The Theme: PrintTooLate

       Name: PrintTooLate                                            [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: The Theme
    Summary: Print the "TOO LATE!" message at column 6, row 7 on-screen
    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * AlienInAcornsville calls PrintTooLate


.PrintTooLate

 LDX #11                \ There are 11 VDU characters in the message, so set up
                        \ a counter in X

.late1

 LDA tooLateText,X      \ Print the X-th character from pleaseWaitText
 JSR OSWRCH

 DEX                    \ Decrement the loop counter, as the characters are
                        \ stored backwards in the pleaseWaitText variable

 BPL late1              \ Loop back to print the next character until we have
                        \ printed all 11

 RTS                    \ Return from the subroutine