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Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Save and load: OTHERFILEPR

[BBC Master version]

Name: OTHERFILEPR [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Save and load Summary: Display the non-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 OTHERFILEPR
.OTHERFILEPR LDA #2 \ Print extended token 2 - DISK, i.e. token 2 or 3 (as SEC \ DISK can be 0 or &FF). In other versions of the game, SBC DISK \ such as the Commodore 64 version, token 2 is "disk" JMP DETOK \ and token 3 is "tape", so this displays the other, \ non-selected media, but this system is unused in the \ Master version and tokens 2 and 3 contain different \ text