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⌂ ∞ Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Ship hangar: HALL_b1

[NES version, Bank 7]

       Name: HALL_b1                                                 [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Ship hangar
    Summary: Call the HALL routine in ROM bank 1
  Deep dive: Splitting NES Elite across multiple ROM banks

    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * DOENTRY calls HALL_b1




.HALL_b1

 LDA currentBank        ; Fetch the number of the ROM bank that is currently
 PHA                    ; paged into memory at $8000 and store it on the stack

 LDA #1                 ; Page ROM bank 1 into memory at $8000
 JSR SetBank

 JSR HALL               ; Call HALL, now that it is paged into memory

 JMP ResetBank          ; Fetch the previous ROM bank number from the stack and
                        ; page that bank back into memory at $8000, returning
                        ; from the subroutine using a tail call