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Universe: UNIV

[Commodore 64 version]

       Name: UNIV                                                    [Show more]
       Type: Variable
   Category: Universe
    Summary: Table of pointers to the local universe's ship data blocks
  Deep dive: The local bubble of universe

    Context: See this variable in context in the source code
 References: This variable is used as follows:
             * GINF uses UNIV
             * KILLSHP uses UNIV
             * KS2 uses UNIV
             * TACTICS (Part 1 of 7) uses UNIV




 See the deep dive on "Ship data blocks" for details on ship data blocks, and
 the deep dive on "The local bubble of universe" for details of how Elite
 stores the local universe in K%, FRIN and UNIV.



.UNIV

 FOR I%, 0, NOSH

  EQUW K% + I% * NI%    ; Address of block no. I%, of size NI%, in workspace K%

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 EQUD $10204080         ; These bytes appear to be unused; they contain a copy
 EQUD $01020408         ; of the TWOS variable, and the original source has a
 EQUW $4080             ; commented out label .TWOS

 EQUD $030C30C0         ; These bytes appear to be unused; they contain a copy
                        ; of the DTWOS variable, and the original source has a
                        ; commented out label .DTWOS