[Simh] help with binaries on NOVA

[Toby Thain]

On 26-Dec-09, at 5:46 PM, David and Jan Takle wrote:

> NOVA emulation --- I have RDOS running nicely and am trying to get  
> used to it, reading all the docs I can find (I'm an old IRIS  
> programmer). But I keep hitting a roadblock. I cannot get any  
> binaries to run, either as a program under RDOS or as a standalone  
> program that would be booted by the RDOS "program?" prompt. My  
> guess is that there are some conventions that I am missing  
> regarding how an assembly program must be structured, and/or some  
> particular parameters that are required by the Assembler and  
> Relocatable Binary Loader.
>
> I would greatly appreciate it If anyone can supply a step-by-step  
> plan for writing a compatible Assembly program along with the  
> correct ASM and RLDR parameters to create (a) a runnable SAVE  
> program (examp.sv) and (b) and standalone bootable program.


Hi David

I contributed the relevant steps to the Nova 3 wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Data_General_Nova#Assembly_language_examples

You might find my Nova 3 cross-assembler useful.
http://telegraphics.com.au/svn/dpa/trunk/

--Toby



>
> Thanks!
> David
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