The NWSTARS (Bank 0) subroutine - Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

       Name: NWSTARS                                                 [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Stardust
    Summary: Initialise the stardust field
    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * LOOK1 calls NWSTARS
             * TT110 calls NWSTARS


 This routine is called when the space view is initialised in routine LOOK1.


.NWSTARS

 LDA QQ11               ; If this is not a space view (in which case QQ11 > 0),
 ORA demoInProgress     ; or demoInProgress > 0 (in which case we are playing
 BNE WPSHPS             ; the demo), jump to WPSHPS to skip the initialisation
                        ; of the SX, SY and SZ tables

[X]

Variable QQ11 in workspace ZP

This contains the type of the current view (or, if we are changing views, the type of the view we are changing to)

[X]

Subroutine WPSHPS (category: Dashboard)

Set all ships to be hidden from the screen

[X]

Variable demoInProgress in workspace WP

A flag to determine whether we are playing the demo

Stardust: NWSTARS

[NES version, Bank 0]