BBC Micro Program Snippets

Text Input Routine (Assembly)

Routine for inputting text using assembly language.

  10 REM Text input routine example
  20 REM by Francis G. Loch
  30
  40 DIM mc% 100
  50 DIM buffer% 255
  60 osasci=&FFE3
  70 osbyte=&FFF4
  80 osrdch=&FFE0
  90 FOR opt%=0 TO 2 STEP 2
 100 P%=mc%
 110[          OPT opt%
 120.getText
 130           LDA #2
 140           LDX #0
 150           JSR osbyte
 160           LDY #0
 170.loop
 180           JSR osrdch
 190           CMP #27
 200           BNE chkReturn
 210           LDA #13
 220           JSR osasci
 230           STA buffer%
 240           LDA #126
 250           JSR osbyte
 260           RTS
 270.chkReturn
 280           CMP #13
 290           BNE chkDelete
 300           JSR osasci
 310           STA buffer%,Y
 320           RTS
 330.chkDelete
 340           CMP #127
 350           BNE chkLimit
 360           CPY #0
 370           BEQ loop
 380           JSR osasci
 390           DEY
 400           JMP loop
 410.chkLimit
 420           CPY #255
 430           BEQ loop
 440           JSR osasci
 450           STA buffer%,Y
 460           INY
 470           JMP loop
 480]
 490 NEXT
 500
 510 PRINT "Enter text: ";
 520 A$=FNgetText
 530 PRINT A$
 540 END
 550
 560 DEF FNgetText
 570 CALL getText
 580 =$buffer%

Text Wrapping Routine (BASIC)

This is a little routine that could be useful for people writing text adventures or any other program that requires text to be wrapped on the fly.

  10 MODE 0
  20 A$="This is a text wrapping example. Here you can see the text being dynamically wrapped to a user defined width. Pretty neat stuff isn't it?"
  30 REPEAT
  40 INPUT'"Enter text width: " W%
  50 IF W% THEN PRINT'STRING$(W%,"-"):PROCwrap(A$):PRINT
  60 UNTIL W%=0
  70 END
  80
  90 DEF PROCwrap(A$)
 100 L%=W%:O%=1
 110 REPEAT
 120 P%=INSTR(A$," ",O%)
 130 IF P%=0 THEN P%=LEN(A$)
 140 S%=P%-O%
 150 IF S%>=L% AND POS>1 THEN PRINT
 160 IF S%>=L% THEN L%=W%-S%-1 ELSE L%=L%-S%-1
 170 PRINT MID$(A$,O%,S%+1);
 180 IF POS=1 THEN PRINT CHR$(127);
 190 O%=P%+1
 200 UNTIL P%=LEN(A$)
 210 ENDPROC

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