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Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Save and load: FILEPR

[BBC Master version]

Name: FILEPR [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Save and load Summary: Display the currently selected media (disc or tape) Deep dive: Extended text tokens
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * JMTB calls FILEPR
.FILEPR LDA #3 \ Print extended token 3 + DISK, i.e. token 3 or 2 (as CLC \ DISK can be 0 or &FF). In other versions of the game, ADC DISK \ such as the Commodore 64 version, token 2 is "disk" JMP DETOK \ and token 3 is "tape", so this displays the currently \ selected media, but this system is unused in the \ Master version and tokens 2 and 3 contain different \ text