Loader: BEGIN

       Name: BEGIN                                                   [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Loader
    Summary: Initialise the configuration variables and start the game
    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * S% calls BEGIN


.BEGIN

;JSR BRKBK              ; This instruction is commented out in the original
                        ; source

 LDX #(MUSILLY-COMC)    ; We start by zeroing all the configuration variables
                        ; between COMC and MUSILLY, to set them to their default
                        ; values, so set a counter in X for MUSILLY - COMC bytes

 LDA #0                 ; Set A = 0 so we can zero the variables

.BEL1

 STA COMC,X             ; Zero the X-th configuration variable

 DEX                    ; Decrement the loop counter

 BPL BEL1               ; Loop back to BEL1 to zero the next byte, until we have
                        ; zeroed them all

 LDA XX21+SST*2-2       ; Set spasto(1 0) to the Coriolis space station entry
 STA spasto             ; from the ship blueprint lookup table at XX21 (so
 LDA XX21+SST*2-1       ; spasto(1 0) points to the Coriolis blueprint)
 STA spasto+1

 JSR JAMESON            ; Call JAMESON to set the last saved commander to the
                        ; default "JAMESON" commander

                        ; Fall through into TT170 to start the game