Atic Atac: Routine at 8EA0

Used by the routines at LOSE_FOOD_EIGHT, UPDATE_KNIGHT, LOSE_FOOD_THIRTY_TWO and MUSHROOM_KILLED_PLAYER.

The single way out of the game. Both food penalties and the steady drain arrive here when the life force reaches zero, and with no lives left it goes straight to GAME_OVER.

Otherwise the player is not moved or hidden -- their sprite is changed to $67, which ACTOR_HANDLERS sends to DYING, and the character they were is put in +$07 for MATERIALISING to restore. Nothing else has to know a death has happened; the sprite byte carries the whole state.

Watched live by starving the player: lives went 3 to 2, the sprite went $08 to $67 to $66, the life force came back as $F0, and a gravestone appeared in the first of the four drop slots at the exact spot the player fell.

Used by the routines at LOSE_FOOD_EIGHT, UPDATE_KNIGHT, LOSE_FOOD_THIRTY_TWO and MUSHROOM_KILLED_PLAYER. The single way out of the game. Both food penalties and the steady drain arrive here when the life force reaches zero, and with no lives left it goes straight to GAME_OVER. Otherwise the player is not moved or hidden -- their sprite is changed to $67, which ACTOR_HANDLERS sends to DYING, and the character they were is put in +$07 for MATERIALISING to restore. Nothing else has to know a death has happened; the sprite byte carries the whole state. Watched live by starving the player: lives went 3 to 2, the sprite went $08 to $67 to $66, the life force came back as $F0, and a gravestone appeared in the first of the four drop slots at the exact spot the player fell.
LOSE_LIFE	8EA0	LD A,($5E21)	No lives left...
	8EA3	AND A	No lives left...
	8EA4	JP Z,GAME_OVER	...so that is the end of the game.
	8EA7	DEC A	Otherwise pay one.
	8EA8	LD ($5E21),A	Otherwise pay one.
	8EAB	LD A,(IX+$00)	Was the thing that died a player at all? Sprites $01 to $30 are.
	8EAE	DEC A
	8EAF	CP $30
	8EB1	JR C,LOSE_LIFE_1
	8EB3	LD A,($EA90)
LOSE_LIFE_0	8EB6	LD ($EA97),A	Remember what to come back as.
	8EB9	CALL SPRITE_ADDRESS
	8EBC	LD A,(DE)
	8EBD	LD ($EA96),A
	8EC0	LD A,$67	$67 -- the sinking animation, which the dispatcher will find on the next pass.
	8EC2	LD ($EA90),A
	8EC5	RET
LOSE_LIFE_1	8EC6	LD A,($5E16)	The player's own handler found the zero: put the player back where this frame began, from the workspace. When something else took the last unit, the player stays where he is.
	8EC9	LD ($EA93),A
	8ECC	LD A,($5E17)
	8ECF	LD ($EA94),A
	8ED2	LD A,($5E15)
	8ED5	JR LOSE_LIFE_0