Akalabeth Preamble Files

Lines 1–4 print out the welcome message and wait for a key to be pressed.

BLOAD AKA4 is printed (with a CHR$(4) preceding and dropped by the de-tokenizer?)

• POKE 254,32
• POKE 255,32
• POKE 32840,169:POKE 32841,0 (LDA $#00)
• CALL 32768 calls the code below
• POKE 32840,177:POKE 32841,8 (LDA ($08),Y)

BLOAD AKA2,A$2000 is printed.

• POKE - 16302,0 set full-screen graphics
• POKE - 16297,0 set hi-res graphics mode
• POKE - 16300,0 set hi-res page 1
• POKE - 16304,0 set graphics mode

BLOAD AKA5,A$4000 is printed.

• CALL 32768 calls the code below

BLOAD AKA3,A$4000 is printed.

• POKE 32769,39 ($8001)
• POKE 32888,136(set $8078to DEY)
• POKE 32890,255 ($807A)
• CALL 32768 calls the code below
• POKE 32769,0 ($8001)
• POKE 32888,200 (restore $8078 to INY)
• POKE 32890,40 ($807A)

There is a pause caused by looping 1 to 4000.

• POKE 32840,169:POKE 32841,0 (LDA $#00)
• CALL 32768 calls the code below
• POKE 32840,177:POKE 32841,8 (LDA ($08),Y)

Another pause caused by looping 1 to 500.

• POKE - 16303,0set text mode

The loading message is printed.

• POKE 33,1 set width of scrolling window to 1
• POKE 34,23 set top of scrolling window to 23

RUN AKA1 is printed.