On we go with part two of Xen for the Amstrad CPC's. - |Ascii. start address, length reveals text anywhere in memory.
- |Proglen returns the length of CPC464 Basic programs.
- |Deek, address, @n% and |Doke, address. 16 bit number perform a two byte Peek or Poke.
- |Pron and |Proff direct all output to the printer and revert things to normal.
- |Keyn @n% returns the Ascii value of a key pressed. Much faster than Inkey.
- |Flush flushes the keyboard buffer.
- |Shift, source address, destination address. length moves a block of memory to a new location.
- |Disable and |Enable affects the break key.
- |Waitkey waits for a key to be pressed.
- |Rompeek, rom, address, n% is used to examine either the upper (rom=1) or lower (rom=1) ROM. The start address should be between zero and 16384 for the lower ROM or 49152 and 65536 for the upper ROM.
- |Help lists all the Xen commands.
Note that where a command requires a variable which is prefixed by @ the variable should be defined before using the command, ie type a%=0 PopularComputingWeekly860911 |
