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Drawing planets: PLS3

[6502 Second Processor version]

Name: PLS3 [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Drawing planets Summary: Calculate (Y A P) = 222 * roofv_x / z
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * PL9 (Part 3 of 3) calls PLS3

Calculate the following, with X determining the vector to use: (Y A P) = 222 * roofv_x / z though in reality only (Y A) is used. Although the code below supports a range of values of X, in practice the routine is only called with X = 15, and then again after X has been incremented to 17. So the values calculated by PLS1 use roofv_x first, then roofv_y. The comments below refer to roofv_x, for the first call.
Arguments: X Determines which of the INWK orientation vectors to divide: * X = 15: divides roofv_x * X = 17: divides roofv_y
Returns: X X gets incremented by 2 so it points to the next coordinate in this orientation vector (so consecutive calls to the routine will start with x, then move onto y and then z)
.PLS3 JSR PLS1 \ Call PLS1 to calculate the following: STA P \ \ P = |roofv_x / z| \ K+3 = sign of roofv_x / z \ \ and increment X to point to roofv_y for the next call LDA #222 \ Set Q = 222, the offset to the crater STA Q STX U \ Store the vector index X in U for retrieval after the \ call to MULTU JSR MULTU \ Call MULTU to calculate \ \ (A P) = P * Q \ = 222 * |roofv_x / z| LDX U \ Restore the vector index from U into X LDY K+3 \ If the sign of the result in K+3 is positive, skip to BPL PL12 \ PL12 to return with Y = 0 EOR #&FF \ Otherwise the result should be negative, so negate the CLC \ high byte of the result using two's complement with ADC #1 \ A = ~A + 1 BEQ PL12 \ If A = 0, jump to PL12 to return with (Y A) = 0 LDY #&FF \ Set Y = &FF to be a negative high byte RTS \ Return from the subroutine .PL12 LDY #0 \ Set Y = 0 to be a positive high byte RTS \ Return from the subroutine