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EC39: Colourise Preview Grid
Used by the routines at Game_Loop, Game_Initialisation and D894.
Colours in the green checkerboard attribute pattern. Note, it doesn't alter the top row at all - only the rows which will have content in them.
Colourise_PreviewGrid EC39 LD B,$04 Set a counter in B for 04 rows.
EC3B LD DE,$5896 DE=5896 (attribute buffer location).
EC3E LD HL,$ECAF HL=AttributeData_PreviewGrid.
PreviewGrid_RowCounter_Loop EC41 PUSH BC Stash the row counter on the stack.
EC42 LD B,$02 Set a counter in B for 02 character blocks per square.
PreviewGrid_BlockCounter_Loop EC44 PUSH BC Stash the block counter and the attribute reference pointer on the stack.
EC45 PUSH HL
EC46 LD BC,$000A Copy 000A bytes from HL to DE.
EC49 LDIR
EC4B LD HL,$0016 DE+=0016.
EC4E ADD HL,DE
EC4F EX DE,HL
EC50 POP HL Restore the attribute reference pointer and the block counter from the stack.
EC51 POP BC
EC52 DJNZ PreviewGrid_BlockCounter_Loop Decrease block counter by one and loop back to PreviewGrid_BlockCounter_Loop until the block counter is zero.
EC54 POP BC Restore the row counter from the stack.
This is how it becomes checkered, we move the pointer forward by two (each block is two character blocks wide) and then it can alternate between the two attribute values. Although we copy 0A bytes - the data is actually 10 bytes long, to cope with this reference movement.
EC55 INC HL Increment the attribute reference pointer by two.
EC56 INC HL
EC57 DJNZ PreviewGrid_RowCounter_Loop Decrease the row counter by one and loop back to PreviewGrid_RowCounter_Loop until all the rows have been coloured in.
EC59 RET Return.
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