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Old 07-08-2009, 05:29 PM
lovenewyawkcity lovenewyawkcity is offline
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Default 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 (:-
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Old 07-08-2009, 05:58 PM
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Default 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.
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Old 07-08-2009, 08:07 PM
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Actually I thought it was a plain binary. The question is now, how do I get the file into CP/M using the emulator?
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Old 07-08-2009, 09:09 PM
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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!
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Old 07-08-2009, 09:40 PM
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I almost have it, but how do you get out of Insert mode in ED?


By the way thanks for being so helpful,

Nicholas
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Old 07-08-2009, 09:56 PM
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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?
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Old 07-09-2009, 01:00 AM
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Default 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
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Old 07-15-2009, 04:06 PM
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Talking 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....
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