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- Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:40 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Reading mouse ports
- Replies: 7
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- Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:37 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Reading mouse ports
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15252
Re: Reading mouse ports
The keyboard and the mouse read from the same port. And yes, Call ABSOLUTE works everywhere.
- Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:29 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Reading mouse ports
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15252
Re: Reading mouse ports
I looked into it some more... the problems are intractible in the modern age. Neither Dosbox or NTVDM accurately simulate the PS/2 mouse port, nor do they map USB mice to that port. The only way to access the mouse, now, is by calling the IRQ. Here's the corrected code. It is correct, based on the D...
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:20 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Reading mouse ports
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15252
Reading mouse ports
I realized it was probably possible to create an ASM-less method of accessing the mouse by polling it directly. This is theoretically straight forward, but it seems like something's in the way. The port (0x60) is always reading either 21 or 28. Running under WinXP SP3 32-bit. (Dosbox doesn't do real...
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 6:45 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: What replaced All BASIC Code?
- Replies: 0
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What replaced All BASIC Code?
I noticed the ABC archives ended in 2003. What replaced them as the recommended way to find new source code examples for BASIC?