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AE6A: Initialise Character Data Structure
Used by the routines at AABD, StepDisplayState, ProcessCharacterData, FollowLinkWhenFlagged and InitialiseWhenFlagged.
Starts a character search, asks for 1E bytes, and stores the new record as the previous character on the list.
Input
E Flags
Output
IY Pointer to the initialised character data structure
InitialiseCharacterDataStructure AE6A CALL InitialiseCharacterSearch Call InitialiseCharacterSearch to start the character search, then ask for 1E bytes and call AllocateMemory to allocate them.
AE6D LD A,$1E
AE6F CALL AllocateMemory
AE72 PUSH IX Store the low byte of the pointer in the previous character record.
AE74 POP HL
AE75 LD (IY-$02),L
AE78 LD (IY-$01),H Store the high byte of the pointer in the previous character record.
AE7B PUSH HL Point IY at the new character record.
AE7C POP IY
AE7E RET Return.
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