C Program to Display SCAN and ASCII Codes of Keys on Keyboard Using 8086 Interrupt

Output (ASCII and SCAN code) when a is pressed

This program displays SCAN code and ASCII code of any key pressed on the keyboard. We use inregs is made zero in the program. Then interrupt 16h is called using int86() function in dos.h. The arguments are interrupt number (in hexadecimal ; in C 0x16) pointer to input register and pointer to output register.

The ASCII Character Set or ASCII Chart

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is a 7 bit alphanumeric code used in computers. Each character is assigned with a positive integer (in between 0 and 127). This is the most popular coding system. The following is the ASCII chart of characters and corresponding integer value.