Pentagram: Routine at C2EC

Used by the routine at START.

Copies PLAYER_TEMPLATE over both his records -- the player as he came into this room, or as the game starts -- and takes a life. Reached at the start of every game and after every death (START), so the first call takes the five lives the game gives to four; below zero, after the fifth death, the game is over (GAME_OVER, in WON).

LIVES is treated as BCD elsewhere but decremented here as a plain number. It cannot go above 9 (five, and one for each of the four quest items, QUEST_ITEM), so the two agree.

Used by the routine at START. Copies PLAYER_TEMPLATE over both his records -- the player as he came into this room, or as the game starts -- and takes a life. Reached at the start of every game and after every death (START), so the first call takes the five lives the game gives to four; below zero, after the fifth death, the game is over (GAME_OVER, in WON). LIVES is treated as BCD elsewhere but decremented here as a plain number. It cannot go above 9 (five, and one for each of the four quest items, QUEST_ITEM), so the two agree.
RESTART_PLAYER	C2EC	LD HL,PLAYER_TEMPLATE	both records, legs and body; IX on the legs
	C2EF	LD DE,OBJECTS
	C2F2	PUSH DE
	C2F3	POP IX
	C2F5	LD BC,$0040
	C2F8	LDIR
	C2FA	LD HL,LIVES	a life fewer; below zero: game over
	C2FD	DEC (HL)
	C2FE	JP M,GAME_OVER
	C301	RET