[Simh] help with binaries on NOVA

David and Jan Takle djtakle at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 20:00:00 EST 2009


Wow! That's what I was looking for.
Thanks Toby.
~David

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>wrote:

>
> 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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