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Drawing the screen: DIALS

[Commodore 64 version, Game Loader]

       Name: DIALS                                                   [Show more]
       Type: Variable
   Category: Drawing the screen
    Summary: The dashboard bitmap and colour data for screen RAM

    Context: See this variable in context in the source code
 References: This variable is used as follows:
             * Elite loader (Part 7 of 7) uses DIALS




.DIALS

 SKIP 24                ; This indents the image by three character blocks to
                        ; skip past the first three characters of the left
                        ; screen margin (the fourth character contains the
                        ; border box along the edge of the dashboard)

 INCBIN "1-source-files/images/C.CODIALS.bin"

IF _GMA_RELEASE

 EQUB $F5               ; This byte appears to be unused and just contains
                        ; random workspace noise left over from the BBC Micro
                        ; assembly process

ELIF _SOURCE_DISK_BUILD

 EQUB $B2               ; This byte appears to be unused and just contains
                        ; random workspace noise left over from the BBC Micro
                        ; assembly process

ELIF _SOURCE_DISK_FILES

 EQUB $DB               ; This byte appears to be unused and just contains
                        ; random workspace noise left over from the BBC Micro
                        ; assembly process

ENDIF