\ --- Mod: Code removed for Demonstration Disc: -------> \.ptg \ \LSR COK \ Set bit 0 of the competition flags in COK, so that the \SEC \ competition code will include the fact that we have \ROL COK \ manually forced a mis-jump into witchspace \ \.MJP \ \\LDA #1 \ This instruction is commented out in the original \ \ source - it is not required as a call to TT66-2 sets \ \ A to 1 for us. This is presumably an example of the \ \ authors saving a couple of bytes by calling TT66-2 \ \ instead of TT66, while leaving the original LDA \ \ instruction in place \ \JSR TT66-2 \ Clear the top part of the screen, draw a border box, \ \ and set the current view type in QQ11 to 1 \ \JSR LL164 \ Call LL164 to show the hyperspace tunnel and make the \ \ hyperspace sound for a second time (as we already \ \ called LL164 in TT18) \ \JSR RES2 \ Reset a number of flight variables and workspaces, as \ \ well as setting Y to &FF \ \STY MJ \ Set the mis-jump flag in MJ to &FF, to indicate that \ \ we are now in witchspace \ \.MJP1 \ \JSR GTHG \ Call GTHG to spawn a Thargoid ship and a Thargon \ \ companion \ \LDA #3 \ Fetch the number of Thargoid ships from MANY+THG, and \CMP MANY+THG \ if it is less than or equal to 3, loop back to MJP1 to \BCS MJP1 \ spawn another one, until we have four Thargoids \ \STA NOSTM \ Set NOSTM (the maximum number of stardust particles) \ \ to 3, so there are fewer bits of stardust in \ \ witchspace (normal space has a maximum of 18) \ \LDX #0 \ Initialise the front space view \JSR LOOK1 \ \LDA QQ1 \ Fetch the current system's galactic y-coordinate in \EOR #%00011111 \ QQ1 and flip bits 0-5, so we end up somewhere in the \STA QQ1 \ vicinity of our original destination, but above or \ \ below it in the galactic chart \ \RTS \ Return from the subroutine \ --- End of removed code ----------------------------->Name: MJP, Removed [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Flight Summary: Process a mis-jump into witchspaceContext: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: No direct references to this subroutine in this source file
Process a mis-jump into witchspace (which happens very rarely). Witchspace has a strange, almost dust-free aspect to it, and it is populated by aggressive Thargoids. Using our escape pod will be fatal, and our position on the galactic chart is in-between systems. It is a scary place... There is a 0.78% chance that this routine is called from TT18 instead of doing a normal hyperspace, or we can manually trigger a mis-jump by holding down CTRL after first enabling the "author display" configuration option ("X") when paused.
Other entry points: ptg Called when the user manually forces a mis-jump