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Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Encyclopedia: controls

[Elite-A, Encyclopedia]

Name: controls [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Encyclopedia Summary: Show the Controls menu and display the chosen page Deep dive: The Encyclopedia Galactica
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * info_menu calls controls
\ --- Mod: Code added for Elite-A: --------------------> .controls LDX #3 \ Call menu with X = 3 to show menu 3, the Controls JSR menu \ menu, and return the choice in A, so A is now: \ \ * 1 = Flight \ * 2 = Combat \ * 3 = Navigation \ * 4 = Trading ADC #86 \ Store the choice + 86 on the stack, to give the token PHA \ number of the body to show for the relevant choice, \ from flight controls (token 87) to trading controls \ (token 90) ADC #4 \ Store the choice + 90 on the stack, to give the token PHA \ number of the title to show for the relevant choice, \ from flight controls (token 91) to trading controls \ (token 94) LDA #32 \ Clear the top part of the screen, draw a white border, JSR TT66 \ and set the current view type in QQ11 to 32 JSR MT1 \ Switch to ALL CAPS when printing extended tokens LDA #11 \ Move the text cursor to column 11 STA XC PLA \ Pull the token number for the title from the stack JSR write_msg3 \ (choice + 90) and print it JSR NLIN4 \ Draw a horizontal line at pixel row 19 to box in the \ title JSR MT2 \ Switch to Sentence Case when printing extended tokens INC YC \ Move the text cursor down one line PLA \ Pull the token number for the body from the stack JSR write_msg3 \ (choice + 86) and print it JMP l_restart \ Jump to l_restart to wait until a key is pressed and \ show the Encyclopedia screen \ --- End of added code ------------------------------->