12-12-2009, 06:13 PM
LCD Wrote:But doing so, will it not disable the keyboard scan routine too?According to my tests, it will stop the FRAMES (PEEK 23672) counting, and key scan is disabled for ROM editor. But you don't usually call the ROM editor (e.g. the INPUT sentence is implemented as a function).
The INKEY$ function works, ok
and the interrupts are enabled upon returning to BASIC, so it is safe to use this trick. Just remeber that using BEEP, PAUSE, LOAD, SAVE and VERIFY will reenable interrupts.