Re: ANN: bitmap shape capture for 8-bit graphics

[aiiadict@gmail.com]

>Cntl-C can be processed by a Applesoft program quite easily by
>polling the keyboard with a PEEK.

IF PEEK(-16384)>128 THEN GET A$

>This also has the advantage
>that the program can check for input without stopping whatever
>else it is doing/polling/animating.

When I started playing with applesoft about 13 years ago, I didn't
know how to get input besides:

GET A$
INPUT A$

I wrote a "game" for the text screen (I didn't know how to do hplot,
plot, etc)

the input loop for the game looked like this:

vtab 21:get a$
if a$="J" then x=x-1
if a$="J" then x=x+1
if x=1 then goto 500
if x=2 then goto 600

500 home
510 print " 0 "
520 print "---"
530 print " | "
540 print "---"
550 goto 10

500 home
510 print "  0 "
520 print " ---"
530 print "  | "
540 print " ---"
550 goto 10

I didn't know about htab.  Old "cells" of animation were erased with
the HOME command...  to move your character you had to press
left<return> or right<return>

because I didn't know about htab, I put spaces on the left side of the
character, within the "draw" code.

:-)

It isn't that important to me to use CONTROL-C as a copy command...
control-X works fine

If I allowed control-C it would be tough to BREAK the program to debug
it.

Rich