Routines
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8C35: Game Over
Used by the routine at LoseLife.
Clears the play area, prints "GAME OVER" and the game statistics, waits for a while and then returns to the game selection menu.
Before After PrintStringColour After GameStats
game-over-before game-over-text game-over-statistics
GameOver 8C35 CALL ClearPlayArea Call ClearPlayArea to clear the play area.
8C38 LD HL,$BE4C Write BE4C (the main font, see MainFont) to FontPointer.
8C3B LD ($5E01),HL
Handle printing "Game Over" messaging.
8C3E LD HL,$3040 HL=3040 (a Y position of 30 and an X position of 40).
8C41 LD DE,$8C59 Point DE at the "Game Over" text at StringGameOver.
8C44 CALL PrintStringColour Call PrintStringColour to print the string.
Handle printing the game statistics.
8C47 CALL GameStats Call GameStats to show the game statistics.
This entry point is used by the routine at GameComplete.
Provide a pause for us to reflect that the game has now ended.
GameOverDelay 8C4A LD B,$14 B=14 (the number of times to run the delay loop).
8C4C LD HL,$0000 HL=0000 (the delay counter).
From HL being set above (and for each loop), decrementing 0000 by one gives FFFF.
GameOverDelay_Loop 8C4F DEC HL Count the delay down by one.
8C50 LD A,H Loop back to GameOverDelay_Loop until the delay has counted down to zero.
8C51 OR L
8C52 JR NZ,GameOverDelay_Loop
8C54 DJNZ GameOverDelay_Loop Decrease the delay counter by one and loop back to GameOverDelay_Loop until the delay has finished.
8C56 JP Game_Restart Jump to Game_Restart to go back to the menu.
"Game Over" messaging.
StringGameOver 8C59 DEFM $47 Attribute: INK:WHITE, PAPER:BLACK (BRIGHT) + "GAME OVER".
8C5A DEFM "GAME OVE","R"+$80
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