer@web.de>
>Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
>To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>
>I am writing a game for the TI83.
>For keyboard, I use the getk() function which seems to be the corrent
>thing for it.
>The problem is, when the user presses the "ON" key many times, this
>happens:
>1. A strange sprite (
>     .db 10101000b
>     .db 01110000b
>     .db 01110000b
>     .db 01110000b
>     .db 10101000b
>     .db 0
>     .db 0
>     .db 0
>appears in the middle of the screen (45, 29) and an "A" lights up in
>the upper right corner.
>After pressing some keys, I get a memory error or other strange
>things happen.
>So I want to know how to disable the "ON" key
>

The C:\con\con problem has been fixed if you install microsoft's patch. 
(BOO!!!)
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