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Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Utility routines: MPL

[BBC Micro disc version, Loader 2]

Name: MPL [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Utility routines Summary: Move two pages of memory from LOADcode to LOAD and jump to ENTRY2
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * Elite loader (Part 1 of 2) calls MPL
.MPL LDY #0 \ Set Y = 0 to act as a byte counter LDX #2 \ Set X = 2 to act as a page counter .MVBL LDA LOADcode,Y \ Copy the Y-th byte of LOADcode to the Y-th byte of STA LOAD,Y \ LOAD (this instruction gets modified below, so this is \ a single-use, self-modifying routine) INY \ Increment the byte counter BNE MVBL \ Loop back to MVBL to copy the next byte until we have \ copied a whole page INC MVBL+2 \ Increment the high byte of the LDA instruction above, \ so it now points to the next page INC MVBL+5 \ Increment the high byte of the STA instruction above, \ so it now points to the next page DEX \ Decrement the page counter in X BNE MVBL \ Loop back to MVBL to copy the next page until we have \ copied X pages JMP ENTRY2 \ Jump to ENTRY2 to continue the loading process