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Octagon Squad (ZX Spectrum)

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Source Code Fragment#

Three small sections of the code are left in the game. The code seen below can be viewed with a hex editor at the addresses below in the .tap dump of the game.

469B:

        PUSH    HL
        POP IY
        LD  A,(IY+3)
        CP  200
        JP  Z,ICNENT
        LD  DE,PLVARS
        LD  BC,BYTPLY
        DI
        LDIR
        BKST

4880:

        AZE+5
        DEFB    159
        DEFB    116
        DEFB    0,0,0
        DEFB    5
        DEFW    MAYZ

4A89:

CLMZL1  LD  E,(HL)
        LD  A,(DE)
        LD  (HL),A
        DEC BC
        INC HL
        LD  A,B
        OR  C
        JP  NZ,CLMZL1