Memotech Z80 Assembler question

[Moggy]

Superb work, Martin.

If you use the standard zeddy keyboard the shift/Z to tabulate might not seem important. But when you use an external keyboard the TAB function sometimes goes over to the right by one space too many and it is frustrating having to backspace all the time and start again, a lot of self made keyboard routines suffer this way.

This new single keypress TAB function spaces it wonderfully and with out having to look at the screen all the time.

I have noticed that if you re-load source code and want to use auto-newline then shift "T" has to be de-activated.

Once again great work.

Moggy.

[mrtinb]

Yes, there are some small bugs with Shift-T, but I’l leave it there for now.

[Moggy]

We both know what to do so all is good.

[mrtinb]

I've actually tried for weeks to enter FAST mode while auto-inserting lines, because it's still very slow in SLOW mode. However this is much more complicated that I anticipated.

Now the keyboard is not read anymore (because keyboard reading is part of SLOW routine). I have tried to add keyboard read to my routine, but until now, it's just freezing and stuck in FAST mode all the time.

So no progress here. But just to tell you I tried to improve the software even further.

[Moggy]

Great work Martin for which I am thankful.

I seem to recall that the original Memotech unit would only work in slow mode when USR 16258 is called.
I will check this and report the result.

[Moggy]

I just tried using real Memotech unit in fast mode and it promptly crashed, with no problem in slow mode.

[mrtinb]

My understanding of the ZX81 is: Keyboard is never read in FAST mode.

This is no problem in BASIC, because when program gets to INPUT or INKEY$ it switches over, at reads the keyboard.

In machine language in FAST mode, the keyboard is never read, unless you create your own routine for it.