Game data

 BBC MASTER ELITE GAME DATA FILE SOURCE

 BBC Master Elite was written by Ian Bell and David Braben and is copyright
 Acornsoft 1986

 The code on this site has been reconstructed from a disassembly of the version
 released on Ian Bell's personal website at http://www.elitehomepage.org/

 The commentary is copyright Mark Moxon, and any misunderstandings or mistakes
 in the documentation are entirely my fault

 The terminology and notations used in this commentary are explained at
 https://www.bbcelite.com/terminology

 The deep dive articles referred to in this commentary can be found at
 https://www.bbcelite.com/deep_dives


 This source file produces the following binary file:

   * BDATA.bin


 INCLUDE "1-source-files/main-sources/elite-build-options.asm"

 CPU 1                  \ Switch to 65SC12 assembly, as this code runs on a
                        \ BBC Master

 _SNG47                 = (_VARIANT = 1)
 _COMPACT               = (_VARIANT = 2)

 GUARD &C000            \ Guard against assembling over MOS memory

 Configuration variables


 CODE% = &7000          \ The address where the code will be run

 LOAD% = &1300          \ The address where the code will be loaded

 RE = &23               \ The obfuscation byte used to hide the recursive tokens
                        \ table from crackers viewing the binary code
                        \
                        \ [Show more]
                        \
                        \ This variable is used by the following:
                        \
                        \   * CHAR
                        \   * CONT
                        \   * RTOK
                        \
                        \ This list only includes code that refers to the
                        \ variable by name; there may be other references to
                        \ this memory location that don't use this label, and
                        \ these will not be mentioned above

 VE = &57               \ The obfuscation byte used to hide the extended tokens
                        \ table from crackers viewing the binary code
                        \
                        \ [Show more]
                        \
                        \ This variable is used by the following:
                        \
                        \   * ECHR
                        \   * EJMP
                        \   * ERND
                        \   * ETOK
                        \   * RUTOK
                        \   * TKN1
                        \   * TOKN
                        \
                        \ This list only includes code that refers to the
                        \ variable by name; there may be other references to
                        \ this memory location that don't use this label, and
                        \ these will not be mentioned above

 ELITE GAME DATA FILE


 ORG CODE%


       Name: Dashboard image                                         [Show more]
       Type: Variable
   Category: Loader
    Summary: The binary for the dashboard image
    Context: See this variable on its own page
 References: No direct references to this variable in this source file


 The data file contains the dashboard binary, which gets moved into screen
 memory by the loader:

   * P.DIALS2P.bin contains the dashboard, which gets moved to screen address
     &7000, which is the starting point of the eight-colour mode 2 portion at
     the bottom of the split screen


.DIALS

 INCBIN "1-source-files/images/P.DIALS2P.bin"

 SKIP 256               \ These bytes appear to be unused, but they get moved to
                        \ &7E00-&7EFF along with the dashboard