How to write a text input routine in Commodore BASIC

Jay's Commodore Podcast by Jay Versluis

May 8, 201822:52Technology

In this screencast I’ll show you how to write your own INPUT routine in Commodore BASIC. This comes in handy when you want to reject certain keys from being used when asking users for keyboard input. In my example...

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