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38448: 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 38448 PUSH AF Call LocateLocation to find this location's record.
38449 CALL LocateLocation
38452 LD A,(IX+0) Fetch the location attribute, keep only bits 1-3 which signify the location preposition ("IN", "ON", "AT", etc).
38455 AND %00001110
38457 LD E,A Create an offset for the preposition word look-up.
38458 LD D,0
38460 LD HL,47744 Add the offset to 47744.
38463 ADD HL,DE
38464 LD E,(HL) Fetch the referenced text bytes which display the preposition word.
38465 INC HL
38466 LD D,(HL)
38467 LD HL,45053 Write the text tokens to 45053 which updates the copy for "You are XXXX[0x16]".
38470 LD (HL),D
38471 INC HL
38472 LD (HL),E
38473 POP AF Point at the message "You are in[0x16]".
38474 LD HL,45052
This entry point is used by the routines at YouSeeEntry and ActionCapture.
YouSee_Wrapper 38477 PUSH IX Save IX, IY and BC and call YouSeeStart to print the location text.
38479 PUSH IY
38481 PUSH BC
38482 CALL YouSeeStart
38485 POP BC Restore BC, IY and IX from the stack.
38486 POP IY
38488 POP IX
38490 RET Return.
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