[a1dogtraining]

Hi everyone. I have a little problem. I have some versions of the same code I would like you to have a look at. The task is to display the amount of X's across the screen and the same amount of lines, that corresponding to the the key you press. eg
if the key press is 2 then it will display
XX
XX
I have got an idea of how to do it. But when I try and store the key presss in the variable at the start of the code after I get the keypress it stops my programming working probably. I have declared a variable called keyPress .byte 0
Here is one version of the code.

 
; Initialise constants 
lowerBound .equ '1
upperBound .equ '9
count .equ '0
spaces .equ 54
;
; Get keypressed from keyboard
 ldx #$FFFF  ;keyboard
 wai
;
;Load the key pressed into AccA 
 ldaa 0,x
; staa keyPressed
 clrb
 tab
;
 cmpa #lowerBound
 blt finish ; branch to finish if key press is less than lowerBound
;
 cmpa #upperBound
 bgt finish
;
 ldx #$FB00
 ldaa #'X
loop1 staa 0,x
 inx
 inc count1
 decb
 cmpb #count
 bne loop1
;
loop2 ldab #spaces 
 inx
 inc count1
 cmpb count1
 bne loop2
; 
;
count1 .byte 0 ; to compare spaces
keyPressed .byte 0
lineCount .byte 0
;
finish .end