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C14A: Draw Decorative Line
Used by the routine at GameEntryPoint.
Draws a decorative horizontal pattern on screen as a separator.
decorative-line
DrawDecorativeLine C14A CALL $C10F Call C10F.
C14D LD A,$24 Store the width value (24) at *DecorativeLine_Width.
C14F LD ($C1F4),A
C152 LD HL,$50E0 Initialise the screen buffer starting point (50E0) at *DecorativeLine_ScreenPosition.
C155 LD ($C1F6),HL
C158 LD A,$02 Load the height value (02) into A.
DrawDecorativeLine_Custom C15A LD ($C1FB),A Store the height value in *C1FB.
C15D CALL $C142 Call C142.
C160 LD HL,$5140 HL=5140 (screen buffer location).
C163 LD DE,$C190 DE=Data_DecorativeLine.
C166 LD B,$06 Set a counter in B for 06 rows.
DrawDecorativeLine_RowLoop C168 LD C,$08 Set a counter in C for 08 repetitions.
C16A PUSH BC Stash the row counters and screen position on the stack.
C16B PUSH HL
DrawDecorativeLine_SegmentLoop C16C LD B,$04 B=04.
C16E PUSH DE Stash DE on the stack.
DrawDecorativeLine_CopyPatternLoop C16F LD A,(DE) Copy the pattern byte to the current screen position.
C170 LD (HL),A
C171 INC DE Increment the pattern pointer by one.
C172 INC L Increment the screen position column by one.
C173 DJNZ DrawDecorativeLine_CopyPatternLoop Decrease counter by one and loop back to DrawDecorativeLine_CopyPatternLoop until counter is zero.
C175 POP DE Restore the pattern pointer from the stack.
C176 DEC C Decrease the segment counter by one.
C177 JR NZ,DrawDecorativeLine_SegmentLoop Jump back to DrawDecorativeLine_SegmentLoop until all segments have been drawn.
Skip to the next pattern.
C179 INC DE Increment the pattern pointer by four.
C17A INC DE
C17B INC DE
C17C INC DE
C17D POP HL Restore HL and BC from the stack.
C17E POP BC
C17F INC H Increment H by one.
C180 DJNZ DrawDecorativeLine_RowLoop Decrease counter by one and loop back to DrawDecorativeLine_RowLoop until counter is zero.
Now colour the line BRIGHT WHITE.
C182 LD HL,$5A40 Write INK: BLACK, PAPER: WHITE (BRIGHT) to 0020 bytes starting from 5A40 (attribute buffer location).
C185 LD DE,$5A41
C188 LD BC,$001F
C18B LD (HL),$78
C18D LDIR
C18F RET Return.
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