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⌂ ∞ ▽ Elite on the 6502

Drawing suns: SUN_b1

[NES version, Bank 7]

       Name: SUN_b1                                                  [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Drawing suns
    Summary: Call the SUN routine in ROM bank 1
  Deep dive: Splitting NES Elite across multiple ROM banks

    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: No direct references to this subroutine in this source file




.SUN_b1

 LDA currentBank        ; If ROM bank 1 is already paged into memory, jump to
 CMP #1                 ; bank7
 BEQ bank7

 PHA                    ; Otherwise store the current bank number on the stack

 LDA #1                 ; Page ROM bank 1 into memory at $8000
 JSR SetBank

 JSR SUN                ; Call SUN, now that it is paged into memory

 JMP ResetBank          ; Fetch the previous ROM bank number from the stack and
                        ; page that bank back into memory at $8000, returning
                        ; from the subroutine using a tail call

.bank7

 JMP SUN                ; Call SUN, which is already paged into memory, and
                        ; return from the subroutine using a tail call