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⌂ ∞ Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Version analysis of TT217

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       Name: TT217
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Keyboard
    Summary: Scan the keyboard until a key is pressed



 Scan the keyboard until a key is pressed, and return the key's ASCII code.
 If, on entry, a key is already being held down, then wait until that key is
 released first (so this routine detects the first key down event following
 the subroutine call).



 Returns:

   X                    The ASCII code of the key that was pressed

   A                    Contains the same as X

   Y                    Y is preserved



 Other entry points:

   out                  Contains an RTS

Code variation 1 of 7A variation in the comments only

This variation is blank in the Cassette, Disc (docked) and Electron versions.

6502SP, Master
   t                    As TT217 but don't preserve Y, set it to YSAV instead


.TT217

 STY YSAV               \ Store Y in temporary storage, so we can restore it
                        \ later

.t

Code variation 2 of 7Specific to an individual platform

This variation is blank in the Electron version.

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Cassette
Docked, 6502SP, Master
 JSR DELAY-5            \ Delay for 8 vertical syncs (8/50 = 0.16 seconds) so we
                        \ don't take up too much CPU time while looping round

 LDY #2                 \ Delay for 2 vertical syncs (2/50 = 0.04 seconds) so we
 JSR DELAY              \ don't take up too much CPU time while looping round

Code variation 3 of 7Specific to an individual platform

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Cassette, Docked, 6502SP
Master
Electron
 JSR RDKEY              \ Scan the keyboard for a key press and return the
                        \ internal key number in X (or 0 for no key press)

 BNE t                  \ If a key was already being held down when we entered
                        \ this routine, keep looping back up to t, until the
                        \ key is released

.t2

 JSR RDKEY              \ Scan the keyboard for a key press and return the
                        \ ASCII code of the key pressed in X (or 0 for no key
                        \ press)

 BNE t                  \ If a key was already being held down when we entered
                        \ this routine, keep looping back up to t, until the
                        \ key is released

.t2

 DEC KEYB               \ Decrement KEYB, so it is now &FF, to indicate that we
                        \ are reading from the keyboard using an OS command

 JSR OSRDCH             \ Call OSRDCH to read a character from the keyboard

 INC KEYB               \ Increment KEYB back to 0 to indicate we are done
                        \ reading the keyboard

Code variation 4 of 7Specific to an individual platform

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Cassette, Docked, 6502SP
Master
 JSR RDKEY              \ Any pre-existing key press is now gone, so we can
                        \ start scanning the keyboard again, returning the
                        \ internal key number in X (or 0 for no key press)

 JSR RDKEY              \ Any pre-existing key press is now gone, so we can
                        \ start scanning the keyboard again, returning the
                        \ ASCII code of the key pressed in X (or 0 for no key
                        \ press)

Code variation 5 of 7Specific to an individual platform

This variation is blank in the Electron version.

Cassette, Docked, 6502SP, Master
 BEQ t2                 \ Keep looping up to t2 until a key is pressed

Code variation 6 of 7Related to Elite's use of the Tube

This variation is blank in the Master and Electron versions.

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Cassette, Docked
6502SP
 TAY                    \ Copy A to Y, so Y contains the internal key number
                        \ of the key pressed

 LDA (TRTB%),Y          \ The address in TRTB% points to the MOS key
                        \ translation table, which is used to translate
                        \ internal key numbers to ASCII, so this fetches the
                        \ key's ASCII code into A

 TAY                    \ Copy A to Y, so Y contains the internal key number
                        \ of the key pressed

 LDA TRANTABLE,Y        \ TRANTABLE points to the MOS key translation table,
                        \ which is used to translate internal key numbers to
                        \ ASCII, so this fetches the key's ASCII code into A

Code variation 7 of 7Specific to an individual platform

This variation is blank in the Electron version.

Cassette, Docked, 6502SP, Master
 LDY YSAV               \ Restore the original value of Y we stored above

 TAX                    \ Copy A into X

.out

 RTS                    \ Return from the subroutine