Used by the routines at TITLE_PAGE_TEXT, MESS2, SHOW_MESSAGE, PRINT_CHAR, CLEAR_THING_BOX, TITLE_SCREEN, ROOMST and MAIN_LOOP.

The game's text printer, the author's PRINT (the name the leftover source text calls it by). The string is the bytes after the CALL: characters of the font (FONT), $C8 and two bytes to move the printing position (PRINT_X, in pixels from the left, and PRINT_Y, in rows counted up from the bottom), and $A4 to end it; the printer returns to the byte after the $A4. A string can be only a $C8 and its position, to set it for PRINT_CHAR.

Each character is an 8 by 8 picture put on the screen by the compositor (COMPOSITE_TO_SCREEN, at its second entry point, 15 bytes in), 8 pixels to the right of the one before. With its first two planes (BUFFER_D800 and BUFFER_D900) cleared and nothing else to merge, the compositor puts the character over the 8 by 8 pixels under it and leaves its neighbours alone, so text need not sit on the character grid. The printer uses the room drawing's point variables for the place and size, which the drawing is finished with.