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Text: MT14

[6502 Second Processor version]

Name: MT14 [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Text Summary: Switch to justified text when printing extended tokens Deep dive: Extended text tokens
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * HME2 calls MT14 * JMTB calls MT14 * PDESC calls MT14

This routine sets the following: * DTW4 = %10000000 (justify text, print buffer on carriage return) * DTW5 = 0 (reset line buffer size)
.MT14 LDA #%10000000 \ Set A = %10000000, so when we fall through into MT15, \ DTW4 gets set to %10000000 EQUB &2C \ Skip the next instruction by turning it into \ &2C &A9 &00, or BIT &00A9, which does nothing apart \ from affect the flags