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⌂ ∞ Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Drawing the screen: DrawBoxTop

[NES version, Bank 7]

       Name: DrawBoxTop                                              [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Drawing the screen
    Summary: Draw the top edge of the box along the top of the screen in
             nametable buffer 0

    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * ClearDrawingPlane (Part 1 of 3) calls DrawBoxTop
             * TT66 calls DrawBoxTop




.DrawBoxTop

 LDY #1                 ; Set Y as an index into the nametable, as we want to
                        ; draw the top bar from column 1 to 31

 LDA #3                 ; Set A = 3 as the tile number to use for the top of the
                        ; box (it's a three-pixel high horizontal bar)

.boxt1

 STA nameBuffer0,Y      ; Set the Y-th entry in nametable 0 to tile 3

 INY                    ; Increment the column counter

 CPY #32                ; Loop back until we have drawn in columns 1 through 31
 BNE boxt1

 RTS                    ; Return from the subroutine