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44650: Initialise Character Data Structure
Used by the routines at 43709, StepDisplayState, ProcessCharacterData, FollowLinkWhenFlagged and InitialiseWhenFlagged.
Starts a character search, asks for 30 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 44650 CALL InitialiseCharacterSearch Call InitialiseCharacterSearch to start the character search, then ask for 30 bytes and call AllocateMemory to allocate them.
44653 LD A,30
44655 CALL AllocateMemory
44658 PUSH IX Store the low byte of the pointer in the previous character record.
44660 POP HL
44661 LD (IY-2),L
44664 LD (IY-1),H Store the high byte of the pointer in the previous character record.
44667 PUSH HL Point IY at the new character record.
44668 POP IY
44670 RET Return.
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