Re: Apple II Random Events?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Dave Althoff writes ...
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> You see, you wait for the keypress by watching the keyboard input location
> as usual.  Once the keystroke arrives, if you don't clear the strobe, you
> can issue a GET instruction.  GET will wait for the keypress, but since
> the keypress has already arrived (you made sure of that by waiting until
> it arrived before you called GET), GET never has a chance to display the
> cursor.  Instead, it passes the keypress straight to your string variable
> and clears the keyboard strobe for you.
> 
> Just another short-cut from a long-time Applesoft Ace...
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     Neat trick!


Rubywand