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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 20:13:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  6 20:13:25 1984
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A correction to my previous note:
Poke649,0 will disable the keyboard, but not by disabling the
keyboard interrupts.  The C-64 Reference Guide says that (p. 106)
poke56334,peek(56334)and254 will do that.  (It doesn't always work.)
Poke649,0 shrinks the keyboard queue to 0.

Port 1 joystick left prints spaces to the keyboard buffer and thence
to the screen.  Since space is a repeating character, it continues
to output spaces thereby wasting CPU cycles.


Question:  Does anyone know a reliable way to alter the kernal
routine that polls the keyboard so that joystick port 1 can be used
from BASIC?