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From: hh2x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C128 Programming question
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.162259.981@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 20:22:59 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.043708.23063@DMI.USherb.CA>
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In article <1990Nov13.043708.23063@DMI.USherb.CA>,
sd05@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Sylvain Tremblay / Eric Trepanier) writes:
> Hello all!
>
> I have a technical question here.  I'm writing an assembler input routine
> wich needs to work on either the 40 or 80 column screens.  To filter out
> unwanted characters, I use the GETIN Kernal subroutine ($FFE4).  As you
> probably know, this routine dos not provide any kind of cursor.  It's easy
> to turn the cursor on in 80 columns using the ESCAPE F sequence.  But I'm
> clueless as to how to turn on the 40 column cursor...
>
> Anybody has a suggestion?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Eric Trepanier

It's simple... just POKE 2599, 0 to turn on the cursor. Any other value turns
it off.

LDA #0
STA +2599 ; Cursor on

LDA #1
STA 2599  ; Cursor off

Courtesy Compute's _Mapping the Commodore 128_ by Ottis R. Cowper.
Good luck with your programming project.

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