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Times of Lore (ZX Spectrum)

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Source Code Fragments#

Some bits of code are left in the game. The code seen below can be seen with a hex editor at the addresses below in the .tap dump of the game.

6FF7:

                LD B,8
PRINT_LOOP1
                EXX
                LD A,(HL)
                INC HL 
                EXX
                CALL SIDE_MOVE
                LD A,(HL)
                OR D
                LD (HL),A
                INC HL 
                LD A,(HL)
                OR E
                LD (HL),A
                DEC HL
                INC H
                DJNZ PRINT_LOOP1
                POP HL
                POP AF
                PUSH HL
                LD HL,PROP_SPACE

7403:

    T_POS+0)
    OR A
    JR Z,SKIP_MOVE

806D:


                LD H,A
                RET

GET_FORMAT
                PUSH HL
                LD HL,(PRINT_POS+6)
                LD A,(HL)
                LD (PRINT_POS+12),A
                LD E,A
                INC HL
                LD A,(HL)
                INC HL