do i have to use the inkey$ each time?

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how would i use inkey$ and get a$ together? do i have to use it again and again for each decision. can i make a macro in cbm basic to speed up the process?

this is the line i am trying to fix

8 let a$=inkey$:get a$
:if a$="t" then goto 1
00

the problem is that it never works, it just goes to the end of the game. ideas?
working on version 2 of the thing, the first one was so messed up i had to bin it.

[srowe]

inkey$ doesn't exist in CBM BASIC. It serves a similar purpose to get in other dialects.

In your example the

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let a$=inkey$

part is essentially a no-op as it just assigns the contents of the variable in$ to a$ (variables in CBM BASIC are at most two characters).

If you want to wait for a single key you want

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8 get a$:if a$=""goto 8

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thank you very much

[Mike]

Please refer to the VIC-20 User's Manual for these kind of questions.

Especially, handling keyboard input with GET is explained with example programs on pages 89 to 92, and you find further information on GET on page 122.