Spectrum Computing

Hi!

I am struggling with the input in the Spectrum version of my BASIC game "Mines":
https://github.com/Fabrizio-Caruso/Sinc ... -10-liners

I need to read the last key-pressed in a loop without stopping if no key is pressed.
I don't want to miss key-presses.
I currently use "LET S = CODE INKEY$" but this works randomly because
it seems not to read from the keyboard buffer. It seems it is only reading the current keyboard status.
So if by chance the key was pressed and released just before, then the last key pressed is lost.

What is the correct way to read the keyboard in a "buffered way"?

Fabrizio

Use the LAST K system variable maybe (23560)?

How do I detect no ket pressed with 23560.
I want to get the last key pressed only once and not forever.
It is for an interactive non-stopping action game.

So if a key is pressed I need to detect it and not miss it but I need to detect it just once.

In principle INKEY seems to do that but it does not in my case.
It misses many key-presses. I suppose it fails to detect keys pressed before INKEY$ execution because
they are not buffered.

Maybe I could do something like:
let c=peek(23560): if c<>13 then print c: POKE 23560,13

THANKS A LOT!

I solved the problem by reading from 23560 and resetting it once I consume the input.