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Used by the routines at CheckTopScore, ShowPlayerNumber, GameMenu, ShowGameOver, CheckForEarlyDraw, StartOutlawDrawing and GiveReward.
Prints a message in letters twice as big as normal, so each letter takes four character cells. The message is an attribute byte followed by characters and ends with a zero byte.
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Fetch the attribute of the message.
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| PrintLargeText | AA9A | LD A,(DE) | Fetch the attribute. | ||||||||
| AA9B | INC DE | Move on to the first character. | |||||||||
| AA9C | EX AF,AF' | Keep the attribute in the alternate accumulator. | |||||||||
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Print each character until the terminator.
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| PrintLargeText_Loop | AA9D | LD A,(DE) | Fetch the next character. | ||||||||
| AA9E | AND A | Test whether it is the end of the message. | |||||||||
| AA9F | RET Z | Return if it is. | |||||||||
| AAA0 | INC DE | Move on to the next character. | |||||||||
| AAA1 | CALL ConvertCharacter | Convert the character to the number of its tile. | |||||||||
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Find the pixels of the character.
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| AAA4 | PUSH DE | Stash the address of the message on the stack. | |||||||||
| AAA5 | PUSH HL | Stash the screen address on the stack. | |||||||||
| AAA6 | EX DE,HL | Swap the screen address into DE. | |||||||||
| AAA7 | LD L,A | Copy the tile number into L. | |||||||||
| AAA8 | LD H,$00 | Clear H. | |||||||||
| AAAA | ADD HL,HL | Multiply it by eight. | |||||||||
| AAAB | ADD HL,HL | ||||||||||
| AAAC | ADD HL,HL | ||||||||||
| AAAD | LD BC,$8EA8 | Point BC at Font. | |||||||||
| AAB0 | ADD HL,BC | Add the offset to find the pixels of the character. | |||||||||
| AAB1 | EX DE,HL | Swap them, so that DE has the pixels and HL the screen address. | |||||||||
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Draw the four quarters of the character.
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| AAB2 | CALL PrintLeftHalfOfCharacter | Draw the top left quarter of the character. | |||||||||
| AAB5 | CALL PrintRightHalfOfCharacter | Draw the top right quarter of the character. | |||||||||
| AAB8 | CALL PrintLeftHalfOfCharacter | Draw the bottom left quarter of the character. | |||||||||
| AABB | CALL PrintRightHalfOfCharacter | Draw the bottom right quarter of the character. | |||||||||
| AABE | POP HL | Retrieve the screen address. | |||||||||
| AABF | POP DE | Retrieve the address of the message. | |||||||||
| AAC0 | INC L | Move across by two character cells. | |||||||||
| AAC1 | INC L | ||||||||||
| AAC2 | JR PrintLargeText_Loop | Loop back for the next character. | |||||||||
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