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Flight: me1

[Commodore 64 version]

       Name: me1                                                     [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Flight
    Summary: Erase an old in-flight message and display a new one

    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * MESS calls me1




 Arguments:

   A                    The text token to be printed

   X                    Must be set to 0



.me1

 STX DLY                ; Set the message delay in DLY to 0, so any new
                        ; in-flight messages will be shown instantly

 PHA                    ; Store the new message token we want to print

 LDA MCH                ; Set A to the token number of the message that is
 JSR mes9               ; currently on-screen, and call mes9 to print it (which
                        ; will remove it from the screen, as printing is done
                        ; using EOR logic)

 PLA                    ; Restore the new message token