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Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Market: var

[BBC Micro disc version, Flight]

Name: var [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Market Summary: Calculate QQ19+3 = economy * |economic_factor|
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * GVL calls var * TT151 calls var

Set QQ19+3 = economy * |economic_factor|, given byte #1 of the market prices table for an item. Also sets the availability of alien items to 0. This routine forms part of the calculations for market item prices (TT151) and availability (GVL).
Arguments: QQ19+1 Byte #1 of the market prices table for this market item (which contains the economic_factor in bits 0-5, and the sign of the economic_factor in bit 7)
.var LDA QQ19+1 \ Extract bits 0-5 from QQ19+1 into A, to get the AND #31 \ economic_factor without its sign, in other words: \ \ A = |economic_factor| LDY QQ28 \ Set Y to the economy byte of the current system STA QQ19+2 \ Store A in QQ19+2 CLC \ Clear the C flag so we can do additions below LDA #0 \ Set AVL+16 (availability of alien items) to 0, STA AVL+16 \ setting A to 0 in the process .TT153 \ We now do the multiplication by doing a series of \ additions in a loop, building the result in A. Each \ loop adds QQ19+2 (|economic_factor|) to A, and it \ loops the number of times given by the economy byte; \ in other words, because A starts at 0, this sets: \ \ A = economy * |economic_factor| DEY \ Decrement the economy in Y, exiting the loop when it BMI TT154 \ becomes negative ADC QQ19+2 \ Add QQ19+2 to A JMP TT153 \ Loop back to TT153 to do another addition .TT154 STA QQ19+3 \ Store the result in QQ19+3 RTS \ Return from the subroutine