Cookie: Routine at 63E0

63E0: Write Menu Line

Used by the routine at GameMenu.

Prints one line of the game selection menu. This works in the same way as PrintStringColour, except that the text is pointed to by DE' and the screen position is in HL', and the attribute is not part of the string, it is taken from Current_MenuAttribute.

Before	After

Input
DE'	Address of the text
HL'	Position of the line

MenuWriteText

63E0

PUSH HL

Stash the position on the stack.

63E1

CALL ScreenAddress

Convert the position to a screen address using ScreenAddress.

63E4

LD A,($5F24)

Fetch the menu attribute byte from Current_MenuAttribute.

63E7

EX AF,AF'

Switch to the shadow AF register.

63E8

EXX

Switch to the normal registers.

63E9

POP HL

Restore the position from the stack.

63EA

CALL AttributeAddress

Convert the position to an attribute address using AttributeAddress.

63ED

JP PrintString_Loop

Jump to PrintString_Loop to print the text.

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