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Universe: tal

[NES version, Bank 0]

Name: tal [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Universe Summary: Print the current galaxy number
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * tals calls tal

Print control code 1 (the current galaxy number, right-aligned to width 3).
.tal CLC ; We don't want to print the galaxy number with a ; decimal point, so clear the C flag for pr2 to take as ; an argument LDX GCNT ; Load the current galaxy number from GCNT into X INX ; Add 1 to the galaxy number, as the galaxy numbers ; are 0-7 internally, but we want to display them as ; galaxy 1 through 8 JMP pr2 ; Jump to pr2, which prints the number in X to a width ; of 3 figures, left-padding with spaces to a width of ; 3, and return from the subroutine using a tail call