Keyboard - AMSTRAD cpc 6128 User Instruction

Colour Hex Decimal
Colour Hex Decimal
Black &00 0 Pastel blue &2B 43
Blue &02 2 Orange &2C 44
Bright blue &03 3 Pink &2E 46
Red &08 8 Pastel magenta &2F 47
Magenta
&OA
10 Bright green &30 48
Mauve &OB
11
Sea green &32 50
Bright red &OC 12 Brightcyan
&33
51
Purple &OE 14 Limegreeh
&38
56
Bright magenta &OF 15 Pastel green
&3A
58
Green &20 32 Pastelcyan &3B 59
Cyan &22 34 Bright yellow &3C 60
Sky blue &23
35 Pastel yellow &3E
62
Yellow
&28
40 Bright white &3F 63
White
&2A
42
Keyboard
The codes generated by the keyboard can be altered by the SET KEY S command. This
allows suitable codes to be assigned to keys and to expansion tokens. The actual codes
must be written into a file, whose name is then presented to the SET KEY S command.
The command file can be created by a text editor, by PIP, or even from BASIC. For
example:
SETKEYS KEYS.TST
.... where the file KE Y S • T S T contains:
E &8C
"D
I
RiM"
expansion token 12
8 N S C
"t
H " backspace
=
[CONTROl]H, ASCII 08
.... will firstly redefine the [CONTROL] [ENTER] expansion token (represented by
&8C) to be the string D I R [RETURN], and then turn the cursor left key
Q
(key
number 8) into a backspace.
Standard files provided with the 6128 are KEY S • CC P for
CP/M
command editing,
KEY S • D R L for use with Dr. LOGO (on Side 3), and KEY S • W P which is suitable for
many word processors.
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