Minol Monitor (minoltb.asm)
 

Has anyone tried running the minol monitor from the Altair Emulator Project (Altair32) on a real altair or the emulator?

I compiled it under tasm without a hitch, but when I try to run it i get no output from the terminal.

I am using Altair 32 until I can finally afford one of grants wonderful kits (:-

Minol Monitor
 

You are running CP/M on the emulator, right? Minol monitor is a CP/M program. You could have assembled it right from a CP/M prompt.

Actually I thought it was a plain binary. The question is now, how do I get the file into CP/M using the emulator?

Whai I did was to open the source in Notepad, selected and copied the whole thing to the Clipboard. I then started CP/M, and ran the ED editor. I put ED into insert mode and Pasted the clipboard to CP/M. All the lines went in with no problem. I hit E to copy the edit buffer to the temp file, W to write it out then quit Ed and used MAC to assemble. Ta-da!

I almost have it, but how do you get out of Insert mode in ED?


By the way thanks for being so helpful,

Nicholas

Actually i got that part, its CTRL-Z. But on the ouput all i get is a hex listing, how do i get the actual binary?

Convert HEX Files to COM
 

Use LOAD to convert .hex files to .com (CP/M executables)

Here's a link to the CP/M manuals:
http://www.cpm.z80.de/drilib.html

When I try it with MINOL, though, I get

ERROR: INVERTED LOAD ADDRESS, LOAD ADDRESS 004E

Tom L

minol
 

Hi All;
The origional Minol is Not in CPM and it is listed out in Dr. Dobbs Volume 1 , issue 4 .. THIS was before Cpm. So you could go and find the origional listing and compare it with what you have, and then adapt it for your machine. I/O and such....
THANK YOU Marty