Superseded / Deprecated
The feature described in this article has been superseded by a newer feature. This feature still works in PICO-8, but the new feature should be used instead. See the article's "Superseded by..." section for specific details.
peek( addr )
- Reads a byte from a memory location.
- addr
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- The address of the memory location.
The peek() function reads a byte from the addressable memory region (0x000-0x7fff). See Memory for information about the memory layout.
See peek2() for a way to read a 16-bit value from two consecutive memory addresses, and peek4() to read a 32-bit value from four consecutive memory addresses.
Superseded by @ operator[edit | edit source]
The unary-@ operator added in 0.2.0 performs the same function as peek() and is now the recommended way to read a byte of memory, as it uses fewer tokens, costs fewer cycles at runtime, and runs on the real host CPU much more efficiently. Simply replace peek(address) with @address.
Examples[edit | edit source]
b = peek(0x4300)
b = @0x4300 -- preferred method
See also[edit | edit source]
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