Control Characters: TAB and BELL

[geek504 44]

I've been scratching my head on these new control characters, more specifically TAB ($09) and BELL ($7). How does one use it in a PRINT CHR$() command? I even tried "activating" by enabling CHARSET ISO ON/OFF ($F).

I am trying to figure out the "tab" or "," or actually print 10 spaces in my PRINT function or I need to make use of the KERNAL PLOT routine.

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New Control Characters

This is the set of all supported PETSCII control characters. Descriptions in bold indicate new codes compared to the C64:

Code			Code
$00	NULL	-	$80
$01	SWAP COLORS	COLOR: ORANGE	$81
$02	-		$82
$03	STOP/RUN		$83
$04	ATTRIBUTES: UNDERLINE	HELP	$84
$05	COLOR: WHITE	F1	$85
$06	ATTRIBUTES: BOLD	F3	$86
$07	BELL	F5	$87
$08	BACKSPACE	F7	$88
$09	TAB	F2	$89
$0A	LF	F4	$8A
$0B	ATTRIBUTES: ITALICS	F6	$8B
$0C	ATTRIBUTES: OUTLINE	F8	$8C
$0D	REGULAR/SHIFTED RETURN		$8D
$0E	CHARSET: LOWER/UPPER CASE		$8E
$0F	CHARSET: ISO ON/OFF		$8F

 

[Ender 56]

I believe these special codes are just meant for printing strings with the "CHAR" command (and GRAPH_put_char in assembly) in screen 128 mode.  Looking in the kernal source, in kernal/fonts/conio1.s, it looks like those two particular character codes haven't been implemented yet.  Bell just maps to nop, and tab maps to a routine that just has the comment "; XXX what should TAB do?" and returns.

Edit: Looking at the documentation again, it has this note in it:

$07/$08/$09/$0A/$18: have been added for ASCII compatibility [NYI]

I believe "NYI" means "not yet implemented".

Edited November 12, 2020 by Ender

[geek504 44]

27 minutes ago, Ender said:

I believe "NYI" means "not yet implemented".

Thanks for looking at the code @Ender. A speaker beep shouldn't be too hard to do 

I suppose a TAB should be every 8 position (Apple BASIC)... or 10 (C64) as the "," do in the PRINT statement.

Edited November 12, 2020 by geek504

[Greg King 51]

Those two controls are implemented on the Commodore 128.  $07 makes a "ping"; $09 makes columns 8 characters wide.

[Arnold 0]

Most mechanical typewriters have a 'margin bell' that sounds a few characters before the end of a line. This way, when you type 'blind', you know when it is time to finish the current word and then do a carriage return and line feed (using a lever) to start the next line.

On CBM4016/4032/8032 PETs with BASIC 4.0, the chr$(7) BELL sound uses the built-in piezo beeper to emulate this sound (somewhere around position 70 or so).