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⌂ ∞ Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Start and end: SetupAfterLoad

[NES version, Bank 0]

       Name: SetupAfterLoad                                          [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Start and end
    Summary: Configure the game following a commander file load

    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * SetupAfterLoad_b0 calls SetupAfterLoad




 This routine is very similar to the BR1 routine.



.SetupAfterLoad

 JSR ping               ; Set the target system coordinates (QQ9, QQ10) to the
                        ; current system coordinates (QQ0, QQ1) we just loaded

 JSR TT111              ; Select the system closest to galactic coordinates
                        ; (QQ9, QQ10)

 JSR jmp                ; Set the current system to the selected system

 LDX #5                 ; We now want to copy the seeds for the selected system
                        ; in QQ15 into QQ2, where we store the seeds for the
                        ; current system, so set up a counter in X for copying
                        ; 6 bytes (for three 16-bit seeds)

.stal1

 LDA QQ15,X             ; Copy the X-th byte in QQ15 to the X-th byte in QQ2
 STA QQ2,X

 DEX                    ; Decrement the counter

 BPL stal1              ; Loop back to stal1 if we still have more bytes to copy

 INX                    ; Set X = 0 (as we ended the above loop with X = $FF)

 STX EV                 ; Set EV, the extra vessels spawning counter, to 0, as
                        ; we are entering a new system with no extra vessels
                        ; spawned

 LDA QQ3                ; Set the current system's economy in QQ28 to the
 STA QQ28               ; selected system's economy from QQ3

 LDA QQ5                ; Set the current system's tech level in tek to the
 STA tek                ; selected system's economy from QQ5

 LDA QQ4                ; Set the current system's government in gov to the
 STA gov                ; selected system's government from QQ4

 RTS                    ; Return from the subroutine