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Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Universe: GTHG

[BBC Master version]

Name: GTHG [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Universe Summary: Spawn a Thargoid ship and a Thargon companion Deep dive: Fixing ship positions
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * Main game loop (Part 4 of 6) calls GTHG * MJP calls GTHG
.GTHG JSR Ze \ Call Ze to initialise INWK \ \ Note that because Ze uses the value of X returned by \ DORND, and X contains the value of A returned by the \ previous call to DORND, this does not set the new ship \ to a totally random location. See the deep dive on \ "Fixing ship positions" for details LDA #%11111111 \ Set the AI flag in byte #32 so that the ship has AI, STA INWK+32 \ is extremely and aggressively hostile, and has E.C.M. LDA #THG \ Call NWSHP to add a new Thargoid ship to our local JSR NWSHP \ bubble of universe LDA #TGL \ Call NWSHP to add a new Thargon ship to our local JMP NWSHP \ bubble of universe, and return from the subroutine \ using a tail call