.ISDK LDA K%+NI%+36 \ 1. Fetch the NEWB flags (byte #36) of the second ship AND #%00000100 \ in the ship data workspace at K%, which is reserved BNE MA62 \ for the sun or the space station (in this case it's \ the latter), and if bit 2 is set, meaning the station \ is hostile, jump down to MA62 to fail docking (so \ trying to dock at a station that we have annoyed does \ not end well) LDA INWK+14 \ 2. If nosev_z_hi < 214, jump down to MA62 to fail CMP #214 \ docking, as the angle of approach is greater than 26 BCC MA62 \ degrees JSR SPS1 \ Call SPS1 to calculate the vector to the planet and \ store it in XX15 LDA XX15+2 \ Set A to the z-axis of the vector \ This version of Elite omits check 3 (which would check \ the sign of the z-axis) CMP #89 \ 4. If z-axis < 89, jump to MA62 to fail docking, as BCC MA62 \ we are not in the 22.0 degree safe cone of approach LDA INWK+16 \ 5. If |roofv_x_hi| < 80, jump to MA62 to fail docking, AND #%01111111 \ as the slot is more than 36.6 degrees from horizontal CMP #80 BCC MA62 .GOIN \JSR stopbd \ This instruction is commented out in the original \ source \ If we arrive here, we just docked successfully JMP DOENTRY \ Go to the docking bay (i.e. show the ship hangar) .MA62 \ If we arrive here, docking has just failed LDA DELTA \ If the ship's speed is < 5, jump to MA67 to register CMP #5 \ some damage, but not a huge amount BCC MA67 JMP DEATH \ Otherwise we have just crashed into the station, so \ process our deathName: Main flight loop (Part 9 of 16) [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Main loop Summary: For each nearby ship: If it is a space station, check whether we are successfully docking with it Deep dive: Program flow of the main game loop Docking checksContext: 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: * ESCAPE calls via GOIN
The main flight loop covers most of the flight-specific aspects of Elite. This section covers the following: * Process docking with a space station For details on the various docking checks in this routine, see the deep dive on "Docking checks".
Other entry points: GOIN We jump here from part 3 of the main flight loop if the docking computer is activated by pressing "C"
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Subroutine DEATH (category: Start and end)
Display the death screen
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Subroutine DOENTRY (category: Flight)
Dock at the space station, show the ship hangar and work out any mission progression
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Workspace K% (category: Workspaces)
Ship data blocks and ship line heaps
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Label MA62 is local to this routine
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Label MA67 in subroutine Main flight loop (Part 10 of 16)
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Configuration variable NI% = 37
The number of bytes in each ship's data block (as stored in INWK and K%)
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Subroutine SPS1 (category: Maths (Geometry))
Calculate the vector to the planet and store it in XX15