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⌂ ∞ ▽ Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Flight: ee3

[BBC Micro cassette version]

       Name: ee3                                                     [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Flight
    Summary: Print the hyperspace countdown in the top-left of the screen

    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 Variations: See code variations for this subroutine in the different versions
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * TT102 calls ee3
             * TTX66 calls ee3
             * wW calls ee3




 Print the 8-bit number in X at text location (0, 1). Print the number to
 5 digits, left-padding with spaces for numbers with fewer than 3 digits (so
 numbers < 10000 are right-aligned), with no decimal point.



 Arguments:

   X                    The number to print



.ee3

 LDY #1                 \ Move the text cursor to row 1
 STY YC

 DEY                    \ Decrement Y to 0 for the high byte in pr6

 STY XC                 \ Move the text cursor to column 0

                        \ Fall through into pr6 to print X to 5 digits, as the
                        \ high byte in Y is 0