Used by the routine at NEW_GAME.

Called every turn by NEW_GAME; it does nothing until the knight's legs' record is empty, which happens when a life ends and his vanishing (graphic 12) has run its four turns.

Then it checks its own code. The byte at TAKE_LIFE, the instruction that takes a life, must still be $35, DEC (HL); if it is anything else the game jumps to RESET (in STOCK_BUILDINGS), address 0, and the Spectrum starts again from its copyright message. So the obvious infinite-lives poke -- a NOP over that DEC -- resets the machine at the first death instead. It is the fourth of the game's protections, and the only one aimed at a player rather than a copier.

With lives left it plays the new-life tune (TUNE_NEW_LIFE), copies the start records (START_RECORDS) over the knight's two records -- at a new game NEW_GAME comes in at FIRST_LIFE, without the tune -- sets him appearing (ARRIVING) with three hits, and takes a life: with none to take, the game is over (GAME_OVER). Otherwise the monsters are cleared away (CLEAR_MONSTERS), his cell is marked visited (VISIT_CELL), and the lives are drawn on the panel: five places at character row 18 from column 5, a bright white knight for each life left and a blue one for each lost.