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EC5A: Move a character from the midstride or mid-action position and update the SRB

Used by the routines at 71DD, EC7B, F5AC, F5CE and F698. Updates the character's animatory state and location, and updates the screen refresh buffer (SRB) accordingly.

Input
H	Character number (0xD7-0xE6)

EC5A

CALL $E9C8

Update the SRB for the character's current animatory state and location

EC5D

LD L,$05

Point HL at byte 0x05 of the character's buffer

EC5F

LD A,(HL)

A=character's post-midstride/post-action animatory state

EC60

INC L

Collect the character's post-midstride/post-action coordinates in DE from bytes 0x06 and 0x07 of his buffer

EC61

LD E,(HL)

EC62

INC L

EC63

LD D,(HL)

EC64

LD (HL),$00

Set byte 0x07 of the character's buffer to 0 (to indicate that he is neither midstride nor mid-action now)

EC66

JP $E9D5

Update the character's animatory state and location and update the SRB