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9630: Turn: Describe This Location
Used by the routines at Action_Look, Action_Direction and Event_GiveTheLunch.
Describes this location: the preposition, "You are in", and the location text.
YouSeePreposition 9630 PUSH AF Call LocateLocation to find this location's record.
9631 CALL LocateLocation
9634 LD A,(IX+$00) Fetch the location attribute, keep only bits 1-3 which signify the location preposition ("IN", "ON", "AT", etc).
9637 AND %00001110
9639 LD E,A Create an offset for the preposition word look-up.
963A LD D,$00
963C LD HL,$BA80 Add the offset to BA80.
963F ADD HL,DE
9640 LD E,(HL) Fetch the referenced text bytes which display the preposition word.
9641 INC HL
9642 LD D,(HL)
9643 LD HL,$AFFD Write the text tokens to AFFD which updates the copy for "You are XXXX[0x16]".
9646 LD (HL),D
9647 INC HL
9648 LD (HL),E
9649 POP AF Point at the message "You are in[0x16]".
964A LD HL,$AFFC
This entry point is used by the routines at YouSeeEntry and ActionCapture.
YouSee_Wrapper 964D PUSH IX Save IX, IY and BC and call YouSeeStart to print the location text.
964F PUSH IY
9651 PUSH BC
9652 CALL YouSeeStart
9655 POP BC Restore BC, IY and IX from the stack.
9656 POP IY
9658 POP IX
965A RET Return.
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