Routines
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8E8D: Action: Help
Offer a hint for this room, or a general hint.
ActionHelp 8E8D CALL Parser_ValidateNoDirectObject Return if the command names an object: the player is told to rephrase it.
8E90 RET C
8E91 LD A,($6223) Fetch the current room.
ActionHelp_Step1 8E94 LD HL,$8EBC Point at the rooms that have a hint of their own.
8E97 LD BC,$0008 0008 rooms have a hint of their own.
8E9A CPIR Find this room among the rooms that have a hint.
ActionHelp_Loop1 8E9C JR NZ,ActionHelp_Step2 This room has no hint of its own.
Print "Try rephrasing commands and examining things.".
8E9E LD HL,$7794 HL=Messaging_TryRephrasingCommandsAndExaminingThings.
8EA1 JR ActionHelp_Loop3 Jump to ActionHelp_Loop3.
Print "You don't really need it.".
ActionHelp_Loop2 8EA3 LD HL,$77C2 HL=Messaging_YouDonTReallyNeedIt.
ActionHelp_Loop3 8EA6 CALL PrintStringAndANewline Call PrintStringAndANewline.
8EA9 RET Return.
ActionHelp_Step2 8EAA CP $19 The special hint applies only in The eastern end of a Long Cavern.
8EAC JR NZ,ActionHelp_Step3
8EAE LD A,$0B Jump back to ActionHelp_Loop1 when Some explosives. (0B) is not here or being carried.
8EB0 CALL IsObjectInCurrentRoom
8EB3 JR NZ,ActionHelp_Loop1
Print "I wouldn't stand there when this lot goes off.".
8EB5 LD HL,$7765 HL=Messaging_IWouldnTStandThereWhenThisLotGoesOff.
8EB8 JR ActionHelp_Loop3 Jump to ActionHelp_Loop3.
ActionHelp_Step3 8EBA JR ActionHelp_Loop2 Continue at ActionHelp_Loop2 to print the general hint.
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