Main loop: Main flight loop (Part 13 of 16)

       Name: Main flight loop (Part 13 of 16)                        [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Main loop
    Summary: Show energy bomb effect, charge shields and energy banks
  Deep dive: Program flow of the main game loop
             Scheduling tasks with the main loop counter
    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * FlightLoop4To16 calls via MA18


 The main flight loop covers most of the flight-specific aspects of Elite. This
 section covers the following:

   * Show energy bomb effect (if applicable)

   * Charge shields and energy banks (every 7 iterations of the main loop)


 Other entry points:

   MA18                 Entry point for part 13 of the main flight loop


.MA18

 SETUP_PPU_FOR_ICON_BAR ; If the PPU has started drawing the icon bar, configure
                        ; the PPU to use nametable 0 and pattern table 0

 LDA BOMB               ; If we set off our energy bomb (see MA24 above), then
 BPL MA77               ; BOMB is now negative, so this skips to MA21 if our
                        ; energy bomb is not going off

 ASL BOMB               ; We set off our energy bomb, so rotate BOMB to the
                        ; left by one place. BOMB was rotated left once already
                        ; during this iteration of the main loop, back at MA24,
                        ; so if this is the first pass it will already be
                        ; %11111110, and this will shift it to %11111100 - so
                        ; if we set off an energy bomb, it stays activated
                        ; (BOMB > 0) for four iterations of the main loop

 BMI MA77               ; If the result has bit 7 set, skip the following
                        ; instruction as the bomb is still going off

 JSR HideHiddenColour   ; Set the hidden colour to black, to switch off the
                        ; energy bomb effect (as the effect works by showing
                        ; hidden content instead of the visible content)

 JSR UpdateIconBar_b3   ; Update the icon bar to remove the energy bomb icon,
                        ; as it is a single-use weapon

.MA77

 LDA MCNT               ; Fetch the main loop counter and calculate MCNT mod 8,
 AND #7                 ; jumping to MA22 if it is non-zero (so the following
 BNE MA22               ; code only runs every 8 iterations of the main loop)

 JSR ChargeShields      ; Charge the shields and energy banks