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Text: MT6

[BBC Master version]

Name: MT6 [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Text Summary: Switch to standard tokens in Sentence Case Deep dive: Extended text tokens
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * JMTB calls MT6

This routine sets the following: * QQ17 = %10000000 (set Sentence Case for standard tokens) * DTW3 = %11111111 (print standard tokens)
.MT6 LDA #%10000000 \ Set bit 7 of QQ17 to switch standard tokens to STA QQ17 \ Sentence Case LDA #%11111111 \ Set A = %11111111, so when we fall through into MT5, \ DTW3 gets set to %11111111 and calls to DETOK print \ standard tokens EQUB &2C \ Skip the next instruction by turning it into \ &2C &A9 &00, or BIT &00A9, which does nothing apart \ from affect the flags