Re: CoCo3's new keys under SECB are weird

In conjunction with INKEY$, I use
IF PEEK(342)=191
to detect if the Control key is held down during a keypress, as a modifier.

So you can tell the difference between A and CTRL+A for example.

Bob

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 7:12 AM Juan Castro via Coco <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Getting codes with INKEY$:
>
> F1: lowercase 'g'; shifted: digit '4'
> F2: Ctrl-D ($04); shifted: $D6 (checkerboard Northwest green)
> Alt: acts exactly like the '@' key, pause and all.
> Ctrl: Gotta check with a real CoCo3, since XRoar intercepts it, but seems
> not to produce any characters.
>
> Are these thought out, or are they just the result of buffer overflows in
> the SECB code?
>
> [image: image.png]
>
>
> Juan Castro
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