Re: [cc65] cgetc() and repeating keys

On Thursday 07 June 2012, you wrote:
> Is there a way to get cgetc() to repeat keys without having to lift your
> finger off the keyboard and retyping the key?  I would assume that the
> routine just gets the next key from the keyboard buffer, thus leaving the
> kernal to fill the keyboard buffer, but I suspect that instead it is
> reading the keyboard directly and only returning if the keyboard's state
> changes.  Am I in the ballpark here?  If so, is there a chance that cgetc()
> could be updated with timer code that if the keyboard is pressed, but the
> same key is being held down that it will return that key after a period of
> time?  It could use the same repeat speed as the kernal.

just modify the respective kernal flags (in zeropage, iirc)

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